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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1993

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  • Mad About Maggie

    Pepper Adams

    Mad about Daddy After twenty years of banishment from his son's life, Daniel Lucas had given up on fatherhood. Then he discovered he was a grandfather! Jenny Mayhew Lucas -- wife of the son he'd never known -- showed up with his adorable grandson ...

  • Flapstick!

    Jon Agee

    Slapstick humor and a flap-book format delightfully combine in an oversized, brightly colorful collection of ten rhyming riddles in which the riddle's last word is hidden under the artfully designed flap....

  • Haunting Christmas Tales

    Joan Aiken

    A terrific stocking stuffer, here is a collection of nine original, spooky Christmas tales--each a compelling page-turner--from bestselling writers including Newbery Medal-winner Joan Aiken....

  • Here Comes the Groom

    Trisha Alexander

    It had been four years since Kent Sorensen had been stood up at the altar -- and he was a wiser man for it! He no longer believed in happy endings and eternal love or in giving Allison Gabriel another crack at his heart. She'd jilted him once, an...

  • Dark Seductions

    Alice Alfonsi

    A compilation of thirteen chilling horror stories that explore the dark side of lust and love features selections by noted writers such as Dean Andersson, Tamara Thorne, Lois Tilton, Rick Hautala, and Richard Lee Byers. Original....

  • The Cowboy Next Door

    Jeanne Allan

    The Ferris Ranch, in the San Luis Valley, Colorado. Stacy Hailton - Once a calf-roping tomboy, now a big-city banker. Falling in love with Greg Ferris was her first mistake; marrying him was her second. Greg Ferris - Handsome. Easygoing. Impo...

  • Panda

    Judy Allen

  • Elephant

    Judy Allen

    When Hannah finds an old ivory necklace that had once belonged to her great-grandmother, she begins to experience strange dreams of hunted elephants and stolen ivory, and she decides to return the necklace to its original owners....

  • Haunted Spouse

    Heather Allison

    A man, a woman, and a haunted house. Normally, architect Jared Rutledge wouldn't be caught dead designing a haunted house -- he considered them "frivolous structures." But then he was asked to build one to raise funds for a physical r...

  • Pacifica: Tales from the South Sea

    Nadine Amadio

    Story-telling is one of the great enchantments of life. Pacifica: Myth, Magic and Traditional Wisdom from the South Sea Islands brings us the tales told by the people of the Pacific Islands. Stories of mystery, of everyday magic, and of the powering ...

  • Lost Magic

    Berthe Amoss

    Abandoned and then raised in the forest by the elderly woman who rescued her, Ceridwen uses her magical healing powers to help Lord Robert, only to find herself accused of witchcraft and braving evil powers to rescue the lord's daughter....

  • Obsessed

    Susan Andersen

    He is a serial rapist whose calling card is the broken heart he carves on each victim's chest. She is a Seattle emergency room doctor who has seen her share of brutality and bloodshed. Now Ivy Pennington is about to enter his terrifying world of mad...

  • Medicine Woman

    Lynn V. Andrews

    The first in the late Lynn Andrews’s widely popular and visionary Medicine Woman series, this book will encourage you to find your own sacred feminine power.Join Lynn V. Andrews in her pivotal book Medicine Woman, following her journey as an Americ...

  • Elf's Tale

    Michael Andrews

  • Warrior's Tale

    Michael Andrews

  • Wizard's Tale

    Michael Andrews

  • Thief's Tale

    Michael Andrews

  • Peace Is a Circle of Love

    Joan Walsh Anglund

    In her classic style of illustration, Anglund draws the children of the world working together, learning together, and playing together-celebrating their differences and their similarities.
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  • Silken Spurs

    Jane Archer

    As the leader of a notorious outlaw gang, beautiful Harmony Harper rode hard for justice and vengeance. Now, on the sprawling desert plains of New Mexico, the silken-masked desperado had captured the most magnificent prize of all. Powerful, privelege...

  • Every Autumn Comes the Bear

    Jim Arnosky

    Each autumn, just before the onset of winter, a bear shows up in the rugged woodland behind a family farm. Via his simple text and large-format watercolor paintings, author/illustrator Jim Arnosky depicts the change of seasons and the ritual of hiber...

  • Calypso's Island

    Rosalie Ash

    "Live life to the full..." Roman's philosophy was the exact opposite to Caroline's. He believed in enjoying everything that life had to offer, while she had always put safety first. But on the romantic island of Malta, encouraged by ...

  • The Positronic Man

    Isaac Asimov

    Andrew Martin, a standard housekeeping robot, allows the unique capabilities of his experimental brain to lead him to become an artist, businessman, and crusader, in a novel based on Asimov's short story, "The Bicentennial Man." 35,000 first printing...

  • Tears of Time

    Nancy Asire

    Prince Kahsir, a leader of the Krotanya, must decide whether to go against the strict rules of his people and use his mental powers to save them from the Leishoranya, or to follow his people's ethical standards and allow them to be destroyed...

  • The Passerby

    Liliane Atlan

  • The Robber Bride

    Margaret Atwood

    From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments -- one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia...

