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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1997

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The Ax
Donald E. Westlake

New Books List: 606 titles

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  • Nora Roberts

    When Phillip Kincaid was scouting locations for his new movie, he didn't expect the long arm of the law to point him in the right direction. But when he was jailed for speeding, he realized Friendly, New Mexico, was just the godforsaken little town h...



  • Diana Palmer

    That Texas man was long and lean...and just ripe for loving on a hot summer night... But convincing him of that fact would be a difficult task indeed. Because men from Jacobsville, Texas, are a different breed, and tough to convince in matters of ...



  • Sandra Brown

    It's the day of sin, when sexuality explodes on the streets and no one is who they seem. For a cop turned outlaw, and for a beautiful woman held captive in a loveless marriage, New Orleans's Mardi Gras will offer them their last chance for freedom--a...



  • Lynne Graham

    Once a teenage bride... Daisy Thornton would always vividly remember her brief marriage at age seventeen to Alessio Leopardi. He'd tired of her within months of their wedding, so she'd left him to give birth to their child alone. Now a t...



  • Lynne Graham

    Italian tycoon ditches brand-new bride! On their wedding day, Molly Bannister and Sholto Cristaldi had separated. The split made newspaper headlines, though no one ever guessed why their marriage wasn't consummated. Molly had vowed that no ...



  • Julie Garwood

    Travis Clayborne may be the youngest of the Clayborne brothers, but he's most definitely his own man. Unless it means saying no to his beloved Mama Rose. And that's why Travis is escorting young Bostonian Emily Finnegan to Golden Crest, Montana -- wh...



  • Danielle Steel

    At 59, Jack Watson owns one of the most successful boutiques in Beverly Hills, has two adult children who are the light of his life, and his choice of Hollywood's most beautiful women. After a failed marriage in the distant past, and a brief, tragic ...



  • Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader, Remember Dillon Savich from The Cove? He's back and he's now the head of the FBI's Criminal Apprehension Unit (CAU), where Dillon has developed predictive analogue programs to aid in the capture of serial killers. Enter Lacey Sherl...



  • Hannah Howell

    Ella Carson was delicate, enchantingly lovely, and as furious as any woman could be. If she had a gun, she would shoot Harrigan Mahoney dead. He was the man her greedy relatives had hired to drag her from her aunt's Wyoming home and take her back...



  • Helen Bianchin

    The trophy wife When Gabbi married Benedict Nicols, it was the wedding of the decade, uniting two prominent, wealthy families. To the outside world, it seemed the perfect match. No one would guess Gabbi's secret heartache: that she loved her h...



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    Returning to one of their best-loved fantasy series, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman bring alive a sweeping tale of intrigue and magic.

    It is twenty years since the once-magical land of Thimhallan was shattered by the forging of the Darksword....



  • R.L. Stine

    Blood on the water. . . Adam Malfitano still has nightmares about the night his girlfriend, Mitzi, died. He sees the blood. He sees her in the water. He is a lifeguard, and he can't save her. He wakes up screaming. Even worse, he has begun to...



  • R.L. Stine

    Luke hates listening to the townspeople talk about his sister, Leah. They call her evil, and say she has unnatural powers. Leah does have the strange talent of being able to communicate with animals. But Luke is sure Leah would never use her gift for...



  • R.L. Stine

    Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!Rats! You're too old for a baby-sitter. But your mom hired one anyway. And that’s the good news. The bad news is the baby-sitter works for a company called KidScare.So what do you do? If...



  • R.L. Stine

    Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!You're walking through a creepy part of town when you find a new comic shop--Milos Comics Dungeon. Dungeon is right. The place is dusty, dingy, and really dark. You can see the comics are ...



  • R.L. Stine

    SINK OR... SINK Camp is supposed to be fun, but Sarah hates Camp Cold Lake. The lake is gross and slimy. And she's having a little trouble with her bunkmates. They hate her. So Sarah comes up with a plan. She'll pretend to drown -- then everyo...



  • Lorraine Heath

    SHE WAS HIS BROTHER'S BRIDE... Arriving on the Fort Worth train, Miss Amelia Carson, mail-order bride, had never met Dallas Leigh, the Texan she promised to marry. The tall cowboy at the station wasn't Dallas. He was Houston, Dallas's brother, sen...



