Books Published in September 1990

New Books List: 575 titles

  • ...To End All War

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY -- WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ? World War III has reduced America's purpled mountain majesty to a battle-seared landscape of blasted rubble and toxic waste. A few tattered pockets of civil...

  • Backlash

    Don Pendleton

    RUNNING INTERFERENCE Following a tip on a drug run off the coast of Miami, Mack Bolan kicks open a hornet's nest. A dead courier turns out to be a government spook working free-lance for a Nicaraguan power monger, who is running drugs to finance t...

  • Barracuda Run

    Gar Wilson

  • Bold Forager

    Tom Willard

  • The Crevasse

    Jerry Brown

  • The Gulf

    David Poyer

    Aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. Turner Van Zandt, Lieutenant-Commander Dan Lenson and his dedicated crew take on a daring assignment: escort a convoy of supertankers through the mine-filled Persian Gulf. For Lenson and his men, however, the ...

  • Recon by Fire

    John Sievert

  • Skyfire

    Mack Maloney

    FREEDOM'S LAST STAND All but obliterated by the poisonous fallout of a first strike nuclear attack, America has been reduced to a war-blackened wasteland, struggling to survive. Up from the broken dreams of what was the most powerful country on ea...

  • Under Siege

    Stephen Coonts

    In an explosion of terror, America's worst nightmares come true when Colombian suicide squads hit the streets of Washington. They have gone to war, and will destroy everything and everybody in their path. With its power and communications system b...

  • The Balmoral Nude

    Carolyn Coker

    BURIED TALENT Art expert Andrea Perkins reluctantly agrees to help a former and not fondly remembered lover authenticate and restore some Victorian-era drawings inherited by his wife. The artist is Cecil Fetherston, who hanged for the murder of hi...

  • Cheating Hearts

    Carolyn Keene

    School newspaper editor Karen Jacobs' discovery of a cheating ring at River Heights High threatens her romance with popular Ben Newhouse, while Nikki Masters finds herself torn between two boys--British newcomer Niles Butler and old flame Tim Cooper...

  • Death in a Serene City

    Edward Sklepowich

    Venice called to Urbino Macintyre--intoxicating him with a blend of majesty, history and decay. Strolling past her magnificent palazzos and picturesque canals, the expatriate American writer knew he could love none other--and vowed to remain always. ...

  • Encore Murder

    Marian Babson

    Old rivalries result in murder when Evangeline Sinclair's old acting adversary, Griselda von Kirstenburg, announces her intention to write her memoirs, which will feature unflattering portrayals of Evangeline and Trixie Dolan, and steal the thunder o...

  • Hometown Heroes

    Susanna Hofmann McShea

    NEW BLOOD FROM OLD WOUNDS For thirty years police chief Forrest Haggarty insisted that a serial killer was loose in Raven's Wing--but no one believed him. Now elderly and retired, his suspicions are disregarded as the paranoid ravings of a sen...

  • Miss Seeton at the Helm

    Hamilton Crane

    Sink or Swim Miss Seeton is off to the Mediterranean on a whirlwind cruise--bound for disaster. The passengers include London's greatest art dealers, whose bitter dispute over a questionable antique leads to scandalous accusations ... and murder! St...

  • Model Crime

    Carolyn Keene

    An ultrachic modeling contest draws Nancy into a beauty of a mystery A major modeling agency, a designer clothes company, and a popular teen magazine promise to make one girl's dreams come true. All are sponsors of the Face of the Year contest -- an...

  • Philly Stakes

    Gillian Roberts

    With Christmas fast approaching, Amanda Pepper's class of spoiled prep-school brats have given schoolwork the heave-ho. As a lesson in the true holiday spirit, Amanda plans to have her students cook and serve a meal to the homeless. But the simple me...

  • A Slay at the Races

    Kate Morgan

  • Strategic Moves

    Franklin W. Dixon

    While studying at Oxford University for the summer, Frank and Joe Hardy discover the perils of international relations when their new friends, Soviet twins Pyotr and Petra Zigonev, are kidnapped to force their father, a Soviet peace negotiator, to sa...

  • The Very Last Gambado

    Jonathan Gash

    Lovejoy returns to East Anglia towork as an antique consultant for a movie about a museum robbery. But soon, Lovejoy becomes the center of a vicious web of theft, murder and disappearances and must use all his wits tocome out live....

  • Washington Deceased

    Michael Bowen

    For some it is an "honor cottage." For United States Senator Desmond Gardner it's a minimum security federal prison that he and Sweet Tony Martinelli now call home. Unlike Gardner, Martinelli's rap sheet smacks more of crime in the streets than crime...

