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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1986

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New Books List: 375 titles

  • Spring and Shadow Man

    Emily Johnson

  • Big City Detective

    Jack Dautrich

  • Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction

    George Stambolian

    This extraordinary collection gathers together the most popular and gifted voices in gay fiction today. Compiled from work in progress and originals written especially for this collection, as well as previously published fiction, these brilliant stor...

  • The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore

    Marianne Moore

  • The Art of the Tale

    Daniel Halpern

    Collects masterpieces of short fiction--from traditional forms and folktales to surrealism--and offers a wide representation of authors from the United States as well as European and newer Third World literature...

  • The Colonels

    W.E.B. Griffin

    They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the States to forge a new type of American soldie...

  • Colter's Wife

    Joan Johnston

    IN A BOLD, DARING BARGAIN SHE MARRIED A STRANGER...AND DISCOVERED NEW DEPTHS OF DESIRE! It was a shocking alliance indeed -- Kinyan Holloway, the proud young widow, and Benjamin Colter, the tall, scarred drifter driven by a dream. Only as a marrie...

  • Thanksgiving Promise

    Blaine M. Yorgason

  • Seven Fables

    Aesop

  • Ruth

    Jeremy Cooper

  • Taking Care of Yoki

    Barbara Campbell

    Nothing is ever simple for Barbara Ann, better known as Bob. No matter how hard she tries to do what's right, things always seem to turn out wrong. And there's no one she can turn to for help -- her father is away fighting in the w...

  • Killashandra

    Anne McCaffrey

    A Crystal Singer novel -- a captivating blend of adventure, intrigue and romance.Killashandra Ree's life was one of catastrophic changes. She had joined the Heptite Guild to become a crystal singer, get rich, and forget her past. And at first everyth...

  • The Cattlemen

    Bill Pronzini

  • The Judgment of Paris

    Gore Vidal

    Power, knowledge, and love are the temptations of three alluring women as Philip wanders from Paris to Rome. Yet his choice matters less than the act of choosing in this witty odyssey of self-discovery....

  • The Truth Trap

    Frances A. Miller

    Winner of the California Young Reader Medal in the high school category and an ALA Best Book of the Year. Following the death of his parents in a car accident, fifteen-year-old Matt McKendrick runs away from his hometown with his small, deaf sister, ...

  • Elephant Man

    Christine Sparks

    John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within that enormous and deformed head, th...

  • The Man in the Monkey Suit

    Oswaldo Franca Jr.

    Alfonso, a mechanic and matter-of-fact hero in a world so drab it's comical, buys a garage from two friends who have sold to him because ``the place was out of control.'' Alfonso attempts to bring order to the business but is thwarted, and his person...

  • Loving // Bride in Name Only

    Penny Jordan

    He offered her marriage -- but only in name Inheriting a small cottage near London had allowed Claire Richards to achieve independence for herself and her young daughter, Lucy. So when Jay Fraser accused her of encouraging Lucy's friendship wi...

  • Exclusive Contract

    Dixie McKeone

    Relying on first impressions could be trouble .. . Janet Talbot may have been fresh from the Midwest, but she knew the first rule of professional counseling--never get romantically involved with a client. But as an enthusiastic novice, Janet co...

  • Beware of Married Men

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    She refused to be "the other woman" Jorja Reynolds liked her boss, Daniel Lecomber, and her job as his personal assistant in the Lecomber real-estate firm. She also adored his small son Toby. But when her relationship with Dan developed...

  • The Rake

    Karen Lynn

    Amid the elegant splendor of aristocratic England in the early nineteenth century, a determined young woman fights to keep her rightful inheritance even as she battles to keep love at bay with an appealing but mysterious man... When her father is ...

  • The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories

    Marjorie Barnard

  • Woman in a Lampshade

    Elizabeth Jolley

  • King Rollo's Play

    David McKee

  • Little Dracula's Christmas

    Martin Waddell

  • The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories

    Stephen Gray

  • Christmas Secrets

    Ann Schweninger

  • Teddy's Birthday

    Michelle Cartlidge

  • Rich Hall's Vanishing America

    Rich Hall

  • There Will Be War

    Jerry Pournelle

  • The Trail Drive War

    J.R. Roberts

    A trail drive means trouble on the hoof for Clint Adams. A beautiful cattle baroness summons him to Wyoming after her foreman turns up dead and she needs someone to help her honcho a trail drive. Together they move her cattle down a treacherous trail...

  • Savage Range

    Luke Short

    Down on his luck, Jim Wade takes a job as foreman of the deadliest bunch of cowboys he has ever seen. Then he discovers that he has been set up to take the blame for a bloody massacre the crew commits and is forced to turn fugitive with a lynch mob a...

  • Lever Action

    Kit Dalton

  • Longarm and the Escape Artist

    Tabor Evans

    THE HANGMAN OR THE WIDOW? California lawmen have nabbed Chauncey Mahoney, alias the Stovespit Kid, and it's Longarm's job to bring him back to Denver to stand trial for the murder of a U.S. Marshal. But the Kid doesn't stay jailed long. Like spit ...

  • Alana

    Monica Barrie

    A PROUD, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TORN BETWEEN HONOR AND DESIRE The Civil War had ravaged everything but her beauty and her dreams. Alana Belfores vowed to rebuild Riverbend at any cost -- even a loveless marriage. Not until Rafe Montgomery rode into he...

