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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1995

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  • A Southern Exposure

    Alice Adams

    “What a terrific book. I loved its rich, recognizable characters, the intricacies and excitement of the plot, the beauty of the writing.”  --Anne Lamott   Reaching back to the Great Depression, and with all the insight, tenderness, and ...

  • The Bachelor's Bride

    Audra Adams

    PREGNANT! Rachel Morgan was having a baby by a wealthy, powerful man -- a man she couldn't even remember! She'd thought her shadowy interlude with a compelling stranger was nothing more than a dream, but now Rachel was facing the future wi...

  • Plot Twist

    Eric Adams

    Jordan Stone, writer of true crime books and made-for-TV movies, may have to face the media situation from the other side now that his son Timmy has been kidnapped, and the ransom demanded is his own hands...

  • Cam Jansen and the Triceratops Pops Mystery

    David A. Adler

    The Cam Jansen series is perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books. The first ten books in the series have received updated covers, bringing new life to these perennial bestsellers. Now the series redesign continues wit...

  • Murder in Grub Street

    Bruce Alexander

    The crime appeared as easily solved as it was wicked. A Grub Street printer, his family, and two apprentices brutally murdered in their sleep. A locked building. And at the scene, a raving mad poet brandishing a bloody axe. Surely the culprit had bee...

  • Sara's City

    Sue Alexander

    Based on the author's own childhood, this collection of poems for very young children vividly captures the experiences of a young girl growing up in Chicago in the 1940s. Sue Alexander's brief, unrhymed vignettes and Ron Himler's exquisite watercolor...

  • This Child Is Mine

    Trisha Alexander

    FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS... Eve DeIVecchio grew up poor, but even as a teenager she had big dreams -- and then Mitch Sinclair walked into her life, and everything else flew out the window. Two months later he left her with a broken heart ...

  • Yesterday & Forever

    Victoria Alexander

    PORTRAIT OF LOVE An artist with no palate for business, Margaret Masterson could create a world of excitement on canvas, but her love life was as dull as flat paint. Then a carriage ride on a foggy night swept her back to Regency London and the p...

  • Summer in Paradise

    Kerry Allyne

    Hold the front page! Kelsey Marlowe wanted an interview with the elusive tycoon, Gardner Wainwright. She was determined to stay objective and maintain a proper distance between herself and her subject -- however sexy he was. But Gardner had o...

  • Ace Ventura, Pet Detective

    Cynthia Alvarez

    America's favorite pet detective embarks on a hilarious search for the Miami Dolphin's mascot while risking life and fin coming nose to snout with a killer shark, in an adaptation of the smash hit movie....

  • Besieged

    Laurel Ames

    Though She Was One Of Society's Greatest Beauties, Elizabeth Falcrest Cared Little For The Intrigues Of The Ton For she was a woman whose heart cried out for someone with whom to share her deepest thought. Someone like Jason Weir, the world-weary ...

  • The Stars Are Also Fire

    Poul Anderson

    Humans and their genetically altered descendants struggle to find their place in a universe controlled by a benevolent artificial intelligence in this brilliant classic of future speculation On a far-future Earth, a linked system of artificial intell...

  • Read This and Tell Me What It Says

    A. Manette Ansay

    In her first full-length story collection, author A. Manette Ansay explores the rural Midwest landscape and the people who inhabit it: ordinary folk with extraordinary inner lives, struggling to make sense of the isolated, sometimes painful, and ofte...

  • Conscience of the Beagle

    Patricia Anthony

    Traveling to the planet Tennyson to confront a terrorist, tough Earth cop Major Dyle Holloway realizes that the ghosts of his past are threatening his mission as he is thrust into a vortex of paranoia and betrayal. Reprint....

  • Geis of the Gargoyle

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A gargoyle finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place in this Xanth adventure that “should delight Anthony’s many fans” (Publishers Weekly).   As a gargoyle, Gary Gar has one job in Xanth: to protect the Swan Knee River from the ...

  • Wishes

    Ellen Archer
    in

    Pretty, sophisticated pandora Drummond is dissatisfied with her fiance, rugged Arizona mine owner Michael Crane...until a magical coin gives her the power all women desire: to change the man she loves into the perfect man of her dreams....

  • Kate

    Patricia Armstrong

    It's a classic battle of wills... Kate Bainbridge is hopping mad. Someone's set fire to the old logging mill that her grandfather won in a game of gin rummy and bequeathed to his only granddaughter. And the man in charge is being singularly unhel...

  • The Education of Oscar Fairfax

    Louis Auchincloss

    In this novel by the author of Three Lives, a blue blood New York lawyer recounts his life through stories of people he has encountered along the way.Linking three generations of a Wall Street law firm, The Education of Oscar Fairfax provides a revea...

  • Thomas and the Helicopter Rescue: A Revolving Picture Book with Flaps

    Rev. W. Awdry

    In this innovative revolving picture book with flaps, kids can read the story, lift the flaps to learn new words, then turn the wheel to see a colorful changing scene starring Thomas the Tank Engine and his pal Harold the Helicopter at the beach on t...

  • Emerald Fire

    James Axler

    LIFE GONE WRONG The global apocalypse of 2001 did not destroy the world -- only a way of life. Now, three generations after the blast. the indomitable human spirit struggles against the devastation and hopelessness. For one band of survivors, hope li...

  • A Devious Desire

    Jacqueline Baird

    Snared? Saffron would always remember Eve's last message to her--and when she came face-to-face with Alex Statis she realized he was the man who had caused her best friend's downfall. She had to keep working for Alex's mother and there...

