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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1995

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New Books List: 554 titles

  • Choose the Fate of Apollo 13

    Linda Williams Aber

    Children can choose among sixteen different endings to the adventure-filled flight of the Apollo 13, deciding whether they will spot a leak and save the spaceship, or be hit by meteors and disappear into space. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • The Fictitious Marquis

    Alina Adams

    Lady Julia Highsmith saves Jamie Lowell from the gallows because she needs a temporary husband in order to get her inheritance, but their agreement does not plan for a passion so strong it overcomes all secrets and scandals. Characters: Jamie Lowe...

  • The Bear Nobody Wanted

    Janet Ahlberg

  • The Arkadians

    Lloyd Alexander

    Three unusual companions -- one fantastic journey! Lucian is on the run from a pair of murderous soothsayers. Joy-in- the-Dance knows magic and marvels, and is on a quest. Fronto is a poet-turned-donkey who wants to break the spell that turned him...

  • The Girl Next Door

    Trisha Alexander

    The man was impossible! Infuriating! Maddeningly blind! Sure, freewheeling bachelor Simon Christopher was Jenny Randall's best friend, but when would he stop ogling busty blondes and start seeing her as more than just plain Jenny, the wholesome girl ...

  • Grave Doubt

    Michael Allegretto

    Jake Lomax takes on the case of Roger and Vivian Armis, a couple who have been receiving threatening phone calls from a blackmailer who claims to be Vivian's late husband and who demands cash to keep him from reclaiming his mortal life....

  • Royal Cat

    Garrison Allen

    LONG LIVE THE QUEEN The annual Elizabethan Spring Faire has transformed Empty Creek, Arizona into Merry Olde England. Everyone is turned out in doublet and hose to relive the revelry of a lively era. Minstrels make music, bawdy bards abound and wa...

  • Allies and Aliens

    Roger MacBride Allen

    VISUALIZE GALACTIC PEACE (Step One: Eliminate All Humans) Lieutenants Terrance MacKenzie Larson and Joslyn Marie Cooper Larson had just gotten married and also finished training in the League of Planets Survey Service when their first mission was...

  • Assault at Selonia

    Roger MacBride Allen

    Imprisoned on the planet Corellia, Han Solo finds himself at the mercy of his evil cousin, Thracken Sal-Solo. Thracken plans to restore the Imperial system and seize total power--no matter what the cost. Han has one chance to stop him. But to do so h...

  • Beyond Forever

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    BEYOND TIME Successful career woman Alisha Sampson leaves Texas -- and the heartache of a failed marriage -- behind to come to New Orleans for a much-needed vacation. Inexplicably drawn to an old voodoo shop, Alisha is stunned to discover that she...

  • Apollo 13

    Dina Anastasio

    A faithful adaptation of the script of the major motion picture follows the nearly fatal trip of the Apollo 13 into outer space, with a full-color insert containing stills from the film. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Zia Summer

    Rudolfo A. Anaya

    Meet Sonny Baca. He's a small-time Albuquerque private-eye on a big mission: to find the killer of his cousin Gloria. Neither beauty nor a hot-shot politician husband had protected Gloria from a ghastly end. Her body had been drained of its blood, an...

  • Ricardo's Day

    George Ancona

    Written and photographed by George Ancona. What a busy day! Ricardo paints and build, and serves snack to his friends. He makes music and dances and feeds their class pet, Tito. and even though he has a fall on the playground, Ricardo's Day is lots o...

  • Born of Elven Blood

    Kevin J. Anderson

    Escaping into the world of Faery when her own home begins to fall apart, Maria Blanca joins in the fight against the savage trogs that threaten the eleven great elven cities and is taken into the heart of the trog empire....

  • Ill Wind

    Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason

    IT'S THE LARGEST OIL SPILL IN HISTORY: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage -- and a PR disaster--the multinational oil company releases an untested "designer microbe" to break up the spill. An "oil-e...

  • Heirs of the Force

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Hidden Jewel

    V.C. Andrews

    Hidden Jewel is the fourth thrilling novel in the V.C. Andrews Landry series. Following All That Glitters, the spellbinding story of Ruby Landry's daring struggle to find a happy life with Beau Andreas and to protect their precious daughter. Sheltere...

  • All That Glitters

    V.C. Andrews

    DRIVEN FROM THE DUMAS MANSION BACK TO HER BELOVED BAYOU, RUBY'S ONLY HOPE IS THAT FATE WILL LET HER BEGIN ANEW... Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Ta...