  • The Temporary Husband

    Barbara Allister

    THE IDEAL ARRANGEMENT Beautiful Miss Amanda Desmond had no interest in being a wife, for to be a man's possession was a notion that filled her with loathing. Handsome and wealthy Andrew Fairleigh, Lord Mainwaring, detested the idea of marriage,...

  • The Duke's Dilemma

    Elizabeth Chater

    WITH AN EARLDOM AT STAKE, HER BROTHER'S MISHAPS WERE NO ACCIDENT! It took two attempts on her nine-year-old brother's life to alert Lady Leslie Endale that their greedy guardian March Wardell meant to have the family fortune. But transp...

  • Scarlet Town

    Maryhelen Clague

  • The Ransome Inheritance

    Rachelle Edwards

    "WHEN I ARRIVED IN LONDON I WAS BUT A GREEN GIRL. I AM NO LONGER A CHAWBACON, AND I TRUST NO ONE!" The friendless Miss Jenna Tregail had ample reason to say as much. Bamboozled by an infamous bawd, the innocent Jenna coshed an old lecher and got h...

  • Hanky-Panky

    Jan Mathews

    Why does Phillip Manning accuse respectable Darcy Kincaid of being a high-class hooker? Why does Darcy's teenage sister hit him over the head with a gin bottle? Darcy doesn't know the answers only that Phillip conducts the strangest job interview. An...

  • Rugged Glory

    Cait Logan

    Ben Woden -- To Sami, he's six feet plus of overpowering masculinity, a hard-brawling, blunt-talking Wyoming rancher who wants her to tutor his rebellious teenage son. Edgy as a grizzly, ornery as a polecat, he's all lean, tough, elemental male. Some...

  • The Toplofty Lord Thorpe

    Michelle Kasey

    THE UNSUSPECTING EARL Miss Lucy Gladwin knew all the faults of the eminent, elegant Julian Rutherford, Earl of Thorpe. Julian was not only unbearably arrogant, he was insufferably self-centered and infuriatingly egotistical, as pleased with himsel...

  • Fire and Ice

    Carol Katz

    Kirsten Holley knows the exhilaration of skating, and the devastation of defeat. Now she needs all the courage she can muster to launch her skating comeback--and confront Rory Lanceford, the coach who abandoned her in her darkest hour... the lover wh...

  • Children of the Mist

    Aleen Malcolm

    A magnificent tale as passionate and beautiful as Scotland herself... THE ROLLING GLENS AND MISTY LOCHS OF SCOTLAND CLOAKED THE FIERY PASSIONS OF A PROUD PEOPLE Kat MacGregor--daughter of a banished clan...and heir to its fury and shame...her b...

  • Proud Surrender

    Jackie Leigh

    What terrible grief has driven wealthy Sean Bridges to rugged isolation in the North Carolina mountains? Teri MacKinley wants his help on her folklore project, but she can't stand his fierce hostility. Still, she's drawn by his powerfully masculine p...

  • Savage Summer

    Constance O'Banyon

    For all of her nineteen years, Sky Dancer lived with the knowledge that she was different: but the breathtaking beauty never had to face life off of her beloved Blackfoot land. Yet she never knew true fear until she began to have visions of a magnifi...

  • Captive Caress

    Sonya T. Pelton

    "I'LL NOT FORCE YOU" With just a glance at his terrified captive, the half-breed Lakota knew he'd have to possess her that night. To grasp her flowing blonde hair, to caress her creamy firm curves would catapult him to heights of ecstasy he'd never ...

  • Proud Captive

    Dianne Price

    HE LIBERATED HER SENSES Headstrong Shona Cameron would never accept that she, the favorite daughter of a feared Scottish clansman, was now a lowly indentured servant in the Colonies. Certain that her flawless good looks would snare her a rich husb...

  • Louisiana Lady

    Myra Rowe

    Left an orphan after her father's untimely death, Leander Ondone fought to made a place for herself in the world. With the promise of her family's plantation, Beaux Rives, becoming her own next year on her 18th birthday she tried to hold on to her in...

  • All for Love

    Sherryl Woods

    When a tragic fall shattered his dreams, tennis champ Evan Thomas sought refuge in bitter isolation ... Now feisty schoolteacher Corey Reed is determined to draw him out with her heart-melting gaze, her cheery badgering, and a passel of roughneck kid...

  • Triple Threat

    Eleanor Woods

    There was no love lost between Jordon and Rand Maxwell. If some lingering concern had driven Rand to his ex-wife's hospital bedside after she was shot in a holdup, what had made him stay? After three years Jordon was astonished that the man who'd acc...

  • Almost Heaven

    Lee Williams

    Oh, to see Davey once more. As the plane's about to crash, Catrina Reed scribbles that last request. Upon her miraculous survival, she's stunned to discover her well-meaning roommate has attempted to fulfill her wish! But instead of Catrina's childho...

  • Death Has a Name

    Don Pendleton

    TARGET: ISRAEL Israel--a nation born of war and nurtured under siege--is the target for a daring raid by a Palestinian suicide squad. More than six thousand miles away in a Florida safehouse, Mack Bolan learns of the plot from a mortally wounde...

  • Shadows 6

    Charles L. Grant

  • Twin Cities Run

    David Robbins

  • America's Zero Hour

    Ryder Stacy

  • Unconfirmed Kill

    Eric Helm

    A year in the jungles of Vietnam brings its own reprieve - R and R. The men of U.S. Army Special Forces Camp A-555 are excited at the prospect of time away from that hellish conflict. But, although they don't know it, the squad is marked for death ...

