Books Published in May 1994

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1994

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New Books List: 593 titles

  • Danger Guys

    Tony Abbott

    Their first names are Noodle and Zeek, but their middle names are “Danger” -- in this “exciting” series from the author of the Secrets of Droon (Booklist).   Best buddies Noodle and Zeek love adventure -- and that’s a good thing, becau...

  • The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women

    Karl Ackerman

    A warm, wry, wonderfully on-target take on contemporary romance. Jack and Nina are lovers who have moved on--he to his Washington, D.C., landscaping business, she to painting--and to another man. But Jack cannot forget Nina, and how he tries to win h...

  • The Mercenary

    Cherry Adair

    THE MERCENARY AND THE COWARD Prim and proper Victoria Jones knew she was a coward - heck, she'd quit her job at the accounting firm because she found tax time too stressful! Only, her nice little job at the auto-parts store, eating bland food and ...

  • The Band

    Carmen Adams

    No one knows their game.. They call themselves "The Band" but they just don't play music - they play games .. evil games. They want you to join them.. Dressed in black, always together.. looking for recruits. Luring the unsuspecting with eyes...

  • All the Hungry Mothers

    Deborah Adams

    WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. Aliens ... paranoid old ladies ... demonic possession ...haunted houses ... you name it. Fledgling nanny Janet Ayres can't quite believe this nutty Southern enclave or the hectic disarray that r...

  • Rosebud

    Faye Adams

    Rachel Walker had to work as hard as a man to keep her ranch operating in the vast mesa-lands of Texas. Tough, bold, and beautiful, she could swear and ride better than any cowboy. If she were soft at all, she hid her vulnerability deep inside. And n...

  • A Cat in a Glass House

    Lydia Adamson

    TAKEOUT ORDER FOR DEATH Alice Nestleton, after years in off-, off-off-, and far-beyond-Broadway theater, sees stardom beckoning at last. Her agent has sent her to a trendy Triheca Chinese eatery to land a movie part with an almost-major film produ...

  • Onion Sundaes

    David A. Adler

    Illus. in black-and-white. When a crime wave hits the Super Big 'N' Super Friendly Supermarket, it's up to Herman "Houdini" Foster--magician, near-genius, ten-year-old kid--and his cousin, Janet Perry, to stop it. But can they solve the case of the s...

  • Hiding

    Dorothy Aldis

  • The Pocket Book

    Josephine Haskell Aldridge

  • The Sesame Street Treasury

    Liza Alexander

  • Serena

    Sylvia Andrew

    Miss Serena Calvert, owner of Anse Chatelet on the West Indian island of St. Just, was determined to give her young niece Lucy a London Season, whatever the financial privations. But their aunt's health would not permit her to launch Lucy herself...

  • One, Two, Three, Count with Me

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Come Back, Jack!

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

    When her brother Jack disappears into the book that he is reading, a little girl follows him into an adventure-filled journey through a nursery rhyme landscape, from his mishap with Jill to a dramatic escape from a hungry giant....

  • Dead Morn

    Piers Anthony

    With humankind surviving underground in the twenty-fifth-century's last city, a courageous man journeys back in time into Cuba's history to try to alter the past and stop the worldwide conflagration that would leave Earth a nuclear wasteland. Reprint...

  • Ben's in Love

    Katherine Applegate

    The fourth book in this hot series about falling in and out of love finds Ben in love with two girls: Claire, his long-time girlfriend, and her sister Nina, with whom he shared a passionate kiss. Because the sultry, sly and sexy Claire and his honest...

  • An Imported Wife

    Rosalie Ash

    "You have the black hair and green eyes of a siren, but the soul of a frigid little man-hater!" Perhaps Rick Josephs was right to describe Gabriella in such a way. She had been avoiding men ever since Piers' betrayal. Though Rick soon hel...

  • Solis

    A.A. Attanasio

    Charlie Outis had his brain frozen a thousand years ago, but he wakes up a slave to a machine in a world of genetically amplified neo-sapiens, andrones, and autobats--fortunately, Charlie has a plan. Original....

  • Smugglers' Island

    Avi

    "You're crazy, Shadrach Faherty," Davey called.
    "Crazy! You're going to get yourself killed!"

    Shadrach is enraged. Bootleggers have taken over his island home, using it as a base from which to run their illegal operation...

  • Twilight Children

    James Axler

    AFTER THE DAY OF RECKONING Survival is an endless battle in the dark age of post-holocaust America, but even amid the ashes of the past, new pockets of civilization emerge, fledgling communities bound by savage rules. Ryan Cawdor and his band of war...

  • Carcass Trade

    Noreen Ayres

    A civilian forensic specialist, ex-cop Samantha "Smokey" Brandon is often called upon to do body work for the Orange County P .D. But when a corpse is pulled from a twisted car wreck at the bottom of a canyon, Smokey's involvement becomes something m...

  • Tempting Harriet

    Mary Balogh

    The Second Seduction She had resisted scandalous temptation once before. That was six years ago, but it seemed like six centuries. She was no longer young, innocent, and impoverished Miss Harriet Pope. She was Lady Harriet Wingham, beautiful and w...

  • Lovers of the Golden Drum

    Diana Bane
    in

    Unlocks the secret behind Maggie's taunting dreams of a clan war from centuries past....

  • Revelations

    Clive Barker

  • Once upon a Time

    John Barth

    From the National Book Award Winner and author of The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor comes a novel about a middle-aged writer setting off on a voyage with a sole crewmate--his lover, friend, and wife. Reprint....

