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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1996

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New Books List: 497 titles

  • The Heart Knows Best

    Sondra Stanford

    It took every ounce of courage Diane Hunter possessed to walk into an office and face Jeff Corbett again. Four years earlier a bitter argument had cruelly ruptured their love. Now, while negotiating over her sister's booking at his Las Vegas hotel, t...

  • Indomitable Thunder

    Mark Acres

    Since the Darkfall, life in Mekanus had become constant war, infested by violent Nocturnals, Spikefists, Steel Devils, Axe Head, and the Red Hands, until Saraan and her brother Jordun, the orphaned children of a merchant prince, join forces to preven...

  • Hatchet Job

    Harold Adams

    In Depression-era South Dakota, detective Carl Wilcox finds himself investigating the brutal murder of a local town police officer, and meeting a woman or two along the way. By the award-winning author of The Ditched Blonde. ...

  • Hurry-up Halloween Costume

    Sarah Albee

  • Rueful Death

    Susan Wittig Albert

    In search of respite, China takes off to St. Theresa's Monastery with her friend Maggie, a former nun. The goal is a brief, tranquil retreat--but there's a conflict at the convent. The mother superior has recently died, and a battle over the future o...

  • The Madcap Heiress

    Carrie Alexander

    She's an adventure just waiting to happen... First night on the job baby-sitting his Uncle Rocco's P.I. business and Tony Farentino gets a client. He's not supposed to take clients but, hey, she's offering big money. And she's a gorgeous, incredib...

  • Up in the Attic

    Liza Alexander

  • The Perfect Wife

    Victoria Alexander

    THE PERFECT WIFE An ideal spouse, Lord Nicholas Harrington, the Earl of Wyldewood had decided, should be pleasant to look at and agreeable to display on his arm. She should have little effect on his well-ordered life, and little to do with his pri...

  • Promises To Keep

    Victoria Alexander
    in

    After a trip to see a department-store Kris Kringle, a lonely business woman is swept back to a long-ago Christmas-and given a second chance to share a passion that will prove to her it really is a wonderful life....

  • Utopia

    Roger MacBride Allen

  • Wake Up to Murder

    Steve Allen

    America's favorite amateur sleuth tunes into a highly-rated new series...of murders. Steve Allen has just been asked to fill in as host for the popular morning talk show Good Morning U.S.A. But his debt is barely underway when the program is inter...

  • Mother of God

    David Ambrose

    A beautiful scientist at Oxford University, and a desperate killer in California - one stalking the other. On the internet… Tessa Lambert is gorgeous, young - and a genius. She has just created the first viable artificial intelligence programme. Bu...

  • Enemy

    Dina Anastasio

    Stranded on Tartarus, the 58th Squadron is subjected to an advanced form of chemical warfare, an electromagnetic lightning storm that creates unprovoked violence, and if the Squadron cannot find a way off the planet, they will go to war with one anot...

  • Tales of the Bounty Hunters

    Kevin J. Anderson

    In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters--amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a Rebellion by target...

  • I Am Frankenstein

    C. Dean Andersson

    The tale of Frankenstein is told from the not-so-mad scientist's point of view and covers how he regarded his creation as his child, his rustic European village youth, and the lies told by Mary Shelley. Original....

  • Dark Sister

    Lynn V. Andrews

    In Dark Sister, Lynn V. Andrews sheds brilliant light on the dangerous, destructive aspects of women's power by following the remarkable story of Sin Corazn, an initiate in the Sisterhood of the Shields. As she begins her apprenticeship, Corazn is en...

  • Kofi and His Magic

    Maya Angelou

    With full-color photographs. Now in paperback, My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me is the enchanting story of an eight-year-old girl named Thandi, her village, her mischievous brother, her best friend--a chicken--and the remarkable mural ar...

  • The Message

    K.A. Applegate

    **We can’t tell you who we are. Or where we live. It’s too risky, and we’ve got to be careful. Really careful. So we don’t trust anyone. Because if they find us. . .well, we just won’t let them find us. The thing you should know is that ...

  • The Snowball

    Jennifer Armstrong

    Watch out below! Here comes a giant snowball tumbling down a hill, picking up everything--and everybody--in its path! This Early Step into Reading Book tells a story of a huge snowball on a collision course with laughter. Full color...

  • Barefoot in the Grass

    Judith Arnold

    A touching and often humorous look at living and loving and surviving in the nineties. By one of Harlequin's most popular romance writers. You'll laugh and cry with Beth Pendleton as she moves from big-city bustle and life-threatening pro...

  • The Trophy Wife

    Rosalie Ash

    Marry in haste... India had married Brad after a whirlwind romance -- and discovered his deep, dark secret just too late. Result: she'd fled from the groom before the wedding day was over. Brad refused to accept that their marriage was fini...

  • The Marriage Wager

    Jane Ashford

    It was scandalous, to wager one's reputation on a hand of cards. But Lady Emma Tarrant felt she had no choice. She had watched her husband gamble his life away, and when she saw another young man losing heavily, she was determined to save him from a ...

  • The Mammoth Collection of Historical Whodunnits and Detectives

    Mike Ashley

  • Utopia

    Isaac Asimov

  • The Rancher and the Baby

    Elizabeth August

    ONLY A MOTHER KNOWS Amelia Varden wasn't her baby's natural mother, but she'd raised the little boy from birth. Now, after lying to the world about their family ties, it was time to pay for her deception. Because someone had come to cl...

  • While the Music Plays

    Diane Austell

    Once Laura Chandler had dazzled all of Washington with her beauty and poise. But the sudden death of her husband, the great senator Robert Chandler, seemed to change her forever, leaving her afraid to care for anyone or anything again. Yet now, in 18...

