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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 2003

Best Reviewed

House of Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk

Best Reviewed

A Memory of War
Frederick Busch

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The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson

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Kindest Use of a Knife
Vanessa Jones

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Worth Any Price
Lisa Kleypas

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Passing
Nella Larsen

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  • Carole Mortimer

    When Leonie is invited to Rachel Richmond's English country mansion, she's immediately impressed by the famous actress's sophisticated style and impeccable manners. Her first impression of Rachel's handsome son Luke, however, is a dif...



  • Susan Mallery

    Sheltered preacher's daughter Haley Foster ran away from her small town to do all the "bad" things she'd never done. She soon found herself in a hotel room with U.S. Marshal Kevin Harmon. But her knight in shining armor showed no interest in teaching...



  • J.D. Robb

    'She was still three feet away when she'd smelled it. She'd walked with death too many times to mistake it.' After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the body of a young woman in a Delancey Street dumpster. Just hours before, the news station h...



  • Judith McNaught

    Leigh Kendall reveled in her stellar Broadway acting career and in her marriage to Logan Manning, scion of an old New York family. When her husband finds the perfect mountain property for their dream house, he decides to surprise Leigh with her first...



  • Brenda Jackson
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    Houston freelance writer Gina Grant Farrell just got a job offer too good to refuse-a week on a Texas ranch to interview the ruthless, ambitious, and very handsome millionaire Mitch Farrell, who happens to be none other than her ex-husband! Is Mitch'...



  • Stephanie Laurens

    Simon Frederick Cynster knows that a perfect bride and a perfect lover--are one and the same. So he sets about finding a mate to suit his needs--someone who will be a perfect lady by day...and a wanton lover by night. But Simon is not about to bro...



  • Michelle Reid

    Greek tycoon Leandros Petronades married Isobel on the heels of a wild affair. But, within a year, the marriage crashed and burned. Three years later Leandros wants to finalize their divorce. He's found a girl who will make him a suitable wife...



  • Sara Craven

    Jenna is happy to be her cousin's bridesmaid, but she wishes someone had warned her that the best man is going to be Ross Grantham. The man she once exchanged marriage vows with- in the very same church! It's two years since she last saw him;...



  • Sharon Sala

    Mayhem is at its bawdy best in Lizard Flats, a town lousy with gamblers, fornicators and misfits, a rowdy band either doomed to damnation or ripe for salvation -- depending on the point of view... With the news that their first honest-to-goodness ...



  • John Grisham

    The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a youn...



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    Across the ages roams an immortal troupe of actors, gifted with fantastical powers and led by a mysterious artiste with a penchant for meddling. Wherever they roam, they encounter magic and monsters and evil that requires taming. This is the first...



  • Margaret Way

    The McQueens are the town's founding family, and Ruth McQueen is their matriarch. She's a dangerous woman to cross, as Sarah Dempsey found out sixteen years ago. Pregnant and desperately in love with Ruth's adored grandson Kyall, Sarah st...



  • Jill Shalvis

    Dr. Nicole Mann is simply too busy for romance. Her work as a surgeon consumes her entire world and she prefers it that way. That is, until she meets too-charming-for-his-own-good Ty O'Grady. This sexy architect with his enticing Irish accent has her...



  • M.C. Beaton

    Wretched after being dumped by her husband, bored with pottering about Carsely, and wishing every man would sod off, including her neighbor John Armitage, Agatha Raisin is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-h...



  • Carla Cassidy

    THE BABY BARGAIN It was the perfect plan. Melanie Watters wanted a baby badly, so she proposed marriage to the most confirmed bachelor in town -- her best friend, Bailey Jenkins. In return for getting Melanie pregnant, frustrated pageant-judge Bai...



  • Carla Cassidy

    Colette Carson didn't need a man in her life, but she wanted a baby more than anything. So she headed to the local sperm bank to make her dream come true. Then handsome rancher Tanner Rothman arrived in town and turned Colette's secure world upside d...