  • A My Name Is Alice

    Jane Bayer

    Here is a wildly illustrated version of the familiar alphabet ditty and playground rhyme. From Alice the ape married to an anteater named Alex selling ants in Alaska to Zelda the zebra and Zach the zebu selling zippers in Zambia, children can laugh t...

  • Wee Sing for Christmas book

    Pamela Conn Beall

  • Deadly Secrets

    David Belbin

  • The Fugitive Heart

    Kathryn Belmont

    A Dangerous Deception Jeremiah Sloane was about to undertake the most daring rescue in the history of the Underground Railroad. His plan: to travel under cover deep into slave territory and free the slaves of one of the South's most notorious plan...

  • White Shark

    Peter Benchley


    At a small marine institute off the coast of Connecticut, only marine biologist Simon Chase realizes that a sixteen-foot pregnant Great White is feeding in the area. But even Simon doesn't know that a far deadlier creature is about to come out of...

  • Sunset Revenge

    Cherie Bennett

    Return to Sunset Island in SUNSET REVENGE, the sizzling nineteenth book in the exciting series about Samantha, Emma and Carrie -- away from home in the ultimate summer job! Two incredible things happened: flirting with danger was offered a recording...

  • Heart and Soul

    Elizabeth Bennett

    FOR YEARS, SHE ENVIED MIRANDA'S WORLD - THEN SHE ENTERED IT... It wasn't easy being Miranda Darin's sister. Cassie could never measure up, and Miranda seemed to like it that way. But one day Miranda began to show an odd interest in Cassie. She ins...

  • The Violet Quill Reader

    David Bergman

    Notes and introductions accompany stories, essays, and letters by the Violet Quill Club writers, who set out to create a gay literature in the decade after Stonewall Riots and before the emergence of AIDS...

  • Juan Bobo: Four Folktales from Puerto Rico

    Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

  • A Lawless Man

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    WHEN AN IRRESISTIBLE MAN... Griffin Lawless had never ticketed anybody like Sarah Greenleaf. This single mother was a walking, talking moving violation. Her chaotic ways were making a shambles of his orderly life, her kids were driving him crazy -...

  • Hearts Deceived

    Cheryl Biggs

    LOVE'S MASQUERADE None of the guests gathered beneath the elegant portico of Shadows Noir suspected that the mysterious Belle had an identical twin. Fate had given them both devastating beauty, and destiny had brought them to the New Orleans p...

  • Touch the Sun

    Beverly Bird

    An unforgettable new saga of a proud woman and her people, a story of passion and survival in frontier America... From a shy, innocent girl, Eagle Voice would grow into a woman of strength -- a warrior's woman, bound to a life of danger, struggle...

  • Kill Me Again

    Paul Bishop

    FEY CROAKER, HOMICIDE She's a tough L.A. cop with savvy and dark secrets. In a turbulent and brutal "man's world" she's got something to prove...big time. The dead blonde in the posh condo is no stranger to violence: In fact, the pretty, forty-so...

  • Indian Summer: A Novella

    Rosanne Bittner
    in

    Join three of your favorite storytellers on a tender journey of the heart... Cherished Moments is an extraordinary collection of breathtaking novellas woven around the theme of motherhood. Before you turn the last page you will have been swept fro...

  • Shameless

    Jennifer Blake

    Camilla Greenley Hutton's cunning soon-to-be-ex-husband has discovered that she may be the sole heir to the local mill - worth millions if its operating owner, Reid Sayers, sells out to an eager conglomerate. But there is danger in the air. Someone i...

  • The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams

    Lawrence Block

    Bernie Rhodenbarr is trying to make an honest living, but when his new landlord raises the rent to an astronomical sum, there's only one thing left for a reformed burglar to do. On his first night back on the job, Bernie finds not only a stash of...

  • The Black Mariah

    Jay Bonansinga

    Tearing through the Tennessee night with their gasoline tank near empty, two hardened truck drivers are pursued by an immortal curse that announces itself on their CB radio and threatens to strike furiously if they stop their wheels. Original....

  • Peach Blossom Spring

    Fergus M. Bordewich

  • Without a Hero: And Other Stories

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America to...

  • Headhunt

    Carol Brennan

    As a public relations specialist, it's Liz Wareham's job to make her clients look good--even in a crisis. But when the crisis is murder, it's not just reputations that are at stake.... Liz showed up for an early-morning meeting with a top executiv...

  • Spell of Apocalypse

    Mayer Alan Brenner

    “Plenty of adventure and a dollop of humor” spark the final fantasy in this “intriguing and delightfully funny series” by the author of Spell of Fate (Locus).   When the Great Karlini’s laboratory catches on fire, Maximillian the Vague...

  • All Creatures Great and Small

    Isabelle Brent

    A selection of ten entertaining, lighthearted poems about different animals includes such favorites as Lear's "Owl and the Pussycat," Betjeman's "Diary of a Churchmouse," and eight others, all accompanied by distinctive full-color artwork....

  • A Reconstructed Corpse

    Simon Brett

    A STIFF ACT TO FOLLOW... If playing a dead man could be called a role, Charles Paris has sunk to new lows when he agrees to play missing Martin Earnshaw on the true crime TV series "Public Enemies." The show has all the hallmarks of a hit: a vu...