  • June Dreams

    Katherine Applegate

    Summer Smith is ready for a once-in-a-lifetime summer. She left her small town in Minnesota for the Florida Keys, where the sun is scorching, the water is brilliant blue, and the guys are as plentiful as the hot white sand. By sunset of her first day...

  • Beach Party

    Katherine Applegate

    Kate becomes suspicious of the sultry Allegra, who seeks protection from a deceitful past in the arms of a new roommate, while Grace makes her decision between Carr the hunk and Wilton the brain....

  • The Proprietors

    Jeffrey Archer

  • Dangerous Nights

    Rosalie Ash

    "I'd say the only way to get your cooperation was to make love to you, right now, Anna!" Four years before, Ana would have been overjoyed to hear these words from Jed Steele's lips. But then he had hurt and humiliated her and Ana had ...

  • Tom, Babette and Simon: Three Tales of Transformation

    Avi

    TOMTom is bored all the time. When he's given a homework assignment to write The Most Exciting Thing That Ever Happened to Me, Tom realizes that not one exciting thing has happened to him in his entire life. Then Tom makes a deal to trade places with...

  • Ground Zero

    James Axler

    Judgment day has come and gone. Now only the strongest survive. Law of the Lawless A century after the nuclear conflagrating almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land. Those who inhabit Deathlands are either killers or thos...

  • The Matrix

    Jonathan Aycliffe

    Immersing himself in the ancient studies of magic after the tragic death of his wife, scholar Andrew Macleod becomes consumed by a passion for knowledge and becomes the unwitting apprentice of the menacing Duncan Milne. Original....

  • Daddy Lessons

    Stella Bagwell

    EVERY CHILD NEEDS A FATHER... Savannah Starr's new boss, Joe McCann, was a rugged, blue-eyed hunk. But the man didn't know a thing about raising a child ...so Savannah decided it was her job to give Joe some daddy lessons. EVERY FATHER NEEDS WO...

  • The Irda

    Linda P. Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    IN THE BEGINNING.. . Given life by gods, the Ogres were the most intelligent and beautiful of the early races on Krynn, and they reigned supreme in their perfect kingdom .. . Until that fabled race was weakened by clan rivalries and evil ambiti...

  • Precious Rogue

    Mary Balogh
    in

    WHEN THEY'RE BAD ...THEY RE BETTER They're shameless, seductive, and steal your heart with a smile. Now these irresistible rogues and rakes, rebels and renegades, are captured in five all new, deliciously sexy stories by America's favorite authors...

  • Lord Carew's Bride

    Mary Balogh

    Her Heart's Dilemma Samantha Newman's heart skipped a beat when she found herself dancing with the irresistibly handsome and notorious Earl of Rushford. This ruthless libertine, who had betrayed Samantha six years ago, was waltzing back in...

  • Diving for the Moon

    Lee F. Bantle

  • Dance of the Flame

    Elaine Barbieri

    SHE WAS THE MISTRESS OF HIS DESTINY... HE WAS THE MASTER OF HER DESIRE! THE HEALER Exiled to a barren wasteland, Sera would do anything to regain the kingdom that was her birthright. But the hard-eyed warrior she saved from death was the last co...

  • Lion of the North

    Suzanne Barclay

    Though he'd led his clan to peace and prosperity, Lucais Sutherland could not rest. For Elspeth Carmichael, the woman he had once loved and lost, had returned to the Highlands, carrying with her the taint of an enemy alliance. And reawakening the da...

  • The Reconciliation

    Clive Barker

    The magical tale of ill-fated lovers lost among worlds teetering on the edge of destruction, where their passion holds the key to escape.

    There has never been a book like Imajica. Transforming every expectation offantasy fiction with its heady mi...

  • The Innocents

    Richard Barre

    There are seven of them. Children--innocents--whose long-buried remains are uncovered by a flash flood. No one knows who could have committed such a crime. Clues are scarce, and with the media turning the story into a law enforcement nightmare, time ...

  • Judge Dredd

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    In a violent Third Milennium Earth, Judge Dredd, the most powerful keeper of the peace, is wrongly accused and sentenced for murder just before he discovers that he is a clone who was genetically designed to be the perfect lawman. Original. Movie tie...

  • In the Loyal Mountains

    Rick Bass

    “Bass’s fiction takes us to the borders of civilization, where we glimpse an untamed world of myth and mystery†(Entertainment Weekly).   In this “moving and self-assured collection†of short fiction, enormous pigs charge through the s...

