Books Published in October 1993

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1993

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New Books List: 654 titles

  • Zimzum

    Gordon Lish

    The narrator, a quintessential New Yorker, is barely able to hold on to his sanity as it is daily challenged by his wife, his parents in their nursing home, and the people he encounters in everyday life...

  • Zero Coupon

    Paul E. Erdman

  • yStrange Blue Creature

    Paul Borovsky

  • Yesterday's Secrets

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    Losing Custody Of Her Own Children! Just the thought was enough to make Shannon Stewart turn pale. But it wasn't just a thought - it was actually happening. With the entire Southlakes community behind him, Shannon's ex-husband had the clout to pu...

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1993

    Edward D. Hoch

    An annual anthology of outstanding mystery and suspense short fiction encompasses works by Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Lovesey, Benjamin M. Schutz, Max Allan Collins, and other notable masters of the genre....

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 21

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • 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....

  • Wyoming Justice

    J.R. Roberts

    The railroad is coming to the West -- and every swindler and scalawag in the Wyoming Territory is out to make hay while the sun shines. But when they kill one of the Gunsmith's friends and shoot up another, it's time for him to take a stand. What ...

  • 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...

  • The Worthy Wonders Lost at Sea

    Joy Linscott

  • 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...

  • The Woods Out Back

    R.A. Salvatore

    IF THE ARMOR FITS... Gary Leger thought life after college would bring great things. Instead, he's stuck in a dead-end job and finding that the real world isn't all it's cracked up to be. But when he walks into the woods behind his house one da...

  • A Wolf Story

    James Byron Huggins

    This tale of savage conflict and enduring faith tells of a wolf's passion to overcome evil, and the battle for victory in the deep woods. The encroaching powers of the Dark Council call for courage and determination as never before among the follower...

  • Wizard's Tale

    Michael Andrews

  • A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic

    Michael Stearns

    In this collection of short stories, some of the characters you’ll meet include a werewolf princess, a clan of Sea Giants, a feisty king’s daughter known as The Princess Who Kicked Butt, and a fairy child kidnapped by ants. Contributors include B...

  • The Wizard of Ambermere

    J. Calvin Pierce

    When a pack of pixies attach themselves to Borphis, the demon from hell who has followed Marcia back from Ambermere and taken up residence in her house, Marcia must find someone to show her how to protect herself with magic. Original....

  • Within the Bounds

    Marc Lodge

    Cliff Nielson, an aspiring young attorney with a prestigious southern law firm, is torn between ambition and conscience when the firm, led by senior partner Lewis Sherwood, takes on the defense of a man accused of a series of brutal, psychopathic kil...

  • 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 Wish

    Diane Hoh

    Be careful what you wish for . . . “Wishes granted, fortunes told,”promises the sign on the booth at the back of the campus pizza place. Inside the booth sits a mechanical fortune-teller called the Wizard. His cold glass eyes give Alexand...

  • Winter Wonderland

    Dick Smith

  • Winners and Losers

    Stephen Hoffius

    When a heart condition threatens to curtail his friend Daryl's track career, Curt finds himself taking Daryl's place as lead contender for the conference championship and as the new obsession of Daryl's driven father...

  • The Wildest Show on Earth

    Francine Hughes

  • Wildcat Screaming

    Mudrooroo Narogin

    'Well, I can dream can't I? Dream? - nightmares, more like it. All I have to do is dream, dream, dream, scream... I'm now walking through this posh suburb, walking? - more like slinking. Wildcat on the prowl. Naw, though maybe checking out the street...

  • Wildcat

    Sharon Ihle

    SUGAR AND SPICE In searching for her sister Martha, lovely Ann Marie Cannary found a crude mining town, a run-down cabin, and a fiercely independent creature known as Calamity Jane. Annie had no sooner stepped through the door when she as swept in...

  • Wild Thing

    Bonnie Pega

    PATRICK--Drop-Dead Gorgeous, a Man Who Could Solve All Her Mysteries... He knew he'd had a concussion, but was the woman Patrick Brady saw only a hazy fantasy, or delectable flesh and blood? Dizzy as he was, he wanted to wind his fingers through ...