  • Later Days at Highbury

    Joan Austen-Leigh

    A return visit to the village of Highbury from Jane Austen's "Emma" follows the local schoolmistress, Mrs. Goddard, around as she negotiates a society where the manners of a young lady are truly important...

  • Abandon

    Neffetiti Austin

    It's 1969 and UCLA senior Denise Davis is at rallies and marches, determined to help make a difference. Then she meets charasmatic activist Carlton Wilson, and is swept into a heated relationship with him. But she thinks Carlton's ideas are too radic...

  • Stoneface

    James Axler

    PITY THE LIVING In 2001, the face of the earth changed forever in a nuclear firestorm. Generations after the apocalypse, Ryan Cawdor leads the courageous struggle for survival in a brutal world, striving to make a difference in the battle raging bet...

  • Hop It Duggy Dog

    Brian Ball

    This is the third story to feature Duggy Dog. In this new adventure, he is desperately trying to catch up on his sleep after a rather disturbed night, but various things conspire to disturb him until eventually he decides he may as well give up and j...

  • The Wassail Bowl

    Mary Balogh
    in

    For your holiday pleasure, five star storytellers serve up their most delicious recipes for romance. MARY BALOGH tells of lost love found when a betrayed beauty and a jealous lord learn how hard it is to resist each other. SANDRA HEATH stirs up ember...

  • A Rake's Reform

    Anne Barbour

    THE RAKE AND THE REBEL Lord Charles Trent was as infuriating, and as handsome, as Hester Blayne expected him to be -- and more. He made no secret of his scandalous love life as leading rake in the realm, or of his scorn of anyone who would censor...

  • Lucky Penny

    Linda Barnes
    in

    In Lucky Penny, award-winning author Linda Barnes introduces the red-headed, jazz-loving, cab-driving Bostonian and Private Investigator Carlotta Carlyle. As Carlotta lounges in her cab one night while waiting for a fare, the part-time cabbie is acco...

  • Blood Brothers

    Steven Barnes

    Austin Tucker was a Green Beret, a man with lightning reflexes and the training to use them. But his life was shattered one Thanksgiving night when strangers invaded his home and killed his son, his daughter, and his wife. Derek Waites was once an...

  • Ship Fever

    Andrea Barrett

    1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, the...

  • Hijo de hombre

    Augusto Roa Bastos

  • Bed and Breakfast

    Lois Battle

    IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME in Beaufort, South Carolina. After Josie Tatternall -- a military widow turned B & B proprietor -- witnesses her best friend's narrow brush with death, she decides that life is too short to let old grievances stand in the way of f...

  • Fifteen and Screaming

    Fleur Beale

    Mum was sick, Jude was crazy and Gina was nuts. Life was one huge bundle of laughs. Lily has a crushing load of problems to cope with for someone of just 15, but there are a few light spots - friends and help can come from surprising quarters....

  • My True Love Gave To Me

    Julie Beard
    in

    On Christmas Eve, a woman searches for her beloved black cat -- and meets a tall dark knight......

  • Ten Indians

    Madison Smartt Bell

    When child psychologist Mike Devlin opens a Tae Kwon Do school near the Baltimore housing projects, the brutality of the streets, a series of violent deaths, and deadly misunderstandings shock him into seeing how minimal his influence in life has bee...

  • The Messiah Stones

    Irving Benig

    AN ORDINARY MAN.
    AN ANCIENT SECRET.
    A REMARKABLE QUEST FOR FAITH.
    John McGowan lives a quiet, uncomplicated life--until he inherits a extraordinary legacy from his long-missing father. Fifty years before, archaeologist Bill McGowan made a wo...

  • Girls in Love

    Cherie Bennett

    Preparing for the annual Winterfest, Tara vows to win the heart of an unresponsive skier, Erin's relationship with her boyfriend is threatened by a newcomer, and Noelle fears her secret problem is threatening her skating career. Original....

  • Night of the Living Clay

    David Bergantino

    When Tasha Karne goes to check the noisy, smelly, and creepy things going on in her basement, she finds nothing, not even her brother's clay statues, until a growling in the shadows and a set of sharp, pointy teeth reveals the truth about the creatur...

  • Rebel Moon

    Bruce Bethke

  • The River to Pickle Beach

    Doris Betts

    Bebe Sellar and her husband Jack are managing several cottages in Pickle Beach, North Carolina, when they meet Mickey McCane, an aggressive and tormented man, and together they all try to deal with the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the hot summ...

  • Ever True

    Elizabeth Bevarly
    in

    Miranda Avery, owner of Avery Advertising, Inc., knows that true love only seems to happen on television. Until her personal assistant, who happens to be an immortal fairy, uses his magic to make sure she notices the drop-dead gorgeous guy who is rig...

  • A Gift of Light: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
    in

    When a tenacious tom courts a fiery feline at Christmas, his master and her mistress follow suit......

  • Naughty or Nice

    Olga Bicos
    in

    Just when Phoebe Nichols is starting to get cold feet about her Christmas wedding, fate steps in: She's trapped overnight in an elevator with a handsome department store Santa. He's the most impossible man she has ever met --- impossible to resist, i...

  • When Night Falls

    Cheryln Biggs

    From behind his mask of mystery he dared to uncover his soul... Scarred by tragedy and devastated by guilt, Anton Reichard had hidden himself deep in the Louisiana bayou, running his empire with ruthless indifference -- until reporter Dani Coronea...

  • This Year It Will Be Different

    Maeve Binchy

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit,...

  • Shadow Lover

    Carly Bishop

    Years ago, a mysterious woman changed her identity and opened a specialty service of bodyguards called Protection Enterprises, Incorporated... Abbie Callahan agreed to impersonate Olivia Simons Cameron to help a man she admired protect the wife h...