  • Kiss of the Vampire

    Nancy Baker

    Dimitri Rozokov has awakened after a sleep of one hundred years. But for a fifteenth-century Russian aristocrat-and vampire-at large in modern day Toronto, there is no safe haven. Ardeth Alexander is leading the predictable life of a graduate student...

  • Blood and Chrysanthemums

    Nancy Baker

    In this follow-up to "The Night Inside", Ardeth is initiated into a new existence by 500-year-old vampire Dimitri Rozokov, beginning a honeymoon of dark-shrouded happiness. But then comes betrayal and the temptation no undead can resist....

  • Lost in Translation

    Margaret Ball

    Seeking solace from a dysfunctional family in fantasies, Allie is frustrated when her corporate ruler father plans to send her to a conservative school but finds the adventure in her dreams when she arrives in an entirely different world. Original....

  • Powder River

    Jack Ballas

    Now that he's a family man, Case Gentry has given up his job as a Texas Ranger, and all the gunfights that went with it. But when an old enemy shows up with vengeance on his mind, Case has to dust off his six-gun and end the feud once and for all....

  • Heartless

    Mary Balogh

    Lucas Kendrick, the Duke of Harndon, had never met a woman like Lady Anna Marlowe. For years he had refused to feel love, but he was captivated by Anna's beauty and her rustic innocence. Anna's heart raced whenever she was around Lucas. After...

  • The Bad Samaritan

    Robert Barnard

    When British policemen Charlie Pearce and Mike Oddie investigate the unsurprising murder of the village parish Lothario, they question Rosemary Sheffield, the vicar’s wife. Rosemary, who has recently “lost” her faith and been accused of immoral...

  • Quantum Leap: A to Z

    Julie Barrett

    A fan's companion to the popular television series provides definitions for Quantum Leap terms, a complete episode description guide, a mini bio of Sam Beckett, Al Calavicci's life story, and a history of Ziggy. Original....

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Stephanie Bartlett
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    As a reporter in the rough-and-tumble 1890s, Josie Le Clair gets a chance to cover 'Real News' by investigating a San Francisco murder. Handsome psychic Andrew Jordan offers to help -- by raising the dead! Although he also raises some suspici...

  • Defending His Own

    Beverly Barton

    FRAGILE HEART Once Deborah Vaughn had loved Ashe McLaughlin with all of her teenage heart. Then he'd disappeared, leaving Deborah with nothing...except the son they'd created. Now Ashe was back, insisting she play the part of his lover. WATCHFUL EY...

  • Wildcat

    Wayne Barton; Stan Williams

    It was the end of an era, and the beginning of an ever-evolving world of fast money, fast women,fast talkers...and fast death.

    Texas was just as noisy, reckless, and wide open in 1914 as it was in the days of the Wild West -- with one important e...

  • Gordon Liddy Is My Muse

    John Calvin Batchelor

  • Walking the Cat, by Tommy "tip" Paine

    John Calvin Batchelor

  • Feast of July

    H.E. Bates

    Now the basis for a major motion picture from the producers of Howard's End and The Remains of the Day--a brooding, suspenseful novel of sensuality and vengenance, set amid the fields and villages of 19th century England. Bella Ford, jilted by her un...

  • Gorgeous

    Michael Bates

  • Sophisticated Seduction

    Jayne Bauling

    Opposites attract Having fled to India to escape the painful disillusionment of one relationship, Bridget had no intention of embarking on another...especially not with someone as complex and dangerously attractive as Nicholas Stirling! While he w...

  • Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn

    Peter S. Beagle

    THE MAGIC IS BACK FOR DECADES, PETER S. BEAGLE'S WORLD-FAMOUS CLASSIC The Last Unicorn HAS CAPTURED THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF DREAMERS AROUND THE WORLD. Now BEAGLE RECREATES THE LEGENDARY MAGIC OF THE BEST-LOVED MYTHICAL CREATURE OF ALL TIME, AND TO...

  • Star Hatchling

    Margaret Bechard

    When a young girl separated from her family arrives on an alien planet, Shem, the inhabitant who finds her when she lands in his village, fears her. By the author of My Sister, My Science Report. ...

  • Vathek

    William Beckford

    An enthralling work of Gothic fiction, modelled on the Arabian Nights

    This collection of writings features the complete text of William Beckford's best-known book, Vathek. Beckford's talent for satire emerges in selections from Biographical ...

  • All Souls' Rising

    Madison Smartt Bell

    "A serious historical novel that reads like a dream." --The Washington Post Book World"One of the most spohisticated fictional treatments of the enduring themes of class, color, and freedom." --San Francisco ChronicleNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTPEN/F...

  • The Inhabited Women

    Gioconda Belli

    In this love story set against the backdrop of revolution, Lavinia, a beautiful young woman from the upper class, becomes infused with the spirit of an ancient woman warrior and breaks free from her sheltered world, joining with rebels involved in a ...

  • Always

    Barbara Benedict

    Guinivere McClous has always run from the things she couldn't face; her mother's death; her father's drinking; her "suitable" society beau. Then her father offers her as the prize in a scheme to save their beleaguered plantation. When the wrong man w...

  • Messiah Stones, The

    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...

  • Rapunzel

    Alix Berenzy

    A beautifully illustrated retelling of a familiar fairy tale finds the long-haired Rapunzel having to choose between her sheltered and secure life in the tower and a life of hard work--and freedom--in the desert....

  • Deadly Disguise

    David Bergantino

    It's Halloween in Springwood and the place to be is the old Appleby mansion where the lord of the manor is none other than Jack Spyder, himself.

    Born John Appleby, Jack Spyder changed his name when he was eight, right after he was discovered i...