  • Why the Possum's Tail Is Bare and Other Classic Southern Stories

    Jimmy Neil Smith

  • Why Count Sheep? a Bedtime Book

    Karen Wallace

  • Who's Getting Ready for Christmas?

    Maggie Kneen

    Tiny windows scattered throughout a decorative gift book, reminiscent of an advent calendar, hide the surprises awaiting young readers on Christmas, while the pages show friendly forest animals decking the halls and a rhyming text describes the magic...

  • Who Am I?

    Nancy Christensen

  • The Whitechapel Horrors

    Edward B. Hanna

    The world’s greatest detective faces one of the history’s greatest monsters: the knife-wielding terror of Victorian London, Jack the Ripper   Grotesque murders are being committed on the streets of Whitechapel. Sherlock Holmes believes they ...

  • White Apache's Woman

    Shirl Henke

    An aristocrat by birth, an Apache by training, Red Eagle was a renegade by choice. Running from the past, he had no desire to become entangled with the haughty beauty who hired him to guide her across the treacherous Camino Real to Santa Fe. Elise...

  • While I Am Little

    Heidi Goennel

  • While England Sleeps

    David Leavitt

    Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young English writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic employee of the London Underground and member of the ...

  • When Will the Snow Trees Grow?

    Ben Shecter

  • When This Box Is Full

    Patricia Lillie

  • What's in the Cave?

    Peter Seymour

  • What's at the Beach?

    Peter Seymour

  • What Rhymes With Moon

    Jane Yolen

  • 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....

  • Westward with Columbus

    John Dyson

  • The Well-Favored Man: The Tale of the Sorcerer's Nephew

    Elizabeth Willey

  • The Wedding

    Francine Pascal

    Can romance save Sweet Valley? Lila Fowler finally has the family that she always wanted: a father and a mother who love her. And she can tell that despite their years apart, her parents still love each other. Now all Lila wants is to get them bac...

  • We're Back!: The Illustrated Story

    Justine Korman Fontes

    Four dinosaurs travel through time to take part in a zany crusade against evil on the streets of New York City, in a storybook based on the animated film adapted from Hudson Talbott's classic tale. Movie tie-in....

  • We're Back!

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Warrior's Tale

    Michael Andrews

  • Warrior

    William F. Wu

    Certain that its destruction is imminent, MC Governor, the largest and most intelligent experimental robot ever built, uses the Third Law of Robotics to break itself down into six smaller robots and scatter them throughout Earth's past. Original....

  • Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Counting Book

    Denise Lewis Patrick

  • Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty

    Golden Books

  • Voyage of the Fox Rider

    Dennis L. McKiernan

    IT BEGAN WITH A PYSK AND A PROMISE Mage Alamar was astounded by his unexpected visitor, a foot-tall woman riding a fox: the Lady Jinnarin, a Pysk, one of the legendary Hidden Ones, driven by both love and terror to Alamar's door. Her mate, Farrix,...

  • Voyage

    Sandi Patti

  • Voodoo Dreams

    Jewell Parker Rhodes

    The story of Marie Laveau, the character featured on American Horror Story: Coven.

    New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century: a potent mix of whites, Creoles, free blacks, and African slaves, a city pulsing with crowds, commerce, and an unde...

  • The Vision of Benjamin One Feather

    Paul A. Hawkins

  • Viking Flame

    Ashland Price

    SHE WAS A DELICATE IRISH BEAUTY When Meara MacEagan spied the Viking camp on the shores of her native Ireland, her heart quickened in fear. A haunting past experience had taught the Erse maiden how cruel the northern barbarians could be. So when a...

  • Valentine to a Flying Mouse

    Laura Hawkins

    February 14th is approaching, and the mailboxes in Mrs. Crandall's fouth-grade class are filling up with homemade cards. But one day, the students come in to discover that someone has stolen all the valentines. The third book in the Riverview series....

  • Up the Tracks to Grandma's

    Judy Hendershot

  • Up North in Winter

    Deborah Hartley

  • The Uninvited Guest and Other Jewish Holiday Tales

    Nina Jaffe

  • Uninvited Daughters

    Elinor Spielberg

    Odessa Levin is single, has sworn off family life, and has fled her Long Island roots for the rough-edged solace of northern Vermont. Working in an antique shop, she becomes happily obsessed with being an apprentice to a high priest of the carriage t...

