Books Published in May 1994

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1994

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  • A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories

    Robin McKinley

    A world of magic, hidden power, romance, and mystery abounds in a collection of five fantasy stories, including four tales set in the mythical kingdom of Damar. By the Newbery Medalist for The Hero and the Crown. ...

  • Of Love and Dust

    Ernest J. Gaines

    This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he encounters conflict with the overseer, Sidney Bonbon, and a tale of revenge, lust and pow...

  • Good-Bye, Hello

    Barbara Dugan

    Bobbie Callahan dreads facing the new challenges of sixth grade without her best friend, who has moved away, with Sister Alice, the toughest teacher at St. Francis, and with the growing health problems of her beloved Gramma....

  • 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...

  • Darkness Visible

    William Styron

    A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psych...

  • Kit's Hill aka By Our Beginnings

    Jean Stubbs

    High on Garth Fells in the county of Lancashire, life was ruled by the bitter cold winds in the winter of 1760. By candlelight, Ned Howarth of Kit's Hill farm pens a humble proposal of marriage to Miss Dorcas Wilde. Dorcas is hesitant, should she mar...

  • New Baby

    Esther Wilkin

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    Rita Balducci

  • A Woman of Conscience

    Miles Tripp

    Mary and Henry are on holiday in Tuscany when their car hits someone on a deserted country road. They panic, leaving the scene. But when Henry is posted to Italy - to the place where the accident happened - Mary is horrified. By the author of The Dim...

  • All-Time Great World Series

    Andrew Gutelle

  • The Hostage

    Larry Weinberg

  • The Rescue

    Jeff Morgan

    When his daredevil friend Alex falls from a cliff during a canoe trip through a remote area of Minnesota, it is up to Hobie to make his way through the dangers of the wilderness to find help. Original....

  • The Hurricane

    J.B. Watson

    When a hurricane strikes without warning, Izzy is forced to seek refuge alone in an abandoned house, but her shelter becomes a snare when the storm destroys the roof and traps her inside, with only her own courage and resourcefulness to help her esca...

  • So Far from the Bamboo Grove

    Yoko Kawashima Watkins

    In the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl living with her Japanese family in northern Korea, ...

  • Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying

    Barbara Park

    Junie B. is the bestest spier in the world. That's 'cause she has sneaky feet. And her nose doesn't whistle when she breathes. But guess what? Junie B. might be real sneaky. And real peeky. But when she spies on Mrs., she could get into real trouble...

  • Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Germany

    Virginia Haviland

  • Favorite Fairy Tales Told in France

    Virginia Haviland

  • Winnie the Pooh's Bedtime Stories

    Bruce Talkington

  • 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...

  • Serengeti Migration: Africa's Animals on the Move

    Lisa Lindblad

    Spotlights one of the most awesome natural spectacles in the world, the wildebeest and zebra migration through the Serengeti National Park in East Africa, across its wide lakes and rivers, and through the dangerous predators preying on the migrating ...

  • By Jove

    Michael Macrone

  • By the Sword

    Greg Costikyan

  • 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 ...

  • War Paint

    Tom Wakefield

    It is 1942, and the sleepy English village of Padmore has been hit with a bomb in the shape of the new schoolteacher, Kay Roper. Forthright, eccentric, her face made up in "glorious Technicolour," Miss Roper has the villagers in thrall. Her girls wor...

  • Garden Diary

    Maggie Malone

  • 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...

  • Phantom Lover

    Susan Napier

    Love and honor Honor Sheldon had been amused, enchanted, intrigued...and yes, seduced by the letters from her mysterious paramour. She had responded in kind, crafting messages of consummate passion and...well, naturally, of desire. Then she di...

  • Pale Phoenix

    Kathryn Reiss

    Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town--more than thr...

  • I'm Not Stiller

    Max Frisch

    The classic German novel with a narrator as “treacherous, evasive and compelling as an Edgar Allan Poe murderer or a Raymond Chandler detective” (The New York Times).The unabridged version of a haunting story of a man in prison. His wife, brother...

  • 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 ...

  • Passion & the Past

    Miranda Lee

    Dark secrets, forbidden desires, scandalous discoveries... Welcome to a glittering new six-part saga set in Australia. This, and every novel in the set, features a gripping romance that stands by itself, as the passions, scandals and hopes that ex...