  • Dark Angel

    V.C. Andrews

    AT LAST, HEAVEN WOULD FIND THE HAPPINESS SHE LONGED FOR...FREE FROM THE SCORN AND CONTEMPT OF HER PAST! In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life -- of new friends, the best schools, beautiful...

  • The Tender Seed

    Harry Ringel

  • Child of Darkness

    David Silva

  • Robot Dreams

    Isaac Asimov

    Legendary American adventurer and explorer Charles Burton Irwin, accompanied by his wife and children, builds a new life on the Western frontier, from the era of wagon trains and cattle drives to the dawn of the railroads...

  • The Hercules Text

    Jack McDevitt

    The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of Coming Home -- now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword. From a remote corner of the galaxy ...

  • Wrack and Roll

    Bradley Denton

  • The Face in the Frost

    John Bellairs

    A quirky fantasy classic by “a writer who knows what wizardry is all about” (Ursula K. Le Guin).
     
    A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a ho...

  • Blood River Down

    Lionel Fenn

  • Time Wars

    Poul Anderson

  • Macroscope

    Piers Anthony

    Macroscope Throughout history, man has been searching for better ways to gather information about his universe. But although they may have longed for it, not even the most brilliant minds could conceive of a device as infinitely powerful or as immeas...

  • The Desecration

    Mark C. Perry

    They clashed in a battle older than history... As the dwarf king Mearead, lord of the Crystal Caves, stood gazing at the golden gates of Tolan, he remembered those dark times when evil was rampant and the Dark Lord had the upper hand. Those were t...

  • Groa's Other Eye

    Dennis Schmidt

    THE QUEST Vestla Ravenhair, mother to Voden, spoke of the Well of Mimir with her dying breath. The gods who guided Voden said that to go there was but part of his Destiny. And the fearful Power that lay coiled within would not let him deny the tru...

  • The Serpent Mage

    Greg Bear

    Berkley Books, 1986. Mass market paperback original, 1st edition Sequel to "The Infinity Concerto" (1984). Fans of epic fantasy, magical realism, and well-crafted alternate realities will enjoy these novels....

  • The Silent Tower

    Barbara Hambly

    In her latest novel, The Silent Tower, Barbara Hambly has written a complex tale of dark magic, mystery and deadly danger involving a woman computer programmer who struggles to help a condemned wizard save--or perhaps destroy?--two worlds......

  • Galactic Bounty

    William C. Dietz

    THE GREATEST GALACTIC MANHUNT OF ALL TIME A traitor is on the loose. A treacherous navy captain plans to sell military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. The only man who can stop him is Sam McCade--an interstellar bounty hunter with a score to sett...

  • The Cyborg and the Sorcerers

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    "In the tradition of the old ""Ace Doubles"" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title) -- here is the fifth Wildside Double: the two-volume ""War Surplus"" series by Lawrence Watt-Evans, ""The Cyborg and the Sorcerers"" and ""The Wiza...

  • Hank's Woman

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    THE QUALITY OF LOVE As Quality Control Manager at Bunyan Manufacturing, Jennifer Wagner had dedicated herself to her career. For years she'd struggled up the corporate ladder, only to have someone else land "her" job. Hank Riley was an...

  • Golden Glory

    Stella Bagwell

    COWBOY'S DREAM ... Russell Harrison was after an elusive dream in which his wife had held no part. Rodeo was his narcotic, winning his high. Once he was out there rolling, Lynn was forgotten. Now, after five years, Lynn was back in Oklahoma...

  • No Way to Treat a Lady

    Jane Atkin

    She'd married another man to escape an obsessive love. But Leanne Ryan was divorced now and vulnerable. And Joe Dano, ex-hockey star, had become a tycoon, driven by his need to possess this ice princess who'd gotten away. Now Joe had the upper hand. ...

  • Hold Back the Night

    Linda Barlow

    KIDNAPPED It was a land of beauty, fragrant with olive trees and wildflowers. Photographer Tracy Heath was in Turkey to shoot travel pictures, but the glittering waters of the Aegean made her forget the scenery and zoom in on a sailboat and its su...

  • Halfway to Heaven

    Pamela Bauer

    LIFE WAS FAR TOO COMPLICATED What with a rebellious teenage daughter and an alarming attraction to sexy department store magnate Cole Braxton III, designer Rachel Kincaid hardly knew where to turn. She couldn't afford to fall in love with Cole;...

  • Heat of the Night

    Annette Broadrick

    BREATHLESS In the heat of the night, trapped in a jungle in South America, Melanie took a deep breath. She'd encountered various obstacles on her journey through Colombia, but mudslides and earthquakes were nothing compared to Justin Drake. ...

  • Whatever It Takes

    Barbara Boswell

    It was an impossible match, Kelly Malloy fumed when ordered to team up with Brandt Madison. If the man was such a good journalist, why was he working for one of the sleaziest rags at the checkout counter? But once she met the devastatingly handsome m...

  • Shooting Star

    Barbara Bretton

    "Be daring," Katie's sister said So Katie Powers, staid Bostonian in the middle of an otherwise sensible vacation in Japan, followed the advice ... and was trapped with Tom Sagan in a trail that dangled high over a bottomless ravine, was stranded ...