  • A Special Kind of Love

    Judy Baer

    Jennifer Golden's latest excitement is the party she's secretly planning for her parents' 30th anniversary, and she's got Lexi and the rest of the gang helping her make it a success. They've dug out old pictures, letters, and clippings to put into a ...

  • Taking Charge

    Carin Greenberg Baker

    Lee finds teaching karate at the local homeless shelter is not as easy as he thought--his brown belt notwithstanding--when his old enemy, Kevin Whitaker, is made his assistant and his pupils will not behave. Original....

  • Disney's the Little Mermaid Word Book

    Rita Balducci

  • The Egyptian Jukebox: A Conundrum

    Nick Bantock

    Containing a baffling mystery that reveals a connection between the ancient and contemporary worlds, an adult picture book offers a ten-drawer "cabinet" of colorful artifacts, each with its own eerie story. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo....

  • Ghosts

    John Banville

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a brilliantly haunting novel that forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely ly...

  • Kepler

    John Banville

    The Booker Prize"winning author of The Sea re-creates the life of the Renaissance mathematical genius Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Johannes Kepler, born in 1...

  • To Love a Stranger

    Elaine Barbieri

    TO TEMPT DANGEROUS DESTINY Forced by cruel fate into the life of a desperado, and headed for the untamed west, Lila Chesney was about to take part in a daring masquerade...and sell herself in unholy wedlock. TO TASTE FORBIDDEN PASSION But on th...

  • Lady Liza's Luck

    Anne Barbour

    A Lady of Affairs Lady Elizabeth Rushlake scandalized society with her unseemly behavior This beautiful young lady should have been seeking a proper mate in the marriage mart. Instead Lady Liza was pursuing wealth on the London stock exchange and ...

  • All the World's a Globe

    Patrick Barlow

  • Bewitching

    Jill Barnett

    She had bewitched the most serious, snobbish, and handsome Duke in England. Joyous MacQuarrie...the pixie-like, green-eyed beauty had appeared from nowhere and fell unashamedly into his arms. And all his society friends knew of the mysterious lady wa...

  • Chive

    Shelley A. Barre

  • Downtown Boy

    Laura Battanyi-Petose

    Secure and protected, suburban girl Alex learns much about the real world when she begins volunteer work at a daycare center, where she meets Russell, an unpredictable and irresistible boy from the streets. Original....

  • A Taste of Smoke

    Marion Dane Bauer

    Thirteen-year-old Caitlin is looking forward to this camping trip with her older sister. Pam's been away at college all year, and they have a lot to catch up on. But nothing goes the way Caitlin has planned.First, a young man, Alex, shows up at the c...

  • The Jaguar Princess

    Clare Bell

    FROM SLAVE TO DEMIGOD From the day young Mixcatl was stolen into slavery, she knew that she was special. Her people were descended from the ancient Olmec jaguar gods, and her secret heritage destined her for a life of high striving...and of danger. ...

  • Sunset Touch

    Cherie Bennett

    Sam feels pulled in three different directions when an amazing guy asks her to be his competitive dance partner, another guy from Disney World asks her out, and her steady, Pres, demands her fidelity. Original....

  • The Fall of the Perfect Girl

    Cherie Bennett

    Gorgeous Suzanne Elizabeth Wentworth Lafayette has everything a girl could want--good grades, a wonderful boyfriend, and a doting father--but a secret from her father's past threatens her happiness. Original....

  • Death Grip

    Jay Bennett

    Shane Lockwood is lucky and he knows it. He's only a teenager, but considered a talented violinist whom the world adores. At the end of a successful concert tour in Venice, however, someone steals his precious violin. Then he starts receiving menacin...

  • Life Without Alice

    Elizabeth Benning

    When her twin sister, Alice, is diagnosed with a brain tumor, Lily withdraws from her active school life and friends to spend every waking moment with her ill sibling, certain that she cannot face life without her. Original....

  • Storm Flight

    Mark Berent

    In Storm Flight, the intense conclusion to Berent’s Wings of War saga, the action is touched off by a daring raid on the Son Tay prisoner-of-war camp that reveals some startling information. With American prisoners in terrible jeopardy and crucial ...

  • Mel

    Liz Berry

  • Return Engagement

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Dalton Cameron knew what it was to live with pain -- he'd lost his family and all that had ever mattered to him. But in a small town called Comfort, Indiana, one precious memory still lingered in the air, a memory Dalton had almost forgotten...un...

  • Dark Champion

    Jo Beverley

    A DAMSEL'S PLIGHT Orphaned and in desperate need of help, Imogen of Carrisford flees when a brutal lord invades and takes possession of her castle. There is only one man she can turn to for help. A KNIGHT'S RESCUE He is FitzRoger of Cleeve,...

  • Suckers

    Anne Billson

    Anne Billson's debut novel is part horror story, part satire and has been praised by (among others) Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Carroll and Christopher Fowler, who in Time Out called it dark, sharp, chic and very funny. It's set at the end of the greed ...

  • Disney's Beauty and the Beast

    Betty G. Birney

  • Perfect Pom-Pom: Where Does It Belong?