  • Beverly Lewis

    Join Merry Hanson, a very modern sixteen-year-old living in Pennsylvania's Amish country, as she faces the true-to-life struggles and heartfelt triumphs of growing up to be the best she can be in God's eyes.House of SecretsWhen Chelsea Davis's mom va...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    LADY IN THE DARK It was every woman's dream come true, waking up in an opulent bridal suite, a wedding ring on her finger and a magnificent male specimen by her side. But for Whitney Bradshaw it was more like a nightmare. She couldn't reme...



  • Robyn Donald

    Not only opposites attract! When Lecia first spotted Keane Paget, his presence burned like a shining beacon. He was handsome, certainly, and profoundly male, but the face that stared back at her was otherwise her own! Lecia was stunned...hypnot...



  • Beverly Barton

    HE HAD THE ONE THING SHE WANTED .... Lori Lee Guy had always longed to be someone's mommy--and she had never imagined wild and wicked Rick Warrick as anyone's daddy. But here she was, childless. And here he was, still sinfully sexy ...and single-h...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    He was tall, dark and just dangerous enough to be a woman's dream come true... Did heroes always come this big and sexy? Chelsea Spencer wondered as Johnny Anziano tackled the muggers who'd stolen her purse! She wasn't used to being rescued, at le...



  • Mary Jo Putney

    Few romance novels have touched readers as deeply or as lastingly as this classic by New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney. Poignant, passionate, and tender, One Perfect Rose is the story of two mismatched lovers drawn into a fragile, unfo...



  • Cassie Edwards

    SHE WANTED ONLY ONE MAN... Reshelle Russell, beautiful daughter of an elite army commander, was called Flame. She was red-haired and fiery in temperament, and her burning desire was for White Fire, a proud Indian warrior she had known from childhood...



  • Anne Stuart
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    This story matches the climate in the Old West when a part-time sheriff and gunfighter and a gutsy dance hall proprietress head toward a dangerous showdown with their hearts....



  • Anne Stuart

    Half-sister to Richard the Fair, Alys has been schooled in the sheltered ways of the convent, far from the treachery and intrigue of castle life. Until she is taken from the cloister and brought to a place filled with secrets. Here she is to meet her...



  • Helen Brooks

    The second Mrs. Bellini Claire would make some man the perfect wife--everyone said so. But after being jilted by her fiance, she wasn't sure she believed in love anymore. Until she saw her best friend reunited with the husband she thought she&...



  • Helen Brooks

    The jealous husband! For Donato Vittoria, marriage was a lifetime commitment. He'd chosen Grace as his bride, and he would cherish her forever. Or so Grace had believed.... Until she'd discovered Donato's betrayal--with Maria, a bea...



  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    No Matter How Much a Woman Has, There's Always too Much to Lose Stephanie Jardine is at the apex of her career and life running the American branch of Jardine's, the prestigious Crown Jewellers of London. A young widow, she has three grown sons ...



  • Maggie Shayne

    NO MORE LITTLE MISS NICE GIRL... Contrary to what her four older brothers belived, Jessi Brand was a grown woman. With very adult needs. And what she wanted was drop-dead gorgeous drifter Lash Monroe. He was the one. The man she'd saved herself fo...



  • Rick Riordan

    MEET TRES NAVARRE...TEQUILA DRINKER, TAI CHI MASTER, UNLICENSED P.I. WITH A PENCHANT FOR TEXAS-SIZE TROUBLE Jackson "Tres" Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ag...



  • Kasey Michaels

    Now readers are swept into a wonderfully romantic encounter between an adopted Englishman searching for his past and the tempestuous American girl who may be his future.... Brianna Cassidy Crown, eighteen-year-old daughter of a Pennsylvania landow...



  • Laurell K. Hamilton

    "THESE DAYS MY LIFE IS A CROSS BETWEEN PRETERNATURAL SOAP OPERA AND AN ACTION-ADVENTURE MOVIE. SORT OF AS THE CASKET TURNS MEETS RAMBO ." The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a th...