  • Batman Forever

    Janet Scott Batchler

  • The Pecos River

    Frederic Bean

    Pursuing a dream of freedom and peace, Buck Wallace leaves his lifelong seafaring career and moves to the Guadalupe Mountains where he vows to live peacefully among the Kwahadie Comanche Indians at any cost. Original....

  • Legacy

    Greg Bear

    The Way, a tunnel through space and time that houses a space station, Axis City, has become a place of war against the mysterious alien race called the Jarts, who advance farther into human territory every year. Reissue....

  • Summertime News

    Dick Belsky

    The Central Park killing of Katie Thomas enrages local residents until a suspect is arrested, and TV news reporter Jenny McKay uncovers a disturbing truth that reveals that the victim had not really been Katie Thomas. Original....

  • The Wedding Venture

    Nikki Benjamin

    THE BRIDE WAS IN PERIL After years in hiding, Laura Burke's past had caught up with her. Now she was desperate to save her young son from her enemies--desperate enough to turn to shady, enigmatic Devlin Gray for help. What she needed was a bodygua...

  • Guilty By Choice

    Patricia D. Benke

    Unable to deal with the fact that she could have prevented the murder of a little girl, a young woman struggles to remember enough about the fatal night to help prosecutor Judith Norton put away an unrepentant murderer. Original....

  • Sunset Love

    Cherie Bennett

  • Twice Burned

    David Bergantino

    Plagued by dreams of being burned at the stake, sophomore Colleen Martini learns from a psychic that she had been Joan of Arc in a previous life, and begins a desperate search for answers before her time runs out...

  • To the Wedding

    John Berger

    Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and t...

  • Sa Femme: Or, The Other Woman

    Emmanuele Bernheim

    Claire, a successful doctor, embarks on a clandestine affair with Thomas, a married man, an adulterous relationship that leads to emotional manipulation and pathological obsession. Winner of the 1993 Prix Me+a7dicis. 15,000 first printing....

  • Dr. Daddy

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    BLUNDERING BACHELOR There was a new female in Jonas Tate's life, and he was crazy about her -- when she wasn't bawling or spitting up! Thanks to his newborn niece, the town's most eligible doctor had become a harried homebody. But help was on the wa...

  • Sweeter Than Dreams

    Olga Bicos

    SWEETER THAN DREAMS is a classic love story, a quest for treasure, and a voyage into the unknown. It starts when Leydianna Carstair, bookkeeper and dreamer, meets nobleman Quentin Alexander Rutherford. Lord Ruthless, as she calls him, is handsome, we...

  • Disney's Pocahontas: Pop-up Book

    Eric Binder

  • The Pony Wife

    Beverly Bird

    They called her Dark Moon, for she was born under the darkened light of a lunar eclipse--and blessed with the gentle gift of healing. As a woman surrounded by superstition, she struggled to gain the trust of her people through kindness and devotion. ...

  • Johnny Mnemonic

    Terry Bisson

    Using a data-storage chip embedded in his brain, Johnny smuggles information, but things go wrong when his employers are murdered, the download code is missing, and gangsters working for the stolen data's owners are in pursuit...

  • Attack of the Mutant Bugs

    J.R. Black

    While exploring a ruined mine, Katie Callahan and her cousin Miles uncover a group of miners who were left to die in a cave-in many years before but lived to mutate into giant insects and now want revenge on the people who abandoned them...

  • Texas Kiss

    Alexandra Blackstone

    Taking over her ill father's ranch despite local criticism, Merrie Sinclair meets the mysterious Kyle, a reputed gunfighter whom she tries to resist but becomes the object of an uncontrolled passion. Merrie Sinclair takes over the Silver Spur Ran...

  • Reservations

    Jennifer Blake
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    When a gorgeous male escort is sent ot her room by mistake, a young woman plays along, never dreaming what her innocent charade will lead to....

  • Don Juan De Marco

    Jean Blakewhite

    The novelization of a film starring Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway and Johnny Depp. A young man believes he is the world's greatest lover, Don Juan. When his escapades land him in a mental hospital, it's up to a dedicated psychiatrist to unravel the mys...

  • Done Wrong

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    COPS WERE DYING. A KILLER WAS GOING FREE. A WOMAN WITH A BROKEN HEART WAS OUT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. A mother, a widow, a black woman cop, Marti MacAlister lives and works in a quiet suburb. Part of her died in Chicago when her husband, an undercov...

  • Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

    Win Blevins

    "The life of Crazy Horse, the greatest war chief of the Sioux Indian nation, is the subject of this MOVING AND AUTHENTICALLY DETAILED novel....Crazy Horse eagerly embraced the traditional warrior's skills, honor and purpose....Adorned with his distin...