  • Sisters and Lovers

    Connie Briscoe

    Beverly, Charmaine, and Evelyn -- three sisters living in the same Maryland town outside Washington, D.C., each wishing her life were just a little different. Beverly is twenty-nine and single. She's a successful magazine editor who would love to be ...

  • Kiss of Darkness

    Sharon Brondos

    The dark dilemma Adrian Smith's latest orders tore at a conscience that shouldn't exist, pricked a heart that was his curse. But he'd made his deal with Death centuries ago, and now he had to do Its bidding. He would kill the scientist who was on ...

  • Pigs Don't Fly

    Mary Brown

    SUMMER'S JOURNEY Left an orphan with a small dowry and a magic ring, all Summer wanted was to find a husband and settle down. But she hadn't reckoned on the raggle-tail assortment of creatures who needed her help, even if the amnesiac, blind knigh...

  • What Rhymes with Snake?

    Rick Brown

    In an entertaining vocabulary book for beginning readers, youngsters lift the flaps and watch words and pictures transform as the beak of a hen becomes the point of a pen, or a goose's wings become a moose's antlers....

  • Dolley

    Rita Mae Brown

    She had the president’s ear and the nation’s heart. She’s the wife of the fourth president of the United States; a spirited charmer who adores parties, the latest French fashions, and the tender, brilliant man who is her husband. But while m...

  • Charade

    Sandra Brown

    A medical miracle gave TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. It gave her a second chance at life.

    After leaving Hollywood to host a San Antonio TV show spotlighting children with special needs, Cat fights to gain respect as a news...

  • Lucy and the Stone

    Dixie Browning

    MR. MAY Irresistible Man: Stone McCloud couldn't let a big-mouthed floozy ruin a family's good name! Unattainable Woman: Having bad taste in husbands and being trapped in a femme fatale's body were only two of Lucy Dooley's problems. Unexpe...

  • That Outlaw Attitude

    Noreen Brownlie

    The return to the Wyoming mountains wasn't just another assignment for photographer Caitlin O'Malley. It meant facing Buck Rawlings--the only man she had ever truly wanted. And it meant facing the memories of the tragedy that had torn them apart, yea...

  • Hay Fever

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Max, the manager of Pine Hollow Stables, starts acting odd, Lisa, Carole, and Stevie decide that it's time for a new Saddle Club project. They'll cure Max's "hay fever" by inviting all the eligible women they know to Pine Hollow's fourth of July...

  • Strange Bedfellows

    Patt Bucheister

    JOHN--He Couldn't Resist a Cry for Help, or a Woman Who Dared Him to Play .... He'd long ago given up rescuing ladies in distress and traded his cop's mean streets for the peace of rural Kentucky, but John Lomax felt his resolve weaken when he di...

  • Thank You for Smoking

    Christopher Buckley

    Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neo-puritanical nineties, it's a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you're compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick says he's just doing w...

  • The Warnings

    Margaret Buffie

  • Run With the Hunted

    Charles Bukowski

    The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this countercultur...

  • The Video Kids

    Jon Buller

  • My Best Shoes

    Marilee Robin Burton

  • Long Way from Home

    Frederick Busch

    "AM I YOUR MOTHER?" The headline screams out to Sarah from the pages of the personal ads. Suddenly seized with an "emergency feeling," she abandons her husband, Barrett, and their six-year-old son, Stephen, to search for her biological mother in rura...

  • The Golly Sisters Ride Again

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    It's show time!

    May-May and Rose, those hilarious singing and dancing Golly sisters, return for five more zany adventures in which they find a talking rock, run into some bad luck, and take a vacation that's pure Golly folly.

    Betsy Byars' third b...

  • Passions of the Mind

    A.S. Byatt

    Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her ow...

  • Sempreviva

    Antonio Callado

    Quihno, a Brazilian journalist in exile, returns to his native country seeking revenge for the murder of his wife, who was killed as a political prisoner by a previous Brazilian regime ten years earlier...

  • The Weekend

    Peter Cameron

    On a midsummer weekend, in a country house in upstate New York, three friends, Lyle, Marian, and John, gather on the anniversary of the death of John's brother, who was also Lyle's lover. As Tony's absence haunts each of them in different ways, the r...

  • Rhinestone Cowboy

    Bethany Campbell

    HE'D KISSED HER IN THE TWILIGHT .... And Liz's young heart had been lost forever. Now, thirty years later, Guy Heller was back in town, and the widowed Liz Babcock, respected music teacher, pillar of the community, seemed powerless to resist the m...

  • Circle of Light

    Nancy Cane

    STAR-CROSSED LOVERS Attorney Sarina Bretton dealt woth hard, cold facts, not fantasies of faraway planets and spaceships. Then a daring stranger whisked her to worlds - and desires - she'd never imagined possible. Despite her yearning to boldly ex...

  • The Indictment

    MacKenzie Canter

    Living off his trust fund while practicing law in a small tidewater town, Kendall Wilkinson finds his life altered by the bludgeoning murder of his friend and cousin, Roger Dufault, a death that reveals a web of betrayal, political and financial chic...

  • The Hunted

    Peter Carter

    In July 1943, a car crash in Southern France strands Corporal Vito Salvani, who had been headed home after Italy's surrender, and a Jewish boy behind enemy lines, where they are stalked by the police and a crazed French agent....

  • Blameless Desire

    Jenny Cartwright

    Desire and deception It seemed that Christie had always loved Lucas Merrick. He was so tall, so handsome, so wonderful. Then, one night, all Christie's dreams came true.... But it was soon clear to Christie that Lucas wasn't interested ...