  • After the Torchlight

    Diane Carey

    GREGORY GORDON'S COAL-BLACK EYES BORED STRAIGHT INTO MY SOUL. NO FORCE HAD EVER HELD ME IN PLACE LIKE THE GRIP OF HIS EYES AS HE MOVED TOWARD ME.... Beautiful Jean Forbes fled 18th-century Scotland to seek refuge from the ruthless British Army. ...

  • Wild Land, Wild Love

    Mallory Burgess

    HEARTS ON FIRE Genna felt a spark of white heat engulf her as Alex's mouth claimed hers. Sweet murmurings of love silenced her protest as he carried her across the room to rest on the soft white pillows... Yet instead of the love she longs for...

  • Passion and Possession

    Kathy Clark

    Love with a proper stranger had its price. But Jessica Scott was willing to assume all risks -- alone. She'd thought their week of passion was a fleeting vacation fling until she had to face the unexpected consequences. Then Mark Kendrick appeare...

  • Sweet Tomorrows

    Francine Christopher

    CUTTER WAS AS UNUSUAL AS HIS NAME Valerie Wentworth wasn't used to surprises. She'd traded in her close-to-the-edge existence on Wall Street for the placid predictability of a small New York town and ownership of an antique doll shop. C...

  • Undercover Affair

    Sydney Ann Clary

    Flame Garret had to be free. Her husband, Logan, left her no choice. Possessive, proud, resentful of her success as a pop singer and her help in his years as a struggling young lawyer, he'd forced her decision. Flame thought their passion had bur...

  • Wild Temptation

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Carne Harlow's every nerve tingled with danger. Champion race-car driver Grant Cody lived in the fast lane -- and wanted to take her along for the ride. For the first time she'd been kissed by a man who'd found a vein of response in her ...

  • Wild Star

    Catherine Coulter

    He had stopped kissing her...leaving her parted lips trembling, waiting for more. Oh, how she wanted him But Byrony knew that Brent Hammond was the last man in the world she should want. This handsome San Francisco gambler was legendary for all t...

  • Still Waters

    Kathleen Creighton

    Determined to face her fear of water, Maddy Gordon signed up for beginner swimming, and found herself surrounded by seven-year-olds! And why did her instructor have to be golden-muscled Olympic swimmer Zack London, whose grin still gave her goose bu...

  • The Real Thing

    Barbara Delinsky

    It was a setup After breaking her leg, aerobics instructor Deirdre Joyce was fit company for no one. Especially not for equally disgruntled Neil Hersey, whose reputation as a lawyer had been unjustly tarnished. Craving solitude, both turned to ...

  • A Time for Us

    E.V. Dolan

  • My Only Love, My Only Hate

    Lucy Gordon

    TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY Giles Blake's reputation as a prosecuting attorney had been established eight years ago when he put Adam Haines behind bars. Though Haines had been guilty, his daughter had never forgiven the charismatic lawyer for twist...

  • The Wanderer's Promise

    Paula Hamilton

    Her chance of a lifetime had one hitch -- partnership with a man she despised. Brenda Dupree was a whiz at law and numbers. Steve Kingsley had the hands-on know-how they needed to monitor KLM's oil wells. But how could she trust him? Contemptuous...

  • Cajun Man

    Olivia Ferrell

    SOUTHERN MAN Carol DuBois was strong, smart and ambitious. She knew she could run the family business better than her brother, but her father had been blind to everything except the fact that she was a woman. So she set out to prove she could make...

  • The Orphan's Disguise

    Vanessa Gray

    LOVE BY ANY OTHER NAME Lovely young Miss Corliss Hewett was a runaway who had run into a most perplexing pack of trouble. Fleeing her fate as a poor and put-upon relation of the terrifyingly tyrannical Lady Dacre, Corliss sought refuge under an...

  • A Special Man

    Billie Green

    Greenleigh Acres was a refuge for the rich and famous, and it was there that Amanda first saw the man she knew only as "Danny." Her heart ached at seeing him confined, and she vowed to let him taste freedom. Away from Greenleigh, "Dann...

  • Fire Signs

    Jocelyn Griffin

    RIVALS Sara knew she had to be wary of Nick Foster. As her chief rival, he displayed a fearlessness that was unmatched in Boston's business world. Something in his dark lion's eyes ignited a fire in Sara's soul, intense and dangerous. And with one...

  • The Cloisonne Locket

    Barbara Hazard

    THE DESIGNING DUKE The devastatingly handsome, fabulously wealthy Duke of Rutland was sure that Miss Rosemary Barton was too good to be true -- and too beautiful to be good. Surely this extraordinarily lovely young lady had put herself in his p...

  • A Lucky Star

    Jacqueline Jade

    MYSTERIOUS DESIGNS? What had really happened to the chief costume designer for the new theater production of The Tempest? Inheriting the job should have been Marti Montagne's big break. Instead, she found herself involved with a mystery--and direc...

  • Every Moment Counts

    Martha Hix

    From the ashes of her loveless existence, Marcella Parker put all her energies into her career. Now, newly arrived in Texas and eager to start her vice presidency at Goodman National Bank, she certainly couldn't fall for the cool green eyes of he...

  • Roman Fantasy

    Betty Henrichs

  • Rafe, the Maverick

    Kay Hooper

    Heirs to a great dynasty, the Delaney brothers were united by blood, united by devotion to their rugged land...and known far and wide as THE SHAMROCK TRINITY. Powerful men...rakes and charmers...they needed only love to make their lives complete. ...