  • JoAnn Ross

    Roarke O'Malley: loves danger and beautiful women. As a globe-trotting journalist, he lives on the edge using his wits, daring and sheer love of adventure. Home to recuperate from an attempt on f his life, set up by a woman who claimed to love him, h...



  • Stella Bagwell

    When Houston oil tycoon Wyatt Sanders got the belated letter from his sister Belinda, telling him that she'd had twins that she couldn't raise because she was in prison, he was devastated. He further learned that she'd married a man old enough to be ...



  • Connie Mason

    "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" "KISS YOU?" COLE SHRUGGED. "BECAUSE YOU WANTED ME TO, I SUPPOSE. WHY ELSE WOULD A MAN KISS A WOMAN?" But Dawn knew lots of other reasons, especially if the woman was nothing but a half-breed whose fa...



  • Teresa Medeiros

    A LOVELY SCIENTIST WITH NO TASTE FOR MAGIC Heiress Tabitha Lennox considered her paranormal talents more a curse than a gift. So she dedicated her life to the cold, rational world of science. Until the day she examined the mysterious amulet her mo...



  • Leigh Michaels

    The bachelor and the baby! Devlin Cunningham could be the luckiest man alive. He has a thriving business, a string of women competing for his attention--and he has Kady Bishop to keep his life in order! In fact, sometimes Kady has to remind Dev...



  • Karen Rose Smith

    PLAYING FOR KEEPS Joshua Flannigan ran a successful toy business, but where his family was concerned he didn't play games. When his beloved aunt turns her life upside down on the advice of a new 'friend," be decides to play hardball. Blond-hair...



  • Lori Wick

    Katherine Taggert -- nicknamed "Rusty" for her curly red hair -- shines like a ray of sunshine at her aunt and uncle's orphanage. Unaccustomed to traveling alone in the pioneer West, Rusty is accompanied on her first orphanage placement trip by the k...



  • Linda Fairstein

    The real-life work of sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein brought "riveting authenticity" (Vanity Fair) to her bestselling debut novel, Final Jeopardy. Now Fairstein's fictional counterpart -- smart and savvy assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper -- retu...



  • Cindy Gerard

    WILLING GROOM? Colin Slater arrived in Crimson Falls wearing a stylish suit and carrying a Wall Street Journal, and quickly discovered that the only thing interesting in town was his new partner, Scarlett Morgan. Sharing the long, northern nights ma...



  • Belva Plain

    First came the sin.  Then the lies.He was handsome, charming, irresistable, and an eighteen-year-old lady-killer, her uncle Cliff's stepson, Ted.  But in one terrible night he would shatter the life of fourteen-year-old Charlotte ...



  • Dale Brown

    The People's Republic of China has launched a terrifying attack against Taiwan. Cold. Swift. Deadly. The U.S. isn't willing to stand by and watch, but when they come to Taiwan's aid, they're dealt an unexpected blow from Chinese forces. It looks like...



  • Harry Turtledove

    A dazzling new fantasy for all the fans of the Videssos Cycle!

    As the sun gleamed off the gilded domes of Videssos the city, Abivard, marshal of Makuran and son of Godarz, pondered the impossible. How could he carry out the command of Sharbara...



  • Stella Cameron
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    A frustrated librarian is determined to drive her scholarly fiance wild with desire before the wedding, but she may need some heavenly help to ignite the passion of a man afraid of being burned....



  • Stella Cameron

    The Curious Innocent The last thing Lily Adler wanted to do was marry a man just for the sake of convention. Yet she wasn't completely immune to the charms of the opposite sex. With scholarly intentions, Lily set out to study the "male mys...



  • Robin Lee Hatcher

    June 1, 1897 Dear Mary, New Prospects, Montana, is nothing like England -- so terrifying and beautiful at the same time, and much larger than I dared imagine when you and I first embarked on our adventures in the New World. I have had the good...



  • Janelle Taylor
    in

    The efforts of a matchmaking friend leave wary Kimberly Harden strnded with a handsome attorney in a mountain cabin where sparks fly - and feelings catch flame....


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