  • The Windsor Knot

    Sharyn McCrumb

    Racing to complete her doctoral research, Elizabeth MacPherson is completely booked for the summer -- until her Scottish fiance calls from across the seas with a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to tea with Her Majesty the Queen. There's a hitch, of cou...

  • Back to the Drawing Board

    Bill Myers

    Meet Nick Martin, a normal kid with an unusual friend--the lively, animated McGee! These companion books to the award-winning videos develop the themes to a greater degree, presenting kids with important values. (Ages 8 to 12)...

  • Lady of Penross Manor

    Joan Winmill Brown

    When Charlotte Winton accepts the position of governess at Penross Manor in Cornwall, she is unprepared for the secretive and unfriendly servants, the mysterious face she sees at the east turret window, and her burgeoning relationship with Lord Penro...

  • Tomorrow's Promise

    Judy Baer

    In Yesterday's Dream Lexi Leighton's personal world collapses around her and her faith in God is shaken, but in the end she is assured that He is still with her. Yet her beloved grandmother only gets worse and so does the darkness of the circumstance...

  • Yesterday's Dream

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton has always been there for her friends--a consistent source of help and stability for those in need. But an early morning phone call from the hospital begins a series of events that starts her personal life on a downward spiral. The ...

  • Affair in Biarritz

    Rachel Ford

    Jassy was overjoyed with her inheritance A beautiful villa in Biarritz -- and thirty percent of a famous perfume company. Then she met the fiery managing director, Alain Deville. "You, mademoiselle," he said, "are the most insupport...

  • All We Know of Heaven

    Phyllis Halldorson

    Ensign Heath Tanner had spent six years a prisoner of war -- six years of private hell. Throughout, visions of his angelic wife, Michaela, had sustained him. He'd dream of one day returning home, of Michaela welcoming him with open arms.... Fi...

  • Angel Vs. MacLean

    Cait London

    SHOWDOWN When J.D. MacLean had been a struggling widowed father with nothing to offer the woman he loved, he let Katherine Kelly go. Then her ultimate betrayal sparked his hungry climb to the top -- making him wealthy, powerful and able to give Ka...

  • An Answer from the Heart

    Claudia Jameson

    The company takeover was really unsettling Even worse, to Maxine, was the prospect of having Kurt Raynor as her new boss. She'd been quite content with things the way they were, so it was a shock to find the arrogant, dynamic Mr.Raynor ha...

  • Arrogant Invader

    Jenny Arden

    She thought she was perfectly safe from Jeb There had never been much love lost between Gwenyth Morgan and Jeb Hunter. Jeb might be successful, but he was also arrogant and ruthless, running her father's old quarry with a single-minded desire ...

  • Born to Be Wild

    Kris Cassidy

    TRAVELING MAN They called her the Wild Woman. As guardian of a menagerie of wild animals, veterinarian Jenny Grant was proud of her reputation. It had started years ago when the local parks commissioner had brought a wounded armadillo to her ranch...

  • Brady's Law

    Mary Anne Wilson

    IN A LONELY PLACE Brady Knight was a man alone -- and that was the way he wanted it. A cop's life was hard and dangerous, and there was no place in it for a woman. But Jayne Spencer was more than a woman. She was a lady. And with a world of troubl...

  • By Invitation Only

    Catherine Craco

    TO MAKE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE, ONE BROKE THE RULES. Raised as an aristocrat, Lily Pascal had French sophistication, exceptional artistic talent, and astounding beauty. The creative team she formed with her friends Marcy and Callie raked in profits ...

  • By the Book

    Christine Dorsey

    STARTING OVER When Charlotte Handley left the luxurious Richmond mansion of her ex-husband and moved to a small house in colonial Williamsburg, she vowed to establish her newfound independence. Her daughter Elizabeth, however, had other things in ...

  • A Change of Seasons

    Carin Rafferty

    SHE COULDN'T FORGET No one ever needed Sam Dillon as desperately as Liana Stevens. The award-winning photographer's pictures had inspired Sam's laughter and tears--but lovely, lithe Liana was frozen in a perpetual winter. Sam lured Liana out of...

  • Close to Home

    Cynthia Blair

    When Jessica MacAllister takes time off from her career to move to the suburbs and become a full time wife and mother, it’s not all Ozzie and Harriet. Then her cigar-chomping real-estate agent is murdered, and she can’t resist investigating. Jess...

