Books Published in May 1999

popular books

BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1999

Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed

New Books List: 575 titles

  • Stolen Kisses

    Liesa Abrams

    Just fooling around... Laura has great friends, the lead in the school play, and the attention of Ted, a hot senior guy. So why does she end up kissing Mark at a party one night? Sure, Mark's sexy, but he's also the most notorious player in her sch...

  • Deep Play

    Diane Ackerman

    The national bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses tackles the realm of creativity, by exploring one of the most essential aspects of our characters: the ability to play. "Deep play" is that more intensified form of play that puts us ...

  • Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Cam Jansen and her friends meet in the park to play baseball, but when their ball gets lost, it looks like the game may be over. Cam has a picture in her head of everything she has seen, and she says "click" whenever she wants to remember something. ...

  • Jeremiah In The Dark Woods

    Allan Ahlberg

    Once upon a time there were three bears, seven dwarfs, five gorillas, a frog prince, some sleeping beauties, a wolf, a dinosaur, a mad hatter, a steamboat, four firemen on a fire engine, a considerable number of giant beanstalks â€" and a little boy ...

  • Summer Magic

    Rochelle Alers

    SUMMER HEARTACHE Renting a summer house on North Carolina's Marble Island seemed like the sensible thing to do for Caryn Edwards. She was certain it would give her a chance to heal from her ugly divorce and recover from a bad case of career burn-...

  • Find the Seashell

    Liza Alexander

    Elmo is at the beach, searching for the perfect seashell. Soon his bucket is full of all kinds of interesting things--except the perfect seashell. Elmo is disappointed, until he meets up with friends whose sand castle needs decorating. Now Elmo's buc...

  • The Iron Ring

    Lloyd Alexander

    When Tamar, the young king of Sundari, loses a dice game, he loses everything--his kingdom, its riches, and even the right to call his life his own. His bondage is symbolized by the iron ring that appears mysteriously on his finger. To Tamar, born to...

  • How to Be a Bride and a Flower Girl, Too

    Marielle Alison

    Young Marielle provides practical advice for flower girls-to-be with tips on walking, dropping petals, dressing up, and more in a fun-filled book of make-believe with full color illustrations, veil, stickers, instructions for making a paper bouquet, ...

  • Movie Cat

    Garrison Allen

    A Hollywood film crew has descended on Empty Creek to shoot a big-budget western. But the sleepy Arizona town soon becomes the backlot for a shocking murder, leaving the locals asking, who in his right mind would murder flamboyant director C.D. Maste...

  • Turn of the Century

    Kurt Andersen

    As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed pano...

  • David and the Trash-Talkin' Giant

    Joel Anderson

  • The Secrets of Sadie Maynard

    Linda Anderson

    After making a name for herself in war zones around the world, photojournalist Memphis Maynard returns to her hometown in the hills of West Virginia on a most personal assignment. Her ex-lover, a tabloid reporter, is writing a juicy expose about the ...

  • The Sickness

    K.A. Applegate

    Something is very wrong with Ax. He's sick, and the Animorphs don't know what to do about it. They can't take him to the hospital. They don't know how to contact the Andalite home world. And Ax is dying.Cassie and the other Animorphs come up with a p...

  • The Experiment

    K.A. Applegate

    The Yeerks have decided to try a little experiment. They've decided that if they can develop a way to make people more "willing" to be infested, they can speed up Earth's invasion. So, the Yeerks try to invent a substance that will take away the huma...

  • The First Journey

    K.A. Applegate

    In this middle grade “choose your own adventure†story, the reader decides whether to take on animal morphing powers to help battle an alien invasion.Hey. We’re sure you already know the deal, but in case you don’t, there’s an alien invasio...

  • Claire Can't Lose

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Claire can't lose in the game of love. For once she's found her soul mate-a manipulative scheme...

  • One Present from Flekman's

    Alan Arkin

    As a treat, Grandpa tells Molly she can have one present from Flekman's. Just one. But Flekman's has everything: stuffed camels and stuffed bears, dolls that walk and dolls that wet, indoor games and outdoor games. How can Molly choose only one p...

  • Pierre's Dream

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • Large and in Charge

    Robb Armstrong

    Patrick Ewing's homey, Fat Craig Adams, is pumped for the upcoming one-on-one contest at Douglass Park. Thet little extra meat on his bonees has never kept him from playing a mean game of hoops!

    But lately, a fathead named DC has been teasin...

  • Big Jim and the White-Legged Moose

    Jim Arnosky

  • In the Forests of the Night

    Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    I was born to the name of Rachel Weatere in the year 1684, more than three hundred years ago.The one who changed me named me Risika, and Risika I became, though I never asked what it meant.  I continue to call myself Risika, even though I w...

  • The Unlikely Wife

    Cassandra Austin

    SHE'D GROWN UP IN FRONTIER FORTS So if she couldn't handle a harmless kiss with a soldier, who could? Rebecca Huntington blithely declared. But she hadn't planned on her heart being captured by the likes of officer Clark Forrester, a gentleman wh...

  • Ponies at the Point

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. The Hopes and ...

  • Millionaire on Her Doorstep

    Stella Bagwell

    RICH MAN... Wealthy, handsome, successful oilman, dynamic rancher...and her boss. Adam Murdock Sanders was simply too good to be true. After all, geologist Maureen York didn't believe in Mr. Right. RANCHING MAN... Then she moved to a nearby ranc...

  • Kissed by Starlight

    Lynn Bailey

    A faery prince from the Living Lands, Blaic lay under a spell, transformed into a marble statue. Nevermore would he be flesh --- until the stone was touched by a woman's tears... Mourning the loss of her father, Felicia Starret cried out her sorro...

  • A Husband of Convenience

    Jacqueline Baird

    A father for her unborn baby... Josie's husband, Conan Zarcourt, was tall, dark and handsome. Yet Josie could only look, not touch, because theirs was a marriage in name alone. Conan had stepped in as father to his brother's child--the bab...

