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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1997

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Here
Nathalie Sarraute

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Children of Darkness and Light
Nicholas Mosley

Best Reviewed

Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman

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Zinnia
Jayne Castle

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  • Anne Mather

    Some secrets just won't stay hidden Why had Jaime Harris left a perfectly good job to come to work for his stepmother, Catriona? Dominic Redding was curious--and intrigued. Jaime had come to Bermuda with a purpose--to find out more about Ca...



  • Julie Garwood

    Douglas Clayborne will never turn his back on anyone in need, and everyone in Blue Belle knows it. Time and again, his intolerance of cruelty of any kind has made him a champion of the defenseless ... but his quiet strength faces its ultimate battle ...



  • Janet Dailey
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    On a warm spring night in a New Orleans Garden District mansion, the pick of society are gathering. Masquerading as Legendary Lovers, they have come to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Duchaise masquerade ball. Charles and Millicent Duch...



  • Sara Craven

    Once wasn't enough... Zanna Westcott was a successful businesswoman with a track record for ruthless takeovers and always putting business before pleasure. Jake Lantrell was pleasure...sheer unadulterated pleasure. Zanna's attraction to...



  • Emma Darcy

    The seven-year itch! On the outside Gina Tyson seemed to have the perfect marriage -- but inside she ached with frustration at the distance Reid had placed between them. So Gina decided to challenge her husband -- and was shocked by what she he...



  • Kat Martin

    previously released under title: Lover's Gold May 1991 Publisher: Diamond Books ISBN: 1557735050 ISBN13: 9781557735058 When a hired gunman came to her small Pennsylvania town, Ela...



  • Kat Martin

    FROM THE DEPTHS OF AN ENGLISH FOREST TO GLITTERING BALLROOMS TO THE SCAFFOLD'S DARK SHADOW, RIDE THE PATH OF TEMPTATION... Lovely Velvet Moran has renounced all thoughts of love. To save her family from ruin, she will wed the hard-faced Duke of Ca...



  • R.L. Stine

    Hope couldn’t wait to get to college. She was going to share a dorm room with her three best friends. Even better, her boyfriend, Darryl, would be living on the boys’ floor downstairs. Fear Hall was going to be a blast…until things take a terri...



  • R.L. Stine

    Collects favorite quotes form some of the spookiest Fear Street books and invites readers to record their strangest and scariest experiences, in a diary that includes a dream dictionary, fortune-telling activities, and quizzes. Original....



  • Beverly Lewis

    It's St. Patrick's Day, but Jimmy doesn't want to participate in the silly customs. Who will win in this brother-sister tug-of-war? Ages 7-10. Cul-de-sac Kids book 14....



  • J.A. Jance

    Brianna "Bree" O'Brien neverretumed from Skeleton Canyon. Someone brutally murdered the pretty, popular teenager who hadsfolen away undercover of darkness to rendezwus with herboyfriend, Ignacio Ybarra. Perhaps youthful rage, jealousy and savage pass...



  • Jodi Thomas

    Kora Adams did not believe in curses, but she had known nothing but bad luck all her life. Then, one night, there was a knock on her door. It was a handsome but solemn stranger with a story to tell. Winter McQuillen had inherited a sprawling Te...



  • Jill Shalvis

    He tempted her with wildflowers and challenged her to learn the truth .... Alex Coleman was a sucker for a damsel in distress, especially when she'd gotten lost in the rain on his mountain! Nicole Sanders insisted she'd rather get stuck in the mud...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    He looked like a movie star and kissed like a fallen angel.... Sam Schaefer was too young, too handsome, and altogether too willing to start a wildfire Ellen Layne could never put out! Dazzled by the pleasure Sam taught her with every touch, she r...



  • Sandra Marton

    Three brides, three grooms -- and they cell meet at THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR Damian Skouras thought he was allergic to marriage, and Laurel Bennett didn't make it to the church on time .... But, still, they collided as guests at the Wedding of ...



