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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1998

Best Reviewed

Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Reviewed

The Undesirables
Mary C. Smith

Best Reviewed

I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb

Best Reviewed

The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald

Best Reviewed

Death of a Scriptwriter
M.C. Beaton

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Last Days of Summer
Steve Kluger

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  • Debbie Macomber

    Nell Bishop, widowed mother of two children, is turning Twin Canyons into a dude ranch. One of her first guests is Travis Grant, a celebrity of sorts, a wannabe cowboy, an Easterner known for his books about the West. Nell's kids are crazy about him,...



  • Sandra Brown

    SEE NO EVIL Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who loves violence, a murderer who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge, he is on his way back to where he began--Blewer County, Texas. HEA...



  • Danielle Steel

    After thirteen years of marriage and two kids, Stephanie was devastated when her husband left her for a younger woman. Suddenly she was alone. Then a spur-of-the-moment trip to Paris changed everything. Peter Baker was a handsome high-tech entrepr...



  • J.D. Robb

    IN A FUTURE WHEN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY BRINGS LOVERS TOGETHER, DATING CAN BE A DEADLY GAME... No one likes to be alone during the holidays. And for New York's most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts toget...



  • Stephanie Laurens
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    Four extraordinary romance authors pen scintillating stories of the most dangerous rogues -- and the fiery women who can soften their hardened hearts... Playing with Fire by Susan Johnson Once Burned by Dee Holmes Melting Ice by Stephanie Lauren...



  • Sara Craven

    A wife of convenience? Joanna had been an inexperienced 18-year-old when she'd married Gabriel Verne. She'd loved her new husband but had been devastated to discover that he'd simply married her out of duty. When the honeymoon was over...



  • Sherryl Woods

    When a southern scoundrel meets a hard-as-nails businesswoman, he finds that nothing's as much fun as... AMAZING GRACIE Gracie MacDougal has given up on romance. Three of her last four boyfriends proposed marriage--to other women. But through i...



  • Susan Wiggs

    He wanted to tell her everything. About the lost years that had changed him from a desperate young boy into a man hardened by life. About the night he'd sold his soul for a woman who wasn't worth the price.... COMES A DRIFTER TO A WINDSWEPT ISLAND...



  • Sharon Sala

    THE STRANGER IN ROMAN's CABIN HAD: -- A soft cloud of dark hair -- Green eyes a man could get lost in -- A million dollars in a duffle bag WHAT SHE *DIDN'T* HAVE: -- Any memory of her past Private eye Roman Justice was stunned by ...





  • Janet Evanovich

    Stephanie Plum, Trenton New Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back - and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who's skipped bail. With the help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite music...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    One little, two little, three little babies... That's what Dr. Rafe Saldana had--but none of them was his own. The handsome pediatrician had his hands full with his clients and no room in his heart for love...until independent single mom Dana Mor...



  • Beverly Barton

    HE WANTED TO GIVE HER A CHILD Powerfully built and ruggedly hand-some, Mitch Hayden walked into Emily Jordan's life and took her senses by storm. The ache in his searing blue gaze matched the loneliness in her soul, and soon the pretty widow had f...



  • M.C. Beaton

    HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish--and more--when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamo...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    A bad boy in black leather who'd never forgotten the first girl he loved.... Clint McCade roared into town to visit his best friend, just as he had a dozen times before -- but this time the rugged photographer had romance on his mind! When Sandy K...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    THE WOMAN HE'D ALWAYS LOVED She had a heart of gold--and a beauty to match her compassionate spirit. But she was a Donovan--the daughter of his arch enemy. THE MAN SHE LONGED TO HOLD He was strong and true--and something of a hero in Rachel's ho...



  • Cathy Williams

    Seduction on the agenda! Victor Temple didn't want the complication of a lovesick secretary, so quiet, efficient Alice Carter was the ideal assistant. He trusted her, paid her well, but was interested only in her performance between nine and ...