  • A Determined Lady

    Irene Loyd Black

    Boston bluestocking Olivia Pembroke was determined to get to England and publish her novel. Needing means of her own to offset her family's debts, she plans to find a wealthy lord for a husband. Of course, she'd avoid actual marriage once she...

  • Life and Death

    Sheila Black

    While Sara tries to keep herself together as when a child's injuries bring back haunting memories, know-it-all Kyle must overcome his own fears, and Max, who cannot deny her attraction to Dagger, is torn between life in the 'hood and higher education...

  • A Vow of Poverty

    Veronica Black

    With money tight and resources stretched, the Order of the Daughters of Compassion must find a way to increase revenue. So Sister Joan is sent to clean out several attic storerooms in the hope of discovering valuable antiques. But if the rooms are...

  • A Good Day to Die

    Tom W. Blackburn

    After the murder of Sitting Bull, the enigmatic new leader of the Plains Indians promises the tribe a return to the old buffalo days, setting the stage for an epic confrontation at Wounded Knee Creek. Original....

  • The Chameleon

    Sean Martin Blain

    Three murders, with one link. In each case the police are handed a ready-made suspect - someone the victim knows - and forensic evidence for conviction. But apparent coincidence spirals into incredulity when an Irish detective unearths new evidence t...

  • A Vision of Sugar Plums

    Jennifer Blake
    in

    Meghan Castle is a real Scrooge about the holidays --- until she finds an abandoned baby in her store on Christmas Eve. Change is certainly in the air --- especially when late shopper Rick Wallman walks in with yet another delightful holiday surprise...

  • Water's Edge

    Robert Bloch
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Ariel

    Lawrence Block

    Ariel Jardell, an adopted twelve-year-old girl is possessed … her mother thinks … by jealousy and by forces far more bizarre. And as the reader will discover, Ariel is driven to a precocious excursion from mischief to malevolence and beyond. An ...

  • A Blow For Freedom

    Lawrence Block
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • 2nd Ultimate Unauthorized Star Trek Quiz Book

    Robert W. Bly

    With new movies, TV shows and books appearing all the time, the popularity of Star Trek is at an all-time high. Now, following his bestselling The Ultimate Unauthorized Star Trek Quiz Book, Robert W. Bly provides 750 more multiple choice, fill-in-the...

  • A Report from the Bunker

    Victor Bockris

    Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned the bridge with logic and wrote the classic Naked Lunch, has a court recorder in Victor Bockris. Bockris has collected into a cogent whole the man's most brilliant moments of conversation, thin...

  • Long Kiss Goodnight

    Randall Boyll

  • Home for the Holidays // The Year the Cat Saved Christmas

    Barbara Bretton
    in

    College sweethearts almost break up on Christmas Eve, but their wise old cat gets in the way......

  • Infinity's Shore

    David Brin

    A once peaceful planet of refugees faces complete annihilation in this hard science fiction sequel to Brightness Reef.Book Two in the Uplift Storm TrilogyIt’s illegal to occupy the planet Jijo, but six castaway races have managed to coexist there f...

  • The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette

    William Hill Brown

    Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-...

  • Stryker's Wife

    Dixie Browning

    MR. NOVEMBER Reluctant Bachelor: Kurt Stryker didn't want to marry, but he sure needed a wife! Unsuspecting Bride: Sweet, sexy Debranne Kiley. The Proposal: Gulp! Rugged Kurt Stryker wasn't a man of many words, but he did have one heck of a h...

  • Ribbons in the Wind

    Margaret Brownley

    SHE THINGS SHE'S IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT Elizabeth Davenport is vowing to do what no other woman ever did -- win the cross-country race in a new fangled Model T. Petite but feisty, she has a steel will that makes up for her lack of driving skills. She'...

  • Broken Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    When a sick, abused horse is rescued and brought to Pine Hollow, every effort is made to save the horse's life, and Lisa, remembering the death of another abused horse, struggles to restore the horse's broken spirit....

  • While She Was Out

    Edward Bryant
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Mars Attacks

    Richard Lee Byers

  • Sofia's Heart

    Sharon Cadwallader

    Sofia With a heavy heart, Sofia DuFay leaves her home in Monterey Bay, taking with her bittersweet memories of happier days with friends, rodeos, glittering rancho balls... and a love that might have been. San Diego, Alta California 1845 Not yet eig...

  • Don't Talk To Strangers

    Bethany Campbell

    They were strangers in a seductive game of hide-and-seek. One by one, the women were disappearing. Each had been young, vulnerable...and each had been spending time on the Internet "chatting" with a mysterious stranger. It was Carrie Blue's job to t...

  • Getting a Clue in a Clueless World

    Ross Campbell

    OK, you're a teenager and life is like this huge 'Where's Waldo?' picture, and God is out there somewhere but he's pretty hard to find, and it's all quite confusing and frustrating sometimes, and wherever you look for answers, folks just shrug and sa...

  • Big Bear's Treasury; The Red Collection

    Candlewick Press

  • Candlewick Book of First Rhymes

    Candlewick Press

    A fun-filled anthology of easy-to-read rhymes for young children includes classic Mother Goose rhymes as well as original poetry by today's best-known children's writers, accompanied by artwork from a variety of noted illustrators....

  • Writers Harvest, 2

    Ethan Canin

    A bountiful collection of previously unpublished stories-by Julia Alvarez, Frederick Barthelme, Michael Chabon, Alice Fulton, Mary Gaitskill, David Haynes, Gary Krist, Jill McCorkle, Melanie Rae Thon, and ten others-whose royalties benefit Share Our ...