    Roma Bishop

  • Tender Betrayal

    Rosanne Bittner

    BELOVED ENEMIES Beautiful proud Audra Brennan felt like a stranger in a foreign land when she came north from Louisiana to study music the summer she was seventeen. But when she savored her first forbidden taste of desire in the arms of handsome law...

  • The Witches Next Door

    J.R. Black

    Jennifer's parents have roped her into helping out the two elderly spinsters who live next door. But the fragile old ladies turn out to be powerful witches, and they want to turn Jennifer into one of their own!  ...

  • The Curse

    Cynthia Blair

    While Garth, the victim of an ancient spell, searches desperately for the key that will free him from his family's ancient secrets, Miranda eludes the secret admirer who is dogging her path. Original....

  • What Do Rock Stars Eat for Breakfast?

    Cynthia Blair

    After Betsy foolishly promises to persuade rock star Johnny Rainbow to appear in the upcoming school talent show, her troubles multiply when someone vandalizes the junior high and the Bubble Gum Gang is blamed. Original....

  • X,Y

    Michael Blumlein

    The world of Frankie, a stripper, is turned upside down when a mysterious fat man walks into her club and a siren goes off, and Frankie wakes up the next morning as a man. Original....

  • yStrange Blue Creature

    Paul Borovsky

  • Two Points for Murder // Two-Shot Foul

    D.B. Borton

    Suspicion is second nature to any woman who's raised three kids. So Cat Caliban figures she has what it takes to be Cincinatti's smartest snoop: an eye for evidence, a talent for spotting lies, the sharp wit of Erma Bombeck - and the detection skills...

  • Phantom's Caress

    Caroline Bourne
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    Caroline Bourne -- Phantom's Caress Kristina Hartman hasn't come to Louisana expecting to find romance. Until she meets a beguiling stranger who sweeps her into his arms -- only to vanish for the night. Though her heart tells her to beware, she c...

  • Darkover

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    A COLLECTION OF DARKOVER STORIES WRITTEN BY MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY HERSELF! Return to Darkover, planet of the Bloody Sun, with this collection written solely by the originator of this exotic world, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and including two entirely ...

  • McLain's Law

    Kylie Brant

    DREAMING OF CHILDREN. Missing children. Kept captive in a dark room with no one to help them. No one but Michele Easton, whose dreams were becoming more and more urgent, until she had no choice but to go to the police with what she mysteriously kn...

  • Carnival of Love

    Paige Brantley

    When a handsome soldier hiding in the tall grass kidnaps lovely Tess Shaw, the miller's granddaughter embarks on an adventure with the bold knight on a secret mission to save the English throne. Original....

  • The Bride Came C.O.D.

    Barbara Bretton

    WIFE WANTED NO ROMANCE NECESSARY APPLY BOX 6757 NOWHERE ALASKA Kiel Brown could no longer allow the meddling townsfolk of Nowhere, Alaska, to try to find him a wife. He'd already seen more than his share of casserole-carrying bachelorettes. But ...

  • The Ghost and Mrs. Jeffries

    Emily Brightwell

    A VISION OF DEATH At the seance, Mrs. Hodges was a bit taken aback by the medium's dire prediction. But she soon dismissed it as stuff and nonsense. After all, she was a woman who knew her own mind-and minded everyone else's business. But that very ...

  • Drawing Blood

    Poppy Z. Brite

    BLOODLINES In the house on Violin Road he found the bodies of his brother, his mother, and the man who killed them both-his father. From the house on Violin Road, in Missing Mile, North Carolina, Trevor McGee ran for his sanity and his soul, after...

  • Brothers in Blood

    D.C. Brod

    Jubal and Brig Tanner are brothers who have been feuding for years. When Brig's young girlfriend is killed, most figure the bullet was meant for Brig and the shooter was Jubal. Jubal hires a very reluctant Quint McCauley, who finds himself mired in t...

  • And the Bride Wore Black

    Helen Brooks

    Wedding vows were meant to be kept! There was an old story about the Cade men; they only love once....but when they do, it's for eternity! But where did that leave an ordinary working girl like Fabia Grant? Alex Cade had made it clear tha...

  • Gambler's Luck

    H.B. Broome

  • On the Pampas

    Maraia Cristina Brusca

  • Not-Too-Sweet Trick or Treat

    Nola Buck

    A safe and practical alternative to Halloween candy offers eight different, illustrated minibooks full of holiday poems, jokes, tongue twisters, puzzles, and games, all packaged together in a plastic bag with a cardboard header....

  • Beloved Knight

    Mallory Burgess

    THEY SHARED A LOVE A DANGEROUS AS THE TURBULENT TIMES THEY LIVED IN! He was a French-born warrior-knight, magnificent in battle, now forced by papal decree into a life of cruel exile. She was a convent-raised English beauty, desperate to escape...

  • Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present

    John Burningham

    Late on Christmas Eve, after returning home from his rounds, Santa Claus realizes that he has forgotten to deliver Harvey Slumfenburger's gift and sets out on the long journey to Harvey's hut. By the author of Aldo. ...