  • Curtain of Stars

    Patricia Wilson

    Takeover! Alexandra had heard all the rumors about her new boss, Kyle Maddison. He was supposed to be a shark, a corporate raider. The kind of man who puts profits above his employees. She expected that working for him would be difficult, but t...

  • Dark Music

    Charlotte Lamb

    He was still furious at her desertion When Annis ran out of Raphael Leon's life two years ago, she didn't count on seeing the stormy composer again. Certainly not on a holiday in Greece. Suddenly thrown together in appalling circumstan...

  • Dream Man

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    The Hero Who Refused to Fall in Love... Max McKenzie figured the unusual ad fit his article on weird job offers, even if it seemed to belong in the personals column! Though he was one of the worlds most determined bachelors, he applied for the "ma...

  • Duncan's Bride

    Linda Howard

    WIFE WANTED... Reese Duncan lost half his ranch and all his dreams to his ex-wife, so when it came time for a family he did the logical thing: he advertised for a bride. She had to be willing to work, to bear his children and to settle for lovemak...

  • Elements of Chance

    Barbara Wilkins

    You are Valerie Penn, married to the richest man in the world. Your life is a whirl of private jets, charity balls, priceless antiques, mansions in London, New York, Paris, Beverly Hills. You are loved passionately, showered with gifts...and then it ...

  • Escape from Cabriz

    Linda Lael Miller

    PRECARIOUS PREDICAMENT Kristin Meyers's second thoughts about her impulsive decision to marry the exotic prince of Cabriz escalated to panic on their wedding eve. As angry rebels stormed the palace and her royal fiance became a coldhearted strange...

  • Fair Trial

    Elizabeth Duke

    They came from two different worlds Although she'd grown up with a privileged background, Australian lawyer Tanya Barrington had worked hard to gain her qualifications and establish a successful career. It was unfortunate that she and arro...

  • A First Time for Everything

    Jessica Steele

    A little excitement was what she wanted So Josslyn's sudden assignment to Egypt came as a delightful surprise. Pity she couldn't say the same about her new boss. Thane Addison. An overbearing, domineering slave driver. And yet, sometime...

  • Five by Ten

    Cathryn Clare

    Flashback. Cory Vandergill used to have the world in her hands. Once featured in the highly acclaimed television series Five By Ten, she'd shone with bright promise. But a decade later, she'd become haunted by tragedy and scandal. There was no way ...

  • Flawed Hero

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    It was a bit of a culture shock Especially to Abby, a lifelong landlubber, who now found herself running a cruise business in Granada. Of course it was only temporary--just until she helped her aunt sort out a few problems she was having with the ...

  • Freedom's Just Another Word

    Jennifer Mikels

    Professor Joshua MacKenzie smelled trouble... or was it spaghetti sauce? Both! Allison Gentry, the nomadic fellow roomer with whom he shared a bathroom, reveled in the graveyard shift, greeted the dawn with pasta, and thoroughly upset his cherished r...

  • Freshman Lies

    Linda A. Cooney

    KC has never met a guy worth her interest-- before Steven Garth. Wealthy and well-connected, he's got what KC wants. But they're arch-rivals, and KC goes into debt to hide her ordinary background. As their rivalry grows, so do KC's fears: What will s...

  • Friend Against Friend

    Francine Pascal

    Betrayed ... Andy Jenkins and Neil Freemount have been best friends for years. They hang out together, double-date, and help each other math their homework. But bully Charlie Cashman sets out to make life miserable for Andy, just because Andy...

  • Frozen Idol

    Helen Mittermeyer

    The Untouchable Superstar... Ten years had passed since Dolph Wakefield had given an outspoken gamine a lift in his Jaguar in the hills near Nice and succumbed to her innocent sensuality. He'd let himself fall in love with the wood sprite that was...

  • Full Steam

    Cassie Miles

    THE MAN AND THE MYTH His name was always spoken with a whisper of intrigue and curiosity...Jonathan Hillcroft, reclusive billionaire. Though Darcy Conway had wondered about the wild rumors surrounding this powerful man, she never thought she'd hav...

  • Game of Love

    Penny Jordan

    His game, her rules Tasha couldn't refuse to help--not when her favorite cousin's happiness was at stake! But pretending to be someone she wasn't was risky business.... Especially when it involved trying to fool Luke Templecombe. An...

  • The Girl Most Likely to

    Tracy Sinclair

    In school, Kate Beaumont had been something of a shrinking violet, hardly noticed and seldom asked out. But she refused to shrink from attending her class reunion, even if she had to hire a date! With heartstoppingly handsome Garrett Richmond on her ...