  • Rebecca Winters

    Nate Hawkins was a close friend of fellow air force pilot Scott Pierce. But he concealed one fact from Scott: Nate was in love with Scott's wife, Laurel. Now Scott is dead -- and Laurel is obviously pregnant. But the timing's off, and as far as Nate'...



  • Rebecca Winters

    Nicco Tescotti is drop-dead gorgeous, but this eligible prince needs to marry for duty, and he still hasn't found a suitable wife. So he decides to buy a bride. Only, his wedding ultimatum unexpectedly produces two potential candidates -- and the...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    He had come to South America to find her, to learn from the legendary healer what it was to mend lives. But Sergeant Burke Gifford hadn't expected the surge of powerful feeling Angel Paredes would stir in his heart. After all, he was a rough-and-tumb...



  • Patricia Wilson

    When she unexpectedly inherits a ranch near the Rocky Mountains, Laura Hughes and her teenage brother leave England for a fresh start in Canada. Her wide-eyed innocence and natural charm soon draw the attention of Cal Wexford. He offers her a job so ...



  • Cathy Williams

    Bedded by her Greek tycoon boss... Lucy Reid had a crush on her boss, Nick Constantinou. Then one evening while working late, her dreams came true -- Nick arrived at the office unexpectedly and, before they knew it, passion had taken over! Now ...



  • Delores Fossen

    NYC cop Rayanne Garrett has a lot to live down when she returns to Longhorn, Texas, to get Aunt Evie -- her only relative -- out of jail. Unfortunately, the current sheriff is the one Rayanne has to live down! An embarrassing moment with Rios McKay e...



  • Brenda Novak

    To support herself and her one-year-old daughter, Gabrielle Hadley is working as a prison guard just about the only job available in the small desert town of Florence, Arizona. Randall Tucker is a prisoner at Florence, convicted of murdering his w...



  • Debra Webb

    DEEP The mission was always top priority for a Specialist -- except this assignment was personal for agent Vince Ferrelli. Though anyone would be hard-pressed to find a tougher operative, Vince had one vulnerability...Katrina Moore. UNDER "Kat" had ...



  • Carolyn Brown

    Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can't laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Jackson Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and ...



  • Mary Higgins Clark

    A dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed short stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense.Henry Parker Britland IV -- wealthy, worldly, and popular -- is enj...



  • Christina Dodd

    Two exquisite cousins must exchange identities in a scandalous deception. Madeline de Lacy, the duchess of Magnus, prides herself on being one of the most sensible young women in England, which is why she can't believe that, in a turn of the card...



  • Candace Camp

    SHE NEVER EXPECTED TO LOVE AGAIN... On the eve of her wedding to Michael Trent, the Earl of Westhampton, Rachel Aincourt tried to elope with another man -- only to be unceremoniously returned to her fiance by her strong-willed father. Burdened by gu...



  • Cassie Edwards

    What would make a wealthy Louisiana planter marry an Indian woman? the townsfolk ask. And when he raises his two copper-skinned sons as though they are white, some whisper that only trouble can come of it. Red Feather grew up sensing there was a vita...



  • Jane Feather

    Lady Philippa Nielson had no memory of what took place in her bedchamber in the dead of night--nor knowledge of the dangerous plot that put her life in jeopardy. But with a brief touch of his hand and one glance of his knowing gray eyes, Pippa felt a...



  • Maureen Child
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    Assistant D.A. Gina Palermo was a nice girl -- with a gangster family. And when a threat to her life put this law-abiding daughter under the protection of one of her dad's mob men, Gina wondered if she could resist the tempting embrace of sexy Nick F...



  • Maureen Child

    While pastry chef Nora Bailey perfected the art of baking a cinnamon roll, she'd somehow wound up the last virgin in all of California. Now it was time for this old-fashioned girl to become an ex-virgin. Only, just as she was about to embark on her b...