  • Heir to Glengyle

    Miriam MacGregor

    First impressions... lasting impressions From the moment he'd opened the door to her at Glengyle, Baird MacGregor had caused the oddest reactions in Cathie. First antagonism, then frustration, then confusion. But always, behind all their argui...

  • My Real Family

    Emily Arnold McCully

    It’s the last performance of the Farm Family Theater, and Sarah is excited because it’s her turn to pick her favorite activity, dinner, and a bedtime story. But Blanche gets to choose instead! Sarah is crushed. Her real parents wouldn’t do this...

  • Swimming in the Starry River

    P. Carey Reid

    When Jim quits his job so that his wife Marsha can pursue her career, he finds life becoming simultaneously more difficult and more rich as he cares for their daughter Stella, who has a life-threatening disease. A first novel....

  • Hi

    Ann Herbert Scott

  • The Roarasaurus

    John Patience

  • Grandad Bill's Song

    Jane Yolen

  • New England Scrapbook: A Journey Through Poems, Prose, and Pict

    Loretta Krupinski

    Brief descriptions, lively verse by a handful of poets, and most importantly, Krupinski's stunning art together answer the question, 'What Is New England?' The poetry is well-matched to Krupinski's gouache and colored-pencil illustrations, which evok...

  • Hide 'n' Seek Friends

    Diana Laufer

  • Flintstones

    Wendy Larson

    The Water Buffalos are in the bowling finals, the Rubbles adopt Bamm-Bamm, and Fred is the new vice-president at the quarry, but Fred's evil boss has a plan that may ruin everything. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Havin' a Ball in Bedrock

    Wendy Larson

  • Yabba Dabba Doo Adventure

    Wendy Larson

  • A Way In The World

    V.S. Naipaul

    The Nobel Prize-winning author -- and "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angeles Times) -- spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian … a brilliant ...

  • 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...

  • Woodchuck Nation

    Mark Saltzman

  • Sam the Spy

    Diana Oliver

    Determined to fit in at the new school where her mother is principal, Samantha Tillman offers to spy on the tough Ms. McCracken and steal the answers to an upcoming test, with disastrous results. Original....

  • Polka and Dot

    Dena Schutzer

  • William Wegman's ABC

    William Wegman

    Twenty-six stunning black-and-white photographs that feature the artist's irresistible weimaraner dogs forming the letters of the alphabet are accompanied by color portraits of Fay, Ray, Battina, and their friends illustrating a word beginning with t...

  • ABC

    William Wegman

    Twenty-six photographs that feature weimaraner dogs forming the letters of the alphabet are accompanied by portraits of Fay, Ray, Battina, and their friends illustrating a word beginning with that letter...

  • 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 Scold's Bridle

    Minette Walters

    BITTER HARRIDAN... Few tears fall when rich, spiteful old Mathilda Gillespie's bloody corpse is found in her bathtub, her wrists slit and the ancient scold's bridle clamped on her head. It seems Mathilda's favorite heirloom was also an instrument ...

  • 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....

  • Under the Midsummer Sky

    Carole Lexa Schaefer

  • That Extraordinary Pig of Paris

    Roni Schotter

  • What a Pest!

    Maryann Cocca-Leffler

  • The Video Kids

    Jon Buller

  • It's Morphin Time!

    William McCay

  • Remember the Red-Shouldered Hawk

    Doris Buchanan Smith

  • The Terror Toad

    Jean Waricha

  • Vasalisa and Her Magic Doll

    Rita Grauer

  • The Nine Days Wonder

    Marilyn Hollinshead

  • Farm Babies

    Ann Rice

  • Rita's Revenge!

    Megan Stine

  • How Rabbit Stole The Fire

    Joanna Troughton

    A wonderful, rhythmic North American Indian folk tale... As the leaves fall from the trees and the wind blows colder, the animals wish they had fire to keep them warm. But only the Sky People living high in the mountains have fire, and they guard it ...

  • Kidnapped

    Lisa Norby

    Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.  ...

  • 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...

  • What Is the Sun?

    Reeve Lindbergh

  • Find Mouse in the Yard

    Heather Maisner

  • Find Mouse in the House

    Heather Maisner

  • Sam Who Was Swallowed by a Shark

    Phyllis Root

  • My Mom and Dad Make Me Laugh

    Nick Sharratt

  • 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....

  • Dreaming

    Bobette McCarthy

    Fast asleep in his cozy bed, a dog dreams of a midnight voyage out to sea, with the moon at his shoulder and a dolphin by his keel, riding the waves, gazing at clouds, and returning to shore once again....