  • Back Room Girl

    Donna Baker

    Rachel Grant is thrilled to be appointed Assistant Designer at the prestigious firm of Quentin Motors. Talented and ambitious, she has fought hard to succeed in what is still so much a man's world, and this is her chance to be involved in design engi...

  • The Lion King: A Read-Aloud Storybook

    Liza Baker

  • Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians

    Liza Baker

  • The Rugged Trail

    Jack Ballas

    A wanted man after trying to defend his home and his life from a gang of corrupt tax collectors, ex-Confederate soldier Hawken McClure heads for Texas to join others struggling to build new lives for themselves, but he soon discovers that the vengefu...

  • The Life I Lead

    Keith Banner

    A stunning debut novel about obsessional passion and a morally ambiguous love, about an upstanding family man in an Indiana town who finds himself caught in the grip of desire for a young boy.

    Dave Brewer, married to Tara--they have an eightee...

  • Anna of Byzantium

    Tracy Barrett

    Anna Comnena has every reason to feel entitled. She's a princess, her father's firstborn and his chosen successor. Someday she expects to sit on the throne and rule the vast Byzantine Empire. So the birth of a baby brother doesn't perturb her. Nor do...

  • No Man's Land

    Susan Campbell Bartoletti

    Because he had been unable to fight off the gator that injured his father, fourteen-year-old Thrasher joins the Confederate Army hoping to prove his manhood and battles his own insecurities and fears while facing the grim realities of war....

  • Having His Baby

    Beverly Barton

    JAKE BISHOP WAS A DADDY The thought shook the hard-hearted cowboy down to his boots. But once he took his tiny daughter in his strong arms, he knew he would do anything for her... AND THAT MEANT MARRIAGE But blue-blooded beauty Donna Fields had ...

  • Death of an Addict

    M.C. Beaton

    LETHAL HALIBUTS Recovering addict Tommy Jarret rented a chalet to check on reports of a sea monster near the dour village of Drim. But when he turns up dead, apparently of a drug overdose, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad's demise t...

  • Pitchers' Duel

    Clair Bee

    Play ball with one of America's most endearing and enduring heroes! With Chip and Coach Rockwell both out of the game, who will lead the Big Reds to the state baseball championship? Two of Valley Falls’s most conniving citizens try to force C...

  • The Penguin New Writing in India

    Aditya Behl

  • Island in the Sun

    Harry Belafonte

    Taken from lyrics to a calypso song cowritten with Lord Burgess, famous entertainer Harry Belafonte tells of his childhood days growing up amidst the bright colors and sounds of Jamaica. 15,000 first printing....

  • City of Light

    Lauren Belfer

    The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning. Louisa Barrett has made this dazzling city her home. Headmistress of Buffalo's m...

  • The Secret of the Mezuzah

    Mary Reeves Bell

    Ffifteen-year-old Constantine Rea is bored with life in Vienna, Austria, since it seems nothing that exciting ever happens there. But then an acquaintance tells Con that the old city has always been a center of international espionage. In fact, one o...

  • The Berenstain Bears Lost in Cyberspace

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Computers in the classroom send the Bear Country cubs into cyberspace The cubs of Bear Country School are in for a real surprise when Squire Grizzly gives each student a computer. With the discovery of the Internet, everyone start to lose focus a...

  • The Seamstress

    Sara Tuval Bernstein

    "From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and...

  • The Seamstress

    Sara Tuvel Bernstein

    From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein ' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania?and ...

  • Faster, They're Gaining

    Peter Biddlecombe

    Faster, They're Gaining is the sixth in a series of dispatches from all over the world, taking Peter Biddlecombe's total to 115 countries visited and described. Minsk, Valletta, La Paz, Mandalay, and Prague are among the 20 cities featured in this h...

  • Meet My Sister Tess

    Kristin Billerbeck

    Clark is everything Tess Ellison thinks she wants in a husband. He is stable, a good provider, the kind of man who can allow Tess to fulfill her mother's dying wish: that her mentally-handicapped brother, Robby, will never be put into an institution....

  • Buckskin Man

    Tom W. Blackburn

  • Lady Patience

    Annette Blair

    ALL GOOD THINGS COME... Independent Lady Patience Kendall had given up on love. Agreeing to help four hapless American girls find titled British husbands was only a comfortable way to earn her passage back to England. Life on board Captain Grant St....

  • Enticed

    Sara Blayne

    Born to an Indian mother and an English father, Chance True--Son Quincy Ridgeway, Duke of Rivenoak, was equally skilled at hunting as he was at pursuing the fashionable ladies of the ton. But when he received word from America that his parents had be...

  • Noddy's Super Busy Day

    Enid Blyton

    It's a busy day in Toyland! Noddy has lots of errands to run, but everything keeps going wrong. With a little determination . . . and lots of luck, things turn out even better than planned. Full color....

  • Noddy and the Great Cake Bake-Off

    Enid Blyton

    Fans of the television show Noddy are in for a very sweet treat. There's a cake-eating contest in Toyland, and Noddy can't wait to enter. But first he must earn enough money. If only Sally Skittle would offer him a job baby-sitting all the Skittle c...

  • Learn the Alphabet with Noddy

    Enid Blyton

    Do you know your ABCs?How do Noddy and his Toyland friends spell fun? With every letter in the alphabet, that's how! So let Noddy, Dinah Doll, Mrs. Tubby Bear, Mr. Milko, and many of you child's other favorite characters from the television show Nod...

  • Paddington Bear: My Scrapbook

    Michael Bond

    From his early days in Darkest Peru to his first adventures in england, Paddington Bear's memories are fondly recorded in this one-of-a-kind scrapbook. Filled with little-known facts, travel souvenirs, family photos, and letters to unfold, pull ou...