  • Over the Water

    Maude Casey

    Fourteen-year-old Mary feels like a misfit, living in London with her old-fashioned Irish parents, but to her surprise, a summer on her grandmother's Irish farm provides her with a heritage and a lasting sense of self....

  • Death Underfoot

    Dennis Casley

    Brash and provocative, but undeniably sensual, Diana Farwell exuded a powerful aura of mystery and danger. So when her first excursion on her return to Africa after a long absence ends in her hideous death at a game-viewing lodge in Kenya, questions ...

  • Road to Wembley

    Kim Chapin

    Marty Regan, a fifth-grader at the American School in London, tries to salvage a terrible year by becoming a ball boy for the Belsize Park Bombers, a shaky soccer club fighting for the F.A. Challenge Cup tournament championship....

  • Love Bytes

    Sally Chapman

    USER FRIENDLY Trading her high-tech, high-stress Silicon Valley career for her own computer fraud investigations agency, Julie Blake embarks on her first case: the disappearance of Arnie Lufkin, a renegade programming genius and suspected embezzle...

  • White Harvest

    Louis Charbonneau

    In the Artic, man is the deadliest animalBiologist Kathy McNeely is no stranger to the capricious nature of the wilderness. Fresh off a dangerous research mission in Antarctica, she’s been asked to join a new expedition in Alaska. The Association o...

  • I Help Daddy

    Bernice Chardiet

  • I Help Mommy

    Bernice Chardiet

  • Dog City: The Big Squeak

    Richie Chevat

  • Annie and Cousin Precious

    Kay Chorao

    Annie knows that she is supposed to be a good hostess, but the arrival of her horrible Cousin Precious and the havoc she wreaks on Annie's playhouse are just too much, and Annie decides to abandon her guest to the Playhouse Monster....

  • A Dusk of Demons

    John Christopher

    Ben must uncover the secrets of his home, the strange demons that lurk in dark corners, and his destiny as the Master of Old Isle in this adventure from the author of the Tripods series.Ben lives a carefree life on Old Isle, far away from horrible de...

  • Zero's Slider

    Matt Christopher

    While trying to ask Uncle Pete to coach for the Peach Street Mudders, Zero discovers that he can throw a slider when there's a big bandage on his injured thumb....

  • Groom Unknown

    Kathy Clark

    LOVE ON ICE Abby Harris had never been impetuous -- until she escaped to Antarctica to marry a man whose words had won her heart, but whose face she'd never seen and whose voice she'd never heard. A sight-unseen love affair had its surprises,...

  • Remember Me

    Mary Higgins Clark

    On tranquil Cape Cod, a young couple tries to escape from the horrors of their past -- only to become trapped in a nightmare beyond their understanding, beyond their control. Menley Nichols never stopped blaming herself for the accidental death of...

  • What a Pest!

    Maryann Cocca-Leffler

  • Eugenio

    Marianne Cockenpot

  • Whiffle Squeek

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • Miracle Dad

    Toni Collins

    Daddy's Back Derek Wolfe was too young to die. And his kids were too young to lose their only parent. But when he demanded to leave heaven and return to earth, he never considered the consequences. His children didn't recognize him, and their guar...

  • Slaughter at Puxico

    Dale Colter

    The Regulator WANTED for murder, blood brother of the Apache, Sam Slater is a regulator -- fancy talk for a bounty hunter, plain talk for a killer. Roaming the Southwest, he's a man who settles scores with his own brand of justice, a cunning man-...

  • Brules

    Harry Combs

    THERE ONCE WAS A TIME... WHEN LONGHORNS BAWLED AND COWBOYS HOLLERED ON THE DUSTY CHISHOLM TRAIL...WHEN WILD YOUNG MEN TOTING SIX-SHOOTERS DANCED WITH SALOON GIRLS AND DREAMED OF THE MOTHER LODE...WHEN COMANCHES ON THE WARPATH DRENCHED THE PLAINS IN ...

  • Pumpkin Moon

    Pamela E. Conrad

    Ellie Brinkley, a lonely writer, hooks up with Max Turkel, a less-than reliable chimney sweep, and the two lovers embark on a sailing adventure that is threatened by the emergence of Ellie's dark past...

  • The Sidewalk Hilton

    Bruce Cook

    Hired to find a visiting Chicago millionaire missing in Los Angeles, private investigator Chico Cervantes embarks on a real Phoenix of a case; each time the Latino detective thinks he's finished it off, it rises again to confound him.It isn't long be...

  • What Katy Did at School

    Susan Coolidge

    Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations.  All our books contain a linked table of contents. What Katy Did at School, written by American author Susan Coolidge, is the second book in the classic Katy Car...

  • Aisling

    Louise Cooper

    THE SPELLBINDING SAGA OF INDIGO REACHES ITS SHATTERING CONCLUSION A half century ago a young princess named Anghara opened the door of a dark tower and unwittingly released seven demons. To atone for the evil she'd loosed into the world, she forsook...

  • Promise Me Forever // Amelia and the Captain

    Lori Copeland

    SOME FOLKS SAY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A FITTING END FOR THE NOTORIOUS MCDOUGAL SISTERS.... Things looked bleak when the wagon hauling the swindling trio to the gallows came under attack. But rescuers rode into the fray! Anne-Marie was scooped up by an...