  • Million Dollar Mistake

    D.l. Carey

    Comforting rookie pitcher West Rideout when he injures his shoulder, Yellowjacket volunteer Lydia Malcolm is astonished when West confesses that he has fallen in love with her and will not take no for an answer. Original....

  • Can You Dance, Dalila?

    Nancy Carpenter

    Noticing Dalila's frustration at not being able to dance any of the dances she tries--such as the Waltz, Irish jig, and tango--Dalila's grandmother takes her to a performance of the West African Troupe, where she finally discovers her place in the wo...

  • Honeymoon Assignment

    Sally Carr

    Despite Jake Armstrong's insistence, Sara was convinced that pretending to be the boss's wife was beyond the call of duty! Especially when Jake had been the one who had cruelly rejected her years before. But the story of a lifetime was breaki...

  • The Panic Hand

    Jonathan Carroll

    The twenty stories collected here transmit the same intense charges of intellect and emotion that characterize Carroll's longer works. Among the many pleasures are: "Friend's Best Man" - An award-winning story about a dog that teaches its owner the r...

  • The Survivor

    Tim Champlin

    Running for his life, Marcel Dupre, an escaped prisoner, carries a manuscript that could destroy the French government, and Jay McGraw, an express messenger for Wells Fargo, is hired to protect Marcel and get him safely across the West, but a bloodth...

  • The Literary Insomniac

    Elyse Chaney

    A collection of stories and essays about insomnia by insomniac writers includes contributions by E. Annie Proulx, Jonathan Carroll, Tom Beller, Bradford Morrow, Tim Cahill, and Haruki Marukami, among other notables....

  • Surrender the Shadow

    Sandra Chastain

    To possess her, he had to cross the thin line between love and betrayal... No one could get in or out of dangerous places better than Conner Preston, the handsome enigma nicknamed the Shadow by his Green Beret buddies, but Erica Fallon presented a...

  • Mink!

    Peter Chippindale

  • A Very Special Kwanzaa

    Debbi Chocolate

    Remembering how the kids made fun of his dashiki, beads, and sandals the previous year, Charlie is reluctant to participate in the present year's Kwanzaa Festival at school, until he remembers the deeper meaning of Kwanzaa. Original....

  • Cowboy Daddy

    Judy Christenberry

    This cowboy had no intention of being a groom... Until he found out he was going to be a daddy! But by then, Janie Dawson refused to marry him. Women! None of the four Randall brothers ever did understand them, and Pete was no exception. But w...

  • Completely Alive

    S. Rickly Christian

  • Halfback Attack // Crackerjack Halfback

    Matt Christopher

    Freddie Chase is a good football player with one major flaw: He's afraid to tackle. He tries hard to cover up his fear, but soon Coach Sears and the other Sandpipers know all about it. The team is fighting to finish the season at the top of the leagu...

  • War and Peas

    Jill Churchill

    Wealthy old Auguste Caspar Snellen, the legendary "Pea King," is long gone, but his greatest legacy lives on: the Snellen Museum, an institution dedicated to the glorification of local lore and legumes. But at this year's annual Pea Festi...

  • The Exit Club

    Shaun Clarke

  • Escape from the Haunted Museum

    M.T. Coffin

  • Beverly & Marigold

    Val Coleman

    In a first group of stories, a young boy named Beverly moves East to join the theater, the army, and the Southern Freedom Movement and finally becomes aware of the world of the homeless, which comes alive in a second group of tales about Marigold, a ...

  • Baby Makes Three

    Marion Smith Collins

    BABY IN THE MIDDLE Three years ago, Lesley Macdonald had experienced a miracle - she'd adopted her little boy. She'd gone on to create a snug and loving cocoon for her small family, but suddenly a stranger appeared, jeopardizing their peace - and ...

  • A Winter's Courtship

    Lynn Collum
    in

    In "A Winter Courtship," a widow prefers her independence to remarriage; while in "The Winter Heart," a woman resists the charms of a seductive adventurer; and in "The Wager," a notorious rake takes a gamble on love. Original....

  • Her Way

    Catherine Cookson

    In Her Way Dame Catherine Cookson sings and reflects,on the songs that evoke her most poignant and vivid memories. At the age of thirteen Catherine Cookson was told that she couldn't sing. From then on she suppressed a talent that only came to li...

  • Magic and Mayhem

    Elaine Crawford
    in

    Shawna O'Shea expects America to be full of promise. After all, the colonials are openly rebelling against the English. But when Jeffrey Radcliff, her mistress's handsome son takes notice of Shawna --- a lowly servant girl --- it's up to Misty Dawn, ...

  • Music, in a Foreign Language

    Andrew Crumey

    The strikingly inventive structure of this novel allows the author to explore the similarities between fictions and history. At any point, there are infinite possibilities for the way the story, a life, or the history of the world might progress. The...

  • Bordersnakes

    James Crumley

    ONE GOT SHOT. THE OTHER GOT MAD. Someone took all the money Milo's daddy left for him. Someone shot Sughrue in the stomach and left him to die. Now, the two toughest private eyes ever to come from Montana are driving a massive El Dorado through Texa...

  • The Nursery

    Judi Culbertson

    When her newly adopted son is found murdered in his crib, Caroline Denecke finds herself the prime suspect in the murder, but Caroline insists that the baby is not her own and, with the help of a determined reporter, sets out to uncover the truth...

  • Valley of a Thousand Smokes

    Dan Cushman

    WesternTaking advantage of his dual Canadian and American citizenship, Tom Flynn joins the Mounties in investigating the brutal death of a boy from the mission school at Assumption very likely an attack by Black Jack Survays vicious wolf dog. Flynn s...

