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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1987

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Dangerous Places
Elaine Raco Chase

New Books List: 515 titles

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  • Nora Roberts

    LADY OF MYSTERY Prince Bennett Bisset of Cordina had been making gossip headlines since his teens--but the prim and proper Lady Hannah Rothchild wasn't his usual choice in women. Something in her eyes intrigued him, and he was determined to discove...



  • Diana Palmer

    MOUNTAIN MAN Everyone in the office described the boss's mysterious older brother as a real woman hater -- an absolute bear of a man. So, when Nicole White had to travel with her ailing employer to his brother's home in Montana, she was prepared ...



  • Carole Mortimer

    'I AM NOT PREPARED TO LET A LITTLE GOLD-DIGGER LIKE YOU ANYWHERE NEAR MY SON!' It was a case of mistaken identity, but Leonie Spencer wasn't about to clear the air immediately and make things easy for Henry Hawker Sinclair. After all, he had accu...



  • Carole Mortimer

    She despised him now - hadn't he killed her cousin? Elizabeth Farnham had met Quinn Taylor before she became the mistress of Farnham Hall, and she had loved him during his brief visit. But when she discovered he was responsible for Fergus...



  • Danielle Steel

    The World War II love affair between lovely Frenchwoman Solange Bertrand and American GI-turned-actor Sam Walker burned too brightly and ended in tragedy, leaving their three young daughters orphaned. Hilary, the oldest (and the only one who remember...



  • Karen Robards

    WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A SECRET AGENT? Author Clara Winston was snuggling in for the night when the strange men burst into her carriage house apartment. Terrified, she couldn't make sense of their heavy Russian accents, but they seemed to be dema...



  • Susan Wiggs

    DANGEROUS PASSION From the moment Briar Rose sets eyes on Lord Gareth Hawke's magnificent Saxon face -- his golden hair gleaming in the sunlight -- she is captivated. She has found her knight -- a loving partner to one day be lord of Briarwood, he...



  • Robyn Carr

    SHE WAS BELLIGERENT AND IRREVERENT, AND HE WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ... Widowed at thirty-three, with two small kids to bring up alone, Beverly Simpson wanted to blame someone. Until now, fate had been on her side, she admitted that, but in a cruel...



  • Helen Bianchin

    Emma Martinero wasn't looking for romance Love was a closed chapter in her life now that the husband she had adored was dead. That didn't mean, however, that she couldn't pick up the pieces and make a new life for herself. Her trip ...



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    The legend of Raistlin's daughter! A strange story that cannot be confirmed, yet it is whispered among the elves of Silvanesti, gossiped about by the kender of Krynn, and told here for the first time by Caramon, the enigmatic mage's surviving twin...



  • Robyn Donald

    Her response to him was frightening... Venetia had felt desire before. The result? Such a disastrous marriage that she felt she wanted never to experience desire again. And she hadn't -- until now. Ryan Fraine, famous documentary filmmaker,...



  • Barbara Delinsky

    It was simply sultry Caroline Cooper was hot. And after dealing with other people's crises all day, she was frustrated. But throwing open her window to catch the night breeze did little to solve her problems. Directly across the courtyard sat ...



  • Patricia Wilson

    He was all she'd longed for, all she feared The same call that delivered the tragic news of her mothers death delivered Meriel back into the force field that was Ramon Ortiga--the man she had left Venezuela seven years ago to escape. Nevert...



  • Wilbur Smith

    A World Aflame Never have the destinies of a nation and of a family been so dramatically entwined. In the decades after World War II, South Africa struggles against the tribal violence at its heart--between Englishman and Afrikaaner, white and bla...



  • Catherine George

    He thought she was just a gold digger! Until her adoptive mother died suddenly, Antonia Grant hadn't known that her natural mother had kept a distant watch over her. So it was disconcerting to meet her for the first time. Antonia loved Dian...



  • Ken Follett

    PAPER MONEY It was worth a night of sex that a high government official would never forget. PAPER MONEY It was worth setting the stock market spinning in a ruthless grab for a giant corporation. PAPER MONEY It was worth any gamble for a corporate r...