  • Chicks 'n Chained Males

    Baen Books

    AMAZONS 'R US Continuing a great tradition, Chicks 'n Chained Males is not what you think. That place is down the block, on another street, in another city. In fact, if that's what you're looking for one of our Ch...

  • Albie the Lifeguard

    Louise Borden

  • The Doctor's Daughter

    Judith Bowen

    Virginia Lake left town more than a decade ago - after a memorable night with a man her parents forbade her to see. Lucas Yellowfly, they said, was a troublemaker. Off-limits. Half-Native American and from the wrong side of town, he wasn't good enoug...

  • The Quest of Jubal Kane

    Doug Bowman

    Jubal Kane was twenty-two years old. For the past year, he'd been in the saddle every day, riding from town to town on a seemingly endless search for three cold-blooded killers. They were the men who'd shot his parents in cold blood while Jubal watch...

  • Wrack

    James Bradley


    A user-friendly guide illustrated with 240 two-color photographs and illustrations, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit sets forth the tenets of this gentle yet rigorous exercise as no other book has. Integrating the teachings of every tradition, internatio...

  • Sweet Enemy

    Shelley Bradley

    After his wife was brutally murdered and he was accused of the crime, Dominic Grayson's faith in humanity died -- and a craving for revenge was born. To punish the man who framed him, Dominic vowed to claim the Duke of Dalmont's prized posses...

  • Stolen Gold

    Max Brand

    An exciting collection of three short novels from the master of Western fiction includes "Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner," in which a rugged lawman must track a murder suspect even though his daughter believes that the suspect is innocent. Original....

  • The House of Whacks

    Matthew Branton

    Chicago, 1950. An S&M supermodel, a visionary mafioso; a dying editress of pulp fiction, a legendary horror novelist; a screenwriter stuck in a war zone, a crippled stunt woman; a McCarthy blacklisted cinematographer-turned-pornographer; two warring ...

  • A Tiny Family

    Norman Bridwell

  • Heaven's Reach

    David Brin

    The brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived. Now the fugitive settlers of Jijo both human and alien--brace for a final confrontation, The Jijoans' only hope is the Earthship Streaker, crewed by uplifted dolphins and ...

  • Foundation's Triumph

    David Brin

    ONE LAST ADVENTURE! Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of ...

  • Sky Memories

    Pat Brisson

    Readers young and old will be touched and inspired by this honest story about love and loss:When Emily is 10-years-old her mother is diagnosed with cancer, and by the time Emily has turned 11, her mother will be gone. But in the last months of t...

  • Little Sister, Big Sister

    Pat Brisson

    Edna is the little sister. Hester is the big sister. Put the two together and you have one sister act that can't be beat.

    In four humorous, easy-to-read stories, Edna and Hester capture the essence of sisterhood as they boss each other around,...

  • Battle Lines

    Greg Brodeur; Dave Galanter

    While exploring a sector of uncharted space, the U.S.S. Voyager is ambushed -- and forcibly pressed into service as part of the Edesian Fleet in their war against the enemy Gimlon. The Edesian commander claims that the Fleet is fighting only to defen...

  • Woodsie, Again

    Bruce Brooks

    The critically acclaimed series, aimed at young hockey players, concludes as Woodsie, having become one of the leaders of the hockey team, contends with a teammate who is using marijuana, to the team's detriment. Simultaneous....

  • The Phantom Menace

    Terry Brooks

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring. Now the dark side of the Force threatens to overwhelm the light and only an ancient Jedi prophecy stands between hope and doom for the entire galaxy. The Jedi ...

  • Hurricane Power

    Sigmund Brouwer

    When David's family moves from northern Ontario to Miami, Florida, it takes him less than a day to discover how out of place he is in his new neighborhood. He joins his school's track team, hoping to make new friends, but soon he is pulled in...

  • Arthur, Clean Your Room!

    Marc Brown

    When Arthur's mother orders him to get rid of some of the old junk cluttering his room, Arthur decides to have a garage sale.  But when his first customer, Buster, doesn't have enough money for the toy he wants, a trade is worked out. Soon word spr...

  • Mad Summer Night's Dream

    Ruth Brown

    Readers can venture into a bewildering dream world where flowers sing, birds blossom, and it snows in the middle of the summer, in an interpretation of a traditional playground rhyme. 10,000 first printing....

  • Fairest of Them All

    Josette Browning

    MY FAIR LADY A true gentleman, Daniel Canty had worked furiously to achieve the high esteem of the English nobility. Therefore, it was more his reputation than the promise of wealth that compelled him to accept the ninth earl of Hawkenge's challen...

  • Shying at Trouble

    Bonnie Bryant

    Could the horses that brought them together pull them apart?Best friends Lisa Atwood, Carole Hanson, and Stevie Lake couldn’t be more different—except for the fact that they all love horses. Lisa is back from her summer in California and ...

  • The Prayer of the Bone

    Paul Bryers

    There seemed to be no other conclusion to draw: injuries to the young woman's face appeared to be consistent only with a mauling by a bear. So why did Calhoun stay on the case as if it were a manhunt?

    Maddie had been working as a field assis...

  • The Chester Charade

    Gayle Buck

    A Question of the Heart A surprise guest had arrived at the houseparty of Miss Chastity Cummings -- Jeffrey Halston, a former suitor. As a youthful girl on the edge of womanhood, Chastity had regarded the handsome heir as a friend, but was not rea...

  • Best of Young British Novelists

    Bill Buford

    Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes were relatively unknown names in literature when Granta published its first Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983. They did not remain unknown for long. These writers --...

  • The Earth Giant

    Melvin Burgess

  • Dial 'V' For Vengeance

    Elizabeth Cage

    The tantalizing trio is spying down to Rio! They're shaking their groove things in Brazil's spiciest clubs while dishing the dirt on a major drug-smuggling operation. Only Diva, the hip, young owner of Rio's hottest nightspot, can help the Spy Girls ...