  • Helen Brooks

    Name: Jacques Querruel Occupation: Self-made millionaire Reputation: The ultimate playboy Jacques Querruel appeared regularly in society magazines with a string of women.When he decided that he wanted shy, sexy Holly Stanton as his personal assi...



  • Luanne Rice

    Beneath his careful and controlled demeanor, attorney John O'Rourke is a man whose life is in turmoil. Since the death of his wife, he has been juggling the rigors of a controversial capital murder case and the demands of raising two children. Eleven...



  • Dee Henderson

    A killer returns. FBI agent Luke Falcon has a dead woman on his hands, a fresh victim from his old adversary, Frank Hardin. This time, Frank won't walk away. But even that case will have to wait when Luke's extended family disappears over Labor Day ...



  • Kasey Michaels

    How I Spent My Summer Vacation Good girl Jane Preston is getting ready for her annual July ritual. The one where she packs up the insect repellent and binoculars and heads off to the mountains...with her parents. It's not exactly a scintillating p...



  • Lindsay Armstrong

    The sexual tension between Ellie and wealthy Australian Brett Spencer is overwhelming, but Ellie is dismayed when he proposes a marriage of convenience. How can she marry a man she is so sure could never love her? At first Ellie refuses to put her...



  • Julie Miller

    HE HAD ALL THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A SEASONED VETERAN -- ON THE JOB...AND OFF! Suddenly something was more important to rookie officer Josh Taylor than busting a campus drug ring and making detective. Because when Josh's undercover investigation stran...



  • Anne Perry

    Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful and notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha...



  • Beverly Jenkins

    JOSEPHINE Josephine Best has it all figured out. Just seventeen, she's been to college, she has her own hairdressing shop, and she refuses to be distracted by any of that courting nonsense. At least until nice George Brooks begins to pursue her. Joj...



  • Catherine Mann

    Agent: Ethan Williams Mission: Intercept international jewel thieves with information on the whereabouts of a missing agent. Deepest Secret: He's spent his life searching for his parents' killers, but the answers he seeks are closer than he thinks....



  • Allison Leigh
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    A night of passion brought Dr. Luke Trahern more than a respite from professional burnout. Upon discovering that Melanie Summerville was carrying his child, he insisted on knowing her motives -- but Melanie wasn't about to listen to his demands!...



  • Daniel Silva

    In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts down his brushes, and leaves immediately. And at the Vatican, the new Pope vows to uncover the truth about the church's respon...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Jack Granger, counselor to the Deveraux shipping empire and totally devoted to the senior Deveraux, had been shadowing the love child of his mentor for nearly a decade. Granger had watched Daisy grow from a petulant rich girl into a driven young woma...



  • Donna Fletcher

    Let Donna Fletcher sweep you back to 16th-century Scotland and a passionate tale of love under the most poignant circumstances... Just when it seems she is finally free -- free of a bleak future with her contemptuous husband, that is -- Brianna C...



  • Karen Harper

    The vibrant pageant of Elizabethan England comes vividly alive in Karen Harper's fifth novel in her acclaimed Elizabeth I mystery series. In the gardens of Hampton Court, Elizabeth proudly shows a famed visitor her huge maze. But the intricate labyri...



  • Robert Crais

    Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole--until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes. Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by thr...



  • Robert Crais

    P.I. Elvis Cole's relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. Then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with Elvis, the boy vanishes without a trace. When the kidnappers call, it's n...



  • Daphne Clair

    Zito and Roxane Riccioni were still married when they accidentally conceived their baby. But they hadn't lived together for over a year! Roxane's unexpected announcement left Zito in no doubt -- the marriage was definitely back on. Roxane ...



  • Amanda Ashley

    HE HAS BECOME WHAT HE ONCE DESTROYED Edward Ramsey has spent his life hunting vampires. Now he is one of them. Yet Edward's human conscience--and his heart--compel him to save beautiful Kelly Anderson, and soon their growing love is his reason for...


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