  • Tomorrow's Dreams

    Kay Bergstrom

  • Hearts Defiant

    Cheryl Biggs

    Love's Rebellion Lovely Yankee debutante Marci Colderaine had spent most of the war as the belle of Washington society. Only pure chance placed her on the Federal riverboat The Bayou Queen just as it was commandeered by a seductive southern re...

  • Nanny Jake

    Lisa Bingham

    The nanny had he-man muscles! When Delaney McBride opened her office door, she was shocked to find a sexy deliveryman with a very special package--a baby! Trouble was, the deliveryman claimed that the tiny tyke was homeless--and that he was the ba...

  • Circle of Love

    Alma Blair

    After years of living alone with her nine-year-old daughter, Ellen Scott thinks there's a man in her future. Handsome, athletic, and charming, Steve Markham is the new owner of radio station WHVL in Huntsville, Alabama, where Ellen works and the obje...

  • Alaska Adventure

    Cynthia Blair

    WILDERNESS SAVAGERY
    To college freshman Laurel Adams, being chosen to take part in a summer research project in Alaska was a dream come true. For six weeks she and four other students would live in a log cabin deep in the forest conducting an envi...

  • The Look

    Nina Blanchard

    A well-known modeling agent draws on her insider's knowledge of the industry to tell the story of a modeling agent who tries to protect her star client from a ruthless promoter with a criminal past. Reprint....

  • The Big Bike Race

    Lucy Jane Bledsoe

    Hoping that he will get a new bike for his birthday despite poor family finances, Ernie is crushed when he receives a clunky, secondhand bike, but through perseverance and friendship he is able to enter a race....

  • This Old Man

    Emily Bolam

  • Christmas Eve

    Maria Grazia Boldorini

    In this oversize board book, children can peek into one family's house as they wait for Santa to come down the chimney. Cozy cross-section illustrations allow youngsters to see every room of the house and to watch the family prepare for Christmas Day...

  • Wild Heart

    Jane Bonander

    Julia Larson had never known passion. Her sister Josette had pursued it shamelessly while Julia became a spinster taking care of Josette's illegitimate child. Then a tough, secretive half-breed came to work on the Larson ranch. His insolent sensualit...

  • Homecoming

    Susan Bowden

    A WOMAN'S RETURN Tessa Hargrave is going home. Home from Canada, back across the Atlantic to the Yorkshire town she had fled in anger and in shame so many years before. Home to the family she has never been able to call her own. Home, where she wi...

  • Jonathan James Says, "I Can Be Brave!"

    Crystal Bowman

    Jonathan, a young rabbit, faces his first day at school, his first night in a new bedroom, and other new and frightening experiences, but he is comforted by the love of his family and the presence of God....

  • Jonathan James Says, "I Can Help"

    Crystal Bowman

  • Painted Cherub

    Pete Bowman

    Two painters were painting the vaulted ceiling of a cathedral, watched by a cherub up above. When the artists leave, the cherub flies down and borrows a brush and palette and becomes part of the picture. A pop-up book for all ages....

  • Music Cherub: Pop-up Ornament Book

    Pete Bowman

  • Animal Planet

    Scott Bradfield

    Revised edition, with a new afterword, of the 1995 comic novel about a planet that suffers from crappy jobs, poor pay, invisible benefits, and an international culture industry that treats rebellion as a high marketing concept....

  • Baker's Dozen

    Tom Bradley

  • Wildcat

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    MR. OCTOBER Wild Man: Morgan McCain His Mission: Remaining a bachelor! In His Way: Wild Cat Devlin, who just inherited half his business Morgan McCain had no intention of making his pretty new partner, Cat Devlin, feel welcome. But when she dem...

  • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: 4th Annual Edition

    Jon L. Breen

    The fourth annual collection of works by such authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, and Peter Straub, selected by the editors of Mystery Scene, includes all Edgar and Golden Dagger Award nominees....

  • Clifford's Happy Christmas Lacing Book

    Norman Bridwell

  • Shape-Changer

    Bill Brittain

    FIND FEK--OR DIE! First there’s the humming (like a million kazoos), then the light (eye-poppingly bright), and finally a bumping, whumping THUMP that shakes the whole neighborhood. But it’s not till the fire hydrant actually speaks that Frank...

  • All-Star Pride

    Sigmund Brouwer

    It's the All-Star team, made up of the WHL's young hockey players, just one short step away from the NHL. Their goal is to beat the Russian All-Stars in a best-of-seven series to be shown as a television special. Hog Burnell, one of the biggest a...

  • Animals in the Snow

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Dark Knight of Karameikos

    Timothy Brown

    Mistaken for an outlaw, Grygory, a noble knight in the employ of Karameikan lord Aleksander Torenescu, is thrown into prison, where he befriends a thief named Flavius and finds new allies in his battle against the dark knight of Karameikos. Original....

  • Animal Lore and Legend - Owl

    Vee Browne

  • The Earth under Sky Bear's Feet

    Joseph Bruchac

    In the companion to Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back, Sky Bear, the great storytelling bear made of stars, tells of nature's nighttime wonders and Native American legends from his post in the sky....

  • Seven

    Anthony Bruno

  • Jasmine's Christmas Ride

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Pony Tails get in the holiday spirit for two Christmas horse shows at Pine Hollow StablesAs Christmas draws near, the Pony Tails get excited about two Pony Club holiday events at Pine Hollow Stables: the annual Starlight Ride on Christmas Eve and...

  • Western Star

    Bonnie Bryant

    The members of the Saddle Club spend their winter break at the Bar None Ranch, where each member of the club has an experience that teaches them all an unforgettable lesson about the true meaning of the holiday season....