  • The Healers

    Tyler Cortland

    In the medical center in the town of Chandler Springs, Texas, the doctors and nurses battle medical emergencies on the job and struggle with personal crises in their private lives, but no one has more to hide than Emma Chandler, matriarch of the powe...

  • By the Sword

    Greg Costikyan

  • Screaming Mean Machine

    Joy Cowley

  • Great Snake Escape

    Molly Coxe

  • Echoes of Love

    Elaine Crawford
    in

    Finds time is of the essence when an engaged workaholic inherits a California ranch -- a place she's seen somewhere before....

  • Walk Two Moons

    Sharon Creech

    "Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out." To trace the path of her missing mother, Sal embarks on a journey from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents. On the road, Sal tells the...

  • Silver Spurs

    Beth Cruise

  • Pepper Tree Rider

    Jack Curtis

    With the end of the Civil War, Elizabeth Hamilton fights a losing battle with time and rustlers trying to hold together her ranch while waiting for her husband's return, until a mysterious stranger risks everything to protect her. Reprint....

  • Witch and Wombat

    Carolyn Cushman

    A magic realm is set on a collision course with wackiness when a witch and her wombat sidekick guide an assortment of tourists from the mortal world through an enchanted forest they think is merely a high-tech amusement park....

  • Wild Horses

    Ruth Jean Dale

    The Monarch Ranch and the Crazy Ace, near Addison, Wyoming. Jim Trent -- Addison County's favorite son. A rodeo superstar, he's the new owner of the Crazy Ace Ranch. He's a classic man of the West -- easygoing on the outside, all steel...

  • Blazing Six-Guns

    Kit Dalton

  • Different Rainbows

    Judith Daniels

  • Horses!

    Jack Dann

    Twelve extraordinary fantasy stories--by Ursula K. Le Guin, Lisa Tuttle, Jane Yolen, Judith Tarr, and Howard Waldrop, among others--celebrate the beauty, power, speed, and grace of the horse. Original....

  • Shade

    David Darke

    SHADE OF DARKNESS The vampire novels of Scarlett Shade have seduced a legion of readers eager to devour her tales of depraved immortality and erotic horror. Gifted with a rare insight into the unholy world of the undead, she has a talent for makin...

  • Vice: An Anthology

    Richard Davenport-Hines

    A collection of poems, quotations, and longer selections from various times and places dealing with popular vices, including sexual behavior, drinking and smoking, gambling, reading, shopping, snobbery, and other amusements...

  • Shark Dialogues

    Kiana Davenport

    “An epic saga of seven generations of one family encompasses the tumultuous history of Hawaii as a Hawaiian woman gathers her four granddaughters together in an erotic tale of villains and dreamers, queens and revolutionaries, lepers and healers”...

  • Thorn of the Rose

    Sandra Davidson

    Disguised as a pirate, Airanna flees Queen Bess's court and sails to the isle of Devil's Harp, where her husband, Robert Warwick of Everly, is being held captive. It was her own wild scheme to avenge the death of her mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, tha...

  • Anchovy Breath to Zoo Food

    Jenny Davis

  • The Amethyst Crown

    Katherine Deauxville

    FROM THE LAVISH SPLENDOR OF A ROYAL CASTLE TO THE SWAVAGE WELSH BORDER LANDS... She is Constance, England's richest heiress. A radiant, silver-eyed beauty, she is a player in the ruthless power games of King Henry I. Now, a desperate gambit takes ...

  • Masters of Spacetime

    John DeChancie

    Dr. Demopoulos and his ragtag crew of time and space travelers face a terrifying new challenge that threatens the entire universe after they crashland their spaceship on a giant trash planet. Original....

  • How to Hunt Buried Treasure

    James M. Deem

    Packed full of treasure-tracking tips, this guide teaches adventurous young readers about six different types of treasures, five important clues to look for, how to follow a treasure trail, and other hunting tips. Reprint....

  • All Dads on Deck

    Judy Delton

    All the Pee Wee Scouts are excited by a planned fishing excursion in honor of Father's Day, except for Molly, who comes up with a scheme to ensure that no fish are hurt....

  • Tea Squall

    Ariane Dewey

  • Pecos Bill

    Ariane Dewey

  • Dead Man in Deadwood

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Attending the annual Wild West Week in the South Dakota town of Deadwood, the Hardy boys find themselves in the middle of a smoldering feud pitting the Black Hills Sioux against a ruthless local land developer. Original....

  • Bullet Heart

    Michael Doane

    The construction of a golf course unearths a long-forgotten cemetery that includes the remains of a Native American girl, which are shipped off to a museum and ignite the Bones War between white landowners and embittered Native Americans. Reprint....

  • Fires in the Mist

    Barbara Dolan

  • Stir-Fry

    Emma Donoghue

    After coming to Dublin to study at the University, sharing a flat with two eccentric women, and becoming infatuated with a man who turns out to be gay, a teenage Irish girl discovers she is a lesbian. National ad/promo. Tour....

  • Cat on a Blue Monday

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Midnight Louie, toughcat extraordinaire, and his human partner in crime-solving, petite red-headed' publicist Temple Barr, are once again in the thick of things as they try to discover just who is trying to wreck the annual Las Vegas Cat Show. When p...

  • Jimmy's Sunny Book

    Paul Dowling

    An interactive pull-tab book allows readers to make the sun rise outside Jimmy and Puppy's window, create shadows for them to play with, drench Jimmy with water in the swimming pool, and observe Puppy drinking from a bowl....

