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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1995

Best Reviewed

The Faithful Gardener
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Best Reviewed

The Carriage Stone
Sigbjorn Holmebakh

Best Reviewed

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt

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  • Nora Roberts

    FOR JARED, WOULD IT BE COLD PRIDE -- OR WARM BRIDE? Jared MacKade was used to getting his way -- especially when it came to women -- but he was getting exactly NOWHERE with Savannah Morningstar. The lady was drop-dead gorgeous, and she had a drop-...



  • Debbie Macomber

    Hard Luck, Alaska -- a town that needs women Location: 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150--mostly men--but growing! Because the O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign t...



  • Diana Palmer
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  • Linda Howard

    SHE RETURNED TO UNCOVER OLD SECRETS...AND NEW DESIRES �" FAITH DEVLIN -- A poor, outcast child in Prescott, Louisiana, she'd always adored the town's golden boy from afar. But he called her white trash that sultry Southern night when his rich, re...



  • Lynne Graham

    The Marriage Mistake Leah's marriage to powerful Greek businessman Nik Andreakis was an empty sham, and she was determined to get a divorce. But Nik didn't want one. In the circumstances, Leah found that totally unbelievable. Why would he ...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Jamie Montgomery, an impoverished Elizabethan knight, is elated when he is assigned to escort Axia, the Lancaster heiress, to the castle of her betrothed. If only she will fall in love with Jamie--as Jamie's devoted older sister predicts--the family'...



  • Betty Neels

    A SUITABLE WIFE? Emma Trent had spent most of her life looking after other people, so it was a shock to encounter a man so determined to take care of her -- Sir Paul Wyatt was fast becoming her very own guardian angel! She was hardly in a pos...



  • J.D. Robb

    In a time when technology can reveal the darkest of secrets, there's only one place to hide a crime of passion--in the heart... The first victim was found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second was murdered in her own apartment building. Poli...



  • Mary Balogh
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  • Charlotte Lamb

    Wedding nerves... This was supposed to be the happiest day of Gabriella's life--her wedding day. But last night the fear had finally begun to tear her apart and she knew she couldn't go through with the ceremony. She could walk out, van...



  • Karen Robards

    SHE RAN FROM LOVE. UNTIL HE CAUGHT HER. Molly Ballard was desperate. It wasn't easy caring for two brothers and two sisters; and keeping a roof over their heads. She needed money more than ever. Yet in a fit of anger she quit her job as a groom at...



  • Lisa Jackson

    Kate Summer's life flies apart when her husband and daughter are tragically killed. That same year, Boston debutante Bibi Sullivan gives birth to a son after a scandalous affair. Their lives dovetail when Kate is given the chance to adopt Bibi's chil...



  • Sherryl Woods

    UNEXPECTED BABY! Widowed Jessie Adams was about to give birth, and she needed help -- fast! Unfortunately, the closest ranch in the small Texas town belonged to her brother-in-law, Luke, who didn't know a thing about delivering babies. And though...



  • Sharon Sala

    HE IS HER ONLY CHANCE Samantha Carlyle is paralyzed by fear. Only weeks ago, she was one of Hollywood's hottest casting directors. Then the letters and phone calls began. Someone is watching ...waiting. Someone wants her dead, but no one believes ...



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    Mortally wounded, Haplo finds himself at the mercy of Lord Xar, facing a fate worse than death. Xar plans to resurrect Haplo--bringing him back to life as one of the tormented living dead--to force him to reveal the location of the legendary Seventh ...



  • R.L. Stine

    Ring in the New Fear P.J. wasn't supposed to die. It was just a practical joke, no big deal. But P.J. had a bad heart.... The kids at Reenie's Christmas party couldn't tell the police what they'd done, so they hid the body...and then it disappe...



  • R.L. Stine

    FORGET FROSTY! Jordan Blake and his sister, Nicole, are sick of the hot weather in Pasadena. Just once they'd like to have a real winter. A real winter with real snow. And then it happens. The Blakes are off to Alaska! Seems that Mr. Blake has been ...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS... Okay, so Mommy didn't get pregnant the conventional way. After all, she's a woman of the nineties - and, unfortunately, all work and no play. And even though a sperm bank might seem a cold, artificial way to have a baby, ...



  • William W. Johnstone

    Legend. Outcast. Free Man.The natural enemy of every free man is his own government . . . The land of the free and the home of the brave is no longer a safe place for men like Darry Ransom. Once, he believed in the promise of a nation based on libert...



  • Miranda Lee

    A lingering kiss... Angie was determined to throw off her memories of Lance Sterling. It had been nine years since her brother's impossibly handsome friend had stolen her fifteen-year-old heart with a kiss. It was time to move on, time to s...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR LOVE? Carrie Brooks' answer: leave her home, her job, her very existence, to run away with a murder suspect, a man whose only prior introduction to her was as her kidnapper. She has no reason at all to trust him. After all, h...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    A DRIVING NEED Culver Lachlan wanted no part of teaming up with beautiful Pilar Martinez for a new mission. Seeing her again brought bitter memories of how she'd abandoned their love ...yet reminded him of the torrid passion they'd once shared ......



  • Cathy Williams

    Would he give her a second chance? Once, Dominic Duvall's passion for Katherine had made her feel alive and, for the first time, she'd tasted freedom. But freedom had its price and the tragic secret Katherine could never reveal had forced ...