  • The Lost Manuscript of Martin Taylor Harrison

    Stephen A. Bly

    New York editor Lynda Dawn Austin expected to find a manuscript that would rock the publishing and boost her career. But the real surprise was the cowboy guiding her through canyon country to find it. When he first walks into the plush New York offic...

  • The Engagement Party

    Barbara Boswell

    THE BROODING BACHELOR Three marriage proposals and not one walk down the aisle had Hannah Farley swearing off men forever. Until the sexiest stranger Clover, South Carolina, had ever seen turned up. With his black eyes, black T-shirt, black worn j...

  • Bone in the Throat

    Anthony Bourdain

    The acclaimed first novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN. A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob.

    When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagana settles for a...

  • Orion and the Conqueror

    Ben Bova

    John O'Ryan is Orion--more than human, less than a god, cast away on the seas of Time to do battle among the Creators for the future of mankind.

    Now the eternal warrior finds himself separated from his great love, Anya, and marooned in Macedon...

  • Night Departure and No Place

    Emmanuel Bove

    French soldiers escape from a German prison camp during World War II and, on foot and unarmed, make a dangerous and heroic journey back to France, beset by hunger, paranoia, physical exhaustion, and hopelessness....

  • Baby Face

    Steve Brewer

    Soft-boiled Albuquerque P.I. Bubba Mabry is way short on cash when pimp Sultan Sweeney, late of N'Orleans, strolls into his office. Sultan is working the old Route 66, Central Avenue, and somebody's killing his 'babies.' The cops won't tell Sultan an...

  • Rogue's Isles

    Thomas Gately Briody

    A reporter searching for the biggest crook in the smallest state is filled with peculiar people, including an Amway-salesman-turned-talk-show-host, an IRA terrorist moonlighting for the mob, and a pushy little old lady...

  • Wings

    Bill Brittain

    NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN IT! Twelve-year-old Ian has sprouted wings, and not even the doctors know why. Shunned by his family, he finds solace in a fellow outsider named Anita, who takes him to her home in the mountains. There he finds the strength to fly...

  • Not Without Risk

    Suzanne Brockmann

    NOWHERE TO HIDE It began as nothing more than a day's pleasure cruise on the crystal-clear waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But then Emily Marshall stumbled into a deadly maze of drug smuggling and murder -- and discovered that the only person who co...

  • A Brush With Magic

    William J. Brooke

    In this Chinese folktale expanded to novel length, Old Li raises a baby found floating in the river, but fails to see that the paintings made by the boy come to life. By the author of A Telling of the Tales. Reprint....

  • The Twisted Cord

    Helen Brooks

    When 15-year-old Jenny dies in childbirth, her twin babies are brought up away from her family. As the years go by, it becomes apparent that David is obsessed with his sister and will do anything to prevent her forming a relationship with another man...

  • Double Helix

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Imagine a ladder, Dr. Josef Van Klees tells his students. Now twist your imaginary ladder so it is spiraled. You then have the double helix of DNA, the immortal thread. You also have the nucleus of this terrifying fact-based adventure. From the momen...

  • Turkey Tracks

    Lizbie Brown

    When the Animal Liberation Front places a poster in the Martha Washington quilt shop window reading SUPPORT TURKEY'S LIB.  STOP THE SHAMEFUL SLAUGHTER, shopkeeper Elizabeth Blair is incredulous that she has been singled out.  A quick-witted widow...

  • Entries from a Hot Pink Notebook

    Todd Brown

    Ben Smith is suffering through that dark night of the adolescent soul known as freshman year of high school. And he's doing it in Tranten Township, i.e., wrong-side-of-the-tracks America. Now his handsome history teacher/track coach has ignited in Be...

  • The Bitter Price of Love

    Amanda Browning

    Mistress for hire! Hunter Jamieson had been furious to discover that his cousin's intended bride was the same little gold digger who had run out on him only days before. And it seemed Reba Wyeth was up to her old tricks.... She needed money...

  • Check-Out Time

    Margaret Brownley
    in

    A couple about to finalize their divorce is given a week's vacation by their three grown children. Will they find the love they thought they'd lost forever?...

  • Stable Groom

    Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie, Carole, and Lisa are ecstatic that stable owner Max Regnery III is about to marry. They can't resist being part of things, so they plan a surprise "bridle" shower for the groom-to-be.Some serious business also needs their attention. The girls...