  • The Unexpected Groom

    Muriel Jensen

    "I DID?" Charlotte Morreax thought nothing could be as bad as attending the engagement party of her ex-fiance and his new bride-to-be. But the day soon went from bad to worse. Her stepmother was chattering excitedly. Guests started asking Char...

  • Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat

    Eduard Uspenski

  • Uh-Oh! Said the Crow

    Joanne F. Oppenheim

  • 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...

  • Twilight Phantasies

    Maggie Shayne

    Innocent blood... In two centuries of living death, Eric Marquand had never once cried out against the cruel fate that had condemned him to walk forever in shadow. But then, he found the woman he knew was his chosen one - and understood that to po...

  • Twelve Sisters

    Leslie Beaton Hedley

  • Twelfth Night

    William Shakespeare

    A pair of twins are separated by a shipwreck, each believing the other has drowned. A lovesick duke woos a countess deep in mourning for her brother, while her rowdy household plots the downfall of her puritanical steward. Disguise, confusion, and mi...

  • Tunkashila

    Gerald Hausman

    The saga of native America, from creation through the Battle of Wounded Knee, is recreated in epic form incorporating dozens of stories and myths, complemented by illustrations by native American artists. By the author of Turtle Island Alphabet. ...

  • Tub Grandfather

    Pam Conrad

  • The Trouble With Andrew

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    THERE WERE TWO HURRICANE ANDREWS As Hurricane Andrew raged through Miami, single mother Katie Wells's "solidly built" house was destroyed. Cold and scared, she'd been too grateful for the handsome stranger who'd rescued her and her son to wonder w...

  • Trouble in Tombstone

    J.R. Roberts

    Ex-gunfighter Dallas Stoudenmire is now heir to a Texas border town that draws the dregs of the West like flies. In El Paso, being honest is a sure way to get yourself killed. And Dallas is smart enough to know that he needs help. But riding shotg...

  • Trouble

    Fay Weldon

    Annette Horrocks has every reason to be happy. She lives in a lovely London house with her devoted husband, Spicer; her first novel is about to be published; and after ten years of trying, she is finally pregnant. But Spicer is cruel and distant. He ...

  • The Triumphant Cat

    Marmaduke Skidmore

    An illustrated "cultural history" of the cat collects the prose and poetry observations of the ancient Egyptians, ancient Chinese, T. S. Eliot, and Paul Gallico, among others. By the author of Mousing Days in Old Japan. National ad/promo....

  • To the Ends of the Earth

    Paul Theroux

    “There are those who think that Paul Theroux is the finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only enhance that reputation.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewAuthor and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he t...

  • 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...

  • To Die in Babylon

    Harold Livingston

    A fictionalized account of the Persian Gulf War follows the adventures of a USAF Lieutenant Colonel who wants to make peace with himself and a helicopter pilot who must choose between her army career and the man she loves. Reprint....

  • To Catch a Ghost

    Day Leclaire

    Re-Issued as "Once Upon a Ghost" in 2012 A man, a woman -- and a ghost? "California Beauty Hits Pay Dirt with Family Spook." Famous ghost debunker Zach Kingston despised headline hunters, liars and cheats. And he wasn't ...

  • Timeless

    Kathleen Korbel
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    He was the man from her dreams, the man who begged her, "Don't die." But now he was very real and lying half-conscious in Genevieve Mallory's old ocean-side house. He said his name was Rafe, and that he'd been sent to save her. But Genevieve wasn't s...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Tigers & Dragons

    Jon Henderson

  • Thy Gold to Refine

    Gerald N. Lund

    In Thy Gold to Refine, volume 4 in the series The Work and the Glory, the story of the fictional Steed family enters one of the stormiest and yet most inspiring periods in Church history.

    Picking up where Volume 3 left off in the summer of ...

  • 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 ...

  • Thunder in the East

    Mike Roarke

    After their village is destroyed in an Indian massacre masterminded by the French, Sam Watley and his son, Thad--who made their livings as trappers--join the English troops during the French and Indian War. Original....