  • Comanche Trail

    Will Camp

    Brothers in Arms

    It is 1859. In Santa Fe, Army Captain Jean Benoit cannot escape the dark rumors of war filling Fort Marcy's dusty air. The Louisiana-born soldier must soon decide: remain loyal to the Union Army or join with the Co...

  • The Guardian

    Bethany Campbell

    The only rule. Don't Get Involved. To Hawkshaw, they're words to live by He left the Secret Service because he didn't want to take care of anyone but himself. Then an old friend asks him for a favor... The last case. A woman and ...

  • Surprise, Mommy!

    Louisa Campbell

  • The Trouble With Harriet

    Dorothy Cannell

    A delayed vacation is the least of Ellie Haskell's worries when her long-lost father shows up on her doorstep with some rather troublesome baggage Ellie Haskell and her husband, Ben, haven't had a vacation in years. Now their bags are packed, and ...

  • Ship of the Line

    Diane Carey

    SHIP OF THE LINE tells the story of the first voyage of the U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701-E, under the command of Morgan Bateson. Captain Bateson, a man from the 23rd century now living in the 24th, sees what no one else can see: that the Klingon Empire ...

  • Erin's Baby

    Joyce Carlow
    in

    A trio of enchanting historical romances celebrates the joys of marriage and motherhood, from a young Irish widow who desperately searches for her son and meets a handsome widower to a man who enlists the help of a notorious gunslinger to protect his...

  • Brianna's Gardens

    Viveca Carlysle
    in

    No woman is as loved or as loving as a mother. Here to honor that special woman are three beloved Arabesque authors, whose stories of extraordinary mothers in search of love will warm your heart... Seeking peace and quiet, and a much-needed break ...

  • Her Brother's Keeper

    K.N. Casper

    Family means everything. So when Krisanne Blessing gets a phone call from her brother's best friend asking her to come home, she doesn't hesitate. Even though the request comes from the man who'd betrayed her seven years before. Drew Hadley had been ...

  • Priam's Lens

    Jack L. Chalker

    WORLDS OF NO RETURN Humans had finally gone to the stars, as the dreamers had always hoped; celestial stretches of the galaxy became the playgrounds of a new spacefaring race. But now these worlds were being taken over by Titans, creatures with unim...

  • Da Wei's Treasure: A Chinese Tale

    Margaret Chang; Raymond Chang

    A shining light leads Da Wei, a young peasant boy, to an extraordinary mansion under the sea, where he is befriended by a magical kitten that he takes back to his farm and that leads him to the treasure of his dreams, in an enchanting Chinese folktal...

  • The Fear of God

    B.A. Chepaitis

    On Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams enters the minds of criminals. She lives in the shadows of their fears...and chases them into the light. The followers of the Revelation Sect are preparing for the Second Coming. Stockpiles of weapons were found w...

  • Two Can Share, Too

    Janelle Cherrington

  • One Hot Daddy-to-Be?

    Judy Christenberry

    COWBOY DADDY? Cal Baxter never put women and his mother in the same sentence - till he got wind of The Bet. Seems the first ladies of Cactus, Texas, had a hankerin' for grandkids - and they'd stop at nothing till they turned their four sons into f...

  • In the Drink

    Kate Christensen

    Combining sly humor with an urban edge, Kate Christensen's In the Drink tells the story of a resolutely clear-eyed young woman who makes a complete mess of her life, and lives to tell the tale.The novel's heroine is the smart, pretty, underemployed, ...

  • Makeshift Marriage

    Daphne Clair

    The jilted bride and groom! When Stefanie's fiance ran off with her bridesmaid, she sought an escape of her own. Quinn Branson offered one. He shared Stefanie's predicament, and her feelings, for Stefanie's bridesmaid was also his f...

  • Pretender's Games

    Louise Clark

    A PERFECT WIFE James MacLoran was in desperate need of a wife. Recently pardoned, the charming Scotsman had to prove his loyalty to the king by marrying a woman with proper ties to the English throne. Given only four months to complete the task, Jam...

  • We'll Meet Again

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Dr Gary Lasch is found dead at his desk. The murder stuns his elite Connecticut community -- especially when his beautiful young wife, Molly, is arrested and charged with his murder. Six years later, on Molly's release from prison, she reasserts ...

  • Tiger by the Tail

    Casey Claybourne

    The Lady needed a husband. The Tiger needed his freedom. But they both needed each other. Who's taming whom? In the sparkling new romance from acclaimed author Casey Claybourne, two free spirits find that love is a force more powerful tha...

  • Wit'ch Storm

    James Clemens

    Elena bears the mark of the witch upon her palm, the crimson stain that testifies to an awesome power of unimaginable potency: wild, seductive, difficult to control. Only a mistress of blood magick can stand against the foul minions and all-corruptin...

  • The Landry News

    Andrew Clements

    NEW STUDENT GETS OLD TEACHER The bad news is that Cara Landry is the new kid at Denton Elementary School. The worse news is that her teacher, Mr. Larson, would rather read the paper and drink coffee than teach his students anything. So Cara decides...

  • Threads of Ambition

    Loren L. Coleman

    A 'MECH INVASION Sun-Tzu Liao is the First Lord of the resurrected Star League. In the last year of his reign, he decides to milk his power for every ounce of benefit to himself. His dream to rebuild his Capellan Confederation at any cost is about...

  • The Mummy

    Max Allan Collins

    Based on the universal studios major motion picture starring brendan fraser!

    Rick O'Connell, dashing American and legionnaire, is in Egypt looking for a good time. His discovery of the Lost City of the Dead is a fluke--but to British librarian...

  • The Law of the Dead

    Tess Collins

    Contrary, Kentucky is a small community in the haunted and mysterious land of the Appalachian Mountains. After Alma Bashear’s cousin is brutally murdered, she uncovers family secrets that change her life … but will these secrets also lead to her ...