  • Jessica Steele

    Her boss meant business! Saville Craythorne was not amused! He'd discovered that Edney--his new assistant--was in fact the pretty girl he'd asked for a date last Saturday night! Edney was mortified! The tall, handsome stranger who'd...



  • Cassie Edwards

    BOLD ENCOUNTER Shanna Sewell was warned by her father to keep away from the Indians who shared the wildly beautiful Maine frontier. But fate brought her face-to-face with Bold Wolf, the proud, sensual son of the Bear People's chief. It was an en...



  • Catherine George

    An unexpected reunion. Once upon a time Catrin was swept off her feet by darkly handsome Dr. Ashe Hope Ellison. She hoped Ashe's love would last forever, but it turned out to be a brief summer affair. This time Catrin has been swept off her fee...



  • Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, Here is the first of my new "Brides" trilogy, in which three unconventional young women vow they will never marry--only to be overtaken by destiny. Bride #1 is the outspoken Portia.... It's bad enough that seventeen-year-old Portia...



  • James Lee Burke

    WITNESS AT THE CRUCIFIXION The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn't crucify Megan Flynn's father. They just didn't catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-penny nails. Decades later, Megan, now a world-famous photojournalis...



  • Day Leclaire

    Reed Harding had gone through twelve secretaries in six months. It took a certain type of woman to work for the quick-tempered businessman. Someone like Angie Makepeace, for instance. Blond, beautiful and sassy-there was only one problem with secreta...



  • Susan Johnson
    in

    Four extraordinary romance authors pen scintillating stories of the most dangerous rogues �" and the fiery women who can soften their hardened hearts......



  • Caroline Anderson

    She was definitely single, but maybe he'd change her mind Sister Natasha Franklin, known as Tassy, was happy on the pediatric ward, working with Josh Lancaster. When Josh's promotion brought Dr. Ben Lazaar to work at Audley Memorial Hospital, Tass...



  • Jennifer Blake
    in

    In some small Southern towns the old ways still exist. Breeding counts and the old boys hold court. Everyone has a place and no one's supposed to cross the line. But rules are made to be broken... In Southern Gentlemen, authors Jennifer Blake and Emi...



  • Nicola Cornick

    Nicholas, the Earl of Seagrave was bored! After the excitement of war, Nicholas found life as a civilian stifling. His boredom soon lifted when the notorious courtesan Susanna Kellaway claimed a lease on one of his houses. No sooner did they meet ...



  • Emilie Richards
    in

    In some small Southern towns the old ways still exist. Breeding counts and the old boys hold court. Everyone has a place and no one's supposed to cross the line. But rules are made to be broken... In Southern Gentlemen, authors Jennifer Blake and Emi...



  • Madeline Baker

    "He is the most frightening, handsome man I have ever seen" Although these words had been written in another time, in another woman's diary, Kathy Conley thought they described Dalton Crowkiller perfectly. He was the kind of a man a woman would s...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    A town is demanding answers... A man with no memory holds the key.... One woman's quest reveals the shocking truth.... Who was "Martin Smith"? The sexy stranger had swept into Grand Springs in the midst of catastrophe, with no name and no clue t...



  • Amanda Scott

    When Mary Maclaine's beloved Ian Campbell was murdered, she never expected to love again. Lonely and fearful of becoming a burden to her family, she accepted a proposal of marriage from lord Ewan MacCrichton. But even her gift of Second Sight cou...



  • Stella Cameron

    As children, Max Rossmara, the son of a viscount, and Kirsty Mercer, a tenant farmer's daughter, were unlikely yet inseparable friends. Innocent to the demands of convention, they formed a club for wishing. And each had only one wish: to be toget...



  • Bernard Cornwell

    RICHARD SHARPE AND THE BATTLE OF ASSAYE, SEPTEMBER 1803 It is India, 1803. In the four years since he earned his sergeant's stripes, young Richard Sharpe has led a relatively peaceful existence. But Sharpe's reverie ends when he barely survives a ...



