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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 1983

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Things to Come and Go
Bette Howland

New Books List: 254 titles

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  • Penny Jordan

    She had weathered life's storms alone Tara had been only seventeen when she'd given herself to James. She had borne him twins in secret, inventing a short-lived marriage to protect her fatherless children and to hide her shame. The year...



  • Carole Mortimer

    How could she have let him kiss her? Besides her husband, no one had ever kissed Jessica until Matthew Sinclair did. And after seven years of coldness in a desperately unhappy marriage, she was shocked to find herself stirring in response to this ...



  • Anne Mather

    She had made her choice years ago As a girl, Jaime had learned how powerful love can be in the arms of a wealthy Italian count, Raphael di Vaggio. Yet she had rejected him to pursue her career. He had found someone else and for five years Jaime...



  • Jude Deveraux

    They were both outcasts by a harsh decree, on the brink of a shared destiny of passion! With her father murdered, her home burned, lovely Alyx Blackett fled to the woods -- and sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the...



  • Heather Graham

    "I'll never see things your way!" Leigh raged. Arrogant, imperious, Derek Mallory -- famed English rock star -- watched her with mock surprise. Had he summoned her to his palatial estate on Star Island to offer her the chance to prove ...



  • Fern Michaels

    One of the most acclaimed storytellers of her time, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels weaves unforgettable tales of love, family, friendship, and self-discovery. Together in one volume for the first time, here are two classic stories...



  • Sara Craven

    Could he seduce her into forgetfulness? Courtney had always dreamed of one day desired by a lover and responding ardently to him. But with the right man -- not ever with Blair Devereux! For three long years, the memory of how Blair had ruined ...



  • LaVyrle Spencer

    Lee Walker strode through a man's world with the proud strength of her Cherokee ancestors, outbidding the toughest competition in the construction industry - and hiding the hurt of a secret loss. Then she unwittingly switches suitcases at the air...



  • Louis L'Amour

    THE NAME IS BOWDRIE It was a name that caused the most hardened gunmen to break out in a cold sweat. Chick Bowdrie. He could have ridden the outlaw trail, but the Texas Rangers recruited him because they didn't want to have to fight against him. P...



  • Anne Hampson

    AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE When Jane left America for the Australian Outback, she left with high hopes for a happy new life. But there she met the handsome and domineering Scott Farnham and instead found herself in a heartbreaking trap. Even though it...



  • Francine Rivers

    In The Harsh Land Of The California Sierras, A Wild Love Struggles To Be Born Kathryn Durham was familiar with hardship -- raising her younger brother, Jeremy, without a mother; keeping house for her father. But Katie loved their homestead, adored...



  • Kay Thorpe

    He wanted an heir more than a wife! The rigid conventions of Morley Grange had driven Emma's grandmother into exile when she had dared love a man beneath her social station. Now Emma had returned to her ancestral home and found love with the p...



  • Essie Summers

    She would never marry without love! When her stepfather's death left Luenda in debt, and with three children to support, she seemed to need a miracle -- and that's just what a friend's will provided. A year free of expense on an iso...



  • Joan Wolf

    Chris was a struggling actor and Mary a struggling scholar, but their marriage was a perfect, passionate union -- until the glitter of Hollywood and a dazzling starlet stole Chris away. At the time when she needed him most, he betrayed and failed her...



  • Orson Scott Card

    JUSTICE IS CRUEL But tender mercy is the cruelest of all. It was for mercy's sake that Palicroval the Fair left you to live after the desecration of your honor...to live and become great Queen Beauty, whose power makes the very gods tremble and...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    THEY CALLED HIM FLINX... He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely compelling stare when Mother Mastiff first saw him on the auctioneers block. One hundred credits and he was hers. For years the old woman was h...



  • Don Pendleton

    A headlong rush into Hell No human can go on forever without respite. But even on well-earned R & R in the pristine wilderness, Mack Bolan is again called to the howling hellgrounds of justice and death. Through the steep-walled canyons of Idah...