  • Tim Burton's Nightmare before Christmas

    Tim Burton

    In conjunction with the animated feature film due to be released in October 1993, this flip book tells the story of the skeleton from Halloweentown who discovers the wonderful land of Christmastown. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • McMummy

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    This is no ordinary plant... When Mozie agreed to take care of the professor's greenhouse, he never dreamed he'd be haunted by one of the plants. But ever since he discovered the weird mummy-shaped, human-sized pod, Mozie's felt a strange connecti...

  • Jefferson

    Max Byrd

    As he did with Presidents Jackson and Grant in those magnificent novels, Max Byrd now reveals Thomas Jefferson as we’ve never seen before. Byrd transports us to 1784, as Jefferson, the newly appointed American ambassador to the court of Louis XVI a...

  • Death in a Far Country

    Sheila Macgill Callahan

    Brian Donodio is a retired history teacher whose life is less than thrilling, until his curiosity and conscience lead him on a wild chase for a murderer that starts in Manhattan and finishes in County Donegal, Ireland....

  • The Seed and the Vision

    Eleanor Cameron

  • The Thunder Rolls

    Bethany Campbell

    FOURTH OF JULY -- TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. FIREWORKS! Ken Slattery, foreman at the Double ...

  • Proof Positive

    Sandra Canfield

    From the moment the beautiful blonde entered his detective agency and announced she had no idea who she was, Mitchell Brody felt as if he'd been hurled in the middle of a Mickey Spillane mystery... The dame, a looker, if ever he's seen one, was c...

  • Saints

    Orson Scott Card

    HARD TIMES MAKE HARD PEOPLE When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leaving in the middle of the night, she asked when he would he back. "Soon:' he said. On that night in 1829, John Kirkham built the foundation of his daughter's certainty t...

  • Disney Pop-Up Book of Actions

    Jose Cardona

  • Disney's Pop-Up Book of Things That Go

    Jose Cardona

  • Descent

    Diane Carey

    The Borg are back -- and nastier than ever. No longer mindless, inhuman drones but cyborg soldiers on a mission to assimilate all intelligent life, their new goal is the complete destruction of the Federation. And in the midst of facing the Borg agai...

  • The Great Starship Race

    Diane Carey

    When a freindly, alien people called the Rey make contact with the Federation, they are thrilled to learn the galaxy has a large number of intelligent races. To bring the myriad cultures to their world, the Rey host a celebration -- inviting spacefar...

  • Lawless

    Emily Carmichael

    Mackenzie Leigh Butler had left Boston seeking magic and adventure in the wild Arizona Territory. She found both in California Smith. A white man raised as an Apache, Cal was a loner who trusted no one, fit in nowhere, and cared for nobody until Mack...

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Jan Carr

  • Nebraska Crossing

    Franklin Carter

  • A New House for the Morrisons

    Penny Carter

  • Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    Carla Cassidy
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    Darlene Taylor arrived at the secluded inn on the Maine coast for a vacation, but something was wrong from the moment she checked in. Everyone she met seemed to watch her intently, knowingly ... including handsome Quintin Marshall. Darlene wanted to ...

  • Lover's Cove

    Jo Anne Cassity

    ALL THE ROMANCE AND BEAUTY OF AMERICA'S GREAT LAKES...CAPTIVATING NOVELS OF LOVE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET... ELIZABETH She tried hard to be the conventional daughter her minister father expected her to be. But her restless heart could not settle...

  • Swords and Scimitars

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

  • Outback

    Joy Chambers

    A land of thriving boomtowns, flourishing farmlands, and a notorious penal colony... A land of excitement, promise, and danger... Eve Herman had faced hardship ever since her father had brought her from America to Sydney town, where his death had ...

  • Tapestry

    Sally Cheney

    Clothed In Mystery After rescuing her from a carriage and fishing her from a stream, Vincent Chesterton decided Dandre Collin had a knack for disaster. And he wanted to protect her. But his secret life had to come first .... The bluest eyes Dan...

  • Who Am I?

    Nancy Christensen

  • Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men

    Chris Claremont

    Marc Silvestri's uncanny legacy as an X-Men artist begins here! The artist who would define a new era of mutant drama kicks things off with the X-MEN VS. AVENGERS limited series, in which Magneto is summoned to trial for crimes against humanity. Can ...

  • Across the Blue Mountains

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Miss Bilberry just can’t help wondering whether she might be happier if she lived on the other side of the mountains. So, with her cat, Chester, her dog, Cecilie, and her two birds, Chitty and Chatty, at her side, and all her worldly possessions in...

  • Dangerous Desires

    Louise Clark

    Indebted to a handsome stranger for her very survival, young Stephanie de la Riviere was miserable, homesick, and determined to do whatever it took to see her beloved father again... from selling the family jewels to masquerading as a highwayman, Ste...

  • Three Wishes

    Lucille Clifton

  • Count the Days till Christmas

    Maryann Cocca-Leffler

    More than fifty stickers and a pull-out countdown calendar accompany a text that follows a family's day-to-day preparations for Christmas--shopping for a tree, writing to Santa, and caroling around the neighborhood. Original....

  • Illustrated Encyclopedia of Arthurian Legends

    Ronan Coghlan

    For more than 500 years, the epic adventures of King Arthur and his knights have been one of the most potent forces in English literature. This lavishly illustrated volume examines all the different strands of the Arthurian myth, bringing together a ...