  • Annie Says I Do

    Carole Buck

    SINGLE GUY'S PROPOSAL When Matt Powell asked Annie Martin to help him get back into the "singles scene," she figured he needed some advice about women. But Matt's suggestion that they share a few practice dates threw Annie for a loop, Could she real...

  • It's a Spoon, Not a Shovel

    Caralyn Buehner

    A quiz on good manners matches illustrations to twenty questions with multiple choice answers, with the letter for each correct answer--as well as many little animals--hidden in the accompanying picture...

  • Beloved Honor

    Mallory Burgess

    IN A MEDIEVAL LAND OF POMP AND PASSION, BETRAYAL DIVIDED THEIR HEARTS... A fiery-spirited beauty, Cat Douglas is sworn to support her ancient Scottish homeland against its savage enemies. A once-illustrious knight, Rene Faurer is now despised ...

  • Blue Watch Blues

    John Burke

    The novelization of the TV series. When the bells go down, they're a team. But between shouts they're individuals - and often touchy, quarrelsome or depressed. Members of Blue Watch often acquire nicknames, but when Poison Pearce joins them, things b...

  • Netherworld

    Richard Lee Byers

    WORSE THAN DEAD Rose was one of the city's free people--the lonely, occasionally beautiful ones on the edges of society. She made drawings of tourists and lived on tips. Zane had taken her into his heart, and now Rose was making him a believer in ...

  • Mistress of Her Fate

    Julia Byrne

    Lady Eleanor fitzWarren had barely seen her father since he gave her into the 'care' of her uncle's dissolute household. Only by deceit and manipulation had Nell managed to hang on to her virtue, so it ill became Lord Rafe Beaudene to think her a who...

  • Tempt Me Not

    Eve Byron

    As a young, dashing Max Hastings, the future Duke of Bassett, had little time for Jillian Forbes, the sweet aristocratic little sister of his dearest friend. But the infectious good humor and radiant smile of the young Lady Jillian soon melted Max...

  • A Family for Ronnie

    Julie Caille

    Suddenly orphaned, little Ronnie faced two startled guardians. His aunt, Alicia Brant, wanted to mother the boy. And his rugged bachelor uncle, Luke Garrick, was proving a natural-born dad. Unfortunately, Alicia and Luke had something else in common....

  • Dead Girls

    Richard Calder

    Falling in love with Primavera, a half-human, half-gynoid blood drinker, Ignatz Zwakh enjoys the adventure of a supernatural lifetime, until his beloved Primavera is infected with a deadly magic dust. Reprint....

  • Reluctant Charade

    Margaret Callaghan

    All her life, Denise had walked in her cousin Jen's shadow -- now she was being asked to step into her shoes... literally! The trouble was, Denise could no more imitate Jen's sophisticated manner than she could pretend to love Jen's fianc...

  • The Plan

    Stephen J. Cannell

    THE PLAN It was twenty years in the devising. Its time is now. The wrong power already owns the airwaves. And the White House is the next step. The selling of a president is an assignment that could salvage TV producer Ryan Bolt's damaged li...

  • Final Victim

    Stephen J. Cannell

    One death is never enough... A genius, hairless, seven-foot-tall psychopath, Leonard Land is many people wired into the cyber-subculture of Satanism and Death Metal. He is smart and cunning. He is quick, brutal and deadly. And he is everywhere. ...

  • Whisper My Name

    Raine Cantrell

    SHE FEARED HIM Beautiful young Dominca Kirkland felt a tremor of fear when she first met the tall, ruggedly handsome cowboy named Luke. He made it no secret that he wanted to possess her -- it was as clear as the guns that rode low on his lean hips....

  • Maggie and the Gambler

    Ann Carberry

    DARE TO LOVE In the years Maggie Donnelly has managed the Four Roses, she's turned the family saloon into one of the most elegant meeting places in San Francisco. It seems the ultimate betrayal to have her father sell his half -- putting her in pa...

  • Bloodstream

    P.M. Carlson

    Struggling with personal family problems, Deputy Marty Hopkins takes the case of murdered fourteen-year-old Johnny Donato, whose killer is believed by many to be a wealthy Arizona developer who plans to build a religious community...

  • Masai Dreaming

    Justin Cartwright

    Haunted by his dreams of the Masai, Tim Curtiz journeys to East Africa to research and write a screenplay about the enigmatic Claudia Cohn-Casson, an early anthropologist betrayed to the SS upon her return to France during the War...