  • The Forever Promise

    Meg Hudson

    THIS WAS THEIR SECOND CHANCE On a sunny June day fourteen years ago, just hours before she was to wed King Faraday, her high-school sweetheart, Claire Parmeter made a devastating discovery. Another woman was carrying her fiance's child. Claire fle...

  • Crystal Flame

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    HE WAS FIRE... SHE WAS ICE... TOGETHER THEIR PASSION WAS A CRYSTAL FLAME A woman of glittering eyes and cool celestial bearing, she is Kalena, the last survivor of a proud heritage. Now, disguised as an innocent country girl, she is on a deadly se...

  • Welcome the Morning

    Bobby Hutchinson

    She could drive a man to unnatural acts No one but Charlie Cossini and her construction crew had ever proven immune to the lure of Haleiwa, Hawaii. Benjamin Valentine Gilmour, a man who gave new meaning to the term "idle rich," considered Charlie'...

  • The Dream Makers

    Anna James

    HOLLYWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA Diligence Hall Plantation was perfect for the filming of Glory Road, but reclusive Reese Benedict had no intention of letting Hollywood film people near the place. So Eva Sinclair, Marchetti Films' best troubleshoote...

  • The Mallory Touch

    Muriel Jensen

    Randy thought she had charge of her own destiny That is until Matt Mallory, with his famous Midas touch, came to Scannon Cove, Oregon, to set up the Cove Mallory Inn. At first he was just a customer buying a car at Stanton Motors, Randy's deal...

  • Strange Bedfellows

    Arlene James

    ROMANCING THE OPPOSITION Caleen Brady mayor? If she'd been unsure of the idea before, she certainly wasn't after she hit that pothole. Why, if her mysterious Prince Charming hadn't rushed her to the hospital, who knows what might'...

  • York, the Renegade

    Iris Johansen

    Heirs to a great dynasty, the Delaney brothers were united by blood, united by devotion to their rugged land...and known far and wide as THE SHAMROCK TRINITY. Powerful men...rakes and charmers...they needed only love to make their lives complete. ...

  • Courting Trouble

    Janet Joyce

    ORDER IN THE COURT Judge Blythe Cramer had always run a tight courtroom until hot-tempered attorney Patrick McBride stormed in. It wasn't her first encounter with the wild Irishman -- Blythe and Patrick had attended the same grammar school and...

  • Roses and Regrets

    Bay Matthews

    It took two to make love. It took two to make a baby. It took two to destroy a marriage. And now, eight years later Ginna LeGrand was returning to her husband's Louisiana thoroughbred farm. Ginna hoped that she and Ryan could pull together and disc...

  • Silk and Splendor

    Ellen Tanner Marsh

    SWEPT BY DANGEROUS AND GLORIOUS PASSION...THEY DARED TO FALL IN LOVE ISLAND OF DREAMS PARADISE OF LOVE His sun-weathered face was arrogantly handsome as she trembled under the steady gaze of his unyielding blue eyes. China Warrick had turned in d...

  • Drastic Measures

    Jacqueline Marshall

    The nightmare began when she stepped off the plane Sarah Guthrie needed a holiday. When her friend Chris Browning suggested Mazatlan, she jumped at the chance. But what began as a vacation turned into a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Michael Fly...

  • Legacy of the Wolf

    Sonja Massie

    The legendary Wolf Rock rose high above the lush greenery covering the tiny island. And jutting sharply into the golden Caribbean sky gleamed its crowning jewel, the lighthouse. Inside lived in the man Brittany David had come to see. Grandson of Wolf...

  • Goodly Heritage

    Beverly McGlamry

    BARKER-MARKEY: A NAME THAT ECHOED DOWN THE BUSTLING COAST OF THE COLONIES... for their ships had no equal for grace and innovation. Little did rivals suspect the shocking secret--that these peerless vessels were designed by a woman! Yet Eliza Bar...

  • The Perfect Mix

    Cara McLean

    His timing was perfect Aubrey Jones didn't know it, but she was waiting for a hero. And when Robert Browning charged in to protect her purebred cat from being stolen, he was dangerously close to becoming her knight in shining armor. But could s...

  • Child's Play

    Peggy Nicholson

    SHE'D SET HERSELF A NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TASK Snatching a small boy from under his bodyguard's nose was going to prove no mean feat. But Tey Kenyon was committed. She'd built her plan on cunning and deceit, but Mac McAllister proved an...

  • Foxy Lady

    Marie Nicole

    A SPORTING CHANCE... Dallas Carlyle wasn't the kind of female sports reporter who felt she needed to go into the locker room to get her story, but star pitcher and all-around ladies' man Ryan Fox didn't give her a choice. If he had to give this Da...

  • Sheer Honesty

    Susan Phillips (2)

    A GOOD DEAL Valerie Dixon had no problem assessing the value of real estate. So when John Spencer tried to sell her his brother's ramshackle house, it was love at first sight--with both the house and John. But Valerie wasn't quite as experience...

  • Burke, the Kingpin

    Fayrene Preston

    Heirs to a great dynasty, the Delaney brothers were united by blood, united by devotion to their rugged land ... and known far and wide as THE SHAMROCK TRINITY. Powerful men... rakes and charmers... they needed only love to make their lives complete...

  • Listen for the Drummer

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Pounced on by a screeching cat, then tackled by a mountain of licking dog, Hunter Emerson knew instantly that life around Brenna MacPhee would never be dull! With her mop of honey blond curls and eyes that shone with wicked humor, Brenna knocked the ...