  • Stephanie Bond

    Always a bridesmaid Piper Shepherd was desperate. As the only single member of her sorority (even chubby hypochondriac Tillie had managed to snag a suitor!) she had to find a husband soon. That wasn't easy in Mudville, Mississippi, population twen...



  • Sandra Field

    He wanted a lover... Cade McInnes had fallen in love with Lori when she was sixteen and he was old enough to know better. But he hadn't known better. They had parted bitterly. Not a family! Now it was ten years later. Lori had a bad marriage...



  • Sara Wood

    Mistress... and mother! Trish Hicks's body still tingled at the memory of her time with Adam Foster four years ago, but he'd seemed more interested in dating glamorous women than settling down! Trish had vowed to forget him--until, gorgeou...



  • Don Pendleton

    HELL UNLEASHED It's called Legion -- an interactive computer game that makes virtual murder a joyride. But the gain exists beyond cyberspace, and it's now a deadly blueprint for a highly' organized international campaign of panic and terror. Bo...



  • Don Pendleton

    FIRST SALVO Mack Bolan follows a trail of terror from Berlin to Moscow, playing hunches in a strange game in which stolen nuclear materials have upped the ante to mass destruction. A preemptive strike in London against an army of IRA and Libyan...



  • Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    It's a journey full of danger, excitement--and surprises. Eighteen thousand miles between New York and California. The threat of pursuit, the perils of yellow fever, the problems of taking on unexpected passengers, and the rigors of rounding the Horn...



  • Lee Wilkinson

    Determined to discover the truth about her family's past, Samantha Sumner engineers a meeting with the man whom she thinks is elusive millionaire Cal Lorrimore. A week later he proposes... Arriving in England to spend some time on the family esta...



  • Barbara Metzger

    IF SHE MUST DIE, SHE VOWS TO CAST SOME BLAME ON A RATHER ATTRACTIVE HEARTBREAKER! Delirious with fever, Rosellen Lockharte summons all her strength to pen several letters from her attic deathbed. Soon all who set her willy-nilly on this path to p...



  • Joyce Carol Oates

    New York Times Bestselling AuthorFinally returned to print in a beautiful trade paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists -- a story of morality, d...



  • Kathleen Eagle

    The sudden death of her brother brings Julia Weslin home to the High Horse, the family's sprawling yet cash-strapped Wyoming cattle ranch. A burnt-out member of the urban jungle, Julia is spiritually rejuvenated by the wild, still untamed land and re...



  • Joanna Wayne

    SECRET DADDY Jodie Gahagen was content being a single mom to her twin baby boys. But her ordered life was shattered by a stalker whose threats sent her packing home -- with her bags and more than a couple of secrets. She'd told the town he...



  • Carolyn Davidson

    A Make-Believe Marriage Cassie Phillips wasn't really married to Will Tolliver, no matter what he told people. Not that being the wife of a man as kind and thoughtful as Will wouldn't be a dream come true. But even Will would abandon her once he l...



  • Barbara Boswell

    MR. JUNE That Marriageable Man: Tall, dark and very sexy Rafe Paradise was single and satisfied -- until he "inherited" four mischievous kids. His Ultimate Dilemma: Being a devoted dad without getting hitched. That Marriageable Woman: Nex...



  • Clive Barker

    Rich and powerful, the Geary dynasty has reigned over American society for decades. But it is a family with dark, terrible secrets. For the Gearys are a family at war. Their adversaries are the Barbarossas, a clan whose timeless origins lie in myth, ...



  • Kathryn Ross

    First wedding anniversary...first child... Paige and Brad had a deal. If Paige played the dutiful wife, he would pay off her debts. Theirs was a marriage of convenience, pure and simple - apart from one complication - Brad didn't just want a p...


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