  • Sandra Marton

    When a will leads to a wedding... This is Grant's story: "What a legacy for my father to leave me. Crista Adams--my ward! But the woman is no more a child than I am. In fact, with her lifestyle, I doubt Crista ever was a child. Why is it...



  • Jacqueline Baird

    Would Valentine play Cupid? When Zoe's baby arrived on February 14, it seemed only natural to call him Valentine! But as far as Zoe was concerned. Valentine had been the only romance in her brief marriage to Justin Gifford. And since Justin ha...



  • Cassie Edwards
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  • Cassie Edwards

    TWO WORLDS, ONE LOVE Being sent to the Kansas Territory gave rebellious Hannah Kody what she longed for-freedom. She came to her brother's ranch to be his eyes, as his sight was failing. Yet his misfortune couldn't dim the joy she found in the lim...



  • Catherine George
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    Judith's marriage to Nick Campion had been brief and turbulent. But, two days before Christmas, she found herself making her way to her childhood home with her estranged husband. The journey was destined to be stormy�"and not just because of the ter...



  • Jane Feather

    As the stranger's arms closed around her, Octavia Morgan knew she'd just made the biggest mistake of her life. Picking pockets had seemed the only answer to her desperate plight. But now she'd been caught, and there was worse to come. For...



  • Maureen Child

    A DARING SCHOOLMARM From the minute teacher Winifred Matthews was captured by bank robber Quinn Hawkins, she couldn't have been more delighted! Fleeing from the law across Texas' wide plains, facing down danger at every turn�"it was the wild west s...



  • Virginia Henley
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    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...



  • Connie Mason

    THE LADY AND THE LION Lord Lyon of Normandy had saved William the Conqueror from certain death on the battlefield, yet neither his strength nor his skill could defend him against the defiant beauty the king chose for his wife. Ariana of Cragmer...



  • Rochelle Alers
    in

    Every year, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve combine to create a season of hope and happiness, cherished memories and new beginnings. Now, this exciting Arabesque collection captures the spirit of the season in three heartwarming stories of pass...



  • Lori Copeland
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    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...



  • Caroline Anderson

    An unexpected gift Melissa Shaw adored her job as ward sister on Paediatrics at the Audley Memorial, but she was looking forward even more to her Christmas baby. It grieved her that she'd had to be so underhand about its conception, but she did plan...



  • Leigh Michaels

    "I want to be Santa," Zack Forrest said, "In fact, I insist on it!" Brandi was a career woman--with no time for Christmas! So when Zack Forrest appointed himself as children's Santa at her department store, Brandi was furious. ...



  • Anne McAllister

    A COWBOY'S CHRISTMAS WISH Noah Tanner had taken more hard knocks on the rodeo circuit than he cared to count, but nothing had ever thrown him for a loop like this! A chance encounter brought him face-to-face with Tess Montgomery--and the child...



  • Sara Orwig

    SINGLE MOTHER IN TROUBLE Gritty homicide detective Jake Delancy was steamed about baby-sitting, a blonde--even one as tempting as Rebecca Bolen. Hell, he had a cold-blooded killer to catch!! But the innocent single mom was the assassin's avowed ne...



  • Richard North Patterson

    Long estranged from her blue-blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder. Police found twenty-two-year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crim...



  • Christopher Pike

    Descend into underground danger in this third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series -- now on TV!There is a famous cave located just outside of Spooksville. A lot of stories surround the dark place: scary o...



  • Judy Christenberry

    Dear Santa, I'm just a simple cowboy who wants a housekeeper for Christmas. What I don't want is a wife! But ever since my ranch hands placed an ad, I've been up to my neck in wives. There are lots of desperate women in Wyoming --- you...



  • Joan Smith

    THE OBJECT WAS TO AVOID SCANDAL AT ALL COST Not only had her wayward brother run off with another man's chere amie, he was also accused of theft! Samantha Oakleigh desperately needed help to find the boy and clear his name, and hoped it would ...



  • Madeline Baker
    in

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...



  • Harry Turtledove

    THEY CUT THE UNITED STATES IN TWO. THEY DEVASTATED MUCH OF EUROPE. THEY HAD A FEROCIOUS AGENDA. AND NO ONE COULD STOP THEM. World War II screeched to a halt as the Russians, Germans, Americans, and Japanese scrambled to meet an even deadlier fo...



  • Stella Cameron

    SHE WAS INNOCENCE... Lady Justine Girvin, the Duke of Franchot's elegant spinster sister, decided to grab one last chance for happiness -- by doing something incredibly scandalous. Defying convention, she had traveled alone to a Scottish castle ...



  • Janelle Taylor
    in

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...



  • Margaret Moore

    RELUCTANT BRIDE Never the docile, obedient maid, Madeline de Montmorency railed against her fate, proclaiming she'd not go willingly to the marriage bed of a stranger. Especially since her heart had chosen another alliance --- with a man branded as ...



  • Sandra Field

    The runaway wife! Troy Donovan had struggled hard to get his life back together, only to realize that the best part of it had walked out the door a year before. He needed his wife back or out of his system for good. So he had tracked Lucy down and...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    ALL SHE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS Doll shop owner Ryan Clark wants one thing--a family. She's ready for a lifetime pledge. Babies. Deep, soul-warming contentment. But first she has to find a reliable man--not an irresistible rogue with wanderlust. AL...


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