  • The Price Of A Child

    Lorene Cary

    An intimate, gripping novel of the antebellum Underground Railroad, based on the true story of a valiant Philadelphia freedwoman -- a debut novel from the author of the “stunning memoir†Black Ice (New York Times)."A stunning achievement ... a de...

  • Father Takes a Wife

    Ginger Chambers

    "IF SHARON WANTS TO BE WITH YOU, THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS." Brave words, but it had seemed so straightforward in the beginning. After all, Hallie's wonderful new husband, Kyle, had every right to custody of his daughter. Still, what...

  • A Room in the Attic

    Gabrielle Charbonnet

    Molly Stewart’s father always treated her like a princess, and Molly loved him more than anything in the world. But now her dad is gone, and Molly is left alone at boarding school with nasty Ms. Thacker as her guardian. Molly’s friends are forbid...

  • Hunter's Kiss

    Kate Charles

    A MAN'S TOUCH Enigmatic and seductive, he is the rugged hero of your most intimate dreams -- a sensual stranger who can fulfill your every desire. Now, discover the secrets of his own yearning heart as a beautiful woman sweeps him away on a jo...

  • Spider Boys

    Ming Cher

    Set in the violent streets of 1950s Singapore, a portrait of the lives of street kids follows themes of rebellion, teenage sex, prestige, and fighting spiders, and is presented entirely in street-slang English...

  • Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs

    Mark Childress

    Setting out on his boat to deliver a huckleberry pie to his granny, young Joshua is astonished when a mob of crabs raids the boat and steals the tasty fare, and he becomes equally frustrated when no one believes his story....

  • Andrea

    Gloria Chisholm

  • Blessings in Disguise

    Jane McBride Choate

    Minister and newlywed Carla Stevens Hastings is helping her architect husband Sam plan a new Community Home. Dedicated to solving the local homeless problem, the two do volunteer work with homeless families. Suddenly mysterious threats are made by an...

  • Coming Through the Rye

    Nick Clarke

    Publicist Ivor Belling and photographer Brian Lipman are given a warm welcome up in Glasgow by a bevy of Scottish beauties. For this is 1965 and anything goes in the 1960s, as the boys discover when the bouncy Beth Rokeby invites them to some thrilli...

  • Public Affairs

    Nick Clarke

    Ivor Belling, one of the leading public relations men in London in the 1960s, has been given the task of promoting a new brand of dog food in Scotland. He's not altogether sorry to leave town, for this task could well free him from the clutches of fe...

  • A Desperate Call

    Laura Coburn

    A homicide detective becomes obsessed with finding the murderer of an eight-year-old boy--her son's best friend--puts herself and her family in jeopardy, and dares to cross the line no cop should ever cross. Original....

  • A Risky Rogue

    Pat Cody

    A LADY'S SCHEME Lady Clare Linwood agreed to help the notorious rake Lord Denzil regain the ton's good graces only as a favor to her fiance, Edmund. And even though Denzil's charming countenance and bold directness were most attractive...

  • Kingdoms of the Night

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    KINGDOMS OF THE NIGHT
    Ever since Amalric Antero returned from the legendary Far Kingdoms, bringing with him magic and riches, the people of Orissa believed they lived in a golden age. Even Amalric did not suspect the truth: that dark forces from a...

  • Death Camp

    Judd Cole

    Developing the strong powers of his Cheyenne ancestors despite his white upbringing, Touch the Sky reunites with his native people and becomes a shaman but must seek out white doctors when a deadly disease plagues his tribe. Original....

  • Gigi and The Cat

    Colette

  • Time Heals

    Susan Collier

    THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS Tired of her nagging relatives, Maeve Fredrickson asked for the impossible: to be a thousand miles and a hundred years away from them. Then a heavenly being granted her wish, and she awoke in frontier Montana. Saved from th...

  • Dream Weaver

    Laurel Collins

    DREAMS OF REVENGE For Charlotte Deveraux, there is only one way to avenge her father's senseless death: by hunting down his killer. Her quest takes her from the bustling docks of New Orleans to the gold mountains of the Colorado Territory, where ...

  • Cherish

    Constance Colson

    Recovering from the heartbreak of a failed engagement, Rose Anson seeks refuge at a resort on Singing Pines Island. But when a flamboyant Canadian, a big-hearted American, and Rose's ex-fiance each compete for her love, the young artist must face her...

  • The Scout

    Harry Combs

    Epic in scope and grand beyond our imaginings.  The Scout continues the magnificent story that began the highly acclaimed novel Brules.  In his stunning new novel, Harry Combs recreates a time when the West was the white man's greatest challenge ...