  • Istanbul Express

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    As the Iron Curtain descends across battle-scarred Europe, American foreign policy races from crisis to crisis. With Stalin on the move, there’s only one hope a strategy of containment to draw a defense against Communist expansion. At this moment i...

  • Christmas Carols to Play and Sing: A Piano Keyboard Book

    Janet Bunting

    This collection includes the printed lyrics and music to eleven of the season's most popular songs, including O Little Town of Bethlehem, We Three Kings, and Silent Night. Each song is beautifully illustrated with a soft-colored pencil drawing. An el...

  • Bewitching Familiar

    Caroline Burnes

    She was suspected of being a witch... After narrowly escaping death in 1995, Abigail West mysteriously awakened in Salem. The year was 1692, she was living someone else's life, and as a self-supporting female she was viewed suspiciously. Even ...

  • A-Z of Judge Dredd

    Mike Butcher

    Never before seen in one book, The A-Z of Judge Dredd is the complete guide to the Judge Dredd universe, detailing every major character, location and concept that comprise the Dredd mythology.Each entry has a concise history/explanation of the chara...

  • Hot and Bothered

    Linda Cajio

    He was just the kind of risk she'd never taken--until now.... He rose from the sea like a bronze god, and Judith Collier held her breath. She was in this isolated Baja village to disappear, but instead found a man whose gaze uncovered her secrets ...

  • Dragon Rescue

    Don Callander

    More than ten years after the disappearance of young dragon Arbitrance Constable, his best friend, Murdan of Overhall, suspects that Arbitrance is not really treasure hunting and rallies the Constable family into beginning a search. Original....

  • Sheer Pleasures

    Stella Cameron

    Attorney Wilhelmina Phoenix knows she's heading for treacherous waters when she sets out in search of her oldest and dearest friend, who disappeared from a private pleasure club in Washington State's Cascade Mountains. She doesn't realize...

  • And Father Makes Three

    Laurie Campbell

    ONE STRUGGLING SINGLE "MOM" Small-town librarian Sarah Corcoran had enough trouble raising her rebellious nephew. She didn't need Ryan--a man who had seduced her twin sister years ago--making her job any more difficult. Not to mention throwing her s...

  • Baby Bear's Treasury

    Candlewick Press

    A very special collection of stories, poems, pictures, songs, and general nonsense includes work by favorites such as Lucy Cousins and Helen Oxenbury, offering twenty-five selections sure to appeal to the very young....

  • Friend in the Snow

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

  • The Way of the Warrior

    Diane Carey

    The entire Alpha Quadrant has been threatened with deadly infiltration by the shape-shifting Founders of the Dominion. Already the Romulans and Cardassians have been decimated by the clandestine machinations of the Founders. Now the newly promoted C...

  • A Killer in the House

    J.H. Carroll

    Sue finds baby-sitting for little Adam Anderson boring, so she sneaks around the property after he has gone to bed and, unfortunately, discovers a deadly secret that may mean her own demise. Original....

  • The Painted Veil

    Susan Carroll

    "My intentions toward you are quite dishonorable. The only promise I make is that there will be a great deal of pleasure for both of us..." It was a dangerous time in London, as a murderous scoundrel called the Hook terrified rich and poo...

  • Where's My Christmas Stocking?

    Noelle Carter

    Young children are invited to help a kitten search for her Christmas stocking by lifting interactive flaps to reveal tactile objects that can be touched and felt, from holiday decorations and a lacy angel to a scratch-and-sniff cookie....

  • Attack of the Aqua Apes

    A.G. Cascone

    THE GHOSTS OF FEAR STREET - THEY'LL HAUNT YOU FOREVER! Do you believe in ghosts? Don't say no until you take a walk down Fear Street. Past the woods -- where no birds sing. Past the lake -- where something lurks beneath the water. Past the cemet...

  • Such Wild Enchantment

    Kimberly Cates
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    His handsome face hidden behind an ebony mask, the dashing highwayman halts a coach in mid-journey -- only to be held at pistol-point by a violet-eyed minx who leads her virile Knight of the Road into a passionate duel of hearts....

  • Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

    Marc Cerasini

    ALL RIGHTEE THEN! Ace is back in another outrageous adventure! This time, everyone's favorite pet detective ventures into the wilds of Africa, hot on the trail of a sacred white bat. Our hero will face danger at every turn, but no jungle is to...

  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Marc Cerasini

  • The Portrait

    Megan Chance

    She was his inspiration and his undoing.... The reigning master of the New York art world, Jonas Whitaker was brilliant and compelling, a man of dark passions and uncontrollable emotions. Terrified of his own dangerous nature and scarred by the ho...

  • Alula-Belle Blows into Town

    Marie Chapian

    When eight-year-old Alula-Belle Button-top Paintbrush Puccini Softshoe Magrew shows up in the middle of Main Street in the town of KneeBend-on-Limber surrounded by millions of butterflies she changes the lives of everyone she meets....

  • Alula-Belle Braves Ice Cream Beach

    Marie Chapian

  • Steamy December

    Ann Charlton

    Mr. High and Mighty North Kendrick was a connoisseur--he liked his women beautiful and his champagne cold. He had taken one look at Ami and made one of his famous snap judgments. But Ami was determined to prove to him that appearances could be dec...

  • Midnight Fantasy

    Sandra Chastain

    At the stroke of midnight, he opened his door to a dream .... Just when quarterback Joe Armstrong had decided his life was over, the doorbell rang--and a long-legged enchantress made him reconsider! Annie Galloway insisted she wasn't a vision or ...