  • 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-...

  • Betrayal

    Lois Tilton

    Ambassadors from all over the Federation have assembled on Deep Space NineTM for a conference that will determine the future of the planet Bajor. Keeping dozens of ambassadors happy is hard enough, but soon terrorists begin a bombing campaign on the ...

  • McGivern

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen
    in

    In McGivern, the murder of his wife forces McGivern into a showdown with his own people, while in The Hard Men, rivals Buckmaster and Soderstrom wage a bitter, desperate battle for the ownership of the valley. Original....

  • Warrior Born

    Jake McMasters

  • Slocum and the Mountain of Gold

    Jake Logan

    After gunning down bandit Wade Ramey in the streets of Blue Meadow, Colorado, Slocum discovers that the outlaw's saddlebags are stuffed with gold, a discovery that sends thousands of would-be miners to Bearclaw Trail in search of gold. Original....

  • Spanish Gold

    J.R. Roberts

    When Clint Adams brought the corpse of a murdered prospector into Silver City, he thought it was the end of an adventure. But now, the victim's beautiful daughter needs him to help claim the cache of Spanish gold her father says he found. Someone ...

  • Ace of Diamonds

    Bruce H. Thorstad

    Riley Stokes and Cass McCasland ride into a Colorado mining town to find that Stokes's uncle has staked his mine on a ragtag baseball team, the Rockies, about to play against the merciless Jersey Invincibles. Original....

  • Blazing Six-Guns

    Kit Dalton

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lovers of the Golden Drum

    Diana Bane
    in

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • Tempted

    Elaine Kane

    The impetuous daughter of a French nobleman, Catherine de Tralle was only twelve when Hugh Vougnet rode across the drawbridge of her ancestral castle in Avignon. Despite her innocence, she loved the handsome warrior-knight with a woman's heart. But...

  • 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 ...

  • Shadows in the Sand

    Elizabeth Harris

    Willa Jamieson travels from London to Cairo in order to solve a hundred-year-old mystery about the fate of Genevieve Mountsorrel, the beautiful wife of a British government official, who disappeared without a trace in 1892. Original....

  • Dreaming of You

    Lisa Kleypas

    She stood at danger's threshold -- then love beckoned her in. In the shelter of her country cottage, Sara Fielding puts pen to paper to create dreams. But curiosity has enticed the prim, well-bred gentlewoman out of her safe haven -- and into Dere...

  • 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...

  • Montana Angel

    Kathleen Harrington

    DEVIL'S DELIGHT Wealthy mine owner Ross Morgan is ready with a scathing reception for the lady lawyer from Boston, who had written him a critical letter challenging the safety of the mine where her brother died. But the "spinster" he a...

  • The Law and Miss Penny

    Sharon Ihle

    THROUGH HER EYES, HE SAW A WHOLE NEW WORLD When he awoke by the side of the muddy road, with a throbbing head and a lovely woman bending over him, he couldn't remember even his own name. Morgan Slater, U.S. Marshal, had to accept pretty Mariah Pen...

  • 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...

  • Embrace the Night

    Elda Minger

    Forced into the role of servant by her new stepmother, Lucinda Townsend's only refuge is the garden behind her London townhouse, a haven that is invaded one night by the dashing William Steadman, Duke of Grenville. Original....

  • Gabriel's Bride

    Samantha James

    GABRIEL'S BRIDE Trapped by duty -- and demands of his cruel, unyielding father -- Lord Gabriel Sinclair, the dark and moody Earl of Wakefield, is being forced to find a bride. But Gabriel's plans an exquisite revenge on his cold hearted pare...

  • Out of Time

    Anna Jennet
    in

    Takes a plunge into the sea from the cliffs of Cornwall -- and falls back in time, into the arms of a heroic knight....

  • Flowers from the Sea

    Arnette Lamb
    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...

  • Sweet Fancy

    Sally Martin

    When a lady of mystery beguiles the Regency London theater with her enchanting performance behind a mask, Lord Rossiter, a former spy for the English government, vows to discover the beauty's true identity--and loses his heart in the process. Origina...

  • Surrender My Love

    Johanna Lindsey

    A LADY'S SCORN Wrongly branded a spy, the dark and handsome Viking lord Selig Haardrad suffered greatly in the dungeons of Lady Erika of Gronwood. And as he hung in chains, his magnificent body wracked with pain and fever, one thought sustained him:...