  • A Groom for Holly

    Phoebe Conn
    in

    Everyone in Colonial Williamsburg knows that Sam Driscoll is too rough-hewn and blunt-spoken to woo a woman. So Holly Cochrane agrees to teach her old friend the art of being a gentleman. But her plan backfires when Sam starts attracting all the ladi...

  • The Last Coyote

    Michael Connelly

    Harry Bosch's life is on the edge. His earthquake-damaged home has been condemned. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And after attacking his commanding officer, he's even had to turn in his L.A.P.D. detective's badge. Now, suspende...

  • Jim Wells

    Kent Conwell

  • Breakheart Hill

    Thomas H. Cook

    "This is the darkest story that I ever heard...." It is a story that began with love and led to the destruction of a young woman's life. It is a story that has not ended, even thirty years after the afternoon Kelli Troy's battered body was foun...

  • Johanna

    Claire Cooperstein

    A carefully researched historical novel tells the story of the sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh, who saved his art and letters to Theo for posterity, in a series of real and imaginary letters and excerpts from Johanna's diary. A first novel. 35,000 ...

  • Microserfs

    Douglas Coupland

    From the era-defining author of Generation X comes a novel of overworked coders who escape the serfdom of Bill Gates to forge their own path.They are Microserfs -- six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day “codingâ...

  • Devil in the Sky

    Greg Cox; John Gregory Betancourt

    The Hortas of Janus VI are the greatest miners in the galaxy, capable of burning through solid rock the way humanoids move through air. Recruited to help rebuild Bajor's devastated mining industry, the Hortas could provide new hope for the planet's s...

  • Look Away

    Harold Coyle

    This Civil War saga from military novelist Coyle is about two brothers from New Jersey who find themselves on opposite sides of the war....

  • Buzzard Breath

    Marty Crisp

  • The Magnates

    Susan Crosland

    An up-and-coming young journalist, Zoe Hare finds herself caught up in the battle between two international media magnates, archenemies and bitter rivals Miles Brewster and Lord Scrope, and torn between personal feelings and professional ambition. 20...

  • Legacy of Fear

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    They'd told her she was a murderer. They'd lied. Ten years ago, when she was just thirteen years old, Deanna Deveraux had been found clutching a bloody knife, her murdered grandmother in her arms. Ten years ago, with her memory a total blank, she'...

  • What the Lady Wants

    Jennifer Crusie

    She was dangerous - in more ways than one. Mitch Peatwick knew he wasn't cut out to be a private eye. Photographing cheating husbands and tailing cheating wives left him cynical about love. He wanted to quit...until gorgeous Mae Sullican strolled i...

  • Nice People

    Clare Curzon

    The commuter village of Fords Green appears to contain ordinary families with ordinary troubles. But beneath the calm surface of this pleasant community swirls a dangerous undertow of jealousy, greed and murder. As Detective-Inspector Angus Mott view...

  • Wake-Up Call

    Ruth Jean Dale
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    Accustomed to celebrating each anniversary of her failed marriage at the hotel where she honeymooned, a young woman runs into her ex-husband with his new bride-to-be, and quickly becomes the other woman....

  • Make Room for Daddy

    Emily Dalton

    BACHELOR SURPRISE Upon learning a casual fling had resulted in a bundle of joy, Greg Chandler felt compelled to go under cover and find the kid -- just to make sure it was well cared for. But that was before he saw Mikelle Bennet, the sexy wid...

  • The Hunt

    Zoe Daniels

    For years, the legend of the panther cast a shadow of fear over the town of Los Gatos. Tonight the hunt begins... HOLLY Shocked to learn the secret of her true animal nature, she found herself torn between her tender love for one boy -- and her d...

  • Angels!

    Jack Dann

    A collection of fifteen short stories depicts angelic interventions in subtle forms and includes the writings of such authors as Isaac Asimov, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Roger Zelazny. Original....

  • The Fatherhood Affair

    Emma Darcy

    Take one sexy tycoon, add one beautiful woman, throw in some passion...and the result is: THE FATHERHOOD AFFAIR! Damien Chandler wants a child! -- He thinks Natalie Hayes will make the ideal mother. Natalie Hayes wants a child! She just can'...

  • Fight the Best Fight

    Marjory Davidson

  • Tempting Morality

    Geralyn Dawson

    She was a fraud... That's what Zach Burkett thought when he caught sight of Miss Morality Brown testifying at a town revival meeting. A deliciously enticing fraud who would the perfect cover for his scheme to pay back the "godly" folk of ...

