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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1984

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New Books List: 319 titles

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  • Nora Roberts

    IT WAS ONE FOR THE BOOKS . . . Sgt. James "Slade" Sladerman had practically been born to the force, but he wanted to be a writer, not a cop. No one was more different from him than Jessica Window, who was wealthy and working only because she wante...



  • Nora Roberts

    MORE THAN FRIENDS Joyland Amusement Park was her grandfather's life, and Megan Miller had made it hers, too. Pop was all she had left, and she willingly set aside her own artistic ambitions to help him. But David Katcherton had other plans for the...



  • Diana Palmer

    LINE OF FIRE Only one thing stood in the way of Wynn Ascot's marriage -- her legal guardian, McCabe Foxe. The tough war correspondent returned from Central America with an injured leg-and with the force of a cannonball invaded her home, her li...



  • Judith McNaught

    His sexy smile held tempting promises Lauren Danner wasn't usually impetuous with men. But Nick Sinclair was incredibly attractive, and she acted on impulse-asking him out to lunch, accepting his counteroffer for the weekend. Everything she'd ...



  • William W. Johnstone

    An ex-soldier who rebuilt America after nuclear holocaust now faces a Russian invasion in this action-packed adventure from a USA Today�"bestselling author.   In the aftermath of germ and nuclear warfare, of plague and pillage and bloody anarch...



  • LaVyrle Spencer

    A Heart Divided... LAURA. Five long years ago, lovely Laura Dalton waited on the bleak Nantucket shore for the day her beloved husband Rye would return ... and then she learned his ship was lost at sea. DAN. Rye's closest friend. And for Laura,...



  • Louis L'Amour

    THE SHADOW RIDERS For the westerner trouble came with the territory. Long grass valleys, merciless deserts, sheer rock cliffs, icy streams, hidden trails, dusty towns. These were the proving grounds of daily life. At any time violence could explo...



  • Louis L'Amour

    Here is an historical adventure of extraordinary power waiting to sweep you away to exotic lands as one of the most popular writers of our time conquers new storytelling worlds. Louis L'Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spir...



  • Carla Neggers

    Beautiful Casey Gray prided herself on being a cool executive -- tops in the world of management consulting. But underneath was a slight zany and very generous woman who gave up her vacation each summer to teach at a camp for delinquent girls in the ...



  • Sara Orwig

    A gorilla for a client? Straitlaced patent attorney Laurel Fortier couldn't believe it when toy inventor Thane Prescott appeared for their appointment covered with black fur and wearing a devilish grin under his shaggy mask. In no time at all Thane...



  • Jane Ashford

    LESSONS FOR A LORD The moment that Lady Alicia Alston first encountered Ian Cairnyllan, she could see that this imperious lord from the wilds of Scotland had a great deal to learn. He clearly did not appreciate that Alicia was a most sought-aft...



  • Janette Oke

    Mittens is sure there is no other cat as wonderful as she. She's smart, beautiful, and very proud of herself. So it's no surprise when Mittens decides she can manage just fine on her own. But without a caring family to take care of her, Mittens lea...



  • Joan Smith

    IMMOVABLE OBJECT When the landmark Ewell Building was slated for demolition, Toni Ewell prepared for battle. She was determined to preserve the architectural heritage of the town named after her ancestors. But city planner jack Beldon's clear blue...



  • Piers Anthony

    SCOURGE OF THE ECLIPTIC He was driven by violent injustice from his home moon of Callisto--and set forth to claim the epic destiny that would blaze across worlds and time. He saw his family destroyed, his sister carried off into sexual slavery, hi...



  • Don Pendleton

    Red Alert: The World Midnight. Suddenly the Moscow sky bursts into broad daylight. Eight hours later a similar flash also bathes Washington, D.C., in its glaring spill. Twenty-five thousand miles above the two capitals, exploding hydrogen warhe...



  • Ginna Gray

    When Claire Andrews, the elegantly beautiful widow on one senator and daughter of another, agreed to run for her husband's vacant senate seat, she had no intention of being the figurehead her party--and Matt Drummond--expected. If the newspaper heir ...