  • Sweet Mountain Magic

    Emilie Richards

    BELIEVE IN MAGIC? No way. Astute, logical Sarah MacDonald had based her life on facts that were tried and true. No starry-eyed dreamer was going to change her way of thinking. Then she discovered Galen Madigan, tired and wounded, hiding out in ...

  • The Game of Love

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    HE CAME CRASHING INTO HER LIFE! They met over smashed fenders and clashing tempers, and if Jade never saw the arrogant stranger again it would be altogether too soon. It was not to be. His name was Jeff Martin, and he was the ex-baseball star c...

  • Runaway Heart

    Clare Richmond

    Love was an act of faith for Barbara Private investigator Daniel McGuinn appeared to be an open book--but one that shut tight if you tried to read the pages. Barbara Emerson should have been suspicious of a man as elusive as Dan, but instead she h...

  • For the Love of Mike

    Candace Schuler

    Beneath the coveralls was a vibrant woman Limo service owner "Mike" Frazer preferred to spend her time tinkering with the engines of her prized fleet. So she was nonplussed when sexy Devlin Wingate requested that she personally chauffeur him aroun...

  • A Will and a Way

    Nora Roberts

    It was worse than winning the lottery--much worse. This bequest might mean more money, but the strings attached had Pandora McVie tied up in knots. Respecting Uncle Jolley's last wishes meant spending time isolated in the Catskills with Michael Donah...

  • Butterfly Autumn

    Carolyn Seabaugh

    LOVE IS HERE TO STAY Adriana Anderson was back home for good. Growing up in an air force family had kept her moving long enough. But now, with tasks like remodeling her parents' old Victorian home and teaching at the university, her life was all w...

  • For All Time

    Anne Shorr

    She had trained her sights on him When Callie Barnes inherited one of Sanibel Island's oldest newspapers, her first move was to launch a campaign against the "progress" marring her beloved home. As the most powerful developer involved, the dynamic...

  • Foul Play

    Elaine K. Stirling

    She was guilty until proven innocent Malcolm Spencer was missing, and Carina Rawlins was left holding the bag. The success of the Myrmidon's opening play of the season depended on her. She certainly didn't expect Damian Fleming to show up. Holl...

  • Kevin's Story

    Adrienne Staff

    Kevin Ross knew how far he'd come since his lonely childhood--now he had a wonderful family of friends, a thriving business...and a secret dream he refused to confess, even to himself. When gorgeous Suzy Keller swept into his life. Kevin felt a sudde...

  • A Walk in Paradise

    Ada Steward

    The sea was a peaceful whisper of azure, the island a plantation of blooming hibiscus and wild greenery. A walk along St. Croix was like a walk in paradise, but Haley Canton wasn't in the Caribbean seeking pleasure. She wanted vengeance, and Rye Pier...

  • Laying Down the Law

    Donna Kimel Vitek

    Carly Jaymes had exciting plans. Filled with sunny enthusiasm, she moved to Trent County, North Carolina, and into the old Wainwright mansion. But someone had other plans for her. A malicious ghost, a mysterious phone-caller, and a menacing visitor b...

  • King of Seduction

    Alison Tyler (1)

    He was too handsome to trust. Amanda Caselli didn't even try to hide her contempt for Nicholas Banat, a guest at her mother's Newport estate. Was he a gigolo ... or merely a man with an intriguing past? He'd escaped from his own country and was sti...

  • Breaking Free

    Marcella Thompson

    "You mean chickens come with the farm!" Melissa had just bought property for the first time in her life, and was delighted to discover a poultry contract was part of the bargain. To a city girl from Tulsa it seemed the perfect touch to a p...

  • False Impressions

    Karin Berne

  • Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin

    W.J. Burley

    Wycliffe investigates the disappearance of a young girl - and becomes involved in a major criminal investigation . . .Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to ...

  • A Death for a Dancer

    E.X. Giroux

    Gentlemanly Robert Forsythe and his longtime PA "Sandy" Sanderson are sleuthing up a storm, investigating innocent victims who maybe weren’t so innocent after all…No, Katherine St. Croix was not a hoofer, but she also wasn’t...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy

    L.B. Greenwood

  • The Secret Servant

    Gavin Lyall

    Major Harry Maxim, formerly of the SAS, is a mysterious man who lost his wife to a horrific plane accident. He is as surprised as anyone when he is hired by 10 Downing Street to assist in matters of defence and security.

    Using all the kno...

  • The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan

    Stuart Palmer

    Hildegarde Withers is on the hunt again, as a vacation in California lands her a movie job and two dealers to clear up. Her own death brings Inspector Piper to the scene, and her resurrection cuts through Hollywood red tape as she becomes a target...

  • My Kingdom for a Hearse

    Craig Rice

    A supermodel’s beauty secrets trigger an ugly series of murders in this “pretty damn wonderful” mystery (The New York Times).   From her velvety voice to a pair of legs that say walk this way, Delora Deanne is the most divine creation ever...

  • An Old School Tie

    Andrew Taylor

  • Judgment in Blood

    Jack D. Hunter

  • Mirror of Her Dreams

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    The Mirror of Her Dreams is the story of Terisa Morgan and Geraden, son of the Domne, in the strange land called Mordant. It is a rich and finely textured novel of love and lust, power and court politics, in this place where nothing is ever what it s...

  • Winter in Eden

    Harry Harrison

    Harry Harrison, an acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with West of Eden. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendents challenged humans for mastery o...