  • Haunted Summer

    Joanna Mansell

    Going back was a definite mistake! Rose's first encounter with Nathan Hayward had been traumatic. She knew she should have reported him to the police for the way he'd treated her. It would have served him right if they'd thrown him in ...

  • Heart of the West

    Suzanne Ellison

    Joe Henderson He'd found the ideal way to combine his love of the old west with modern life. The "Slow Joe" steam locomotive was a major tourist attraction in Redpoint, Colorado, and townspeople barely remembered what a hellion little Joey had onc...

  • Her Special Angel

    Marie Ferrarella

    HEAVEN SENT As she lit a candle in the mission at San Juan Capistrano, Jacki Brannigan knew only a miracle would save her ranch from foreclosure. Then from out of nowhere came the answer to her prayers. Lean, rugged Gabriel Goodfellow, a drifter ...

  • The Homing Instinct

    Dixie Browning

    WHERE THE HEART IS Chloe Palmer knew she was lost the moment Quint Stevens lifted her from her ruined car and brought her -- as if she were a stray kitten -- into his warm, secure, all-male pigsty of a home. He had the kind of shoulders a woman...

  • An Impossible Situation

    Margaret Mayo

    The man was unscrupulous And he'd won. Tamara's late father had left his renowned jewelry company to Kiel Kramer--not to her! And Kiel had wasted no time in seizing complete control. He'd always been a thorn in Tamara's side--but now it appeare...

  • An Insatiable Passion

    Lynne Graham

    Kitty Colgan thought things would have changed. Eight years ago she had fled from her home, away from the heartbreak Jack Tarrant had caused her. Now, returning to the small town for her grandmother's funeral, she was determined to lay the...

  • Just Jake

    Shirley Larson

    There was a lot at stake! Realtor Alexandra Holden was on the verge of success. She would make a killing selling her property in the Florida Keys. All she had to do was evict the sexy and distracting Dr. Jake Hustead. But the pediatrician's earthy...

  • Lightning Strikes

    Kathleen Korbel

    SECOND SIGHT Alex Thorne couldn't believe his ears! The beautiful blonde sharing his elevator had just told him that if he took his latest job, his life would be at risk. But Alex was a CPA -- not exactly a risky business. Besides, he didn't b...

  • The Loner

    Lass Small

    MR. SEPTEMBER Name: Clayton Masterson Residence: An isolated mountaintop cabin near Gasp, Wyoming. Population: 30. Companions: Television, a pet wolf and Great-Great Grandad's fiddle. Clayton Masterson preferred being on his own, so he ...

  • Love on Strike

    Janice Boies

    Lillie Evans is attracted to artist and rebel Jay Carson because he is different, but ideological disagreements could destroy their new relationship when a teachers' strike finds them on opposite sides of the picket line...

  • Love Thy Neighbour

    Victoria Gordon

    Fiona was filled with anger Just the sight of this man triggered a furious reaction within her. Her dream of running a dog-training school seemed about to come true when she acquired a piece of land in Tasmania. Then she discovered her neighbo...

  • Married?!

    Annette Broadrick

    IN THE NICK OF TIME Nick Montgomery had been pulling Dani Devereaux out of scrapes since they were kids. But now Dani wondered if she'd finally gone too far -- appearing on his doorstep at midnight, interrupting his hot date with an even hotte...

  • Never Doubt My Love

    Katherine Arthur

    Cassie had put the past behind She'd jumped at the chance of nursing Lincoln Snow. After all, the now prominent stockbroker had once been the object of her schoolgirl dreams. Gradually, under her care, Lincoln was soon on the road to recove...

  • No Place to Hide

    Celeste Hamilton

    Always strong, always a fighter, for the first time Carly Savoy became a victim. And she retreated to the seclusion of a Tennessee lakeside cabin. But no one had warned her about the hauntingly familiar neighbor across the cove...or that his sweet, p...

  • Old Enough to Know Better

    Pamela Toth

    Maybe it was because she'd just turned forty, but teacher Maureen Fletcher felt something was missing from her life. Yet surely that "something" wasn't marriage and motherhood. Surely it wasn't night student Bailey McGuire! Completely inept at domest...

  • One Moment of Magic

    Rita Rainville

    STRANGER THAN FICTION Novelist Amy London was a creative genius when it came to love--on paper. Her active imagination conjured spellbinding romance for her readers, but she had doubts about finding a happy ending of her own. Then wealthy, good-lo...