  • Lady Miranda's Masquerade

    Lynn Collum

    A RASH DECEPTION Never -- never! -- would Lady Miranda Henley submit to the detestable marriage her wicked stepbrother planned for her. But galloping off into the night to seek a position as governess; she met with an accident on the London road. Ap...

  • Death Rides a Chestnut Mare

    Ralph Compton

    WHERE THE LIVING IS HARD AND THE KILLING IS EASY... It's in the lawless Indian Territory that Daniel Strange meets his demise. Riding his chestnut mare to Texas to buy himself some cattle, the best gunsmith in St. Joseph, Missouri, gets waylaid by a...

  • Every Dead Thing

    John Connolly

    Step into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, who is tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter. Driven by visions of the dead, Parker tracks a serial killer from New York ...

  • Blood Innocents

    Thomas H. Cook

    In Thomas H. Cook’s Edgar Awardâ€"nominated first novel, a weary detective tracks a blood-crazed psychopath Blood seeps into the gutters at the children’s zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times ...

  • Texas Yankee

    Will Cook

    In Texas Yankee, Dan Canby battles ruthless Yankee carpetbaggers in post-Civil War Texas, while in Bullets for the Doctor, Walter Judson Ivy, one of the few doctors in the Arizona Territory, practices his own tough brand of medicine. ...

  • Purple Coyote

    Cornette

    One day, a purple coyote appeared on the hill. A coyote unlike any other. A purple coyote.

    Jim's never seen a purple coyote before, and he's determined to find out how the creature got his unusual color. But the coyote isn't saying. It's a big...

  • Life's Little Fable

    Patricia Cornwell

    Jarrod has a carefree, innocent existence in a far-off land, but faces temptation when he is offered anything he wants in return for venturing into a forbidden pond, in this Eden-like fable. 50,000 first printing....

  • A Corner of the Veil

    Laurence Cosse

    When Father Bertrand Beaulieu stumbles upon a handwritten document that proves the existence of God, his discovery has a profound impact on the church and the nation as both institutions move to suppress the news, fearing the repercussions of the doc...

  • Six Sticks

    Molly Coxe

    What can you make with six sticks? Four skis and two poles? Or two hats? This simple concept book stars a pair of creative mice who discover lots of funny and wonderful things to create with six Popsicle sticks. Illustrated with colorful collage art....

  • Dragon Ride

    Helen Cresswell

    Jilly really wants a dragon so she asks for one for her birthday. None of her family take her seriously, but Mr Pink at the magic shop does and he helps her to get the pet dragon she has wished for for so long. Soon all Jilly's dreams come true on he...

  • existenz

    David Cronenberg

    A world where fantasy is more real than life itself.

    You are in a society where game designers are superstars and players can organically enter their favorite games. . . . A society where no one is more desired than Allegra Geller,...

  • The Groom's Revenge

    Susan Crosby

    Fortune's Children: The Brides Meet the Fortune Brides -- six special women who perpetuate a family legacy greater than mere riches! THE BEST REVENGE IS...FALLING IN LOVE Sweet Mollie Shaw's life began wheN Gray McGuire swept her off ...

  • The Dream Spheres

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Welcome to Waterdeep Here, everything imaginable is for sale. Even dreams can be purchased if one is willing to pay the price. When the sale of dream spheres threatens the life of his newfound half sister, Danilo Thatin joins forces with Arilyn...

  • Turtle Island

    Jane Louise Curry

    The author of Back in the Beforetime: Tales of the California Indians provides a collection of stories that capture the triumphs of the heroes and the magic of the people of the Algonquian tribes....

  • Hard Evidence

    Barbara D'Amato

    It begins with a romantic dinner for three: Chicago journalist Cat Marsala, her semi-significant other, Dr. Sam Davidian, and a temporary houseguest named Dapper, a Dalmatian with a bone to pick. Unfortunately, Dapper's doggie treat happens to be fro...

  • Crystal Sage

    Kara Dalkey

    A STUDENT'S RESEARCH... Joan Dark, owner of a housecleaning company, is eminently practical, having long ago given up believing in the supernatural. That is, until now. Her client Gillian, a musicologist working on her master's thesis, has been turn...

  • Daddy and Me

    Catherine Daly-Weir

    What to kids like to do with their daddies? Whether mowing the lawn or setting out on a fishing trip or just cuddling up with a good book, these adorable photographs of kids at work, rest, and play with their dads capture all the fun that comes from ...

  • Three for the Road

    Barbara Daly

    TAKEN BY SURPRISE Finally! Single mom Josie Bly has met a strong, smart, and good-looking man who loves kids. The downside? He's armed and hiding in the backseat of her jeep. Against her better judgment, she decides to listen to his side of th...

  • Superman?: The Golden Age of America's First Super Hero

    Les Daniels

    1999 - DC Comic / Chronicle Books - Rare - Superman Masterpiece Edition : The Golden Age of America's First Super Hero - Exclusive 8 Inch Statue of 1938 Superman / Reprint of the Very First Superman Comic Book / Illustrated Hardcover Book Chronicling...

  • Their Marriage Contract

    Val Daniels

    FOOLS RUSH IN TO A PRACTICAL MARRIAGE... As a single mom, Marisa Reynolds knew her marriage options were limited. Not every man wanted to be a husband, let alone an instant daddy. Still, Marisa would accept nothing less than the perfect father figure...

  • P.S. Longer Letter Later

    Paula Danziger; Ann M. Martin

    BEST FRIENDS FOREVER? Elizabeth and Tara*Starr are totally different. Tara*Starr wears glitter and sequins, loves to be the center of attention, and has two parents who won't grow up. Elizabeth is shy and quiet, hates being the center of attention, ...

  • The Orphan Game

    Ann Darby

    Beautifully written, wonderfully observed, anddeeply felt, Ann Darby's haunting first novelmarks the debut of an important voicein women's fiction.