  • Edith Layton

    BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA Lovely Regina Berryman was pursued by two men -- the two most attractive and infamous bachelors in London. One was Jason Thomas, Duke of Torquay, whose skill and success in seduction had made him a legend...



  • Kerry Allyne

    His very presence put her on her guard Rowan had no choice but to go to work for the overbearing arrogant Fraser Delaney -- she needed the job, and besides, if she refused, it could jeopardize her best friend Tanya's job on Fraser's planta...



  • Dixie Browning

    HE WAS THE LAST MAN ON EARTH SHE COULD TRUST. Love was a cruel teacher for Grace Spencer. It brought her nothing but pain and humiliation, and she was determined that no man would ever take advantage of her again. Now that her life was finally ...



  • John Le Carre

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; now a miniseries on AMC starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon, and Florence Pugh."You want to catch the lion, first...



  • John D. MacDonald

    A television star wilting under the limelight. An adman with a stiff upper lip. A rising New York artist. A desperate housewife. All are victims of a cruel puppet master -- and one of them is a killer.Introduction by Dean KoontzThe head of a global c...



  • John D. MacDonald

    Dead Low Tide is an iconic early thriller from John D. MacDonald, the mastermind behind Cape Fear and the Travis McGee novels. On the coast of Florida, a working stiff is wrongfully accused of murdering his boss -- and must outwit one of MacDonald’...



  • Marjorie Lewty

    He would do anything to get what he wanted Piran St. Just had told her so himself, and Polly was soon to find out how true his words would be. A wife would make it easier to win custody of his nephew Jules, and the little boy had become very at...



  • Jake Logan

    JOHN SLOCUM WAS NO CATTLE DROVER. But for an old friend's sake and a chance at 50.000 dollars, he'd ride through Hell -- and Hell might have been easier. Slocum had 2,500 head of steers, a handful of desperate wranglers. and his boss's desirable daug...



  • Peter Straub

    Two monstrous evils. The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous, unstoppable creation of man's power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child's...



  • Karen Van Der Zee

    She had to break free of his love Sanny Copeland was all too familiar with the pain and rejection love seemed to bring. Now she was immune to it. If Mark Taylor thought he could change her, that was his business. Hers was pursuing a career as a jo...



  • Judith Duncan

    SHE CARRIED HER HEARTACHE LIKE A SEARING FLAME Nightclub singer Jillian Lambert had a special earthy quality to her voice that excited critics and audiences alike. Her fans didn't know that the deep emotion she poured into her music was evoked by ...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    Unspoken past ... Unspoken, but not unremembered. How could Anne ever forget the brief hours she had shared with Kyle Harrison--or his anger when he discovered that she wasn't free to love? Three years had passed, years which hadn't di...



  • Marion Zimmer Bradley

    BLACK AND WHITE MAGIC WERE AT WAR .. . Domaris, disciple of the Temple of Light, was wrenched from her peaceful life by the arrival of Micon, the Atlantean prince, whose powers over wind and sun, earth and fire, are coveted by the sorcerers of the...



  • Joan Aiken

    Depleted by a passionate life brimming with love and lovers, free-spirited Clytie Churchill becomes haunted by the shadows of her past until a harrowing experience, when she is held captive with a French doctor, transforms her...



  • Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of th...



  • Don Coldsmith

    A FATHER'S QUEST Don Pedro Garcia impatiently measured time in the number of forced marches the horses could endure. He was an old man now, and he wanted to see his son who. rumor had it, was alive among the Indians of the Great Plains. Don Pedro'...




  • Tabor Evans

    SILVER WAS DISAPPEARING WITHOUT A TRACE... Peacock was a two-bit town stuck high along the Continental Divide. But that's where the narrow-gauge railroad picked up the payload from the silver mines. And that's where a slippery gang of train robber...