  • One More Chance

    Ruth Jean Dale

    She was a hard woman to love Juliana Robinson was ambitious. A cutthroat real-estate agent, her motto was Nice Guys Finish Last. Nice guy Ben Ware was an ex-cop whose determination to grow avocados was standing between Juliana and a fat commission...

  • Out of the Night

    Penny Jordan

    There was nothing else she could do Stranded in a border-hills snowstorm, Emily Blacklaw had to accept the handsome stranger's offer of help--even though it meant sharing the warmth of Matt Slater's sleeping bag. It was a turning point ...

  • Outlaw Heart

    Quinn Wilder

    Was he a true desperado? Sarah was stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness with a disturbing stranger who refused to reveal anything about his background or livelihood. He'd said only one reassuring thing to her, "You're not the type...

  • Pandora's Box

    Elizabeth Gage

    Women, like money, were part of the Lancaster legacy. And Haydon Lancaster was heir to the throne, a man bred for the White House, born to succeed. To Laura, brilliant designer and photographer, he was forbidden pleasure, consuming passion, secret ...

  • People Will Talk

    Audra Adams

    SMALL-TOWN BLUES After six months as acting sheriff in quiet Branchport, tough New York cop Vince Messing vowed he'd once again be ready to hit the city streets. But he hadn't counted on falling for local beauty Amanda Simpson. One look at...

  • Petticoat Lawyer

    Kate Meriwether

    Vulnerable... The mere thought stiffened her spine. Attorney Camille Clark had to be tough -- her entire future depended on it. With nerves of steel, she'd have to slice through Officer Pike Barrett's damning courtroom testimony. But could she rut...

  • Pirouette

    Madeline Hale

  • Place for the Heart

    Catherine Leigh

    He was one stubborn cowboy! Still, Felicity was certain she could handle Beau DuBois. After all, she'd handled difficult clients before. Back East, she was considered one of the most persuasive real-estate developers around. But Beau refuse...

  • Prodigal Lover

    Margo Gregg

    TRUTH OR LIES Keely Easton's dreams were shattered the day her husband's helicopter crashed in a Nicaraguan jungle. Since then, Keely had worked to pull her life back together without Bryan Easton. But seven years after the accident, Keely's ca...

  • Rainy Day Kisses

    Debbie Macomber

    She was a woman on the rise Susannah Simmons had a five-year plan for career success. And it didn't include falling in love with her next-door neighbor! Nate Townsend was undeniably attractive, and he obviously had money, but he seemed to l...

  • Ready, Willing and Abel

    Nancy Martin

    LOVESTRUCK! Professor Abel Fletcher didn't believe in love at first sight. It had to be the sacred love stone he'd recently acquired that was making him act like such a dope. What else could explain his sudden attraction to coolly aloof Samantha W...

  • Rescue from Yesterday

    Marisa Carroll

    Simon McKendrick had a mission Fifteen years after the fall of Saigon, his sister Rachel and his brother Micah were being held prisoner in Vietnam by a corrupt government minister. The ransom for their release: a flawless pearl necklace. Simon ...

  • Rhyme or Reason

    Erica Spindler

    The Passionate, Privileged Physician... Dr. Walker Chadwick Ridgeman was bold, confident, a devilishly handsome man of science who liked order and sense--why, then, was he so drawn to a lovely seductress with flaming hair and dreamer's eyes that s...

  • Risks

    Stella Cameron

    WAS SHE READY FOR A NEW BEGINNING? Jennie Andrews was bravely coping with a new business, a house in constant need of repairs, and two teenage sons. Then life suddenly tipped that precarious balance. Peter Kynaston had been the family's best fr...

  • Romeo in the Rain

    Kasey Michaels

    GIRL TROUBLE... A little rain couldn't dampen vacationing widowed mother Courtney Blackmun's spirits. After all, she wasn't at the beach in November to get a tan or socialize - she was there to be alone. Or so she thought. Her teenage daughter, ex...

  • Sarah Cobb

    Catherine M. Rae

    When her arranged marriage to Henry Cobb, an affluent widower twice her age, ends with his untimely death, Sarah Cobb turns to Henry's son William for emotional support, but their blossoming love is threatened by an agonizing Cobb family secret...

  • Scout's Honor

    Diana Whitney

    A WOMAN NAMED JOSIE McGEE... Single parent Cruz Erickson couldn't believe that the fiery-haired female in the leather duds and red motorcycle helmet was his eleven-year-old son's new Scout leader. With her wild coppery curls and outspoken ideas ab...