  • Sing to Me, Saigon

    Kathryn Jensen

    An army nurse, an abused wife, and an American folksinger in love with a Vietnamese soldier are thrown together amid the fear and chaos of wartime Saigon, where they forge a friendship out of their collective suffering. Original....

  • Silent Sonata

    Deborah Nicholas

    Suzanne Winslow is stunned when the brooding pianist Devin Bryce plays her late stepfather's unpublished sonata, and she embarks upon an investigation into just how the handsome keyboardist came to possess the score. Original....

  • Kissing Cousins

    Carol Jerina

    AN UNLIKELY NOBLEMAN It happened so fast it made his head spin. One day Prescott Trefarrow was a rough-riding cattle rancher in Texas and the next he was reigning Earl of St. Keverne in Cornwall. He felt as out of place in his new post as a lone m...

  • All Things Beautiful

    Cathy Maxwell

    ALL FOR LOVE Lady Julia Markham's mediterranean-blue eyes and daring spirit made her the toast of the season, until she attempted to elope with a man who then betrayed her. By the strict standards of London society, Julia was ruined. Three year...

  • Fire Queen

    Kathleen Morgan

    HER MAGIC TURNED THE TIDE OF BATTLE, BUT ONLY THE POWER OF LOVE COULD SWAY HIS WARRIOR HEART... In a land ravaged by drought and famine, by the clash of nobles and their peasant armies, the Lord of Rothgarn's only child, Deidra, flees from the gil...

  • Julia

    Barrie King

    In Italy during the turbulent 1930s, American heiress Julia Howard marries an ambitious official in order to try to forget her overwhelming love for Paolo Danieli, a brilliant artist dedicated to stopping the Fascists. Original....

  • The Panther and the Pearl

    Doreen Owens Malek

    THE AMERICAN BEAUTY When an innocent excursion to Constantinople took an unexpected twist, Sarah Woolcott found herself a prisoner in the harem of young and virile Kalid Shah. Headstrong and courageous, Sarah was determined to resist the handsome fo...

  • Embrace the Wild Dawn

    Selina MacPherson

    FIRE IN THEIR BLOOD Captain Draper Boone is on a mssion that he must accomplish or face court martial. He has been ordered to bring his commanding officer's estranged daughter; Quintana, back to the Colonies for an arranged marriage. Meeting the f...

  • The Cairo Cats

    Dawn Aldridge Poore

    WHEN IT COMES TO UNSOLVED CRIMES AND UNMATCHED HEARTS, MISS ROXANNE SYDNEY IS ON THE CASE! What begins as a trip to London to attend a wedding soon develops into a dangerous mystery for Miss Roxanne Sydney. Short of funds, she'd planned to give th...

  • Memories

    Anita Mills
    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...

  • Came a Stranger

    Linda Sandifer

    A BOLD WOMAN Maggie Clayton had first come to Wyoming as a seventeen-year-old bride. Together, she and her husband fought impossible odds to build the White Raven Ranch from a wild, untamed land. Then, suddenly Trent was dead, killed by a bullet b...

  • The Silver Link

    Carol Marsh

    Entering into a marriage against her father's will, an eighteen-year-old debutante and gifted painter weds a handsome auto heir and, overnight, finds her fairytale romance turning into a nightmare. Original....

  • Golden Desire

    Wanda Owen

    THE HOMBRE… Mark first saw Elena strolling along the wharf -- with an overly amorous suitor in hot pursuit. Before he knew it, Mark had rescued the sultry beauty…only to have his chivalry rewarded with a resounding slap! Although the flashing-...

  • A Midsummer Day's Dream

    Linda Lael Miller
    in

    Takes a vintage dress-shop owner on a breathtaking adventure in medieval England - where a bewitching love awaits....

  • Forevermore

    Maura Seger

    THE MYSTICAL STONES OF AVEBURY In a time of swashbuckling daring and deadly danger, one man and one woman confronted a mystery of the ages. William Devereaux Faulkner, warrior and diplomat, was sent to investigate a series of murders in the seemin...

  • Chanting the Storm

    Marylyle Rogers

    The setting sun turned Anya's hair into a golden aura as she secretly communed with the woodland spirits. She beseeched them to hasten the arrival of Evain, the handsome Druid sorcerer she had adored since her earliest childhood days. Yet a match wit...

  • Morningstar

    Erin Pizzey

    Divorced and struggling with life as a single mother, Nina Stockton is swept into a tantalizing world of passion, romance, fantasy--and terror--after she meets Michael Morningstar, a powerful, wealthy, and mysterious tycoon. Original....