  • Elaine Barbieri

    PASSIONATE RAGE Ravishing Morgana Pierce had never met anyone as arrogant as dark-haired Devon Howard. She could see from the infuriating gleam in his eye that he thought she had deliberately mistaken his cabin for hers. During the long, tortuous ...



  • Ruth Langan

    EXECUTIVE LOVE Kate Halloran was a tiny dynamo, full of sharp business sense and energy. It took a man like Drew Carlson to recognize the sensuality beneath her well-tailored suit. When Kate reluctantly became Drew's assistant, he assumed she ...



  • Erin St. Claire

    CONSEQUENCES The last thing Laney McLeod remembered after fainting in a stalled elevator the night of a blackout in New York City was waking up the morning after in a stranger's bed. A perfectly devastating stranger, it was true, but Laney fled to...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    SWEET MEMORIES OF DESIRE.... Two people met on a Galveston beach and followed their passion into love. But the real world intruded, and that love was left only in memory. Two years later, Meryl Stevens and Reese Corbett met again, and this meet...



  • Laurie Paige

    After two years of waiting, Meli O'Connor knew that Tor Halliday wasn't the marrying kind. And, lately, as the sole owner of a fishing resort in the Montana wilderness, she'd felt the need of a helping husbandly hand. Tor's offer t...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    A Tease and a Heartless Flirt! That was Lord Meridan's dreadful estimate of Lady Elizabeth Fairchild. And it was true that during her come-out she had acted the hoyden in her desperation to please her rather uncaring mother. Then after a na...



  • Alison Tyler (1)

    She'd found the model she'd been searching for. From his unruly dark hair to his rugged, muscular body, Mike Gallotti was 'fundamental man" in the flesh. Sculptor Stacy English was ready to begin her most important work. The shock of discovering h...



  • Raye Morgan

    LOST AND FOUND... Claire Angeli's son was lost in the mountains, and it was up to Cord McCloud to find him. How was Claire to know that in finding her son she would lose her heart? Cord upset all her neatly laid plans for her life. She wanted...



  • Jake Logan

    SLOCUM GOT MORE THAN HE ASKED FOR. The Mexican Emperor Maximilian had helped the Confederates when they needed him. Now the Emperor was in trouble. Benito Juarez, secretly armed by the U.S., was leading an open rebellion against Maximilian. Slocum co...



  • Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    FORBIDDEN MELODY... When Katy West had the unexpected opportunity of singing in David Lloyd's cantata, she was ecstatic. She had no idea that David would be conducting his own piece. An exacting and temperamental taskmaster, he openly criticiz...



  • Francine Pascal

    Love on the run... Roger Barrett has always had a hopeless crush on glamorous, wealthy Lila Fowler. The only attention Lila ever pays to him, though, is to make fun of him in front of her friends. But why shouldn't she, he thinks. After all, he's ...



  • Eileen Goudge

    Four friends on the brink of graduation -- and adulthood ... It's senior year at California's Glenwood High for sexy Kit McCoy, athletic Alex Enomoto, brainy Elaine Gregory, and beautiful Lori Woodhouse. It is a time for discovery -- and for falli...



  • Stephen Hunter

    Once Paul Chardy had been among the Agency's best and brightest. Now he was a Cold War burnout, sick of the dirty tricks and dirtier lies. But the Agency needed Paul Chardy one more time �" and the Agency knew how to make sure he couldn't say no....



  • Georgia Bockoven

    A woman never forgets her first lover With years of trying, Danielle Hartman had managed to erase Steve Maddox from her thoughts. That was by day. How often by night she still lay awake missing him -- the warmth and comfort of his body, the searing ...