  • Bleeding in the Eye of a Brainstorm

    George C. Chesbro

    Mongo's back in his 12th novel (after An Incident at Bloodtide). The martial arts expert, PI and former circus star who happens to be a dwarf relies a bit less on gymnastics and coincidence this time, and more on his human nature. On a cold night in ...

  • The Chocolate Debutante

    Marion Chesney

    HE WAS ATTRACTIVE ENOUGH TO TEMPT EVEN A VERY DEDICATED BLUESTOCKING! A woman of independent means with a healthy dose of cynicism about the male population, Harriet Tremayne is content with her circle of spinster friends and their devotion to lit...

  • The Intrigue

    Marion Chesney

    NOTHING COULD STOP HER QUEST -- EXCEPT, PERHAPS, LOVE... Mannerling, the splendid family estate gambled away by Sir Beverly, remained the passionate desire of his daughters. Beverly himself had died; the eldest daughter, Isabella -- having failed ...

  • On the Day I Was Born

    Debbi Chocolate

  • Sins of the Fathers

    Sam Chupp

    BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL Kirk was an orphan street punk destined for prison--or worse. Until he crossed a vicious drug lord and found himself on the wrong side of the line between life and death. Here in the Afterlife, all Kirk's sins come alive...

  • A Delectable Dilemma

    Cathleen Clare

    SWEET TEMPTATION Pity Lord Leftbridge. On the eve of his engagement to a perfectly proper young lady, he's lost his heart to a servant girl! To be sure, the object of his distraction is a rare beauty, with wit and wisdom to match. But how did th...

  • Silent Night

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Mary Higgins Clark, the "Queen of Suspense," has crafted a very special holiday story about a child's courage in the face of danger, and the power of love. Charged with menace and thrilling suspense, it is the #1 New York Times bestselling author's g...

  • The Healers

    Ann Cleeves

    IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT AND ERNIE BOWLES IS STEPPING OUT-- TO DIE. Ernie's big fantasy is that his blind date with a blonde divorcee will end with the two of them back at the farm, cozily shacked up. Alas, Sunday morning finds Ernie on the cold kitchen ...

  • There's a Ghost in the House

    Daniel Cohen

    Nine real-life ghost stories include a tale about one of Washington, D.C.'s, oldest houses, which is said to be haunted by President Madison's wife, and the Weir house, which is haunted by a captain who was executed for witchcraft....

  • Looking for Liz

    Joanna Cole

  • The Magic School Bus Hello Out There

    Joanna Cole

  • The Magic School Bus Looking for Liz: A Sticker Book About Habitats

    Joanna Cole

  • Forbidden Acts

    Nancy A. Collins

    Twenty-four short stories follow themes of human boundaries pushed to the limits, bringing readers into the lives of men and women who dabble in satanic worship, sexual manipulation, and other dark vices. Original....

  • Unhappily Unwed

    Toni Collins

    Divorcee Laura Westin hasn't had a date since Ben, her ex, proposed at the senior prom Option One: Spend Saturday nights wondering what Ben's doing Option Two: Spend Saturday nights "dating" an irresistible stranger on a compute...

  • Passion's Shadow

    Nicole Conn

    Fall into the passions of a love triangle as a mother and daughter find themselves in love with the same woman in this romantic and chic tale of addiction in multiple forms.Lindsay Brennan is a Portland architect whose devotion to her work takes the ...

  • Story of Christmas

    Barbara Cooney

  • Buddy Love - Now on Video

    Ilene Cooper

  • Star Ascendant

    Louise Cooper

    IT IS THE TIME OF CHAOS... ...When the lords of disorder hold sway and monsters walk the earth. Benetan, captain of the Chaos riders, serves his masters, the magi of the Star Peninsula, who captured him years before. When the cruel Vordegh is ele...

  • Doctors and Lawyers and Such

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    In his sixth case, the rumpled, perpetually bemused Oklahoma lawman Milt Kovak investigates the suicide of his best friend's wife while standing for election as sheriff and catering to the whims of his pregnant wife....

  • A Kwanzaa Fable

    Eric V. Copage

    In A Kwanzaa Fable, when a young boy's widowed father suddenly dies, he finds himself growing up fast while he assumes the adult responsibility of taking care of his younger, twin siblings. Even though their grandmother lives with them, she relies ...

  • The Matchmaker

    Debra Cowan

    In the heart of Texas lives a family as big and bold as the state itself. The Daltrys are as different as they come, each with his or her own strengths -- and weaknesses. Every time a Daltry turns twenty years old, they are presented with a task by t...

  • The Physician of London

    Stephanie Cowell

    The eponymous physician-hero of Nicholas Cooke becomes fast friends with the ambitious priest, Thomas Wentworth, with whom he vies for the love of the beautiful Cecilia, in a rich, amusing historical novel set in seventeenth-century England....

  • Tomorrow Bites

    Greg Cox

    A collection of supernatural tales features the writings of Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, and others, and places readers in alternate histories, outer space, and ancient lands, in which werewolves are a commonplace threat. Original....

  • Megan's Promise

    Neva Coyle

    Megan La Bianca is embarking on a journey that will change her forever. She's flying to California to visit friends for three months. Her mother, accustomed to controlling Megan's every move, is furious that she's leaving and tries desperately to ho...

  • Signals of Distress

    Jim Crace

    Signals of Distress tells the story of an American emigration vessel grounded off the coast of England in the 1830's. While the Belle of Wilmington waits to be refloated, the isolated community of Wherrytown offers what hospitality it can to the crew...