    The Orphan Game tells the story of a young woman's passage from the trouble...

  • Speed Week

    S.V. Date

    Stock car heirs don't kill their wives. Stock car heirs have their wives killed. It's a Daytona tradition. And Nick Van Horne's a traditional kind of guy. Even if he has to do it on the cheap--and fast. His environmentalist wife, Barbie, is quickly m...

  • Marrying William

    Trisha David

    The only solution was -- marriage... Betangera Beach Farm didn't belong to Jenni, but it could -- if she stayed married for one year. If she didn't, her cousin Ronald would inherit from his mother, and evict her. Could she find a husband at such...

  • Clay Yeager's Redemption

    Justine Davis

    Casey Scott was used to stray animals wandering onto her property. But stray men? A series of menacing, midnight calls had alarmed her senses, so the dark, rugged looks of the mysterious loner were enough to frighten her. If she were smart, she'd thi...

  • The Kissing Stars // The Cowboy's Runaway Bride

    Geralyn Dawson

    A STARLIT LADY Tess had run away from a broken heart and followed the stars right to Aurora Springs, Texas. There, halfway to nowhere and far from 'anywhere, she joined a dusty frontier settlement filled with eccentric dreamers and desperate s...

  • The Magic of Two

    Saranne Dawson

    Quinn knows he seems mad, deserting everything familiar to sail across the sea to search for a land that probably only existed in his grandfather's imagination. But a chance encounter with a pale-haired beauty erases any doubts he may have had. Jasmi...

  • Out of the Red Shadow

    Anne De Graaf

  • Timberjak

    Don Debrandt

    A deranged scientist known as "Johnny Rainforest" leads a ferocious army against logger Paul Bunyan and his cohorts, to defend the remarkable trees of an immense blue forest called the Indigo Wild against the predations of the loggers. Original....

  • Angel Spreads Her Wings

    Judy Delton

    With the excitement of her mother getting married and having a baby, Angel is ready for a nice long summer at home in Elm City, Wisconsin. But another change is brewing for poor Angel. Her stepfather is taking the family to Greece to meet their new g...

  • Forbidden

    Janelle Denison

    SHE WAS HIS ONLY WEAKNESS... For years, Detective Josh Marchiano had fostered a forbidden love for Paige Montgomery--his partner's wife. So when he discovered Paige was a widow and the target of a very dangerous the urge to protect her overwhelmed...

  • Bride Included

    Janelle Denison

    The bride prize! Eleven years ago Seth O'Connor had left Josie McAllister brokenhearted -- and pregnant! Josie was convinced the good-looking cowboy had found it easier to believe the lies about her reputation than to accept the truth -- that he...

  • Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

    Kiran Desai

    An Indian village descends into comical chaos when a bumbling young man decides to live in a tree in this “enchanting . . . meticulously crafted†novel (The New York Times).Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought into a family...

  • The Billionaire's Secret Baby

    Carol Devine

    SEDUCED... No woman on earth was immune to the devastating charms of billionaire bachelor Jack Tarkenton. Not even elegant beauty Meg Masterson. But after their passionate weekend tryst, Jack left her with something even more significant that a brok...

  • Kidnapped?

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Hostage to love... Reporter Melanie Mulcahy can hardly believe her good luck. She's been kidnapped by Hal "The Iceman" Smothers. By sticking close, she'll have a story that will make her a star. Besides, for a man with such a dangerous reputation, h...

  • Walt Disney's Cinderella

    Ron Dias

    Poor Cinderella! Her wicked stepmother and mean stepsisters won't let her go to the royal ball. But, with a little help from her fairy godmother (and a couple of mice), can Cinderella meet the prince of her dreams?...

  • Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty

    Ron Dias

  • An Innocent Proposal

    Helen Dickson

    Lord Dunstan found Miss Louisa Fraser captivating, though she was another man's mistress. He couldn't have been more startled -- or pleased -- when she offered herself for one night of passion if he would save her and her misguided brother fr...

  • The Einstein Papers

    Craig Dirgo

    The Chinese government is on the verge of cracking Einstein's "Unified Field Theory," which would give allow them to develop a terrifying new weapon, and anti-terrorist agent John Taft is determined to stop them. A first novel. Reprint....

  • 30: Pieces of a Novel

    Stephen Dixon

    In 30 Dixon presents us with life according to Gould, his brilliant fictional narrator who shares with us his thoroughly examined life from start to several finishes, encompassing his real past, imagined future, mundane present, and a full range of r...

  • The Best of Woof

    Danae Dobson

    Kids are sure to enjoy the exciting stories of Mark and Krissy Peterson and their dog, Woof. Each of the eight stories has discussion questions and a prayer that provide a quick way to bring out the spiritual message of the story. Author Danae Dobson...

  • Once in a Blue Moon

    Tina Donahue

    THE IMAGE LOVER L.A. publicist Misty Wells enjoys a challenge -- but improving the image of a place like Ransom Point, Arizona, is more like a dare. What's she to do with buzzards, tumbleweeds, and cactus? For starters, she can meet with the sci...

  • The Nanny and the Iceberg

    Ariel Dorfman

    Conceived the night of Che Guevara’s burial in 1967, Gabriel McKenzie is inextricably bound up in the history and politics of his native Chile. Twenty-four years on, and still a virgin, Gabriel returns from Manhattan exile to confront his legacy: a...

  • Sees Behind Trees

    Michael Dorris

    "

    The best adolescent fiction offers more than an escape from teenage turmoil; it instructs as it entertains, giving young readers a view into lives--fictional though they may be--outside their own. Without sentimentality or preachiness but with cl...

  • A Woman of Mystery

    Charlotte Douglas

    Assignment: To unlock the secrets of a woman... More than muscles and a handsome face, Jordan was a professional protector. And while the cop in him wanted to know what caused a beautiful woman's amnesia, the man in him wanted to know how she did...