  • The Far Kingdoms

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    "A thoughtful and well-crafted epic fantasy."
    PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
    Young, pampered Amalric Antero cared only for real places and possible dreams. But then he met Janos Greycloak, a dashing soldier who dabbled in forbidden magic and who carried, hi...

  • Have I Got Dogs!

    William Cole

  • Tub Grandfather

    Pam Conrad

  • The Slicing Edge of Death

    Judith Cook

    In the tumultuous world of Elizabethan theater, Shakespeare's contemporary Christopher Marlowe is notorious. Recklessly wayward, the dazzling author of plays both blasphemous and scandalous, he is also a member of Sir Walter Raleigh's secret society,...

  • Freshman Temptation

    Linda A. Cooney

    Josh finds comfort in Fredi's arms-- just as Winnie decides to go back to him. Together again, Lauren and Dash head off for the ultimate romantic camping trip. But are they ready to go au naturel? Stephanie reveals a shocking truth about her ni...

  • The Room

    Vincent Courtney

    While wandering down a back staircase at the Night Owl Club, teenage prankster Harold "Funny Bone" Fenimore stumbles upon a secret room of teen partiers, and soon he becomes obsessed with The Room. Original....

  • Strange Are the Ways

    Teresa Crane

    It is winter, 1908, and the Shalakov family, with high hopes, are on the move from Moscow to St Petersburg, a city of gaiety, wealth and secret political activity. Anna, the oldest daughter, is a gifted musician. Fascinated by her uncle's skills as a...

  • Dawn Song

    Sara Craven

    False pretenses It was an auspicious and fateful beginning -- tossed into the arms of Jerome Moncourt by a violent storm that opened the flood gates to Meg's own raging torment of desire and deception. For Meg's visit to the glorious so...

  • Keeping Secrets

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Dark obsession He'd become transfixed with her, watching her day after day. He'd become obsessed with her haunting violet eyes. More than anything, reporter Sean Reston wanted to believe that Kate Danvers was innocent of the charge of m...

  • Enchantress

    Susan Lynn Crose

    THE DREAM...With her raven hair tossed by the gale that shrieked over Wales from the north, Margana shivered violently as she saw the vision that had come to her. Now she was certain a dark rider would bring death to her ancestral home at Tower Wenlo...

  • Manhunting

    Jennifer Crusie

    FEMME FATALE Kate Svenson knew exactly what she wanted in a man -- he had to be tall, handsome, distinguished and, most of all, successful. So she went on a serious manhunting excursion at a singles resort, bound and determined to hunt down Mr. Righ...

  • Crossed Hearts

    Monette Cummings

    SECRET LIFE When Jonathan Murray promised to look in on the younger siblings of an old army friend, the former soldier never imagined that the household would include one outrageously behaved beauty! Not only had he seen the bewitching, blue-eyed vi...

  • Anne Is Elegant

    Mary Louise Cuneo

  • On the Edge

    Marilyn Cunningham

    HE WAS LIKE AN AVENGING ANGEL A powerful aura -- raw, masculine, dangerous -- pulsed around Luke Talbot. Lauren Carlyle was almost mesmerized, feeling it pounding in her own blood as she approached him. Nothing about him said "safe." Nothi...

  • Help Wanted

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    All Robin wants is a part-time job. A friend has invited her on a Florida vacation that promises to be the trip of a lifetime, and Robin needs money for airfare. The ad on the school bulletin board is irresistible: “Get Rich Quick,” it promises, ...

  • The More the Merrier

    Ruth Jean Dale
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    It's a time that brings friends, families and lovers together -- and it's a time that can tear them apart... She's planning to ask her husband for a divorce -- during Thanksgiving dinner! A private dinner, for two ... But as things tur...

  • All the Time We Need

    Megan Daniel

    A MODERN-DAY SCARLETT Amid the whirl of Mardi Gras, musical agent Charli Stewart plunged into the turbulent Mississippi and was borne against time and tide to the finest bordello antebellum New Orleans could offer. AN OLD-FASHIONED RIIETT A weal...

  • Goldmine

    Philip Daniels

    Edward Walton is released from prison, seeking revenge against the partner who had framed him and stolen his wife, while a man known as ""the major"" proposes a risky scheme that promises vengeance and untold millions of dollars....

  • The Last Grand Passion

    Emma Darcy

    Love with a stranger When Thady Riordan walked out of her life to pursue his career on the other side of the world, he cut off all ties -- all communication -- with Anne for seven years. Now Thady was back -- offering to share his home, his bod...

  • Time and Chance

    Gwen Davenport

    As Queen Victoria ascends the British throne, twins are born at Wrox Hall, presided over by the matriarchal Maria Wrox-Hampden, beginning a series of momentous changes involving gypsies, a ghost, and a ruined woman. 20,000 first printing....

  • Line of Fire

    Peter David

    Mysterious space raiders are threatening the joint Federation-Klingon colony on the remote planet of Dantar. Worf and his fellow cadets - Zak, Tania, Soleta and Mark - have accompanied their teacher to observe the negotiation process, but find themse...