  • Thunder in the Dawn

    Earl Murray

    In the days leading up to the Battle of Rosebud Creek, reluctant Cavalry private Mason Hall saves the life of Ghostwind, a native American seer, and finds himself torn between her people and the people of his birth...

  • Three Wishes

    Lucille Clifton

  • The Three Dots

    Elise Primavera

  • Thomas' Carousel Book

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • 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...

  • Things Not Seen: and Other Stories

    Lynna Williams

  • Thin Ice

    Meg O'Brien

    Suspecting foul play when her sister's car takes a fatal plunge into the Potomac River, Nicole Ryan tries to learn the truth about a mysterious notebook her sister left behind and the scientific discovery that someone was desperate to conceal. Reprin...

  • Thief's Tale

    Michael Andrews

  • Theodore's Superheroes

    Alain Leonard

  • 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....

  • Terror in the Towers: Amazing Stories from the World Trade Center Disaster

    Adrian Kerson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tek Secret

    William Shatner

    Searching for the missing daughter of the world's wealthiest robotics industrialist, Jake Cardigan locates his target at the Mentor Psych Center where she has been brainwashed to prevent her from telling about a murderous plot. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tame the Wind

    Katherine Kilgore

    Lovely Felicity Forsyth knew what the people of Kings Crossing, Georgia, thought of their Cherokee neighbors: savages, each and every one of them. But in Felicity's eyes, Jonathan McGill was different. The half-breed son of a chief, Jonathan was educ...

  • 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....

  • Take a Chance on Love

    Victoria Leigh

    BIFF--Mysterious, Kind, and Exerting, a Man Who Defied the Odds... He could almost taste her skin and smell her exotic fragrance from across the casino floor, but Biff Fuller sensed that the bare-shouldered woman gambling with such abandon might b...

  • Swords and Scimitars

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

  • Sword in the Stone

    Catherine Storr

  • The Suspect in the Smoke

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy, Bess, and George are heading up the youth campaign to save the recently fire-gutted River Heights recreation center. Nancy suspects foul play and discovers missing insurance payments. Then someone begins sabatoging the fundraising and threaten...

  • Survive! Could You?

    Judy Donnelly

  • Surprise Party

    Nicole Davidson

  • 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 Sun, the Moon, and the Silver Baboon

    Susan Field

  • Sullivan's Miracle

    Lindsay Longford

    ENDLESS LOVE Sullivan Barnett had once been a hotshot reporter with a beautiful girlfriend. But the woman he'd loved had died--suddenly, tragically--and now Sullivan didn't care about anyone or anything. He didn't even care that his once-sharp nos...

  • Sudden Impulse

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    BEN--Powerful, Persistent, a Modern-Day Pirate Come to Claim His Woman... He'd imagined the sea goddess who created the vivid fabric designs, the passionate wanton who wove her fiery fantasies into the cloth of dreams, but when Ben Wyatt flew to ...

  • 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 ...

  • Strange Pilgrims

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver...

  • 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...

  • The Story of Lightning and Thunder

    Ashley Bryan

    From Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan comes a vibrant picture book retelling of a West African myth.A long time ago—a very long time ago—Thunder and Lightning didn’t live in the sky. Uh-uh! They lived right in a village ...

  • 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 ...

  • A Stocking Full of Christmas Stories

    Pat Thomson

  • Still Sweet on Him

    Jodi O'Donnell

    Yesterday... Almost a woman, Callie Farrell longed for Drew Barnett in a way she didn't understand. When Drew refused her love, Callie's pride was crushed, her heart broken. She left Soldier's Creek, determined to forget him. Today... Drew h...

  • Stella

    Peter Wyden

    The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew  as a child, and who later became notorious as a  "catcher" in wartime Berlin, hunting down  hundreds of hidden Jews for the Nazis. A harrowing  chronic...

  • The Steel

    S.M. Stirling; David Drake

    For five years, the computer in Raj Whitehall's mind has been using him as its instrument to reunite the planet Bellvue as the first step in restoring technological civilization across the galaxy. A willing inMrument he was, for Raj was a loyal noble...