  • One Kiss Led to Another

    Harris Dulany

    Con Leeds, a private investigator from New Jersey, is hired to find the granddaughter and heir of a New York tycoon, who has run away to Atlantic City and fallen in with a drug-trafficking motorcycle gang...

  • Late of This Parish

    Marjorie Eccles

    The fourth case in Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo's investigative career opens with the altar-side murder of the Reverend Cecil Willard, a man possessed of stern morals, diehard opinions, and more enemies than friends...

  • Shawnee Bill's Enchanted Five-Ride Carousel

    Cooper Edens

    Every summer at the North Valley carnival, after they have spent the day giving rides to the older children, the animals on Shawnee Bill's Enchanted Five-Ride Carousel come to life in the darkness and bring delight to the babes who are home in their ...

  • Speak Daggers to Her

    Rosemary Edghill

    Karen Hightower (aka "Bast") is a single white witch living in Manhattan, working as a freelance graphic designer while reading tarot cards on the side. But when a close friend dies mysteriously, Bast must turn detective to find out why. Bast's in...

  • Buffalo Are Coming!

    J.T. Edson

    “Buffalo are coming!”This was the message that the Comanche medicine man spread through the tribes of the Plains Indians. And when they arrived it would be a sign for every brave, no matter what his nation, to rise and drive the hated whi...

  • Just Hold on Tight!

    Andrea Edwards

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! If fiercely independent Gabriella Monroe could rear a teenager -- solo -- she could survive anything. Still, sometimes in her darkest hours, the adoptive mom secretly craved a helping hand -- ...

  • Wild Desire // Savage Storm

    Cassie Edwards

    TWO WARRING CULTURES MADE THEM ENEMIES. With her magnificent copper hair and lovely gray eyes, Stephanie Helton contrasted starkly with the famous "white Indian," Runner, adopted by the Navaho as a child and now destined to be their leader. Tall, li...

  • Eve and Smithy

    Michelle Edwards

  • Brighton Beau

    Rachelle Edwards

    THIS PARTICULAR GAME OF SEDUCTION WAS PROVING MUCH MORE THAN HORSEPLAY! Flavia Allenbrook finds herself plagued by suitors when her beloved colt, Brighton Beau, becomes the toast of the racing season. Having no intention of ever selling her belove...

  • Lone Star and the Trail of Blood

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki follow the trail of a missing man -- and fall into a deadly trap!When a trusted ranch manager and some money vanish from the Starbuck ranch, Jessie and Ki track their quarry to Rock Canyon, a lawless town in the heart of the Arizona Ter...

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Lynn Erickson

    IT WAS EVERY MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE! Her son had been kidnapped, and Alexandra St. Clair Costidos was determined to get him back. Her wealthy and powerful ex-husband had hidden Peter away on a well-guarded Greek island, and now her lawyers were te...

  • The House of Caine

    Ken Eulo

    When Rob Martin left Millhouse, he was barely out of his teens and Millhouse was his beloved hometown. Ten years later, Rob returns for a brief visit and finds that beneath the calm surface of small-town America, a terrible evil is brewing. For de...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Marcia Evanick

    REECE -- He Couldn't Resist a Woman Who Vowed She Did Her Best Work at Night.... For the past two years detective Reece Carpenter had solved the fake murder-mystery at the Montgomery clan's annual family reunion, infuriating the beautiful...

  • Longarm and the Drifting Badge

    Tabor Evans

    When the prisoner he was supposed to transport turns up dead at the hands of local marshall Frank Nemo, U.S. Marshal Long investigates and discovers that Nemo has a suspicious history of killing escaped suspects. Original....

  • Rogue

    Fabio

    Darling, You, my love, are my most reckless passion. I never dreamed you were a lady hiding in wench's garb. A buxom barmaid in a Charleston alehouse, you enchanted me with your barbed wit and ravishing beauty. Yet, when I wagered my companion...

  • High on the Hog

    Kimberly Olsen Fakih

    Young Trapp, feeling torn about having to leave Great-grandpa Hatfield and the family farm when her parents decide to move to New York City, stumbles upon a family secret that changes her perspective about her great-grandparents....

  • Lord Ashford's Wager

    Marjorie Farrell

    A Bad Bet in Love Lady Joanna Barrand knew all the terrible things about Lord Tony Ashford. It was bad enough that the dazzlingly handsome, dismally impoverished earl looked on Joanna as a childhood chum, not the lovely young woman she'd become. I...

  • White Fang II

    Elizabeth Faucher

  • Dead in the Cellar

    Connie Feddersen

    SHE'S GOT LAS VEGAS LEGS, BUT SHE'S HAD IT WITH LIFE IN THE FAST LANE. SHE'S AMANDA HAZARD--SAVVY CPA AND AMATEUR SLEUTH--AND SHE'S ABOUT TO STIR UP A TORNADO OF TROUBLE IN THE OKLAHOMA BOONDOCKS! TREACHEROUS TWISTER Sexy cop Nick Thorn's ex-gi...

  • Caution: Baby Ahead

    Marie Ferrarella

    Future Daddy Shane Michaels--a successful businessman who had it all. Until, out of the blue, came the nagging sensation that something was missing. Then a strange impulse compelled him to visit his boyhood home.... Future Mommy Jeannie Harrig...

  • A Bid for Love

    Carol Finch

    Trying to hold the family ranch together and put her two daughters through college has left Elizabeth Smith Sutton plumb worn out...and flat broke. The feisty rancher's widow is going to have to sell -- lock stock and barrel -- and move to town. ...