  • J.R. Roberts

    Sheriff Jack Tyler has a habit of looking the other way when there's trouble in Tylerville -- but maybe that's because his old man happens to own the town. And maybe that's why they're none too happy when deputy Joe Bags decides to run against Tyler ...



  • Margaret Pemberton

    London, 1914. Lady Catherine Davencourt is eagerly awaiting her marriage to Robert, Marquis of Clare, when she is brought terrible news -- he has been brutally murdered. She is doubly horrified when her penniless stepmother schemes with her late f...



  • Jon Sharpe

    WHERE WERE THE STOLEN WOMEN? A wily Crow warrior was kidnapping the women of Sunwater and hiding them somewhere in the Dakotas. And his raids were right under the guns of Fort Jasper's commander, a man of very small talent, militarily and otherwis...



  • Herman Wouk

    A masterpiece of historical fiction and "a journey of extraordinary riches" (New York Times Book Review), War and Remembrance stands as perhaps the great novel of America's "Greatest Generation." These two classic works capture the tide of world eve...



  • April Kihlstrom

    A DEVIL'S CHOICE Heather Wade faced a thoroughly devilish dilemma when she heard the astounding proposal of the wealthy and notorious Sir Leslie Kinwell. This man who had brutishly dishonored her virtue now calmly announced she was to become his w...



  • Bonnie Drake

    "To sum it all up, I see myself stranded, with neither past nor future, in a small house, with a very beautiful woman:' April Wilde's heart pounded, her mind was in a whirl. What was she to make of this handsome shipwrecked stranger? Marooned in h...



  • Mike Resnick

    The second volume in the 4-book Tales of the Galactic Midway series. The carnival has left Earth and is touring the stars, and is finding out that making a living light-years from Earth is no easier than doing it here. Thaddeus Flint and his crew hav...



  • Abra Taylor

    SEASON OF SEDUCTION...of innocence lost and ecstasy found. In keeping her tennis-pro sister out of trouble, Michele Haworth ran into a problem of her own: Damon Pierce, one-time demon of the circuit. Damon was the kind of man who played to win -- ...



  • Sonya T. Pelton

    SEASWEPT PASSION The sultry breezes tossed the island palms and caressed the aqua waves. And as beautiful, copper-haired Pandora walked the endless beach all she could think about was the handsome, arrogant sea captain, Rogan Thorn. His kiss was t...



  • Alice Munro

    Eleven “witty, subtle, [and] passionate” (The New York Times Book Review) stories from Nobel Prize�"winning author Alice Munro, “a true master of the form” (Salman Rushdie) “Alice Munro’s fine and intelligent stories are like Edward Hopp...



  • Ann Cristy

    It wasn't Teel's habit to lie--but then, Chazz Herman, with his devastating golden eyes and glittery jet-set world, was a dangerous man. He'd stop at nothing to get a woman he wanted--and he wanted every inch of Teel. If he thought she was a nun--she...



  • Nancy John

    Nina's future in the ballet seemed assured, as did her future in love. But nothing was as it seemed, and soon both were gone. Suddenly she was free to explore her relationship with British tycoon Dextor Rolfe, the man who had been tempting her...



  • Meg Hudson

    A PILGRIMAGE IN THE NAME OF LOVE... Monica knew it was foolish to real time as a tour guide. But she had to find out why Ian MacGregor--the handsome laird with whom she'd fallen rapturously, irrevocably in love a year earlier--had cut her off ...



  • Lori Herter

    Yes -- she couldn't deny it -- she still wanted him. But it could never be as it had been before. A few short years ago Stacie Smythe had been his student at the university. Awed by his brilliance, overwhelmed by her own desire, she had becom...



  • Sara Chance

    Tawny, feline Summer McAllister was a born sailor, captain of her own ship, but one look at jet-setter Brandon Marshall and her heart was caught. When Brandon chartered the Sea Mist for two weeks, he was astonished to find her in charge. From the mom...


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