  • Starstruck

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Meeting handsome actor Byron Slater after winning a contest, Miranda Peterson enjoys the attention of the media and the glamour of Byron's world, until she stumbles on the private actor's deadly secrets. Original....

  • Dear Future

    Fred D'Aguiar

    Ever since Red Head had been hit in the head by an ax at age nine, he has experienced terrifying visions of the future, and his magically inclined family members help him accept the strangeness and wonder of his life, but the possible reelection of a...

  • A Family Likeness

    Margot Dalton

    She "sold" her baby... Fifteen years ago desperate circumstances had forced Gina Mitchell to do the unthinkable. Give up her baby daughter hours after birth. Now Alex Colton -- a man she's never met -- has checked into Gina's b...

  • Marriage Minded

    Kayla Daniels

    A MAN WITH A PLAN... Just when Sara Moahan thought she'd gotten over the rugged bad boy, Ryder Sloan reappeared on her doorstep. But Sara was no longer the innocent girl who'd once fallen so foolishly in love. She was a single mother, with two littl...

  • The Memory Cathedral

    Jack Dann

    Set against a backdrop of Italy and Persia in the 1400s, a story of a lost year in the life of Leonardo da Vinci considers what might have happened had the art master built and flown one of his flying machine models. Reprint....

  • Woolly Jumpers

    Andrew Davies

    Raj is a bit of a troublemaker. His teacher is just at her wit's end when she hits upon the idea of asking him to take responsibility for the entire class. Raj rises to the challenge and his behaviour calms down as a result....

  • Money Madness

    Gibbs Davis

    When their mother becomes president of the United States, Molly Wright and her brother James think that the White House is the perfect place to test their detective skills and find adventure in a trunk of old money and Lincoln's ghost. Original....

  • The Wedding Raffle

    Geralyn Dawson

    In her humorous, heartwarming Western romances, Geralyn Dawson creates characters we adore -- we laugh with them, we cry with them -- and, in her newest story, we wish like all get out we were them, as an independent widow and one hard, handsome Texa...

  • Kancil and the Crocodiles: A Tale from Malaysia

    Noreha Yussof Day

  • Killed in the Fog

    William L. Deandrea

    During a trip to England, a fog of mystery threatens Matt Cobb’s vacation—and his lifeMatt Cobb is ready to quit. His job as a special projects VP at a giant television network involves intense troubleshooting and an egotistical boss, and...

  • Hope

    Len Deighton

    SPY, STAR, SURVIVOR As the Berlin Wall begins to crumble, Bernard Samson is caught up in an ever-changing situation and the devious squabbles that infest the service. And as cold-war loyalties shift in the freezing wind, Samson is forced back into...

  • Mars Attacks!

    Karen Jones Delk

  • Savage Cut

    Jo Dereske

    THE CRUELEST CUT She was the prodigal daughter, returning to the Michigan hometown she'd fled in disgrace seventeen years before. But now Ruby Crane is back at her family's isolated lakeside cabin--alone except for her fourteen-year-old daughter, Jes...

  • Scandals

    Georgina Devon

    Defiant! Beautiful Samantha Davidson, the toast of the London stage, has been pursued by many men, but never has she been harassed by their families! And certainly not the family of the greatest duke in the land. Well, they're nothing to her, not eve...

  • Error of Judgment

    Dexter Dias

    Behind a four-inch plate glass window in the hospital wing of an uncompleted prison, a man sits in silence, his hair burned off his skull, his eyes fluttering in a dream state. His lawyer, Nick Downes, waits for his client to speak, to explain why he...

  • Whom Shall I Fear?

    Athol Dickson

    As Texan Garrison Reed investigates the murder of his old friend Ernest B. Martin, found hooked on a fish stringer, he wonders how he could have missed his friend's drug habit, tries to avoid being arrested for the crime, and grows in his Christian f...

  • Rachel's Hero

    Debra Dier
    in

    The Freedom Inn -- Port Freedom, New Hampshire Across the centuries, the warmth of its hearth brings true hearts together at Christmastime. 1781 When Alexander Stark left his family's inn to join the War for American Independence, little did...

  • The LAST BEST THING

    Patrick Dillon

  • Blood Sport

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Selected to participate in an important fencing tournament, Frank becomes alarmed when the competition proves deadly, and after a top contender vanishes, the Hardy brothers suspect that a kidnapper is on the loose. Original....

  • Isaac Asimov's Vampires

    Gardner Dozois

  • All the Way to the Gallows

    David Drake

    Widely known for the grim and gritty battlefield realism of his bestselling adventures of Hammer's Slammers, and for other popular novels of military science fiction, David Drake now takes deadly aim at the funnvbone. Meet the goblin paratroopers and...

  • Patriots

    David Drake

    Revolt on a frontier planet! The corrupt government of Earth is sending an army to the planet of Greenwood in order to remove the pioneers who found and settled the planet. The potential profits are too great to leave an entire planet to the scrag...

  • Spider-Man: The Octopus Agenda

    Diane Duane

    An investigation into a simple cellular-phone fraud leads both Peter Parker and his alter-ego, the Amazing Spider-Man, to a fiendish plot: using unique counterfeiting equipment and a devastatingly large stock-pile of bombs, someone plans to desta...

  • Present Tense

    Dave Duncan

    THE GREAT GAME IS AFOOT! In the midst of the horror of the first World War, a stranger falls from nowhere into the mud and death of the Flanders battlefield--bruised, babbling, and star naked... with a remarkable story to tell. Wrongly accused ...