  • Malu's Wolf

    Ruth Craig

  • Sold to Miss Seeton

    Hamilton Crane

    An accidental purchase-and a deliberate murder... Miss Seeton raised her umbrella only to catch someone's attention--not the wisest thing to do at an auction, as she learns when she suddenly finds herself the owner of an antique box no one else wa...

  • Westward Angel

    Catherine Creel

    She vowed to resist him.... Proud and strong-willed, Lainey Prescott dared to stake a claim for her family in the booming Oklahoma territory. It was a treacherous place for a woman alone, but she was determined to make her way -- without the help of...

  • Family Ties

    Dani Criss

    Single Mom Seeks... The first time single mom Laine Sullivan met her boss, Drew Casteel, she thought he was overbearing, insensitive and far too handsome. The next time they met, he kissed her and made her toes tingle. Reluctant Bachelor Drew Ca...

  • Screech in Love

    Beth Cruise

  • Finders, Keepers

    Beth Cruise

  • Robin Hood in the Greenwood

    Jane Louise Curry

    A series of Robin Hood adventures includes the tales of Friar Tuck's induction into the Merry Men, Lady Marian's escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham to the safety of Sherwood Forest, and Robin's competition in an archery match....

  • Kathleen - a Yankee Girl at Gettysburg

    Alice Turner Curtis

  • Aunt Eater's Mystery Christmas

    Doug Cushman

  • Murder, My Suite

    Mary Daheim

    Death Takes a Holiday Gossip columnist Dagmar Delacroix Chatsworth and her yappy lapdog Rover's recent stay at the Hillside manor left hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's nerves, and best bed linens, in tatters. So Judith joins cousin Renie for some...

  • Daisy Rabbit's Tree House

    Penny Dale

    Daisy Rabbit always feels homesick when she sleeps at her friends' houses, so she and her friends decide to build a house in the cherry tree, where they all can stay on summer nights without getting sad....

  • The Persian Pickle Club

    Sandra Dallas

    It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of loca...

  • Man of My Dreams

    Margot Dalton

    A family of convenience... Mike Murphy and his three-year-old daughter, Emma, need a place to live. Susan Adamson needs a housemate to help pay the mortgage. The arrangement seems perfect to Mike -- and to Emma, who has already made friends with S...

  • DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Super Heroes

    Les Daniels

  • Climax of Passion

    Emma Darcy

    "When East meets West... the result is passion!" He is Xa Shiraq, sheikh of Xabia...She is Amanda Buchanan, independent hotelier... When they meet, he declares that they are meant for each other, but what does Amanda have to offer such ...

  • Footprints of Thunder

    James F. David

    When a freak natural phenomenon dissolves the boundaries between yesterday and today, the world is transformed into a patchwork mixture of the present and the distant past. Entire cities are replaced by primeval forests. Prehistoric monsters stalk mo...

  • Killer Pancake

    Diane Mott Davidson

    A GORGEOUS BANQUET... When Goldy, owner of Goldilock's Catering, faces the challenge of whipping up a sumptuous lowfat feast for the Mignon Cosmetics' company banquet, she rises to the occasion brilliantly...only to discover just how ugly the beauty ...

  • Crystal Enchantment

    Saranne Dawson

    SPELLBOUND Descended from a race of sorcerers long thought dead, Jalissa Kendor used, her hidden talents to prevent interstellar conflicts. But her secret gifts were no match for a ruthless spy who wreaked havoc on her heart. Miklos Panera pref...

  • Rebellious Bride

    Adrienne Day

    TAMING A REBEL A stunning, fun-loving spitfire from one of Virginia's oldest families, Regina Langley's scandalous romances are the talk of the colony. But her carefree days are over when her reckless brother returns from London, having lost the ...

  • Memory and Dream

    Charles de Lint

    From her mentor, Rushkin, Isabelle Copley had learned to paint creatures that literally come to life, and years after these creatures have ruined her life, Isabelle returns to painting, haunted by memories, dreams, and the threat of her mentor's retu...

  • Cabin Surprise

    Judy Delton

    Buying a lakeside cabin in the hopes of securing a family getaway spot, the Greens find the place in a terrible state of disrepair and fear that they will have to spend all of their lottery winnings fixing it up. Original....

  • Royal Escapade

    Judy Delton

    Heading for England for a fun-filled vacation, Daisy, Delphie, Lois, Aunt Ivy, and their friend Roxanne enjoy the sights of Scotland Yard and Big Ben, but the real adventure begins when they are asked to tea by the Queen. Original....

  • Teeny Weeny Zucchinis

    Judy Delton

    Join the Pee Wee Scouts for fun and adventure as they make friends and earn badges. It's time for the Harvest Fest. There will be rides and booths and lots of fun things to eat. Each of the Pee Wees is going to help out. They can work in th...

  • Heaven's Gift

    Janelle Denison

    Where angels go, love is sure to follow. The last thing J.T. Rafferty expected when he awoke from a concussion was to find a beautiful stranger tending to his wounds. She'd saved his life, but the lovely Caitlan Daniels had some serious explaining...

  • The Queen Is Dead

    Jane Dentinger

    It's a trip down memory lane when Jocelyn O'Roarke returns to college--and a course in Murder 101 when the campus play turns deadly. No amateur on the stage or on the trail of a murderer, Josh remains her cool, witty self until the curtain falls on t...

  • Who Dropped Peter Pan?

    Jane Dentinger

    In the final book of the Jocelyn O'Roarke series, a middle-aged actor falls to his death during a preview night under mysterious circumstances, and it's up to Jocelyn to find the culprit. In theater, the actors who play Peter Pan are young, sprightly...