  • Flour Babies and the Boys of Room 8

    Anne Fine

    Despite the scorn of the other boys in Room 8 about the assignment to care for their "flour babies"--bags of flour that must be kept dry, mud-free, and safe from harm--Simon, a clumsy misfit, begins to enjoy caring for his "baby."...

  • Little Elephant

    Miela Ford

  • The Fist of God

    Frederick Forsyth

    From the bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal, international  master of intrigue Frederick Forsyth, comes a thriller that brilliantly  blends fact with fiction for one of this summer’s -- or any season’s -- most &#...

  • Fool's Puzzle

    Earlene Fowler

    Meet Benni Harper... a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cr...

  • The Back of Beyond

    Stuart Fox

    When an ambitious real-estate developer is allowed to begin construction on sacred aboriginal land, which holds a curse for anyone who trespasses there, irreverent investigative reporter Doyle Mulligan becomes caught up in a perilous outback adventur...

  • Bryan Adams

    Darlene Fredricks

  • Little Inchkin

    Fiona French

  • Majyk by Hook or Crook

    Esther Friesner

    The sequel to Majyk by Accident follows magician Kendar Gangle and his earth cat, Scandal, as they try to stop a rain of live poultry over Orbix, confront a mad menagerie of revolting animals, and restore the rightful ruler of Wingdingo. Orig...

  • I'm Not Stiller

    Max Frisch

    The unabridged version of a haunting story of a man in prison. His wife, brother, and mistress recognize him and call him by his name, Anatol Ludwig Stiller. But he rejects them, repeatedly insisting that he’s not Stiller. Could he possibly be righ...

  • A Perfect Wife and Mother

    Alexandra Frye

    WANTED: ONE BRIGHT YOUNG WOMAN, ENGLISH-SPEAKING, TO CARE FOR 3-YEAR-OLD BOY AND SAVE BARNARD ALUM FROM ATROPHY OF THE BRAIN. Meet Georgia Levy Coffey, mommy-track wife of Larry, a seven-figure Wall Street hustler in a perpetual pursuit of "The De...

  • Dragon Sleeping

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    The dragon slept, and the dragon dreamed. And in the dragon's dream, where there once was earth and trees and homes and lives, there was nothing but fire. The dragon slept. But it will not sleep forever......

  • The Architecture of Desire

    Mary Gentle

    Mercenaries in lace and steel roam the countryside and the heads of criminals are impaled on London Bridge. The characters' relationships are played out in the shadow of the hangman's rope. Sequel to Rats and Gargoyles....

  • Midnight Kiss

    Nancy Gideon

    WHITE ROSES They were a gift from her handsome new suitor. After a wretched Season in London, Arabella Howland was ripe for a real romance. But she soon discovered that the Marquis Louis Radman was no ordinary bachelor... SCARLET SECRETS A myste...

  • Passion's Bandit

    Robin Gideon

    HER VIRTUE WAS LOST TO A DARK-HAIRED DEVIL WHOSE FACE SHE'D NEVER SEEN Singlehandedly waging war against the most detestable villain in the New Mexico Territory was Singer's idea of a good time. In fact, her crusade as the savior of Santa Fe becam...

  • The Postcard Pest

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    In honor of Polk Street School's Postcard Day, Ms. Rooney's class plans a special tour of the post office during which they will mail postcards to children all over the U.S., but Emily Arrow's trip does not go as she had planned. Original....

  • Mr. Bear Babysits

    Golden Books

  • Aladdin

    Golden Books

  • That Year of Our War

    Gloria Goldreich

    The momentous year of 1944 is teenaged Sarah's year of starting life anew, as she copes with her mother's death, her father's army duty in Europe, and first love among her Brooklyn relatives. By the author of Leah's Journey. 25,000 first prin...

  • Flavor of the Month

    Olivia Goldsmith

    From the New York Times"bestselling author of The First Wives Club: This novel about an aging actress’s revenge on Hollywood is a “hoot” (Entertainment Weekly).   Mary Jane Moran was an ambitious New York stage actress who lost the role ...

  • Summer King, Winter Fool

    Lisa Goldstein

    Go now to a world of gods and kings and poet-mages, in which the god of summer has fallen in love with the human world and so has chosen not to reascend and permit the changing of the seasons. In this world, Valemar, a young courtier, is about to beg...

  • Royal Harlot

    Lucy Gordon

    With hair that flowed like a river of gold and eyes of depthless allure, Leonie, Dowager Duchess of Conistan, was irresistible. And Klaus could not control his passion in the presence of this woman ruled by the gypsy vows of earth, air and fire! ...

  • Eddy and the Habs

    Adrian Robert Gostick

    "On his worst day Eddy Shackelford was our best hockey player. On a good day, we couldn't touch him. His slap shot was so quick his stick kicked up sparks as it brushed along the road. Yet he was quiet, not one to boast about his skill. There was som...

  • The Lady Wore Spurs

    Carol Grace

    The shock of his life! "My ranch, sold out from under me! And turned into one of those silly resorts for city people. But wait -- this story gets even better. Turns out, the new owner is a woman. One sassy, sexy female named Abby Lawrence. ...

  • K Is for Killer

    Sue Grafton

    When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can't let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but ...