  • One Big Happy Family

    Andrea Edwards

    A DATE WITH MR. DESTINY... When Samantha Scott was six years old, a mysterious old woman promised her true love if she found the courage to fight for it. Twenty years later, Sam was convinced that Mr. Right had taken a permanent vacation. Then...

  • Rolling Thunder

    Cassie Edwards

    FREE SPIRIT Flaming red hair hidden beneath a hat, Tanzey Nicole Hunter rode free from dawn to dusk. Her unbridled spirit matched the hot, blazing Texas plains where her family bred mustangs and where her twin brother had mysteriously disappeared. N...

  • Dragoncharm

    Graham Edwards

    The Old Ones had prophesied that someday dragon would fight dragon until there were none left in the world, and now this prophesy begins to come true as the legendary Charmed Dragons confront an army of Naturals, and Fortune, a half-caste, holds the ...

  • The Guardian

    Bill Eidson

    While at a convenience store with her family to buy ice cream, nine-year-old Janine Stearns is kidnapped by a masked gunman who notices her father's BMW, and it is up to her uncle and guardian Ross Stearns to rescue her. Reprint....

  • Elvira: Transylvania 90210

    Elvira

    When a group of night-dwelling, blood-sucking bandits moves in next door and begins to make feasts of her best friends, Elvira, the hip mistress of midnight, sets out to rid the neighborhood of the unwelcome newcomers. Original....

  • Dangerous Games

    Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Mages' Games Netheril, empire of magic, where wizards wield power far beyond the ken of mortal men. Netheril, where citadels float, magic runs wild, and mages dabble in games better left for the gods. Netheril, a place of dangerous games whe...

  • After All

    Lynn Emery

    Can Yesterday's Kisses... Baton Rouge news reporter Michelle Toussaint won't let anything come between her and her dream of becoming an anchorwoman. Then seductive contractor Anthony Hilliard comes home to Louisiana. For five years, Michelle has bee...

  • Sneezing After Sex Prevents Pregnancy

    Peter Engel

    Old Wives' Tales: Are they really words of wisdom or just plain nonsense?

    -Does cracking your knuckles cause arthritis?
    -Can microwave ovens make men sterile/
    -Is it true that swallowed chewing gum never digests?

    These are the wor...

  • Perilous Friends

    Carole Epstein

    Suddenly unemployed, vivacious amateur detective Barbara Simons finds herself embroiled with a dead philandering husband, a gang of gay cigarette smugglers, and a Montreal detective with a thing for people speaking English. A first novel....

  • Friends to the Finish

    Allison Estes

  • Bodyguards Shoot Second

    Loren D. Estleman
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Darkside

    Dennis Etchison

    Don't Go near the darkside The anonymous warning appears in your mailbox. A stone, marked with an ancient symbol, is hurled at your door. And your daughter creeps out of the house in the dead of night. The horror has begun. YOu have step...

  • Longarm and the Hostage Woman

    Tabor Evans

    Learning that Richard Harding is keeping ex-wife Sarah prisoner on a dirty Mexican ranch and forcing her to wait on his friends, Longarm plans a rescue mission and earns the feisty woman's gratitude. Original....

  • The Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers

    Phil Farrand

    Every episode of the first four seasons of equipment oddities, weird science, strange but true observations, and nutty technical difficulties for discriminating fans of Deep Space Nine . Commanders Log, DS9 : Star Date 46379.1:Bajor below.The co...

  • Memories of My Ghost Brother

    Heinz Insu Fenkl

    A young Amerasian comes of age as he grows up in the Korean city of Inchon and struggles to come to terms with his own identity and with his memories of a lost half-brother, whom his Korean mother sacrificed to marry his American father. 15,000 first...

  • The Winter Heart

    Jo Ann Ferguson
    in

    In "A Winter Courtship," a widow prefers her independence to remarriage; while in "The Winter Heart," a woman resists the charms of a seductive adventurer; and in "The Wager," a notorious rake takes a gamble on love. Original....

  • The Royal Switch

    Sarah Ferguson

  • Bright Lights

    Sarah Ferguson

    Visiting her look-alike friend Emily in New York City, Princess Amanda looks forward to visiting all the sites of the Big Apple, and their adventures include witnessing a robbery plot and their friendship with a homeless boy. Original....

  • Timeswept Rogue

    Amy J. Fetzer

    In 1789, sea captain Ramsey O'Keefe is a man among men, hardened in battle and fearless in feats of daring. But he will need all the courage he possesses when a capricious fate sweeps him over two hundred years into the future. Frantically searchi...

  • Mtvs Road Rules Road Trips

    Genevieve Field

    Features previously unpublished diary entries kept by each cast member, paired with intimate photographs of life on the road and additional travel information, travel trivia, and do-it-yourself Kerouac fan maps. TV tie-in....

  • Honeymoon for Three

    Sandra Field

    Nine months... Cory Haines wanted a baby -- no strings attached! Her ex-husband had done more than enough to convince her that men were surplus to requirements. Apart from one basic detail... She needed a lover. Someone who would make a baby......

  • Fifth-Grade Frankenstein

    Terri Fields

    When an anticipated week of easy coasting with a substitute teacher gives way to terror under the thumb of the meanest substitute in the world, Allen turns to his witch friend for help, with disastrous results. Original....

  • Death at the Wheel

    Kate Flora

    Thea Kozak is smart, funny, and a very '90s kind of woman--someone who is carving a lucrative career for herself while juggling all the stresses of modern life. On top of that, she's trying to maintain a long-distance relationship with Andre, the dev...

  • Rawhide

    T.T. Flynn

    Collects classic Western tales, including "The Rawhide Kid," in which sixteen-year-old Laramie Scott joins forces with veteran gunslinger Holy Joe Moran to protect hidden gold, and the Texas border, from a horde of Mexican bandidos....