  • Surprise Party

    Nicole Davidson

  • The Santa Fe Rembrandt

    Cecil Dawkins

    When a priceless Rembrandt disappears and a Remington sculpture is used as a deadly weapon, Ginevera Prettifield, the assistant director of Santa Fe's Waldheimer Museum, wants some answers. But a self-respecting, part-Sioux feminist with a crush on h...

  • Devil's Guns

    Clay Dawson

  • A Bed of Roses

    Elyn Day

    Though his pretty new patient wore shades, a scowl and an inch-thick attitude, physical therapist Michael Gordon knew that Dana Whitaker was hurting from more than external injuries. There was something beneath the surface, something that had Michael...

  • The Rescue of Babar

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • Celebrating the Hero

    Lyll Becerra de Jenkins

    Camilia Draper, an American teenager still feeling guilt and loss about her mother's death, travels to her mother's birthplace in Colombia for a ceremony celebrating her famous grandfather, about whom she will learn some disquieting and revelatory fa...

  • The Pickle Song

    Barthe DeClements

    When Paula tries to help her new friend Sukey, she realizes that Sukey's family is in a desperate situation and learns important lessons about friendship. By the author of The Fourth Grade Wizards. ...

  • The Little Christmas Soldier

    Thierry Dedieu

    Once a year, the little wooden soldier speaks and tells the other toys about a bitter cold Christmas Eve long ago when he rekindled the fire with his body so that the family would not freeze during the night....

  • Cassie's Last Goodbye

    Shawna Delacorte

    HANDSOME BUT HOMELESS... When a down-on-his-luck drifter appeared on Cassie Brockton's doorstep, willing to work for just room and board, Cassie decided to give the guy a chance. Sexy, dynamic, hardworking, Trent Nichols had soon charmed the socks...

  • Pee Wees on Skis

    Judy Delton

    It's wintertime. Time for the Pee Wees to head for the slopes--the bunny slopes. How do you start? How do you stop? The Pee Wees have lots of questions to ask about skiing. But the Pee Wees' biggest question comes when a snowstorm leaves them strande...

  • Moon Soup

    Lisa Desimini

  • Larissa

    Emily Devenport

    HOOK A mean, backwater mining planet where the alien Q'rin rule. Taking the wrong side can get you killed and humans have little hope for escape. LARISSA A young woman with a talent for sports...and knives. She's beating the aliens at their own ...

  • Beauty and the Beastmaster

    Carol Devine

    "WHAT AM I DOING HERE?" That's what lady lawyer Amanda Tarkenton wondered as she sat with rabid hordes of wrestling fans around her. They were there to see the Beastmaster, but Amanda wanted nothing to do with these uncouth fanatics, and she certa...

  • Tender Triumph

    Dianna Devlin

    A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER Liza worked hard at the boardinghouse to keep her family together: That was more important than having fun... A CAREFREE DRIFTER A gambler on the road, Tanner called no place home --until fate brought the handsome wandering mu...

  • Lafitte, the Pirate

    Ariane Dewey

  • Gib Morgan, Oilman

    Ariane Dewey

  • Shadow of the Storm

    Debra Dier

    THE PASSION He was her dashing childhood hero, the man to whom she'd willingly surrendered her innocence in a night of blazing ecstasy. But when Ian Tremayne cruelly abandoned her after a bitter misunderstanding, Sabrina O'Neill vowed revenge on the...

  • Final Answers

    Greg Dinallo

    Greg Dinallo, the heralded author of Rockets’ Red Glare and Purpose of Evasion, has written his most chilling and disturbing thriller yet: A novel of intrigue that explores the emotionally charged issue of Vietnam War MIAs. ...

  • Dead of Night

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Survive! Could You?

    Judy Donnelly

  • Working Men

    Michael Dorris

    The celebrated author of the bestselling A Yellow Raft in Blue Water dazzles readers once again with his newest work of fiction, a collection of 14 beautifully crafted short stories, each one about a working man. 50,000 sold in hardcover. "First rate...

  • Sea of Temptation

    Christine Dorsey

    Outraged at the injustices of war, spirited New York heiress Felicity Wentworth had done the unthinkable: stolen behind enemy lines to attempt a daring rescue of a runaway slave's children. Now only one man could help her complete her mission -- ...

  • Bad Blood

    Debra Doyle

  • One Little Miracle

    Shannon Drake
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    En route to an unwanted wedding across the sea, a noble French beauty's fervent prayer for a Christmas miracle is answered -- when she is abducted by a bold and breathtakingly virile pirate......

  • Lucky on the Loose

    Betsy Duffey

    Thinking his owner has deserted him, Lucky escapes from the kennel, and it is up to George, stuck at baseball camp in the middle of nowhere, to find his beloved dog. By the author of Lucky in Left Field. ...

  • Radical Red

    James Duffy

  • Ginnie Come Lately

    Carola Dunn

    IT WAS WAR! When Justin, Lord Amis, returned from abroad, he learned that his father had married a penniless widow in his absence, and inherited her unruly brood of children, to boot! Justin was determined to expose the family for what they were -...

  • Westward with Columbus

    John Dyson

  • The Sharing Spoon

    Kathleen Eagle
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    It's a time that brings friends, families and lovers together -- and it's a time that can tear them apart... She's "society," from a wealthy family. He's Indian -- Lakota Sioux -- a man whose family is wealthy in ways that ...