  • The Secret Child

    Jamie Denton

    He'd been cheated out of fatherhood! Cole Ballinger had loved Marni Rodgers with all the passion of first love. Then she'd abandoned him for the bright lights of California, and he'd spent far too much time wondering why. Until he met Jenna, his d...

  • Air Pogman

    Shane Derolf

  • Returning Nicholas

    Deborah Durland DeSaix

    Riding a carousel at the carnival, young Antonia is astonished and thrilled when the carousel horse, Nicholas, comes to life and takes her on a magical journey that ends with the completion of the ride....

  • Borrowed Kisses

    Teresa DesJardien

    Lord Nathaniel Price had made a wager that could ruin him. He had bet a rival that he could kiss the ton's most beautiful women and retries from each a lock of hair. As the masked and gallant Kissing Cavalier, his caress soon became a mark of distinc...

  • Wolf's Bane

    Joe Dever

    Encountering an ultimate enemy in your own evil twin, you learn of the Dark God Naar's plot to defeat you with a being in your own likeness who has effectively turned all of your misunderstanding allies against you. Original....

  • Mistress for Hire

    Angela Devine

    "I've no intention of marrying a woman who's available to the highest bidder..." There was nothing Lisa could do to persuade Matt Lansdon that she was neither a loose woman nor a gold digger. And even she had to admit that his disc...

  • Toy Story: An Animated Flip Book

    Disney Book Group

    Fans of Disney's Toy Store, the first completely computer-animated feature, will love this full-color flip book, a wonderful collection of images that offers a great way to preview or reexperience this unforgettable film....

  • Disney's Villains: A Pop-up Book

    Walt Disney

  • Wild Wheels

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Befriending beautiful, daredevil motorcyclist Lindsey Nichols, Frank and Joe learn that Lindsey's father is planning to put a classic bike back on the market in a high-stakes corporate dispute that soon reaches explosive proportions. Original....

  • The Lady and the Tiger

    Christina Dodd
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    Known throughout England for his bold cunning and magnificent feats of daring, the sensual rogue called the Seamaster is undone by a saucy seamstress who steals into his room on a mission of revenge ... until the Seamaster's first kiss awakens scanda...

  • Snuffles Makes a Friend

    Mary Ellen Donovan

  • Deja Vu

    Christine Dorsey
    in

    New Orleans belle Eugenie de Valliers rejected her lover because her family didn't approve. But a magical gift from a voodoo priestess gives her the chance to live her life again. Will she make the right choice the second time around?...

  • Stepwater

    L. Warren Douglas

    Inheriting the title of Arbiter, a ruler whose decisions affect thousands of inhabited planets, John Minder XXIII is challenged when the seven blocks of ancient wisdom are stolen, cutting him off from his warrior fleet. Original....

  • Silent Night

    Belinda Downes

    A unique collection of traditional carols features reproductions of colorful embroidered fabric tapestries--by a former artist to England's royal court--which adorn each double-page spread of this high-quality gift book....

  • Writing the Southwest

    David King Dunaway

    Dunaway brings together the unusual writing talents of 14 poets, playwrights, essayists and novelists from all walks of life in Writing the Southwest. Each segment includes a biographical sketch of the author, excerpts from th e author's work, and a ...

  • Past Imperative

    Dave Duncan

    In a world on the brink of madness... In the summer of 1914, a young man beyond eeproach awakens under police guard--grievously injured and accused of heinous, impossible murder. And in a strange, distant place... The youngest member of a pennil...

  • Keeper

    Gerald Malcolm Durrell

  • Village Square

    Linda Eberhardt

    Sometimes dreams do come true... AMANDA She was shocked when she found that Wheatener, Indiana, had turned into a budding industrial town... MATTHEW He was proud of the changes he'd made-and refused to let Amanda ruin all of his hard work...

  • Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership

    R. David Edmunds

    In this biography, David Edmunds examines the life of legendary Shawnee leader Tecumesh and his pivotal role in defending the Native American way of life.

  • Gray Warrior

    Hank Edwards (1)

    For Confederate soldier Jack Dalton, it seems the Civil War will never be over, until he heads west on a mission to rob Yankee payrolls and lives with the Nez Perce+a7, where he meets a beautiful woman, who changes his vengeful ways forever. Original...

  • The Mystery of the Stolen Football

    T.J. Edwards

    An easy-to-read sports mystery finds one of the Smithfield Sonics accused of stealing a football autographed by Joe Montana, and an ice cream bar, an ink-stained locker, and a tuning fork are important clues to the crime. Original....

  • Permutation City

    Greg Egan

    THE GOOD NEWS is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly. THE BAD NEWS is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the y...

  • Officer Quality

    Rosemary Enright

    Vowing to follow in the footsteps of her mother, who was killed while working for the French Resistance, young Else Hansard joins the Women's Royal Army Corps, only to become disillusioned with military life...

  • The Law of Love

    Laura Esquivel

    After one night of passion, Azucena, an astroanalyst in twenty-third-century Mexico City, is separated from her Twin Soul, Rodrigo, and journeys across the galaxy and through past lives to find her lost love, encountering a deadly enemy along the way...

  • Whirlpool

    Barry Estabrook

    When a fisherman hooks the corpse of real-estate developer Barron Quinell, the tranquility of the Adirondack summer ends. The task of discovering how Quinell died falls to Garwood Plunkett, a veteran cop more likely to rely on his instincts than on t...

  • Longarm and the Shivaree Riders

    Tabor Evans

    Directed by the U.S. Attorney General to track down the man responsible for killing a Texas postmaster, Longarm is disgusted when the people of Addington care more about dirty politics and power games than they do about the murdered man. Original....