  • Seasons

    Lisa Gregory

    THERE IS A TIME TO LET GO OF LOVE...AND A TIME TO FIND IT AGAIN. Every woman faces a moment when she discovers nothing stays the same forever... not even love. For beautiful Sharon Thompson, giving herself completely to a man for the first time, l...

  • The Sensation

    Rebecca Flanders

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE Fame. The cheekiest flapper at the Handley Hotel for Young Ladies, Alice Fontaine has bobbed her hair, shortened her skirt and come to New York to realize her dream: become the Sensation of the Decade. Fortune. Nic...

  • Some Enchanted Season

    Patricia Burroughs

    The Hunk with the Wicked Grin... Once Kevyn Llewellyn spotted him in the crowd, she knew her search was over. Rusty Rivers had the magnificent body she needed for the warrior-god of her fantasy painting, and she had to have him right away-even if ...

  • Star-Crossed Lovers

    Kay Hooper

    HER ENEMY, HER LOVE... Perhaps if she'd stayed in Atlanta, Michele Logan would never have had to face Ian Stuart, the ruggedly handsome architect whose family had feuded with hers for centuries. But in the sultry paradise of Martinique fate threw ...

  • Tender Savage

    Iris Johansen

    The Charismatic Revolutionary... Ricardo Lazaro, legendary poet-warrior and rebel leader of Saint Pierre, had been captured saving her brother, and Lara Clavel had come to the Caribbean island ready to risk her life to free him. She knew the rescu...

  • Tigers by Night

    Sandra Canfield

    Everyone was worried about Jake Cameron He'd been ordered to take a break from police work and simply relax. But driven first by guilt, then by desire, Jake had created a situation that was neither simple nor relaxed. He'd volunteered t...

  • To Buy a Groom

    Rita Clay Estrada

    The marriage contract said hands off! One million dollars-that's what Sable LaCroix paid Joe Lombardi to marry her. She desperately needed a complete family to make sure her late husband's parents didn't gain custody of her son. It was the perfect...

  • A Touch of Forgiveness

    Emma Goldrick

    The meanest woman in Northport That's what folks called Kitty Anderson. But Kitty didn't care -- she couldn't forget how they'd duped her brother and exploited her family's land. But it was hard to be mean when Joel Carmody...

  • Wedding Bell Blues

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    UNHOLY MATRIMONY If Kaitlin O'Herlihy got one more wedding invitation, she was going to scream. Suddenly everyone she knew--including her grandmother, for heaven's sake!--was getting married, and it was making a shambles of her well-ordered existe...

  • Wife for Hire

    Janet Evanovich

    The Prospective Husband with a Racy Past. . . . Hank Mallone spotted trouble when she sat down and said she'd marry him! Maggie Toone was a tempting firecracker who'd make his life delightful hell if he let her pretend to be his wife in order to i...

  • A Wild Iris

    Muriel Jensen

    NOTHING IS THE WAY IT SEEMS Melanie Quinn is going back to her childhood home, home to the bucolic Harvest Lake where the wild iris grow. She envisions three months of lazy summer days and long peaceful nights. But that isn't what Aunt Reba...

  • A Woman of Our Times

    Rosie Thomas

    A woman who dreams of everything and more... a woman who wants to have it all... But Harriet Peacock has everything. What more could she possibly want? She has come a long way. From small shopkeeper and betrayed wife, she has made herself the Cit...

  • The Battlemaster

    Christopher Rowley

    ntil bad investments robbed him of all but the poorest of his family estates, Count Geezl - "Emperor" - Karvur had ruled the debauched nights of the planet Wexel. Now circumstances forced him to take his sadistic pleasures among the uncouth peasants ...

  • The Child's Fairy Tale Book

    Kay Chorao

  • Dealing with Dragons

    Patricia C. Wrede

    Princess by Birth. Adventurer by Choice. Meet Princess Cimorene -- a princess who refuses to be proper. She is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart.... And bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a drago...

  • Echoes of the Fourth Magic

    R.A. Salvatore

    THE LEGEND COMES TO LIFE When a U.S. submarine set out from Miami and was drawn off-course by the murderous magic of the Devil's Triangle, Officer Jeff DelGiudice survived the terrifying plunge through the realms. But his good fortune had a shocki...

  • Game's End

    Kevin J. Anderson

    The finale to the Gamearth Trilogy. Itâ,"s all-out war between the players and characters in a role-playing game that has taken on a life of its own. The fighter Delrael, the sorcerer Bryl, as well as famed scientists Verne and Frankenstein, use...