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Margaret Early

    A retelling of the classic fairy tale features illustrations that evoke the tale's seventeenth-century origins and are inspired by the Loire Valley, where Charles Perrault originally set the story of Sleeping Beauty....

  • Parents in the Pigpen, Pigs in the Tub

    Amy Ehrlich

  • The Bright Face of Danger

    Winslow Eliot

    "One man wants to love her. One man wants to silence her. How long can she hide the shattering secret that puts her life in danger? In the peaceful New England countryside, a shot rings out... and a pretty farm girl disappears with a scandalous secre...

  • Lone Star and the Great Pilgrim Heist

    Wesley Ellis

    When Jessie and Ki meet a mysterious minister, it's more than their souls that'll need saving!Leading Reverend Henry Abrams and his flock across desolate prairie, Jessie and Ki must fight off ambushes, and they soon discover that Abrams is in possess...

  • Rudy

    James Ellison

  • This Other Eden

    Ben Elton

    SMALL, WELL APPOINTED FUTURE. SEMI DETACHED.If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to make alternative arrangements. Certainly the Earth has its points, but what most people need is something smaller and more manageable. Of c...

  • Bloody Winter

    Roger Elwood

    Code Name Bloody Winter: A Novel (Oss Chronicles) by Roger Elwood...

  • Girl Who Changed the World

    Delia Ephron

  • Zero Coupon

    Paul E. Erdman

  • The Case of the Vampire Cat

    John R. Erickson

    When Hank, Slim, Drover, and Little Alfred head over to the Hodge’s place to feed the cattle, Hank encounters the weirdest cat he’s ever seen. Then, when Hank gets bumped out of the back of the Cammo-Stealth army truck, Mary D. Cat is the only on...

  • The Gift of Story

    Clarissa Pinkola Estes

    In this enchanting book, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES shares several small stories that, like Matriochka dolls, fit inside one another. Taken together, they are a moving testament to the enduring legacy of stori...

  • Naomi's Geese

    Sanford Evans

  • Longarm and the Golden Death

    Tabor Evans

  • Blood Kin

    Elizabeth Fackler


    Young Johanna Devery is ordered to marry the man who brutally raped her. When she refuses, her stepfather chattels her into his El Paso brothel.

    Disguised as a boy, she escapes, feeing El Paso forever. Until she meets Seth Strummar. A hire...

  • Family Album

    Kaffe Fassett

  • Lovespell

    Colleen Faulkner
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    Colleen Faulkner -- Lovespell Cursed by a run of bad luck that casts him adrift in colonial Virginia, Scotsman Rob Cameron loses his ship...only to gain two motherless orphans. At his wits end, he weds -- in name only -- a woman rumored to be...

  • Death Wears a Crown

    Quinn Fawcett

    L'AMOUR ... OR LA MORT?While on a sensitive mission for her husband, the Inspector General, lovely Victoire Vernet inadvertently stumbles upon a traitorous cabal.Not everyone in France revels in the triumphs of her adored hero, Napoleon Bonaparte.Rum...

  • Dead in the Water

    Connie Feddersen

    She's got Las Vegas legs, but she's had it with life in the fast lane. She's Amanda Hazard--savvy CPA and amateur sleuth--and she's about to stir up a tornado of trouble in the Oklahoma boondocks! "If you like it country-style, then Vamoose," rea...

  • The Man In The Ceiling

    Jules Feiffer

    Jimmy has one thing going for him. Though he's no good at sports and not much better in school, he can draw. Which is what he does. Day and night. Comic books. Jimmy's dream is to be a great cartoonist someday, even greater than Walt Disney. Father t...

  • Choices

    Marie Ferrarella

    Her Heart Has Room For Everyone But Him Reid Kincannon is captivated by the sad, mysterious woman sitting alone on a beach in the Bahamas. But Shanna Brady is a senator's daughter, and Reid has no time for the sort of wealthy spoiled woman he expe...

  • Moonlight Lover

    Marie Ferrarella

    AN UNFORGIVING HEART In the bitter wake of devastating tragedy, Rachel O'Roarke and her brother had fled Ireland to seek refuge on the shores of Colonial America. But Rachel could never forget how the British had destroyed her family, and knew she'd...

  • She Got Her Man

    Marie Ferrarella

    For a cold place, Grateful Bend was showing photojournalist Judy Treherne a pretty warm welcome. Everybody in the little Arctic town was very friendly -- everybody, that is, except Paul Monroe, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer she would be f...

  • My Timeswept Heart

    Amy J. Fetzer

    A SENSUAL SPRITE SPRUNG FROM THE SEA Street-smart, Olympic-trained gymnast Tess Renfrew was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Pursued by a gang of hoods, forced to choose between a bullet and a watery death, she leapt over the rail of ...

  • First Light

    Harold Fickett

  • The Sun, the Moon, and the Silver Baboon

    Susan Field

  • Instant Fire

    Liz Fielding

    She loved him -- with all her heart But that didn't mean Joanna could stay married to Clay Thackeray. Joanna was a civil engineer who enjoyed the challenges of her job -- she hadn't known that Clay wanted a truly traditional wife when...