  • Psychic Kitty

    Cathy East Dubowski

    SALEM HAS HIS OWN TALES TO TELL (and pet-care tips to share)IN THESE NEW STORIES! "Oh, you poor, naïve little thing. So innocent in the ways of love." -- Salem WRONG NUMBER! When Salem makes a secret phone call to the Psychic Pals network, he...

  • Aladdin's Lamp

    Carola Dunn
    in

    There once was a threadbare young Oxford scholar named Alan Dinsmuir, who was enamored of a rich and beautiful lady of quality. Now only the genie who lived in an old brass lamp he'd bought could turn him into an eligible suitor....

  • The House Book

    Keith DuQuette

  • Paris Trance

    Geoff Dyer

    People talk about love at first sight, about the way that men and women fall for each other immediately, but there is also such a thing as friendship at first sight.Luke moves to Paris with the idea of writing a novel but things get in the way. He be...

  • Daddy Will You Miss Me?

    Jennifer Eachus

  • If I Only Had a...Husband

    Andrea Edwards

    Family duty brough millonaire bachelor Brad Corrigan back to Chesterton-the birthplace of his secret, unfulfilled longings. He'd become successful, prominent, and wealthy, but something was missing from his life. And that something was someone-Penny ...

  • Silver Wing

    Cassie Edwards

    IN THE HEART OF AN INDIAN BRAVE... In a convent since her mother's death, Audra Fredericks finds her dreams of freedom awakened by Nez Perce Indian Chief Silver Wing. He has traveled to San Francisco from Oregon Country to learn about the white man'...

  • No Time to Die

    Grace F. Edwards

    A serial killer stalks Harlem's Strivers' Row...On a sweltering Harlem summer night, ex-cop Mali Anderson steps out to celebrate her friend Claudine's divorce from a handsome, cheating deadbeat who couldn't keep his fists out of her face. But Claudin...

  • Koala Beach Outbreak

    Robert Elmer

  • Garbage Monster from Outer Space

    John R. Erickson

    Someone has been raiding Sally May's garbage barrels! Hank knows the crime is the work of a notorious gang of raccoons, but in a tragic case of mistaken identity, the Head of Ranch Security is himself forced to take the heat. Even more trouble li...

  • The Case of the Measled Cowboy

    John R. Erickson

    Sally May and Loper head off to visit the relatives, leaving Slim in charge of Little Alfred. Hank’s sure trouble will come knocking. First, Slim is struck down with the measles. Then a blizzard hits the ranch, trapping them in the house with no he...

  • The Hostage Heart

    Lynn Errick

    Lady Chryssa of Glennewald was everything a proper Norman noblewoman should have been, her brother had seen to that after their parents' death. Good manners and a sense of duty were no match for the brawny Saxon knight, however. Plucked from a crow...

  • Longarm and the Vanishing Virgin

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm beats the bushes for a blushing bride!Voodoo and murder are the way a dirty bail-bond outfit does its business--until Longarm shows up to straighten out their books....

  • Brotherhood of the Wolf

    David Farland

    THE EPIC OF THE RUNELORDS Raj Ahtan, ruler of Indhopal, sought to bring all of humanity under his rule--destroying anything and anyone that stood in his path, including many friends and allies of young Prince Gaborn Val Orden. But Gaborn has fulfi...

  • The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel

    Philip Jose Farmer

    At last--after decades--one of the most famous heroes in literature is back! Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, returns with a vengeance in this brand-new, action-packed adventure by Philip José Farmer, Hugo Award-winning author of the incredible Riverworld ...

  • City of Ice

    John Farrow

    A college kid in a Santa Claus suit is tortured, murdered, and left hanging from a meat hook on Christmas Eve--a gift intended for one particular cop.
            
    Reminiscent of Smilla's Sense of Snow, this gripping debut thriller set in ...

  • Patriarch's Hope

    David Feintuch

    Nick Seafort returns to power as the secretary general of the United Nations, facing his most fearsome adversary yet: politics. The Transpop Rebellion ended 10 years ago with now-Secretary General Nicholas Seafort as a hero. With that political ca...

  • Long-Awaited Wedding

    Doris Elaine Fell

    Sweet Maureen Davenport fell for Allen Kladis in one golden summer day. Defying their families, the teenagers vowed to marry. But as she happily awaited her wedding, the navy reported Allen's death. Brokenhearted, Maureen mourned losing her true love...

  • The Jewel Palace

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A WOMAN WITH EVERYTHING TO LOSE When she heard the key in the lock, Miranda Gallagher was certain it was her husband, Seamus, returning from whatever mysterious errands he needed to perform -- on their wedding night. She had never been more wrong. T...

  • Going Deep

    James Ferro

    The first in a new series of military action thrillers celebrating the exploits of the pilots who fly the A-10A Warthogs follows Lieutenant William James "B. J." Dixon and his commander, Major James "Mongoose" Johnson, as they prepare for action over...

  • Human Voices

    Penelope Fitzgerald

    When British listeners tuned in to the BBC's Nine O'Clock News in the middle of 1940, they had no idea what human dramas-and follies-were unfolding behind the scenes. Targeted by enemy bombers, the BBC had turned its concert hall into a dormitory for...

  • Always Annie

    Liz Flaherty

    THE MORE THE MERRIER Annie Houston has a lot to celebrate this Christmas. Her bookstore is thriving, and she owns the coziest house in town. Still, something is missing from her life, until suddenly her single ex-husband comes back for the holidays...

  • Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    A Deadly Dude Ranch: Bestselling author Jessica Fletcher takes a break from her latest hobby -- flying lessons -- to accept an invitation to stay at an old friend's Colorado ranch. Also attending are the Morrison family -- an unpleasant bunc...