  • Starlit Tomorrow

    Lynda Trent

    JUST ONCE, HE WANTED TO BE THE LEADING MAN... When Kyle Spensor was cast as the second male lead in the latest Zane Morgan movie, he wasn't surprised. Zane was the hottest thing in Hollywood. Then Kyle met Mica Haldane, a small-town schoolteacher ...

  • Star Trek Memories

    William Shatner

    Encompassing plot summaries of all seventy-nine TV episodes and the six hit films, "Captain Kirk" shares his reminiscences about the making of "Star Trek," a history of the show as a cultural phenomenon, and behind-the-scenes antics...

  • Stage Fright

    Gillian Linscott

    Although she has spent two terms in Holloway Prison for her suffragette activities, it is amateur sleuthing that's gaining Nell Bray a reputation. She has already solved two murders, and tales of her success are spreading throughout London - and reac...

  • Spirit Warrior

    Aimee Thurlo

    SHE UNCOVERED THE PAST Ancient history lay at Maria Garret's fingertips in the sands of New Mexico, but so did ghostly occurrences that kept her from the treasures she'd uncovered. HE DENIED HER FUTURE The ancient land of the Navajo nation was w...

  • Spirit of the Season

    Heather Graham

    While struggling to raise her newly orphaned nephew, Davey, widow Becky Wexham must deal with the feelings she experiences when she once again comes into contact with Tim Yeagher, an old flame and Davey's Little League coach. ...

  • Spirit of the Manor

    Ashland Price
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    Ashland Price -- Spirit of the Manor It's a crazy scheme, but Lysandra McGill has accompanied her impoverished family to a haunted Irish mansion to pose as the lost McGill heirs. She doesn't count on falling for the estate's handsome solicitor - ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Space Ship under the Apple Tree

    Louis Slobodkin

  • South of the Border

    Jim Miller

    A BOLD WESTERN SERIES FROM THE CREATOR OF THE OLD-TIMERS AND THE LONG GUNS

    When the Carstons' old friend Manuel Quesada arrives in Twin Rifles badly beaten, he gasps out a desperate tale: A Norteamericano and his Indian sidekicks are terro...

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    Arnold Rampersad

    "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first pub...

  • Sorcerous Sea

    Carol Severance

    The evil force reaching out from the sea and stealing children is especially distressing to Itui Mano and her lover when they learn that their own son and Iuti's adopted daughter are among the missing children. Original....

  • Something Borrowed, Something Blue

    Jillian Karr

    Editor Monique d'Arcy decides to spotlight four glamorous brides-to-be in Perfect Bride magazine and the media spotlight exposes all four to potential professional disaster and to murder. Reprint....

  • Snowsong Whistling

    Karen E. Lotz

  • Snowed In

    Barbara M. Lucas

    In preparation for the long Wyoming winter of 1915, a family not only sets aside food and firewood for the coming months, but also stocks up on paper, pencils, and books to while away the long nights in their isolated log cabin....

  • Snake Hunt

    Jill Kastner

  • Slocum at Outlaws' Haven

    Jake Logan

  • 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,...

  • 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....

  • Six Out Seven

    Jess Mowry

    The thirteen-year-old Corbitt Wainwright's adolescence is abruptly cut short when his father is imprisoned for attacking a white man.  Tragically, dreams of success through good grades and hard work are wiped aside as white society shows him, out o...

  • Sirens

    Sheri Cooper Sinykin

    The sea queen statue emits a strange melody, and soon, young men begin hearing it, only to meet with ever-worsening accidents, as Chantal wonders who--or what--is responsible. By the author of Slate Blues. ...

  • Sioux Trail

    Clint Hawkins

  • The Silver Hand

    Stephen R. Lawhead

    Meldryn Mawr, lord of the Llwyddi, has been cruelly slain--and his son, the malevolent Prince MeldrQn, has claimed the vacant throne of Prydain. But only the bard Tegid Tathal has the power rightfully to confer kingship. And he chooses Llew, once cal...

  • 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...

  • Shoshoni Vengeance

    John Legg

    Buck Morgan, a U.S. deputy marshal, searches for the murderous Del Murdock and his gang of desperadoes, and they engage in a deadly shootout that leaves Buck wounded but thirsting for revenge. Original....

  • 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 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...

  • 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 ...