  • The Hills Are Eternal

    Sara Hylton

  • In La-La Land We Trust

    Robert Campbell

    When a head without a body turns up in a lake near New Orleans, the locals write it off as another prank by the witch queens. But when a body without a head falls out of a station wagon in Los Angeles, folks sit up and take notice. Child porn, snu...

  • The Night-Blooming Cereus

    Joan Hadley

    Theo Bloomer, a retired Connecticut florist, discovers that his niece, Dorrie Caldicott, refuses to leave a kibbutz in Israel because her Vassar roommate may be involved with some dangerous characters implicated in gunrunning and terrorism...

  • Malice Domestic

    Mollie Hardwick

    LIFE ON THE SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND DOES WONDERS FOR A BROKEN HEART. Her new life in a tiny Kent village suits Doran Fairweather to a T. Devastated by a bad love affair, she now finds deep contentment in her shabby old house, her antiques business,...

  • There Are No Spies

    Bill Granger

    The time is March. The name is Devereaux -- the November Man -- the American field officer who has gone to ground on Lake Geneva. He doesn't know that a beautiful KGB agent has been ordered to stalk two Novembers -- and kill them both...or that Hanl...

  • I Know a Trick Worth Two of That

    Samuel Holt

    Sam Holt spent years playing Packard, everyone's favorite TV-detective; he's got no desire to play sleuth in real life. But when a long-lost pal calls with a rant about conspiracies, sinister cargo ships and hit men, and then gets poisoned at a party...

  • The Dragon Portfolio

    Richard Hoyt

    In China...the reds are out to hit American capital markets for half a billion dollars.... Ella Nidech, American spy on the rise, and James Burlane, the CIA-s very best man of action...turn out to be the hottest new team to do battle...with others...

  • Good and Dead

    Jane Langton

    THE OLD WEST CHURCH HAD MORE REASONS THAN MOST TO WORRY ABOUT DECLINING MEMBERSHIP.... It isn't a loss of faith that is emptying the pews at Old West Church. It is something far more sinister-an inexplicable number of people are taking up residenc...

  • To an Easy Grave

    Alexander Law

    Still grieving over the accidental death of his young wife, Richard Cane learns that his friend, pro quarterback Sean Denby, has been murdered and, deciding to find the murderer himself, uncovers many deadly secrets...

  • A Conspiracy of Strangers

    Lee Martin

    Detective Deb Ralston's chance discovery of a dead woman, nine months pregnant, in a ditch leads her into a morass of kidnapping and murder in which she has to fight for her own life and for her son's life as well....

  • The Raven in the Foregate

    Ellis Peters

    When the beloved Father Adam dies, Abbot Radulfus recommends the young priest Ailnoth for the parish of Holy Cross, known as the Foregate. Ailnoth has much to recommend him, but his zeal and lack of pity quickly alienate him from his flock. So much s...

  • Silk and Satin

    Marcia Wolfson

    When Mark Saunders, one of America's wealthiest men, is pushed to his death from his penthouse office, police detective Brian Sullivan finds that the suspects include Saunders' wife Darleen, and her four best friends from college...

  • Necessary

    Ken Jackson

    The Mob from Kansas City has been moving construction equipment around for years, "blue-skying" and making lots of money for themselves and for corrupt county and city commissioners. An anonymous call points Necessary toward a crooked construction fo...

  • Tweedlioop

    Stanley Schmidt

    MAROONED ON EARTH Bill Nordstrom knew something was odd when the squirrel he was feeding ignored the nuts and raisins...and devoured the plastic bag! The squirrel turned out to be Tweedlioop, a squirrel-like alien, lone survivor of a spaceship cra...

  • The Parfit Knight

    Juliet Blyth

    A VOICE TO BE CHERISHED... That was how Rosalind Vernon, the exquisite mistress of Oakleigh Manor, perceived the stranger at her door. Beset by highwaymen, he had come in search of refuge. But Rosalind, robbed of sight by a childhood accident, had...

  • Tell Me No Lies

    Elizabeth Lowell

    PUPPETS ON A STRING China's most priceless artifacts are being smuggled into the U.S. An international crisis is about to explode. Unless a desparate trap to catch a thief succeeds. And one woman is the key. LINDSAY DANCER - Her worldwide reput...

  • The Witches Eye

    Steven Charles

    Jennifer Field and her friends investigate Witch's Eye, a mysterious lake, to search for clues to the terrible events stalking Thaler Academy only to stir up the evil, alien horror lurking deep in the murky waters...

  • Colsec Rebellion

    Douglas Hill

    In this thrilling conclusion to the ColSec Trilogy, five young outcasts return from exile to free Earth from an authoritarian government. In the savage streets, they rally the Earth's people to fight for freedom....

  • Promises Broken

    Francine Pascal

  • Winter Carnival

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth Wakefield's enjoyment of the Winter Carnival, Sweet Valley High's weekend at a ski resort, is threatened by the inconsiderate attitude of her twin sister, Jessica, and by Jessica's interference between Elizabeth and her boyfriend...

  • Monster Makers, Inc.

    Laurence Yep

    In the far future on the distant aquatic planet, Carefree, someone is sabotaging a small company specializing in biogenetic engineering, and Rob Sawyer, the sixteen-year-old son of the company's owner, is blamed for a series of destructive accidents...