  • LORD OF THE KONGO

    Peter Forbath

    Against the backdrop of the Portuguese entry into the Congo, the friendship between a Portuguese cabin boy and Prince Mbemba, a Kongo prince who becomes the ruler of a puppet kingdom, turns tragic. 25,000 first printing....

  • The Price of Freedom

    William R. Forstchen; Ben Ohlander

    WHO SAYS THE WAR IS OVER? In Heart of the Tiger the Kilrathi empire was eradicated through the bravery of a few flying aces. Now, Captain Blair and his wing are fighting a more familiar menace--their fellow humans. Blair had settled down to the qu...

  • Trouble at Lone Spur

    Roz Denny Fox

    The Lone Spur Ranch Crockett County, Texas Lizbeth Robbins has been following the rodeo circuit for the past six years, learning the farrier's trade, dragging her little girl from town to town. But now her daughter's in school and Lizbeth...

  • The Abductors: Conspiracy

    Jonathan Frakes

    When the search for a missing teenager becomes an investigation into an extraterrestrial plot to infiltrate humanity, ex-cop Richard McCallum encounters the tabloid myths as he joins the fight against the Klar, before he becomes the next missing pers...

  • Saratoga

    Michael Jan Friedman

    When the Borg destroyed the U.S.S. Saratoga at Wolf 359, killing Captain Sisko's beloved wife, one chapter in his life came to a tragic end. Now painful memories are reawakened when the U.S.S. Defiant carries the survivors of the Saratoga to an impor...

  • The Tale of the Curious Cat: Are You Afraid of the Dark?

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Unable to resist anything that incites her curiosity, Natalie Holland stops at a strange crafts fair booth, touches a forbidden carving of a cat, and finds her fate linked to that of a sinister black cat named Shadow. Original....

  • Ibiza Beach

    Simon Gandolfi

  • Perseus the Boy with Super Powers

    Laura Geringer

    Young Perseus, the half-human son of Zeus, dreams of becoming a hero and embarks on a series of quests that test his powers, including the slaying of Medusa, a creature so hideous that one look at her can turn a person into stone. Original....

  • Andromeda: The Flying Warrior Princess

    Laura Geringer

    Trained as a warrior and longing for adventure, the beautiful Andromeda, a princess from the island of Joppa, teams up with Perseus to slay Cetus, a horrible sea serpent that is terrorizing her kingdom. Original....

  • The Death of an Irish Sea Wolf

    Bartholomew Gill

    In a remote community off the west coast of Ireland, residents inclined to gossip speculate why reclusive Clement Ford, the "Sea Wolf," has become such a generous benefactor to his neighbors. then one night, a mysterious figure from Ford's past arriv...

  • Fatal Delivery

    Janet E. Gill

    When a serial murderer known as the "Rosekiller" begins striking down the prettiest girls in the neighborhood, leaving roses beside the bodies of his victims, a baby-sitter fears her employer may be the culprit. Original....

  • There's Something About the Nanny...

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Alan Magnus didn't believe in miracles... But his daughter finally liked one of the nannies! In fact, Deanna insisted she had wished for Misty (Elf of the Morning Mist), and Alan had to admit there was something different about this nanny.... ...

  • One Fine Day

    H.B. Gilmour

    Two divorced people, each with young children, are forced to help each other get through one particularly hectic day and keep their New York City lives, careers, and kids intact. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • The Long Yesterday

    Lynne Gladstone-Millar

  • Nature's Chaos

    James Gleick

    The essence of the earth's beauty lies in chaos, in the disorder of grasses strewn in a meadow, the blotching of green lichen on a tree trunk. Eliot Porter's photographs of the natural world, spanning thirty-five years and five continents-from an Ant...

  • Sanctuary

    Christopher Golden

    They live as outcasts, hated and feared by the very humanity they protect. They are mutants, born with strange and wonderful powers that set them apart from the rest of the human race. Under the tutelage of Professor Charles Xavier, they are more tha...

  • Bringing Up Babies

    Emma Goldrick

    An accidental mom! After the latest in a long line of romantic disasters, Hope Latimore had decided there was only one thing for it - she would have to enter a convent! That or take the job her father had arranged for her as a stand-in nanny. Only...

  • Marrying Mom

    Olivia Goldsmith

    Phyllis Geronomous is witty, blunt, razor sharp - and the despair of her family. She's a senior citizen and an original, still trying to run the lives of her three grown children. As far as they're concerned, Phyllis's best attribute is that she's a ...

  • Spencer's Bride

    Laura Gordon

    She was a beautiful bride... She should have been Drew Spencer's bride. But Joanna Caldwell had chosen another man...even though passion still flared between her and Drew. Silently Drew vowed one day he'd get her back... Joanna's marriage was...

  • The Second Coming

    Joe Gores
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Cold Blue Midnight

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Six years after her ex-husband Peter Tapley had been executed for unspeakable crimes against young women, Jill desperately tries to put the past behind her, but someone still holds her responsible for her ex-husband's diabolical actions and is waitin...

  • A Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman
    in

  • M Is for Malice

    Sue Grafton

    "M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons ...

  • A Magical Christmas

    Heather Graham

    SOME LOVES LAST... On Christmas Eve in 1862, at the Oak River Plantation in Virginia, a captured Confederate officer was to hang. He had one last wish -- to see his young wife again. But it would take a miracle to make that wish come true.... FOR...

  • My Lady Midnight

    Laurie Grant

    A noblewoman is forced by her uncle, an ally of King Stephen, to kidnap the children of her sworn enemy, not knowing that she will fall in love with that enemy, or that the secret of his son's birth could cost a royal crown. A Norman widow becomes ...