  • She Needed Me

    Walter Kirn

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Shadows Over Cypress Swamp

    Patricia Werner

    Returning to Florida to claim her inheritance, Gail Brenwaithe was flooded with memories of happier times. Once, her family had run Paradise Garden, a tropical tourist park... Now her father was dead, the park had been taken over by strangers, and...

  • Shadows of the Past

    Geary Gravel

    A novelization of the animated television series follows the Caped Crusader as he pursues the thug who is torching Gotham City's brownstones to make way for a sleazy new development and who has kidnapped well-connected Leslie Thompkins. Original....

  • A Shadow on the Stair

    Gloria Murphy

    Single mother Hollie Ganz moves into a seemingly perfect neighborhood, but she soon becomes the object of threatening phone calls and mysterious threats. By the author of A Whisper in the Attic. Original....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shadow Boxer

    Chris Lynch

    Boxing is the family sport -- but it’s killing the family in this riveting read from the author of Inexcusable, a National Book Award finalist.It’s been five years since his father died, and fourteen-year-old George is the man of the family. He k...

  • The Seventh Bride

    Becky Lee Weyrich
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    Four bewitching tales of enchantment love . . . Book 1 - 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...

  • Seven Candles for Kwanzaa

    Andrea Davis Pinkney / Andrea Pinkney

  • The Seed and the Vision

    Eleanor Cameron

  • The Seduction of Jake Tallman

    Cait London

    MR. OCTOBER Brooding Man: Rancher Jake Tallman, who had better things to do than teach Ms. Morganna Larrimore the difference between a twig and a rattlesnake. Greenhorn Woman: CEO Morganna Larrimore, who couldn't think of ANYTHING better to do t...

  • The Seduction

    Marilyn Wallace

    Taking refuge in her sister Rosie's Taconic Hills farm, Lee Montana begins receiving horrifying gifts from a faceless stranger, and soon she and Rosie learn what it means to be the target of a stalker...

  • Secrets

    Kelvin Christopher James

  • The Secret Scroll

    Dawn Aldridge Poore

    WHEN IT COMES TO UNSOLVED CRIMES AND UNMATCHED HEARTS, MISS ROXANNE SYDNEY Happy to marry off the first of her three sisters, the redoubtable Miss Roxanne Sydney journeys to London... where she learns that an ancient scroll recently left to her by...

  • The Secret

    Penelope Thomas

    Haunted passion....One memory shone through Jessamy Lane's years as a child in the Wolfeburne's town house: an encounter with kind and charming second son Trystan. Now Trystan, the new Lord Wolfeburne, had summoned her to Cornwall to be his daughter'...

  • Seaquest Dsv

    Rockne S. O'Bannon

    From the television event of the year, Steven Spielberg's seaQuest. The year is 2018, and the world's oceans are the last frontiers on Earth. The last hope for peace is the largest, most powerful submarine ever built, the seaQuest--an undersea resear...

  • 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 -- ...

  • The Sculptress

    Minette Walters

    A WOMAN IMPRISONED FOR HIDEOUS SLAUGHTER. A WRITER TRAPPED IN A TRAGIC PAST. ONE HIDES THE TRUTH THE OTHER NEEDS. In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves - symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister ...

  • Scarlet Woman

    Louisa Rawlings

    What kind of woman was she? The gossips of Paris branded Celeste Valvert a femme fatale. That was no surprise to Edmond, Comte de Beaufort. He knew an adventuress when he saw one. A woman with lips so ripe and eyes so willing could only have scan...

  • Satellite Night Special

    Jack Hopkins

    When Prince Yertzoff of Mars is kidnapped shortly before his widely publicized wedding, Rikka Collins and her satellite news team head for SnowBall Hell--the Neptune prison camp--to uncover the details. Original....

  • 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...

  • Santa Fe Christmas

    Christine Mather

    The best-selling author of Santa Fe Style, Native America, and True West celebrates the warmth and style of a Santa Fe Christmas. Mather includes a sampler of holiday recipes from Christmas Burritos (with red and green chili sauce) to Chicago Punch a...

  • Salmon Moon

    Mark Karlins

  • 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...