  • Flying High

    Helen Playfair

    Widowed Rachel Mooreland enjoys her job installing radio equipment in private planes at the Van Nuys, California airport. You'd never get her up in one of those things, though; like any sensible woman, Rachel prefers to keep both feet on the grou...

  • Promises

    Jeane Renick

    When Leanne Bowmont lost her sight at fourteen, she promised herself she'd never let her blindness limit her inner vision -- and for the last nine years she kept that vow. Now engaged to handsome Curt Baylor she's suddenly uncertain. Everyone, ev...

  • Old Lover's Ghost

    Joan Smith

    LANDING A FLESH AND BLOOD HUSBAND WAS PROVING DIFFICULT FOR THE DAUGHTER OF A FAMOUS GHOST HUNTER! Although Charity herself did not share her papa's unusual power and had never seen any ghosts, she didn't doubt her father's skill in co...

  • Deceived

    Carla Simpson

    DARING They call her China Lili -- a dazzling star of the San Francisco stage whose exotic face hides a bitter past. But when a famous actress is found dead, it is exquisite Lili, flower of the Orient, who is suspected of murder… DANGEROUS ...

  • The Golden Swan

    Phylis Warady

    A MAN OF DESIRES Considering the delight the gossipmongers took in spreading tales about his latest tendre, Andrew Halpern, Viscount le Temple, was not surprised when his father insisted he settle down with a respectable mate. However, marrying a pen...

  • The Secret Scribbler

    Cynthia Richey

    A LADY'S PENULTIMATE PREDICAMENT... Grace Penworth could not sing or play the pianoforte, embroider or paint. In despair, her parents dispatched her to London for the Season. What the Vicar Penworth and his wife didn't know was that Grace ...

  • Heaven

    Bobbi Smith

    CROWN OF GOLD Entombed centuries ago, shrouded in legend and haunted by a curse, it is the most precious jewel of the Nile. And Alexandra Parker, daughter of a famed archaeologist, has come to Egypt to find it ... CROWN OF PASSION As have...

  • Velvet Dreams

    Patricia Werner

    SOME VOWS... Amanda Whitney's mother is determined to marry her fiercely independent daughter off -- preferably to a title. But Amanda harbors dreams of romance, and vows she will only wed for love. Edward Pemberton, the Duke of Sunderland, has sw...

  • Fortune's Folly

    Margaret Summerville

    A Mistress of Deception Miss Pandora Marsh was a very proper young lady who was quite content to live out of the social whirl with her aristocratic but impoverished family. Then without warning her life was abruptly altered. A man of mystery sen...

  • Primrose

    Clara Wimberly

    STRANGER IN PARADISE The moment Rosalyn Hunte set eyes on the breathtaking Tennessee hill country, she knew she'd found her true home. But as a member of her father's experimental settlement, she was strictly forbidden to mingle with the l...

  • Forgive Us Our Sins

    Philip Luber

    Psychiatrist/author Harry Kline's latest book touches off a masacre by a deranged Vietnam veteran. And the book soars to the top of the bestseller list. Then a chilling fan letter from a serial killer invites Harry to join a dance of death--by chroni...

  • Fire Burst

    Don Pendleton

    STOKING THE FLAMES The presence of neo-Nazis among Arab guerrillas at the Iraqi-Jordanian frontier indicates a sinister terrorist clique in the making and puts Washington on red alert. Mack Bolan hits the streets of Los Angeles, gunning for a para...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Dead in the Water

    Nancy Holder

    From Bram Stoker Awardâ€"winning author Nancy Holder comes a chilling novel of horror on the sea. This is how it will be when you drown. . . . At a sun-washed dock in Long Beach, California, the creaky freighter, Morris, loaded with brightly colored ...

  • Love You to Death

    Bebe Faas Rice

  • Tower of Evil

    James Kisner

    A MANGLED BODY LIES TWISTED IN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT… A DISEMBODIED HEAD WARNS THE LIVING OF A WRATHFUL EVIL… DEMONIC CREATURES LURK IN THE MIDST OF A PARALYZING BLIZZARD… High above the city landscape rises the skyscraper, once a monument...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Warden of Horses

    Karen Ripley

  • The Zentraedi Rebellion

    Jack McKinney

    EARTH WAS NO PLACE FOR LOSERS! Not everyone was eager to share the planet Earth with the Zentraedi survivors of the First Robotech War. And nowhere was this more evident than the Southlands, into whose forested heart so many alien warships had plung...