  • Wilbur Smith

    As the choppy sea lanes of the African coast are rife with bloody battles over trade booty, Sir Francis Courteney and his 17-year-old son Hal embark on a seafaring quest for the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company. But soon the ho...



  • Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, Like the rose in the haunting tale of "Beauty and the Beast," a silver rose on a charm bracelet brings together a beautiful young woman and a battle-scarred lord.... In my story, Ariel Ravenspeare has been taught to loathe the earl o...



  • Catherine Cookson

    Pine Hurst has been home to the wealthy Steel family for generations. And since her mother's death, eldest daughter Beatrice has controlled the estate -- ruling her father, Simon, and her three younger sisters with an iron fist. For Beatrice, control...



  • Patricia Cornwell

    A body is discovered in a Virginia landfill. The details--expert removal of head and limbs--mirror that of a case Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been investigating in Ireland. But for Scarpeita, the game has only just begun. The killer boldly contacts her via...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    He left a trail of broken hearts behind him... Mike Tremayne had come home. After eight years of drifting, he was finally ready to face beautiful Beth Nightingale, the woman who'd haunted his dreams since the night he left her. But running int...



  • JoAnn Ross

    A POWERFUL AND PASSIONATE STORY OF THREE SISTERS Torn apart by tragedy, Molly, Lena and Tessa McBride chose different paths ... until fate and one man reunited them. Molly chose God -- but could never forget the child she gave away ... or her s...



  • Susan Napier

    Have you heard the latest? Don't tell anyone, but... The groom was having an affair-with his bride's best friend! Jane had been desperate to stop the wedding. She'd had to prevent her best friend making the biggest mistake of her life...Marrying ...



  • Shannon Drake

    Their fates first collide in the shadow of the Black Hills -- when Sabrina Connor, fleeing her stepfather's cruel tyranny, is tempted by the sweeter captivity of Sloan Trelawny's arms. Their lives entwine again in the Scottish highlands a world away ...



  • Jennifer Crusie

    "I bet that smile gets you everything you want...." As soon as Alec Prentice spotted the spicy brunette in red silk, he vowed that the tempting con woman would not escape him! Dennie Banks was prepared to do anything to get her story, even...



  • Leanne Banks

    A Prince in Wolf's Clothing Jenna Jean Anderson wasn't falling tug that "marry a nice doctor" routine. Dr. Stan Michaels was not husband material. She knew him when he was one of the bad boys in town, and Jenna prided herself on being very, very g...




  • Lucy Gordon

    THE WOMAN HE COULDN'T REMEMBER Not long ago, Justin Hallwood had been a hard-driving, big-city executive. Now he was inexplicably drawn to the little village of Haven -- especially to Sarah Conroy, a lovely single mother with an adorable baby so...



  • Lucy Gordon

    "Daniel Raife was devoted to Phoebe, his teenage daughter. He'd brought her up single-handedly, and he wanted her to be a lawyer. But Phoebe dreamed of being a model. Lee Meredith knew all about being sixteen and headstrong -- she had eloped....



  • Amanda Ashley

    HEART OF DARKNESS In all his four hundred years, Rayven had never met a woman like Rhianna McLeod. She is a vision of light, or warmth, of everything he is not -- nor can ever be. Doomed to live forever in darkness and solitude, he knows all too ...



  • Vince Flynn

    Taking America back...one politician at a time What if America's leaders were held accountable for their broken promises--and made to pay for their corruption? Vince Flynn brings to life a chilling scenario of Washington under siege--in the provoc...



  • Jennifer Blake
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    On a warm spring night in a New Orleans Garden District mansion, the pick of society are gathering. Masquerading as Legendary Lovers, they have come to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Duchaise masquerade ball. Charles and Millicent Duch...



  • Karen Rose Smith

    THAT TOUCH OF LOVE Ever since his divorce Zack Burke had little time for romance -- and little faith in its promises. He'd already learned the hard way that love never lasted. Then he fell under the gentle spell of massage therapist Skye Delaney...