  • Sadako

    Eleanor Coerr

    The moving story of Sadako Sasaki, a young survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, and her courageous struggle against leukemia is highlighted by hauntingly beautiful pastel illustrations by the Caldecott Medalist for Lon Po Po. ...

  • Sacred Clowns

    Tony Hillerman

    AN ANCIENT TRUST IS BROKEN During a Tano kachin ceremony something in the antics of the dancing kosbare fills the air with tension. Moments later the clown is found brutally bludgeoned in the same manner that a reservation schoolteacher was killed...

  • The Sabbath Garden

    Patricia B. Greene

    An unlikely friendship between a black girl and an elderly Jewish man on Manhattan's Lower East Side results in the creation of a neighborhood garden that comes to symbolize hope and cooperation in the midst of despair and distrust....

  • Ruler of Naught

    Sherwood Smith; Dave Trowbridge

    Jerrode Eusabian, Avatar of Doi, sits uneasy on the Emerald Throne of the Thousand Suns, while Brandon vlith-Arkad, rightful heir to the throne, is harried across space. Brandon was meant to die, along with his two older brothers. But he escaped b...

  • Rudy

    James Ellison

  • Roxie's Mall Madness

    Hilda Stahl

  • Row, Row, Row Your Boat

    Joanne F. Oppenheim

    Row, Row, Row Your Boat. . . or sail, pole, or paddle it! Fishing boats and fire boats, rafts and barges--this classic children's song is now expanded to include almost every kind of boat you can imagine. Pilot your favorite water vessel through this...

  • Rose // A Resolute Man

    Leigh Greenwood

    WANTED: A WOMAN TO COOK, CLEAN, AND WASH FOR SEVEN MEN To penniless, friendless Rose Thornton, the advertisement seemed like an answer to her prayers, and the incredibly handsome man who hired her seemed like a dream come true. But when she first ...

  • 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....

  • Romance on the Run

    Catt Hasting

  • Rock-a-Bye Rhymes: Miniature Nursery Rhyme Books

    Susan Wilkinson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Rescue of Babar

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • Renegade Flame

    Catherine Palmer

    WHISPERED WORDS Moira thought the stranger was dying--until he hoarsely whispered the words: "beautiful woman..." INFLAMED DESIRES Josiah thought the woman was an angel. But she provoked the most devilish thoughts... She nursed him ba...

  • The Ren and Stimpy Show: Tastes like Chicken

    Dan Slott

    The hugely popular cat and dog team from the animated series on the Nickelodeon network find their savior in Spider-Man when the normally genial Powdered Toast Man falls under the spell of an evil genius. Original....

  • Remembering Babylon

    David Malouf

    Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee

    In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences a...

  • Reed's Beach

    Bret Lott

    Hugh and Laura Walker could never have anticipated that the single greatest source of joy in their lives could so suddenly fill them with such unrelenting grief. The death of their only child, seven-year-old Michael -- struck by a car just seconds af...

  • The Red White and Blues

    Rob Kantner

  • Red Mars

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that de...

  • The Red Dragon: A 3-D Picture Book with Press-Out Disguises

    Stephen Wyllie

    When a red dragon moves to a new neighborhood, the cow, sheep, and horse that live nearby don't want to meet him, until he changes his diet. Includes disquises that the reader can use to help the dragon try to fool his new neighbors....

  • Rebel Wind

    LeAnne Grayson

    When war-weary and stone-heartened Devlin Maddox appears at Eden's Gate with revenge on his mind, he meets Faith McAllister, a woman trying to save her farm, and together they discover that love can melt a hardened heart. Faith McAllister was a wo...

  • Rapunzel

    Hilda Offen

  • Rainbow's Promise

    Marcy Gray

    Marriage motives... Lily Ann Jones: Revenge drove her to find Joshua Delaney. Compassion moved her to help him. She'd tracked down her father's sworn enemy only to find a man who'd been terribly wronged. Joshua Delaney: Gorgeous, s...

  • Rainbow Bird

    Eric Maddern

    When the world was being born, only rough and crabby Crocodile Man possessed the gift of fire, and he was unwilling to share it, so Bird Woman thinks of a plan to trick Crocodile Man into sharing fire....

  • Radical Red

    James Duffy

  • Rabbit Magic

    Susie Jenkin-Pearce