  • The Ghost Inside the Monitor

    Margaret J. Anderson

    PHANTOM OF THE MONITOR Something weird is going on in Sarah's father's new computer store. When Sarah looks at her reflection in the monitor, the face she sees isn't hers! It belongs to a younger girl, named Pascale, whose tragic story mysteriously ...

  • Hawk & Fisher

    Simon R. Green

    HAWK & FISHER They're the battle-scarred crimebusters of a never-ending urban war.... Hawk rules the streets by broadsword. Fisher cracks down on toughs with the deadly dagger that she wields with unflinching skill. Their merciless beat is the rou...

  • Heartlight

    T.A. Barron

    PCL (Pure Condensed Light) = FTL (Faster Than Light travel) A butterfly's wing, a silicon chip, and a new equation for light hold the key to humankind's boldest dream--faster than light travel. A distinguished astronomer and a sensitive young w...

  • The Heirs of Hammerfell

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Now, after a five-year absence, Marion offers us the chance to return to Darkover at the time of The Hundred Kingdoms, an age of war and strife when Darkover was divided by border conflict into numerous small, antagonistic kingdoms. The Heirs of H...

  • The Lost King

    Margaret Weis

    A galactic revolution has toppled the Starfire dynasty, and swept into power the harsh Democratic Republic. To support the murdered king is now punishable by death. But on distant worlds, the few surviving Guardians carry a dangerous secret: Somewher...

  • Masques

    Ru Emerson

    A hunted ballerina escaping underground after years spent Above--A courageous peace activist doomed on the one night when beasts roam free--A madman: jealous, obsessed ... and deadly. All bring danger into the secret world of Vincent and Catherine .....

  • The Mutant Prime

    Karen Haber

    The megalomania of a ruthless, multitalented supermutant called Victor Ashman threatens both normal human and mutant communities as Ashman sets out to test his awesome powers to their terrifying limits...

  • Puss in Boots

    John S. Goodall

  • Rememory

    John Gregory Betancourt

    For catmen Hangman and Slash, prowling the burned-out urban Sprawl is the ideal life. These genetically modified people live to rip off hot cargoes from rival animen. It's a fine life of thief vs. thief...cat vs. dog... Fine, that is, until Slash sco...

  • The Ruby Knight

    David Eddings

    THE MAGIC BHELLIOM Ehlana, Queen of Elenia, had been poisoned. A deep enchantment sustained her life, but only while the Knights aiding it still lived -- and already they were dying, one each month. Then Sparhawk, Knight and Queen's Champion, l...

  • Servant of the Empire

    Raymond E. Feist; Janny Wurts

    Kelewan: the world on the far side of the magical rift where Tsurani court intrigue is as legendary as it is deadly. In Daughter of the Empire the inexperienced Mara of the Acoma is thrust into this realm of vicious political machinations with no all...

  • The Silver Kiss

    Annette Curtis Klause

    Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother. Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeki...

  • The Song of Eve: An Illustrated Journey into the Myths, Symbols and Ritual of the Goddess

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  • Torment of Mr. Gully

    Judith Clarke

  • The Warlock Rock

    Christopher Stasheff

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  • Warriorwards

    Dafydd ab Hugh

  • The Witch Family

    Eleanor Estes

    This story of two girls trying to banish a witch is “full of wonderful fun, excitement, and humor” (Library Journal).   Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly around on her broomstick, crying “Heh-heh!” and casting abracadabras. But ...

  • The Wizard of Rue Morgue

    Simon Hawke

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  • Wren to the Rescue

    Sherwood Smith

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  • 28 Barbary Lane

    Armistead Maupin

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  • All Fall Down

    James Leo Herlihy

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  • Allie's Big Break

    Carrie Austen

  • The American Promise

    Milton Meltzer

  • Archie, Follow Me

    Lynne Cherry

  • B Is for Bethlehem: A Christmas Alphabet

    Isabel Wilner

  • Baby Dot

    Margery Cuyler

    After failing to adjust well to the routines of the learning cave and refusing to go back, spoiled girl dinosaur Baby Dot finally returns and encounters another young dinosaur even meaner than she was....

  • Bad Desire

    Gary Devon

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  • Baumgartner's Bombay

    Anita Desai

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  • Be-Bop, Re-Bop

    Xam Wilson Cartier

    "Compelling...Ms. Cartier joins the ranks of Afro-American writers-among them Ralph Ellison and Ntozake Shange-whose works demonstrate the deep connections between music and narrative."
    NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    Be-Bop, Re-Bop is the pulse of ...