  • The Hand of Dinotopia

    Alan Dean Foster

    A long-lost legend is found... Will is a skybax rider, one of the elite couriers of Dinotopia, a land apart from time where humans and dinosaurs coexist in harmony. Protected for centuries by raging currents that wreck any ship that comes too clos...

  • Mariner's Compass

    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 cri...

  • Desperate Characters

    Paula Fox

    One of the New York Times' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years "A towering landmark of postwar Realism…A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." -- David Foster WallaceOtto and Sop...

  • A Cinderella Affidavit

    Michael Fredrickson

    A routine drug bust goes awry in Boston's Chinatown, killing a police officer as he batters down the door to execute a no-knock search warrant. The police arrest the man, but he court orders them to produce the confidential snitch whose information w...

  • A Surprise in the Mailbox

    Eleanor Fremont

  • Pooh's Surprise Basket

    Isabel Gaines

  • Tiggers Hate to Lose

    Isabel Gaines

  • Giving Bear

    Isabel Gaines

  • Pooh's Best Friend

    Isabel Gaines

  • Expendable

    James Alan Gardner

    An exciting tale of deep space, alien worlds, and the select group of men and women whose mission is to make first contact with the unknown. They are...EXPENDABLE Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little cr...

  • Sweeter Than Sin

    Kit Garland

    Wilder than passion... It seemed a lifetime ago that Kate stormed out of the Remington household, blinded by heartbreak over Charles's announcement of his engagement to another woman. After finding consolation in his brother's arms, she fl...

  • With Song

    Dorothy Garlock

    Seward County, Kansas, 1935. On a day when she was cheerfully singing a popular tune, Molly McKenzie barely noticed the dark sedan that pulled up in front of her family's store. Minutes later, a hail of bullets rained down on her parents and shattere...

  • Presenting Tanya, the Ugly Duckling

    Patricia Lee Gauch

    After being assigned the lead role in her spring dance recital of The Ugly Duckling, clumsy Tanya wonders if she will be able to live up to the part and truly be able to dance like a swan. 12,500 first printing....

  • Pizza Pat

    Rita Golden Gelman

    Pizza is fun to make. Pizza Pat stretches the floppy dough, puts on the gloppy tomatoes, adds the sloppy sausages, sprinkles on the cheese, and then pops it in the oven. But just before he cuts into his delicious pizza pie, he turns his back for one ...

  • The Legend of Deathwalker

    David Gemmell

    Enter a powerful realm of legend, dark sorcery, and conquest, where the mighty Drenai warrior Druss faces his most deadly opponent . . .Druss the Legend, the dark axman known as the Deathwalker, must join the warrior Talisman on a mission of blood an...

  • Love Trouble

    Veronica Geng

    In this collection of satirical pieces and short humorous fiction, Veronica Geng turns up hilarities large and small in government-speak, gender relations, academia, the mass media, love lives, restaurants, airplanes, and baseball fans. "Often," Ian ...

  • Eternal Outlaw

    Georgina Gentry

    A DEAL WITH THE DEVILKansas 189's. Riding in Coffeyville with the notorious Dalton Gang, Johnny Logan never expected a simple bank robbery to go so murderously wrong. Limping away from the carnage, he finds himself facing death. . .and the devil hims...

  • The Baby Claim

    Catherine George

    He laid claim to her body...and then to her baby... One night of passion and...she was pregnant! Dan Armstrong, the father of Joss's baby, insisted they should marry immediately, but Joss wasn't so sure. Dan had wanted her body, and now he...

  • Morning, Noon, and Night

    Jean Craighead George

    Celebrate the cycle of the day, as the earth turnes to and then away from the sun, and meet a wide array of animals from America's east coast to the west as they work and rest, eat and play, just as humans do.Jean Craighead George's lyrical greeting ...

  • The Journal of Mrs. Pepys

    Sara George

    31st December 1659

    I have resolved to keep a journal, and it will be private. I shall keep it hidden, and it will be mine alone and I shall say whatever I like. So that on days and nights like this it will be company of a sort....

    So be...

  • Havana Dreams

    Wendy Gimbel

    A fascinating, powerfully evocative story of four generations of Cuban women, through whose lives the author illuminates a vivid picture--both personal and historical--of Cuba in our century."When I want to read a culture," writes Wendy Gimbel in her...

  • A Vaudeville of Devils

    Robert Girardi

    From the acclaimed author of Madeleine's Ghost and Vaporetto 13 comes a mesmerizing collection of seven novellas and stories that explore, through the lives of a variety of extraordinary and ordinary characters, our many moral quandaries.

    Meet...

  • My First Golden Book of 123's

    Golden Books

  • The Little Mermaid/Cinderella: A Royal Beauty/Fit to Be a Princess

    Golden Books

  • Body Bags

    Christopher Golden

    When one of her professors ends up dead, college freshman Jenna Blake starts making discoveries even the police have not seen, discoveries that link the late teacher to a dead congressional aide and a terrifying disease. Original....

  • Something Blue

    Emma Goldrick
    in

    From blushing bride to wife in waiting... What could a girl say when her ex-husband turned up out of the blue and asked her to marry him -- again? That was the problem facing Marne when Rob suddenly reproposed. But did he still only want a conveni...

  • Naughty Nancy

    John S. Goodall

    Nancy, a mischievous, venturesome little mouse, creates a series of entertaining crises during her sister's wedding and reception, in a wordless picture book featuring charming watercolor illustrations. Reissue....

  • Farelli's Wife

    Lucy Gordon

    Wanted: wife or mother? Joanne graciously stepped aside when Franco Farelli married her cousin four years before--her love for him kept a secret. Now Franco is a widower with an adorable little boy, Nico, and Joanne can't resist paying them a ...

  • Shadow Games

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    An unfortunate incident with a teenage girl lands celebrity Cobey Daniels in a mental facility, and now released, he is determined to start his life over, but someone will not let him forget the past and is waiting in the shadows to introduce Cobey t...