  • Sandra Heath

    LOVE'S BATTLEFIELD When Alabeth left London under a cloud of gossip as bride of notorious rake Robert Manvers, she thought never to return. But her beloved Robert was dead now, fallen in a duel encouraged by his supposed friend, Sir Piers Cast...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    No one had ever inspired such a volatile response with a single kiss as this man she distrusted on sight. John MacMasters, her new boss, was far too handsome for his own good. Or hers. Jaime Clarke should have known better than to accept a position a...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    Cole Bishop had appeared in her hour of need and she'd done it--hired him ... a male housekeeper! Perhaps now, with her twin boys in his care, she could get back to her demanding career in advertising. In no time her chaotic household was running ...



  • Phoebe Conn

    DO NOT KEEP ME WAITING TONIGHT demanded handsome Rising Eagle to the innocent blonde beauty who had saved his life. And though Elizabeth knew it was wrong to meet the powerful Seneca warrior she came to him when the sky darkened and let him teach her...



  • Rebecca Flanders

    She gave him two gifts: her love and second sight Normally, Jennifer Kiel was the head librarian in the town of Southworth, Massachusetts, but on that bright autumn day Jennifer had donned cape and veil, transforming herself into Madame Voltaire, ...



  • Laura London

    SHE LONGED FOR A PIRATE'S KISSES, FOR A GOLDEN ROGUE'S CARESS... Every lady of breeding knows. No one has a good time on a pirate ship. No one, that is, but the pirates. Yet there she was, Merry Wilding - kidnapped in error, taken from a ship boun...



  • Dorothy Mack

    A rebellious young beauty courts disaster when she flees her lordly suitor THE NON-MARRIAGE VOW Beautiful, charming, and witty Victoria Seymour was everything an aristocratic gentleman could want in a wife. But unfortunately for her swarm of su...



  • Cathie Linz

    He said he loved her, but how could she trust him? They'd met in a romantic Austrian inn where Lisel Mayer had surrendered to the moment, the magic, the man. But now, in Chicago's cold light, Cas Kalensky was a stranger, a hard-nosed banker w...



  • Alistair MacLean

    A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico �" and on the sea bed below it.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots,...



  • Vanessa James

    "All I need is a man -- a rich man." Caro's mad scheme shocked her cousin Marian Fox. But the bank was pressing for the sale of Trevelyans, the Cornish estate that had been in Caro's family for generations, and the auction was less...




  • Charles de Lint

    Inside the world of dreams Minda Sealy is afraid to go to sleep, for when she does she is trapped inside the same terrible, dark nightmare. Over and over it happens, until she is ragged and raw. Then, one night, she dreams she is somewhere else�"...



  • Glenna Finley

    A marriage of convenience plunges a beautiful young woman into mysterious danger...and unexpected love... Heart's Discovery When the caretakers were suddenly called away from the charming Victorian inn Kim Cosgrove had inherited, she return...



  • Robert Silverberg

    You're invited to join Robert Silverberg, bestselling, author of VALENTINE PONTIFEX on a fabulous voyage into the imagination. Twice winner of the Hugo Award and four times winner of the Nebula, Silverberg is an unparalleled master of short fiction. ...



  • Annabel Murray

    "I'll marry the first penniless man who asks." Dayle Abercrombie had presented that ultimatum to her father to stop the monotonous parade of suitors her father produced as prospective husbands. Little did she know that an unscrupulo...



  • Loren D. Estleman

    Spring has come to Detroit''s Sugartown enclave, and Amos Walker would like to feel kindly toward the human race. Unfortunately, his first case of the new season immediately leads him into trouble among the Polish settlers of neighboring Hamtramck...



  • Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Hollywood PI Toby Peters looks for a kidnapped dog - with political connections

    If he is surprised to find Eleanor Roosevelt waiting for him in his dingy little office, Toby Peters does not show it. Although this is his first time working f...



  • Philip McCutchan

    When Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde finds himself unexpectedly placed on shore on the half-pay list of the Royal Navy (following the debacle chronicled in Halfhyde on Zanatu), he decides to broaden his experience at sea on a merchantman bound for Sy...



  • Amii Lorin

    As second in command of Renninger Corporation's New York office, Jo Lawrence was used to handling the problems of a multimillion-dollar hotel business. Then her boss had a car accident, and suddenly his arrogant, moody brother from Atlanta was in cha...


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