  • The Breath of Suspension

    Alexander Jablokov

    A collection of ten stories creates a realm of "irrelevant miracles," where civilization-building is a pastime and death is an art, and offers unique interpretations of fear, love, guilt, greed, obligation, and obsession. Reprint....

  • Fanuilh

    Daniel Hood

    A DRAGON'S VENGEANCE The wizard Tarquin valued the miniature dragon Fanuilh as his familiar--and the human Liam as his friend. And when Tarquin was murdered in bed one rainy night, both were left to grieve--and to seek justice. If Liam succeeds...

  • Once a Hero

    Michael A. Stackpole

    A LEGEND COME TO LIFE Half a millennium ago Neal Elfward, a legendary human warrior, fought alongside his Elven friend Aarundel for the freedom of mankind against the tyranny of the sorcerous Reithrese empire. But Neal's victory began a genocidal ...

  • Burning Bright

    Melissa Scott

    Space pilot and ambitious young game designer Quinn Lioe spends shore leave on the planet Burning Bright, known for its virtual reality games, and soon finds herself playing a game with stakes higher than she imagined. Reprint....

  • Throy

    Jack Vance

    Although the Conservancy of Cadwal has a new Charter, various factions work against it to further their own interests, and Glawen Clattuc is commissioned by the governors of the planet to apprehend the conspirators. Reprint....

  • The Magic and the Healing

    Nick O'Donohoe

    About to give up veterinary school because of a family crisis, BJ Vaughan is chosen to join a special group of healers who venture into the mystical world of Crossroads, where unicorns, centaurs, and other magical creatures live. Original....

  • Spindoc

    Steve Perry

    When his lover is murdered, Venture Silk, a spin doctor who manipulates the news for public consumption, becomes the target of spies and assassins, and he must change hats and--for once--search out the truth...

  • Stellar Ranger

    Steve Perry

    THERE ARE PLANETS FAR OFF THE COURSE OF CIVILIZATION ...Violent, ugly worlds where peace and justice are abstract concepts. In the cause of law and order, these distant, outlaw worlds must be tamed. Such a job requires the intervention of one excepti...

  • Secret of the Djinn

    Jean Rabe
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • The Citadel

    Kevin D. Randle

    Aided by a new recruit with telepathic powers, Price and Coollege lead the Galactic Military Intelligence force on a perilous infiltration of an alien stronghold, the Citadel, an impregnable fortress armed with high-tech weaponry. Original....

  • The Unknown Soldier

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    When Shawna Nicholson, Chief Resident of an Iowa hospital, treats an emergency patient who came from the future with multiple wounds and amnesia, neither Shawna nor the mystery man is prepared for the deadly pursuers determined to destory Shawna's pa...

  • Proteus Combined

    Charles Sheffield

  • Mordenheim

    Chet Williamson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Two young necromancers-in-training accept the invitation of Victor Mordenheim to aid him in his research. Mordenheim, man of science, wishes to revive his dead wife and funnel her essence into a new living receptacle. The newcomers' consternation is ...

  • 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 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...

  • 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 -...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 -- ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Flavor of the Month

    Olivia Goldsmith

    From the New York Timesâ€"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 ...

  • 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! ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • Homeward Hearts

    Alexis Harrington

    WHEN LOVE SEEMS OUT OF REACH... Chloe Maitland had begun to think of herself as the town spinster. Living alone in her father's house in a dying Oregon mining town, she had put away her girlish dreams and prayed for something more practical: that som...

  • Forever, Rose

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    The Americana Series HOMESTEAD - 1890 It was the kind of place where men put down roots, where women gathered for quilting bees and lively gossip, where friends helped each other through good times and bad. But with a drunk for a father and n...

  • The Devil and Miss Goody Two-Shoes

    Charlotte Hughes

    KANE -- His Black Eyes Glittered with Danger and Desire.... He'd never answered the dozens of letters she'd written him in prison, but Melanie Abercrombie's words had kept Kane Stoddard's spirit alive during the three years he'...

  • The Princess and the Pauper

    Tracy Hughes

    FORBIDDEN FRUIT Falling for Cade was taboo, out of the question. He was considered Jessica Hartman's brother, for goodness' sake. Though they'd never shared their childhood, she'd idolized the renegade from afar. But now her fa...