  • Pearl

    Helen Ashfield

    PASSIONATE VICTORY At eighteen, poor but hardworking Pearl Cartwright possessed a golden beauty that became her curse. For the impudent and philandering Bruce Sackville vowed to have her graceful form, and cleverly planned her seduction. Desperate...

  • Tomorrow's Sphinx

    Clare Bell

    Kichebo, a female cheetah living in the Nile Valley in a future world thousands of years after humankind migrated to space to escape ecological catastrophe, finds her life compliclated by strange hunters in sky vehicles...

  • The Eyes of the Killer Robot

    John Bellairs

    Will thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon suffer the same fate Evaristus Sloane's robot can only be activated by human eves, and the maniacal wizard has selected Johnny as the donor. When Johnny is kidnapped, Professor Childermass and Fergie race to Sloane...

  • Race Against Time

    Pip Baker

    YOU and the Doctor must join forces to find and destroy the most awesome device ever created in a RACE AGAINST TIME. Doctor Who is the world's greatest Time Lord, but an awful calamity has befallen him. Along with YOU and his companion Peri, the D...

  • Den of Dragons

    J.H. Brennan

  • Sweet Revenge

    Linda A. Cooney

  • A Change of Heart

    Anne Hunter Lowell

    During a ski trip, six members of the most exclusive sorority at William Howard Taft High School find themselves sharing one room and, to make matters worse, two of the girls are attracted to the same guy...

  • Dance With Me

    M.E. Cooper

    Getting in Step... It seems that nothing will cheer up Fiona Stone when she doesn't get into London's prestigious National Ballet. So when she joins the rest of her family in Rose Hill, her brother Jeremy sets her up on a blind date with gorgeous, l...

  • Hammerlocke

    Jack Barnao

    John Locke, aka HammerLocke, an expert in guerilla tactics. The wealthy family of Herbert "Herbie" Ridley hires Locke to chaperone the wimpy teenager on a sojourn to Italy, where the tough hero is severely tested. Outnumbered and outfoxed, Locke is h...

  • The Seven Ages

    Eva Figes

  • Hatteras Light

    Philip Gerard

    Set off the treacherous Outer Banks of North Carolina during the final days of the First World War, Hatteras Light is the compelling story of the dedicated keepers of the Hatteras lighthouse and their tightly knit community. For generations...

  • The Golden Lion

    Pamela Haines

    Italy -- it was where Maria Verzotto was born and where secret societies, ruled by the man they called "the Lion;' controlled her family's fate. From here, with her heritage locked deep in her heart, destiny would toss Maria from poverty ...

  • Go Away, Stay Away

    Gail E. Haley

  • Ivy Larkin

    Mary Stolz

  • Conjuring Summer in

    Mildred Ames

    Sixteen-year-old Bernadette experiments with psychic forces, including black magic, in her unhappiness over the family's move to California; but a series of murders and a threat on her own life ensue....

  • Paradise

    Donald Barthelme

    "No other word for it: a charming book."ââ,¬â€ťPeter S. Prescott, Newsweek

    Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends u...

  • The Alley Cat

    Yves Beauchemin

    First published in Quebec in 1981, Beauchemin’s highly acclaimed comic masterpiece of storytelling follows in the tradition of the great novels of the 19th century.

    When Florent Boissonneault comes to the aid of an accident victim, his life ...

  • The Mystery Lover's Companion

    Art Bourgeau

    1986 Crown hardcover, BCE though unstated. Art Bourgeau (A Lonely Way to Die). The ultimate reference source for fans of whodunits; a source book for all types of mysteries and thrillers, complete with descriptions and ratings. - Amazon...

  • Present for Santa

    James Burke

  • The Vampyre

    David Campton

  • The Temptation to Exist

    E.M. Cioran

  • Ophelia's Voyage To Japan

    Michele Durkson Clise

  • The Gemini Plot

    Eric J. Collenette

  • Back to Malachi

    Robert J. Conley

  • Hide and Seek

    Ellen Devlin

  • Borrowed Summer

    Marion Walker Doren

  • Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

    Derek Farmer

  • Cold Iron

    Nicolas Freeling

    The ninth Inspector Castang murder mystery is “a heady pleasure” in which “learning the identity of the miscreant is only one of the delights” (Publishers Weekly).Recently promoted to Commissaire of a small province in northea...

  • The Unwilling Heiress

    Deborah Fruchey

    Lucy Trahern, sometime governess to the three Bostram children, has suddenly lost her position. As the story opens, she is wandering London without baggage or money in the rain, looking for a night’s shelter. Beyond hope, she finds two old ladies w...

  • Ease

    Patrick Gale

    A world-weary playwright takes on a fake name and a sleazy apartment -- and learns to live again -- in this charming novel from bestselling author Patrick Gale. Success came quick to Domina Tey. An award-winning playwright, Domina was famous before s...

  • Dancing With Mermaids

    Miles Gibson

    First published in 1985, Miles Gibson's phantasmagoric second novel returns to print with a new preface by the author. Wreathed in legends and haunted by ghosts, the little Dorset village of Rams Horn is a fantastical seaside world where reality ebbs...

  • Doc

    Richard Graber

  • Mists over Mosley

    John Greenwood

  • I Am the Only Running Footman

    Martha Grimes

    Not far from a fashionable Mayfair pub called I Am the Only Running Footman lies the body of a blond shopgirl. She has been strangled with her own scarf-a fact that reminds Scotland Yard's Richard Jury of an unsolved murder in Devon, where the irasci...