  • The Christmas Journey

    Sally Fisher

  • I Know Everything about John and He Knows Everything about Me

    Louise Fitzhugh

  • Texas Tramp

    Dirk Fletcher

    While in Texas, Spur McCoy gets more than he bargains for when he rescues a state senator's daughter, a feisty little filly named Penny, from the clutches of a band of bloodthirsty Comanche warriors. Original....

  • Dinosaurs And All That Rubbish

    Michael Foreman

    Dinosaurs have taken over the Earth! They're stomping and stamping all over the place. Young readers will love finding out why in this classic environmental tale from best-selling author/illustrator Michael Foreman. A fable for our time, and as relev...

  • The Sheriff of Devil's Fork

    Regan Forest

    SHOWDOWN AT DEVIL'S FORK Sheriff Jake MacGuire--Determined, tormented, lonely. He held himself responsible for his wife's death. Law and order was his creed--not romance. Dana French--The beautiful photographer had no idea what she was in for w...

  • Decider

    Dick Francis

    New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis presents his thrilling new novel: the story of architect Lee Morris who inherits a partial ownership in the Stratton Park racecourse--and with it, a dangerous position among the warring upper-class famil...

  • Blood Pact

    Debra Franklin

    DEADLY BLUFF When Jamie Fox and her friends learn the abandoned train depot where they hang out is about to be demolished, they decide to take action. Forming a “suicide” pact, they sign their names in blood, vowing to kill themselves to keep ...

  • Billy

    Albert French

    Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who is convicted and executed for murdering a white girl in Banes County, Mississippi, in 1937. Constructed in a series of powerful...

  • Gifts of the Heart

    Judith E. French
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    A distraught Tidewater wife facing the devastating prospect of a Christmas alone is strengthened by romantic remembrances of Yuletides past -- and by an impossible dream of a family reunited......

  • Fortune's Flame

    Judith E. French

    Criminal, carouser, pirate and adventurer, Kincaid is the man Lady Elizabeth Lacy Bennett has been searching for -- an ideal guide to a lost, ancient treasure that could save her Maryland plantation from financial ruin. But Bess fears it may be madne...

  • Short Circuits

    Donald R. Gallo

    This collection of chilling tales features selections by noted writers such as Joan Aiken, Vivien Alcock, Elsa Marston, Jane McFann, Frances A. Miller, and Joan Lowery Nixon. Reprint. SLJ. K. PW. ...

  • The Gilded Lion

    Kit Gardner

    What She Didn't Know About Her Husband... Celinaire Tremaine had married a kindly invalid. But when her husband ignited a passion hotter than flame within her, she began to wonder about the man she'd come to love. As a former spy, Kristoffe Wil...

  • Shadow of the Dragon

    Sherry Garland

    Sixteen-year-old Danny Vo is enmeshed in two worlds -- his Houston high school and his Vietnamese home life. He’s finally caught the eye of beautiful blond Tiffany Marie, only to find out that her brother is a white supremacist. And his life gets e...

  • Dirk's Revenge

    Paul Garrisen

  • The Big Book for Our Planet

    Jean Craighead George

    In an all-star salute to the Earth, Lois Lowry, Paul O. Zelinsky, and other distinguished and celebrated children's book authors share their insights about nature. A portion of the proceeds will benefit environmental organizations....

  • Golden Windows

    Adele Geras

    Between the years 1910 and 1954, the Genzel children face major decisions and turning points in their lives as they grow up and find their fates and lives intertwined with the ancient city of Jerusalem...

  • Write Up a Storm With the Polk Street School

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Did you ever want to write your own book? Now is your chance. Patricia Reilly Giff, author of the Kids Of The Polk Street School books, tells you just what to do. She shows you the steps she uses to write great stories like "The Beast in Ms. Rooney's...

  • Sheer Delight

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    MATT - -Bold, Confident, a Brash Maverick in a Three-Piece Suit... He'd been caught looking -- and touching -- the silky lingerie on display in the sweet-scented boutique, but when Matt Fiedler discovered he'd stumbled into Dee Farris's ...

  • Lifetime Guarantee: Aren't You Glad, You're Still Under Warranty?

    Bill Gillham

    You've tried fixing your marriage, your kids, your job. Suddenly the light dawns. It's not your problems that need to be fixed-it's your life! The good news is that God doesn't ask you to live your life for Christ, but to let Him live His life throug...

  • McKinney High, 1946

    Ken Gire

  • Angie and the Ghostbuster

    Theresa Gladden

    GABRIEL -- His Eyes Made Sizzling Promises His Lips Vowed to Keep... Drawn to the old house by an intriguing letter and a shocking vivid dream, Dr. Gabriel Richards came in search of a tormented ghost -- but instead found a sassy blonde with dr...

  • While I Am Little

    Heidi Goennel

  • Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty

    Golden Books

  • The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts

    John Gordon

  • Jumper

    Steven Gould

    WHAT IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE? Where would you go? What would you do? David Rice can teleport. To survive, David must learn to use his power in a world that is more threatening and complex than he ever imagined...