  • Beach Ball

    Peter Sis

    "A stiff breeze blows Mary's beach ball along the water's edge for miles and miles. People, objects and animals appear and disappear as Mary gallops from page to page, chasing the ball....Sis's inimitably cheerful illustrations fuse a riot of unsulli...

  • Beaky

    Jez Alborough

  • Before I Go to Sleep

    Ann Pilling

  • Bert

    Mary Alys Skulavik

  • Big Bad Love

    Larry Brown

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    Ann Durell

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  • The Big Garage on Clear Shot

    Tom Bodett

  • Blood Red Ochre

    Kevin Major

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  • Blue Skies and Jack and Jill

    Hel Hodgman

  • Body

    Harry Crews

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  • Boo Who?

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

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  • Bouncing Dinosaur

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Freddy and William invite Boris, a lonely dinosaur, to come home to live in their village, but Boris's bad habit--bouncing--makes life miserable for everyone, until his bouncing proves useful in outwitting a prowling fox...

  • The Boy of the Bells

    Carly Simon

  • Breaking the Chains

    David Katz

    Describes slavery in the United States, the harsh conditions under which slaves lived, the active and passive resistance with which they fought for their rights, the revolts, and the involvement of slaves in the Civil War....

  • Bufo and Spallanzani

    Ruben Fonseca

  • Bugs Bunny and Friends

    Golden Books

  • Busy O'Brien and the Great Bubble Gum Blowout

    Michelle Poploff

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  • C Is for Curious: An ABC of Feelings

    Woodleigh Hubbard

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  • California Countdown

    Joe Dever

  • Case of the Sticky Fingers

    Jack C. Harris

  • Castaways in Lilliput

    Henry Winterfeld

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  • The Cat Who Escaped From Steerage

    Evelyn Wilde Mayerson

    As nine-year-old Chanah and her family journey from their native Poland to seek a new life in America, Chanah worries about the possible fates of her deaf-mute cousin Yaacov and of Pitsel, the cat she had rescued in Marseilles and smuggled aboard shi...

  • Catch the Sea

    Mary-Rose Hayes

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  • The Chanukkah Guest

    Eric A. Kimmel

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  • Chase

    Alejo Carpentier

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  • The Chocolate Files

    Mary Elise Monsell

  • Chocolate-Covered Ants

    Stephen Manes

  • Choices

    Shad Helmstetter

  • Christina Katerina and the Great Bear Train

    Patricia Lee Gauch

  • Christmas Boot

    Kady MacDonald Denton

  • The Christmas Sky

    Franklyn Mansfield Branley

  • Clifford's Happy Days

    Norman Bridwell

  • Cock-a-Doodle Dudley

    Bill Peet

  • Consider the Lemming

    Jeanne Steig

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  • A Cool Kid - Like Me!

    Hans Wilhelm

  • Cordelia, Dance!

    Sarah Stapler

  • A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories about Love

    Cynthia Rylant

  • Creation

    Stephen Mitchell

  • Dark Matter

    Garfield Stevens

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  • The Dark Way

    Virginia Hamilton

  • Dawn and the Older Boy

    Ann M. Martin

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  • Deadly Illusions

    Samuel Marx

  • Death Warrant

    Gary Hunter

  • Definitions of a Horse

    Jaci Stephen

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  • Desire

    Amy Wallace

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  • Diane Goode's American Christmas

    Diane Goode

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  • Dinner with Fox

    Stephen Wyllie

  • Dinosaur Dances

    Jane Yolen

  • Disney Classics: A Treasury of Best-Loved Tales

    Walt Disney

  • Don't Spill It Again, James

    Rosemary Wells

  • Dwight Eisenhower

    Jack C. Harris

  • East Is East

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the den...

  • Eclipse of the Kai

    Joe Dever

  • Edward Lear: King of Nonsense

    Gloria Kamen

  • An Egg Is an Egg

    Nicki Weiss

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  • Elephant and Crocodile

    Max Velthuijs

  • Elfwyn's Saga

    David Wisniewski

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    G. Bruce Boyer

  • Epic of Kings

    Abolqasem Ferdowsi

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  • The Exception

    Susan Trott

  • The Eye

    Vladimir Nabokov

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  • Eye of the Needle

    Betty Huffmon

  • Fairy Tales of Frank Stockton

    Frank R. Stockton / Frank Richard Stockton

  • False Face

    Welwyn Wilton Katz

  • The Final Club

    Geoffrey Wolff

  • Fire Fighters

    Peter Seymour

  • The First Christmas: With Four Classic Nativity Ornaments

    Joyce Patti