  • Prisoner's Hope

    David Feintuch

    THE SEAFORT SAGA There is no refuge in the galactic abyss. Aboard a starship or groundside, safety is an illusion. Terrifying creatures of the void menace the fragile lives dinging to the shores of the oceans beyond. Assigned to Hope Nation while...

  • The Last Stand

    Brad Ferguson

    In the middle of a routine mapping mission, Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise encounter a culture just on the edge of developing warp drive technology. When they survey the planet, they are startled by the sudden approach of thousa...

  • Presenting the Nutcracker

    Laura Ferraro

    Brings to life the famous ballet with a two-sided stage, depicting Clara's Christmas party and the magical Land of Sweets, that children can construct, 125 decorative stickers, and thirty free-standing dancers. Original....

  • The Divining Heart

    Paul Ferris

  • Flour Babies

    Anne Fine

    Participating in a class assignment that calls for the students to watch over flour sacks as if they were babies, Simon learns much about his own family life, including why his father walked out on him. Reprint....

  • Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943

    Erica Fischer

    Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim.

    It was love almost at first sight. Aimée (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice) sta...

  • Wolf in Waiting

    Rebecca Flanders

    Forbidden lovers He was the standard against which all others were measured--the strongest, the smartest, the sexiest, and the most noble of his kind: Noel Duprey, whose birthright forbade him even to look Victoria St. Clare's way, for his des...

  • A Fate Totally Worse Than Death

    Paul Fleischman

    Welcome to Cliffside High, the school of your nightmares. It's run by the Huns, a ruthless clique of rich students -- and, as poor Charity Chase discovers, messing with them can be murder. From the Newbery Award-winning author, Paul Fleischman....

  • Death and Deconstruction

    Anne Fleming

    In a witty literary mystery, John Charter investigates a killer stalking the members of a Romantic poets society on a Byron-Shelley tour of Italy, at the London Library, and at an academic conference at Norman Abbey--culminating in murder....

  • Salt Lake Lady

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Never Done Dreamin'

    Janis Flores

    THE DUNLEAVY LEGACY Octavia Whitworth Dunleavy--formidable matriarch the family--wants to hand over once-renowned Dunleavy Farm to her three grandchildren. Will they accept her offer? And will they be able to overcome old feuds and jealousies, fam...

  • Ace Ventura 2: Movie Storybook

    Justine Korman Fontes

    Ace Ventura journeys to the wilds of Africa in search of the sacred white bat and sets out to reconcile two warring tribes in a story based entirely on the new Ace Ventura movie. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Sealed With a Kiss

    Gwynne Forster

    IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES For artist and free spirit Naomi Logan, sexy call-in radio host Rufus Meade is the wrong man at the wrong time. His conservative views drive her crazy-especially his theories about working women. But after telling him what...

  • Magpies' Nest

    Joanna Foster

    In a retelling of a classic English folktale, Mother and Father Magpie carefully explain the many steps of nest-building, but their impatient listeners fly away one by one and build a wide variety of nests....

  • The Earth Is Mostly Ocean

    Allan Fowler

  • Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet

    Lebowitz Fran

    The author of Metropolitan Life and Social Studies offers her first children's book--the humorous adventures of two seven-year-old children and two Panda bears named Pandemonium and Don't Panda to Public Taste....

  • Fire and Ice

    Carla Fredd

    IceAs the daughter of a Georgia senator, Holly Aimes is tired of living her life in the spotlight. After her movie star fiancé publicly dumps her for a sultry supermodel, the reserved security firm owner will do anything to keep from getting h...

  • Friedman

    Bruce Jay Friedman

    An anthology of short stories from the past forty years by the co-author of the screenplay for Splash! combines social satire, black humor, surrealism, and poignant situations. 20,000 first printing....

  • Crown of Shadows

    C.S. Friedman

    DESCENT INTO HELL.... For more than a millennium now Erna's humans have maintained an uneasy stalemate with the fae, that treacherous force of nature which feeds on the human psyche. Adepts and sorcerers work the fae for their own profit, while th...

  • Broadway Chicken

    Jean-Luc Fromental

  • A Bear for All Seasons

    Diane Marcial Fuchs

    Which is your favorite season?

    Spring
    when you can sniff the fress, green woods?

    Summer
    when the balckberries are ripe?

    Falll
    when leaves crunch underfoot?

    or Winter
    when you can catch snowflakes o...

  • Heart and Soul

    Robert Funderburk

    A Senator's Personal Vendetta, a High-Powered Conspiracy, and the Framing of an Innocent Victim Home from the Korean War, Lane Temple convalesces from his physical and emotional wounds and begins to practice law again. When his best friend, Coley T...

  • Witch Hunt!

    Diana G. Gallagher

    While Alex and her friends prepare for a monster movie Halloween party at Danielle Atron's house, Vince and Dave witness some of Alex's special powers and decide that she is a witch and must be stopped. Original....

  • Death at the Opera

    John Gano

    When a traveling opera troupe visits stately Bolitho Court to raise money for a local hospice, few in the audience can imagine the seething cauldron of suppressed violence that lies beneath the greasepaint smiles.After the Floria Tosca Grand Opera Co...

  • Vertical Run

    Joseph R. Garber

    You think YOU had a killer workday. . . Each morning in his 45th floor executive office, David Elliot savors the quiet moments until the workday begins. Until today, when his boss walks in and aims a gun at him. For the rest of the day, he...

  • Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc

    Nancy Garden

    A young girl follows Joan of Arc into battle in this gripping historical novel.   Having grown up in the quiet French village of Domremy, eleven-year-old Gabrielle can’t resist the promise of experiencing something new. So when her friend Jea...