  • Maverick

    Dewey Gram

    MAVERICK IS HIS NAME POKER IS HIS GAME BRET MAVERICK DOESN'T CALL POKER GAMBLING. IN GAMBLING YOU CAN LOSE. AND LOSING IS ONE THING MAVERICK DOESN'T PLAN TO DO AS HE ROAMS THE FRONTIER LOOKING FOR ACTION. BUT WHEN HE TANGLES WITH A LARCENOUS LOVELY...

  • The Paper

    Dewey Gram

  • Drover and the Designated Hitter

    Bill Granger

    Agreeing to investigate allegations that a baseball superstar for the Chicago Cubs has developed a gambling problem, former sportswriter Jimmy Drover learns that several people stand to benefit from the athlete's downfall--or death. Reprint....

  • Vasalisa and Her Magic Doll

    Rita Grauer

  • The Dragon and the Bat

    Geary Gravel

  • Ghost Train

    Pat Graverson

    While kissing a mysterious sad-faced girl named Emily on the railroad tracks, Bill "Huddy" Hudman is suddenly transported back to 1943 and caught up in a plot of international sabotage that could end his life before it begins. Original....

  • Someone's Watching

    Pat Graverson

    When Cassie begins having nightmares in which she slowly remembers details about the murder of her mother, someone begins watching her, out to silence any memories that may come back to her. Original....

  • Jimjams

    Michael Green

    The mild-mannered retirees newly arrived at the exotic resort of Blue Turale Island are threatened by weird predatory creatures who sow seeds of insane, burning desire in their victims, turning the island into a satanic sandbox...

  • Bothered

    Jennifer Greene

    WHEN AN IRRESISTIBLE MAN... Seth Connor might be a master carpenter, but he's got no idea he's so appealin' to the ladies. So it's up to me, Jock, to use my ghostly powers and get some confidence into the lad. Aye, his blood is sure to boil when h...

  • The Raven and the Dove

    Maria Greene

    Fated to marry the man who can save her brother from the hangman's noose, Cynara Hawthorne becomes the unwilling wife of the darkly handsome Lord Merlin Seymour, a tender brooding man concealing a secret past. For centuries, Black Raven Castle st...

  • Mind-Speakers' Call

    Gayle Greeno

    MINDSTEALERS -- that is what the Gleaners--a mutant strain of humans able to destroy the minds and souls of their fellows--are known as throughout Canderis. It is a reputation that has been only too well-earned by such Gleaners as Seeker Doyce M...

  • Daisies in the Wind

    Jill Gregory

    Ice was her shield against a cruel, callous world. Fire was his weapon -- a blazing six-gun and an unquenchable passion. Fate brought them together as the rugged lawman taught the outlaw's rebellious daughter the meaning of love... She was an ...

  • Star-Crossed

    Jillian Grey

    ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD ...can a gorgeous movie star like Francine Montclaire become the hottest new director--risking everything on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD ...can a sexy hunk like Johnny Paris become the next James Dean--a...

  • The Brick House Burglars

    Peni R. Griffin

    Four friends who form a club that meets in the abandoned old brick mansion next to their apartment complex become detectives when they stumble upon an arson plot to destroy the old house. By the author of The Treasure Bird. ...

  • The Well-Mannered Assasin

    Aline Griffith

    The author of The Spy Wore Red draws on her life as an American beauty turned Spanish countess and spy to weave a tale of intrigue and romance, featuring a former secret agent who falls for a terrorist....

  • The Chamber

    John Grisham

    IN THE CORRIDORS OF CHICAGO'S TOP LAW FIRM: Twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. MAXIMUM SECURITY UNIT, MISSISSIPPI STATE PRISON: S...

  • All-Time Great World Series

    Andrew Gutelle

  • Mowing

    Jessie Haas

  • Marcie and the Monster of the Bayou

    Betty Hager

    An imaginative nine-year-old has trouble when she claims to have seen a sea monster in the bayou near her house and when she tries to protect her new friend whose harelip has made her the subject of malicious gossip....

  • Marcie and the Shrimp Boat Adventure

    Betty Hager

  • Miss Tilly and the Haunted Mansion

    Betty Hager

  • Old Jake and the Pirate's Treasure

    Betty Hager

  • The Farm Summer, 1942

    Donald Hall

  • The Last Illusion

    Diana Hamilton

    "You drive me wild and then say `Don't touch'! Do you want me to lose my reason?" Who was this man she thought she knew who exercised icy control over his emotions? Four years ago Charley might have believed Sebastian Machado's...

  • Hunter's Heart

    Christina Hamlett

    Just when Victoria Cameron's job as a legal assistant is getting dull, her boss assigns her to work for the firm's most prestigious client, the fabulously rich and devastatingly handsome Hunter O'Hare. Victoria is required to live in his home, a magn...

  • The Killer's Club

    Robin Hardy

    Determined to have a wild spring break, Zach, Sal, Doug, and Ken get more than that when they accidentally kill an old Navaho man, and they are terrorized when the already dumped body keeps reappearing in the trunk of their car. Original....

  • Cat Scratch Fever

    Tara K. Harper

    BEYOND THE GATE... Tsia had dreamed all her life of becoming a guide, attuned to her world through a telepathic gate to another lifeform. And now, after years of preparation, she had at last taken the guide virus that would mutate her body to crea...

  • Temptation

    Janice Harrell

    Consumed by her desire to be the one that Penn loves, Joanna nevertheless has some reservations that she records in her diary, a book that becomes a shocking chronicle of monstrous evil and puts her life in danger...