  • Last Rites

    Linda Grant
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Shadows of the Heart

    Tracy Grant / Teresa Grant / Anna Grant

    TROUBLED BEAUTY Like an avenging angel, he overwhelmed her attackers, leaving one dead and another running for his life. She awoke to darkness and terror, alone in a barn with a stranger named Paul, bloodied yet bandaged with her own tattered pettic...

  • Irish Lace

    Andrew M. Greeley

    The beautiful and fey -- as they say in the old country -- Nuala Anne McGrail uses her psychic abilities to help solve mysteries. But even she will admit with a smile that she couldn't do it without Dermont Michael Coyne, her devoted admirer and ...

  • Now or Never

    Carmen Green

    Hoping to start over in Atlanta after the death of her daughter and the end of her marriage, Mia Jacobs vows to avoid relationships before meeting Adam Webster, whose own losses have made him renew his hope for happiness. Original....

  • Convergence

    Sharon Green

    In a world of magical adepts, every quarter-century the five greatest talents must be brought together. For only this powerful union of strangers can prevent the prophesied return of the Evil Ones who once enslaved the land. Lorand is of Earth, a ...

  • Great Writers and Kids Write Mystery Stories

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Miskatonic University

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Thirteen chilling tales--by Jane Lindskold, Billie Sue Mosiman, Will Murray, and Brian McNaughton, among others--center on the macabre Miskatonic University, where students study such subjects as Prophecy and Spellcasting on their path to a degree...

  • Captains' Logs Supplemental

    Edward Gross

  • Deep Water

    Sally Gunning

  • Bless the Beasts

    Karen Haber

    In desperate need of crucial repairs, the Starship Voyager has come to Sardalia, a planet blessed with great natural beauty and apparently friendly inhabitants. The Sardalians welcome Voyager enthusiastically, but Captain Janeway soon grows suspiciou...

  • Boy Re-Meets Girl

    Patricia Hagan

    MOST LIKELY TO...MARRY!? After fifteen years, was it too much for Kelly Sinclair to ask that her high school sweetheart at least be fat and bald and boring? Yup. The fact was, the grown-up Robert Brooks was even sexier than before. He was also ric...

  • Major's Muslin

    Marie-Louise Hall

    Lallie Ross had lost everything in life, except her dignity... Now, with her parents and her fortune gone, she thought life couldn't possibly get any worse for her and her younger sister -- until Major Alex Haldane reappeared from the dead! Stunn...

  • Kongi and Potgi: A Cinderella Story from Korea

    Oki S. Han

  • It Takes Two

    Maeve Haran

    Top divorce lawyer Tess Brien knows how messy and destructive courtroom battles can be, but she finds herself confronting the same realities as her hapless clients when her husband Stephen abandons his career to pursue a lifelong dream, sending famil...

  • Dead over Heels

    Charlaine Harris

    IF THE SHOE FITS... A man's body plummets from a low-flying plane onto the freshly mowed lawn of Aurora "Roe" Teagarden. When the corpse embedded in her backyard is identified as Detective Jack Burns of the Lawrenceton, Georgia, police...

  • A Man from Oklahoma

    Lisa Harris (1)

    PLAYING WITH FIRE Jake Good Thunder--Undercover vice cop. Half Cheyenne, half Irish, he's 100 percent rogue. Julie Fitzjames--Intelligent, gorgeous...and Jake's old flame. Jake and Julie had once shared an explosive relationship back in Okla...

  • Man Without Medicine

    Cynthia Haseloff

    WesternLarge Print EditionOne of the great Plains warriors, Daha-hen is now fifty-three and raising horses on the edge of the Kiowan reservation. When his cherished herd is run off by unscrupulous Texans, Daha-hen rides 75 miles in the wrong directio...

  • Kiss Me, Katie

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    SHE KNEW SHE DIDN'T NEED A MAN -- BUT WANTING ONE WAS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT. After years of working in Washington for the woman's suffrage movement, Katie Jones returns to her native Idaho, where women have the right to vote, but seldom...

  • Impulse

    Rick Hautala

    In the shadowy quiet of a secluded Maine house, a terrified woman goes to a box in the closet, and removes a gun… From the crime-ridden streets of New York City, a homicidal madman drives north, his mind beset by demons, his heart bursting with ha...

  • Sophie's Syllabub

    Sandra Heath
    in

    For your holiday pleasure, five star storytellers serve up their most delicious recipes for romance. MARY BALOGH tells of lost love found when a betrayed beauty and a jealous lord learn how hard it is to resist each other. SANDRA HEATH stirs up ember...

  • A Week 'til the Wedding

    Beth Henderson

    The good news: The man of your dreams is finally ready to tie the knot. The bad news: He's going to marry someone else. Brenda Burton has just one week to stop Fletch Layton from making the biggest mistake of his life. His witchy girlfriend...

  • Year in the City

    Kathy Henderson

  • Space Jam Digest

    Gail Herman

    Getting his pals Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Tweety, and Wile E. Coyote into a terrible fix, Bugs Bunny begs super athlete Michael Jordan to help them win a critical game against a crew of space creatures. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Ball Hog

    Hank Herman

    Jo Meyerson doesn't care that her annoying brother, Otto, sinks the most baskets for the rival Sampton Slashers. After all, she's on the Branford Bulls -- the team that crushed the Slashers in the last championship! But when Otto points out that she'...

  • Christmas Magic

    Patricia Hermes

    Unable to stay out of mischief during the holiday season, Katie Potts soon has everyone including her best friend mad at her, chooses her twin brother's name for the Secret Santa exchange, and wonders if Santa knows of her antics. Original....

  • Dead On Arrival

    Joan Hess
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...