  • Roberta Leigh

    He'd never ask a second time Sandra had known Randall Pearson forever. Her father's totally dependable deputy, he never stepped out of character. Until the night when he'd surprised her by asking her to marry him. Sandra had rejecte...



  • James Lee Burke

    TROUBLE 1S RISING 1N MONTANA'S BITTERROOT VALLEY ... ... and Frank Riordan is the only one willing to stop it. As he wages a one-man campaign to shut down the local pulp mill that is polluting the air and devastating the environment, tensions are ...



  • Anne Weale

    Yes, he was perfect... But having a permanent man in her life just didn't appeal to Alexandra Clifford. To Alex, falling in love was "a trap for the unwary" and "never again" was her motto. When fate brought Laurier Tait ont...



  • Lucy Gordon

    PRISONER OF LOVE... Sara was a wildlife photographer determined to brave the desolate cliffs of Farraway Island to capture the golden eagles on film. Instead, Sara was captured by Rorke Calvin, a man as fierce and untamed as the eagles Sara was s...



  • Margaret Mayo

    He made it clear just what he was after Maybe everyone else on Lakades, including Kara Lincroft's sister who insisted she visit, thought Aleko Tranakas the perfect antidote for a young widow's loneliness and grief. But not Kara. She did...



  • Lori Copeland

    LAWLESS LOVE With her beautiful face profiled against the hot Missouri sky, Wynne Elliot was every inch a southern lady, but that didn't make the rifle in her hands any less deadly. She had sworn vengeance on the handsome scoundrel who'd taken ...



  • Leigh Michaels

    They had always been "just friends" Gianna West and Blake Whittaker were senior partners of the successful family-owned Westway Cosmetics in Chicago. It was a perfectly satisfactory relationship -- friends since childhood, they were imperv...



  • Joan Wolf

    A tidal wave of desire flooded through her at the touch of his lips. She clung to him as he pressed her back onto the pillows, his powerful body following hers... When beautiful, dark-haired Vanessa MacIan met Edward Romney, Earl of Linton, she to...



  • Anthony Horowitz

    From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Alex Rider seriesThirteen-year-old Nick Diamond is in prison! Framed for a jewel heist, quick-thinking Nick finds himself sharing a cell with public enemy number one: Johnny Powers. Nick’s only ...



  • Joan Smith

    A HIGH STICKLER LIKE HARRUP WRITING LETTERS TO A LADYBIRD! 'TWAS SCANDAL IN THE MAKING! Having been his neighbor all her life. Diana Beechum thought little of delivering some documents to Charles, Lord Harrup in London, when he had requested a...



  • Emilie Richards

    WELCOME TO OZ Russet Ames had escaped! As the plane flew over the Australian countryside, Rusty felt no regret at having left behind the glittering New York world of modeling. She was looking forward to a quieter pace, a tranquil life in the land ...



  • Constance O'Banyon

    NIGHT CLOAKED SPLENDOR Ever since notorious Judah Slaughter had kissed thirteen-year-old Liberty Boudreaux in thanks for helping him escape, she knew there could be no other for her. Now, five years later, the gangly girl had become a breathtaking ...



  • Annette Broadrick

    MIND OVER MATTER Some men send flowers, some send cards. But Chad was different. He sent his thoughts -- literally! -- by telepathy. Ever since Jennifer was a child, Chad had comforted her, teased her, and, as she grew into womanhood, loved her. I...



  • Janelle Taylor

    SET IN A THRILLING AGE OF NOBLE KNIGHTS AND LADIES FAIR, HERE IS A MAGICAL, ROMANTIC TALE OF BOLD ADVENTURE, EXOTIC FANTASY AND WILD, ENDLESS LOVE... She is the bewitchingly lovely Princess Alysa. He is a mysterious stranger who has come to res...



  • Jose Saramago

    "A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power." -- The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church ...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    She was holding out for a hero Settling down was not for Summer Reed. Party by night, work by day and let tomorrow take care of itself--that was her motto. But when Derek Anderson, her roommate's globe-trotting brother, crashed into her life, Summ...