  • Christopher Pike

    When a terrible monster sneaks out of a closet and snatches one of their companions, Adam and his friends become terrified of going to bed and turning out their lights and begin surreptitiously locking their closet doors. Original....



  • Joan Smith

    A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME; One of those dashing rogues too attractive to ignore. Lord Harwell featured largely in Rosalind Lovelace's fantasies. But she had too much common sense to let dreams color her reality. Harwell was a friend and neighbo...



  • Emilie Richards

    WHAT I DID FOR LOVE Pushing thirty and never been...well, you know...pediatrics nurse Matty Stewart was forever nurturing other people's offspring. Until a tipsy birthday dare had her winging to the Bahamas -- to wed a single dad desperate for a ...



  • Susan Fox

    The prodigal daughter? All her life Rio had been considered wild, from the wrong kind of family. Only one man had shown any faith in her--Kane Langtry's father. But it wasn't a case of like father, like son. Kane respected his father's...



  • Lawrence Block

    In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his...



  • Lawrence Block

    Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar extraordinaire and bookseller ordinaire, has left New York City to spend a wintry weekend at a cozy New England inn famed for its quaint atmosphere and, not coincidentally, its rare books. And there is no book rarer than th...



  • Lynda La Plante

    Prime Suspect, the enormously successful two-time Emmy Award-winning television series, established its writer and creator, Lynda La Plante, as one of the preeminent originators of realistic crime drama. Turning her talent from the screen to the page...



  • Janice Maynard

    WAS SHE REALLY A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS? For country veterinarian Whit Morgan, taking in strays was just part of the job. But the helpless-looking beauty who just wandered into his office with an injured kitten happens to be one of New York's hottest...



  • Frederick Forsyth

    Collects some of the best short stories about aviation by this century's greatest writers, including H. G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Len Deighton, J. G. Ballard, and Richard Bach. Reprint....



  • Don Pendleton

    EYE OF THE STORM Advanced electronic and space-based surveillance capabilities enable the ultrasecret operations force of Stony Man Farm to monitor a volatile international climate. Now a storm is brewing in the Pacific, and the field commandos move...



  • Don Pendleton

    RETURN FIRE A paramilitary fringe group linked to acts of right-wing terrorism has come under Mack Bolan's lethal assault. One leader is down, but the other. a hard-core mercenary, escapes the firelight in Idaho and regroups with an arms-smuggling...



  • J.T. Edson

    Brad Counter, great grandson of Mark Counter from Ole Devil Hardon's outfit, carries on the family legacy as a deputy sheriff in the Lone Star State. He and his partner, Deputy Alice Fayde, are part of a team investigating the near-fatal shooting of ...



  • Lee Wilkinson

    It all started with a kiss... Bel was planning to marry Roderick, but then Andrew Storm, a complete stranger, turned her life upside down. Andrew skillfully and masterfully seduced Bel in ways she's only imagined in her dreams. He was a fir...



  • Deborah Smith

    Twenty years ago, Claire Maloney was the willful, pampered, tomboyish daughter of the town's most respected family, but that didn't stop her from befriending Roan Sullivan, a fierce, motherless boy who lived in a rusted-out trailer amid junked cars. ...



  • Elizabeth George

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â�,�¢ Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers faces the most challenging investigation of her career in this “fascinating” (People) installment of the renowned Inspector Lynley series.Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox stream...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    DO OPPOSITES ATTRACT? They must, since years ago, the only thing high school freshman Georgia Lavender had in common with rough-and-tumble orphan Jack McCormick was the mutual wish to get Georgia out of the clutches of her controlling father. Geor...



  • Elaine Barbieri

    Purity, Honesty, Chastity -- They were all admirable traits, but when they came in the form of three headstrong, spirited, sinfully lovely sisters, they were... Dangerous Virtues From the moment Purity laid eyes on the stranger's magnificent b...



  • Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

    Former New York City police officer Lew Croaker faces the most daunting choice of his life--whether to kill a man to provide his niece with the kidney she desperately needs, or hunt down the man behind the evil scheme. Reprint....


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