  • Rosanne Bittner

    A Magnificent Epic of the Frontier �" And a Man Torn Between His Heritage and His Heart The civilized world called him Caleb Sax, but among the proud Cheyenne he was known as Blue Hawk, the warrior destined to conquer new lands in his search for ...



  • Sara Wood

    "Please, kiss me. I want you to kiss me." Cool, reserved Olivia Kent hardly recognized herself when she begged a complete stranger in the Royal Academy Gallery to kiss her--twice. She couldn't even explain herself to the bearded rep...



  • Piers Anthony

    THROUGH THE CURTAIN On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay through a mysterious "curtain" revealed by a loving robot. Beyond the curtain lay Phaze -- a wor...



  • Piers Anthony

    When Esk, a young ogre-nymph-human, began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey to rid himself of a seductive demoness, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. A running river paradise and its harmless inhabitants were perishing ...



  • Piers Anthony

    THE GIFT AND THE CURSE Orb had a rare gift--the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But greater magic than Orb's lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things. The quest for t...



  • Victoria Thompson

    She swore she'd share his name -- and win his heart! DESPERATE FOR A HUSBAND When dashing Josh Logan rescued her from death by exposure petite Felicity Morrow realized she'd never survive rugged frontier life without a man by her sick And...



  • Anna Schmidt

    FRINGE BENEFITS The position was only temporary -- Joshua Carrington needed someone to design the windows of his Milwaukee department store, and Marlo Fletcher needed a job to help take a load off her bank balance. The situation was perfect for bo...



  • Barbara Michaels

    Born of a secret tainted bloodline... Haskell Maloney came to Chicago to study Egyptology, following in her mother's academic footsteps. But it was more than a degree she was seeking. Haskell was looking for answers to her mother's untimely death-...



  • Dixie Browning

    Saxon Evanshaw had buried his past -- until his sickly father and greedy stepmother dragged him back to his North Carolina home. There he was greeted by sinfully beautiful Gale Chandler, his stepbrother's widow, who held the entire estate in he...



  • Anne McCaffrey

    AMIDST THE GRANDEUR OF THE EMERALD COUNTRYSIDE, A MAGNIFICENT STORY UNFOLDS.... They are the Carradvnes, who for over 200 years have bred and trained horses of the finest caliber on Cornanagh--a land so beautiful it inspires the soul. But all i...



  • Jill Gregory

    Her heart's destiny soared on the wings of time... Elly Forrest... a woman who dared to dream. Hers was a life of laughter and tears, heartache and joy. From the industrial boom of Pittsburgh in the late 1800s to the windswept grandeur of Chicago,...



  • Matt Christopher

    When Kelly Roberts plays basketball at home with her friend Ester, she's a whiz, but as soon as she faces a crowd, she freezes. One day Kelly finds a brand-new pair of red hightops in her locker. They fit her perfectly, and whenever she wears them, h...



  • Ben Bova

    THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON WAS A CIVILIAN But those who have gone on to explore our newest boundary have almost all been military personnel. Space is truly the final frontier, and with the explorers and settlers will come the forces that will prese...



  • Ben Bova

    Hero or Killer?In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything in space -- including committing the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the Moon, where he's head...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    Sarah felt as if she were Cinderella High-society dances at the yacht club, flights in a private plane to the California wine country, a designer wardrobe--life had never been this wonderful for shy librarian Sarah Farentino. Suddenly she was lead...



  • Muriel Jensen

    Love could have some very strange symptoms Rosie Weaver and her new boarder argued over the insignificant details of day-to-day living and brazenly probed each other's deepest secrets. The McMinnville, Oregon, boarding house became a war zone ...



  • Alison Tyler (1)

    ASSIGNMENT: KISS AND NEVER TELL Jennifer Heath's a knockout...in looks and karate moves. Now she's shopping the most expensive Paris boutiques and doing a little favor for the CIA. But her little assignment turns into big trouble when she goes to...


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