  • The Exotic Enchanter

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Careening through a mythological universe, partners Harold Shea and Reed Chalmers travel to the Russia of Prince Igor, the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the island of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Original....

  • Finders

    Jan Dean

  • Chicago Blues

    Julie Reece Deaver

    What would you do if you were told to kidnap your sister?

    Lissa Hastings has a big problem. Her mother, who used to be a semi-well-known cabaret singer, has now become a very well known alcoholic who realizes th...

  • Super Duper Pee Wee!

    Judy Delton

    Join the Pee Wee Scouts for fun and adventure as they make friends and earn badges. Dear Pen Pal . . .The Pee Wees latest project is to write to another Pee Wee Scout in a different troop in a different town! When they draw names of their new pe...

  • Official Privilege

    P.T. Deutermann

    Official Privilege begins with a mystery: in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, the mummified body of a black Navy lieutenant is found bolted inside the boiler of a deactivated battleship. While the cause of death is clear, the officer's identity is no...

  • Saturnalia

    Paul Devereux

    Recently widowed, Heather Logan is concerned about her sex-life. Even in marriage it was unsatisfactory. She visits a therapy centre for sexual inhibition, and after the preliminary session, in which she's brought to a thunderous climax - her first -...

  • The Yellow Room Conspiracy

    Peter Dickinson

    Wild, handsome Gerry Grantworth died mysteriously in the locked, gas-filled Yellow Room at Blatchards, the famous Vereker mansion. He had been the greatest passion of Lucy, one of the five beautiful Vereker sisters, and the best friend of her lover, ...

  • The Magnificent Wilf

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Earth has been contacted by galactic civilization, and Tom and his wife, Lucy, seem to be the perfect candidates to tour the galaxy as Earth's representatives and learn the ways of the galaxy, but on their performance hinges Earth's relations with ot...

  • Show of Evil

    William Diehl

    It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In a small town in southern Illinois, the butchered body of Linda Balfour--with a cryptic code printed in blood on the back of her head--forges a gruesome link to the brutal murder of Bishop Rushman, the be...

  • True Thriller

    Franklin W. Dixon

    High-voltage villainy! Oliver Richards writes action-adventure novels, and he wants to make Frank and Joe the stars of his next thriller. But he's unwittingly drawn them into a real-life tale of intrigue and danger. Thanks to him, the Assassins --...

  • Love Me, Love Me Not

    Cameron Dokey

    Kristen Greene has been living a half life for the past year, she has been since her twin Jeanine died falling to her death off a cliff, a year ago. She feels like she's lost a part of herself and feels that no one can understand, She visits Jeanine ...

  • The Gift of Love

    Christine S. Drake

    Taking place in the first decade of the twentieth century, The Gift of Love is a story of building and breaking home ties, of growing up and moving on, and the power of faith to overcome sin and failure....

  • Make-Believe Family

    Elizabeth Duke

    Their engagement was just a game... It was also a game of high stakes. If Sarah didn't pose as Kane Brody's intended bride, he risked losing his daughter forever, and Sarah couldn't bear to see little Bambi hurt. However, there was...

  • Unquenchable

    David Dvorkin

    Drawn by a thirst for fresh blood and a taste for erotic pleasure, vampire Richard Venneman is lured into the seductive web of two women--Elizabeth Valle+a7, searching for an eternal soulmate, and Karen Belmont, who feeds on blood and flesh. Original...

  • A Second Sunrise

    Marjorie Eatock

    No wonder Lucy Maud Marshall is having a whopper of a bad day. She just lost her long-awaited promotion and her job to a younger woman. Instead of coasting toward a cozy retirement, she's come to a dead stop. The Millard Illinois Library was more...

  • Regenesis

    Julia Ecklar

    Two by two, they came to a new world... The Project: Noah's Ark The Mission: Rescue the remaining species of a lost world called Earth In the beginning, there was Planet Earth. In the end, there was nowhere to go but the stars . The future h...

  • Savage Pride

    Cassie Edwards

    She was a fiery hellcat who could shoot like a man, a ravishing temptress with the courage to search the wilderness for her missing brother. But Malvina was only a woman with a woman's needs and desires. And from the moment Red Wing swept her up on h...

  • Wild Bliss // Savage Darkness

    Cassie Edwards

    RIVAL WARRIORS No maiden in the vast northern plains was as lovely as half- white, half-Indian Dawnmarie Garrett--or in such a precarious position. Long ago she felt the passion of White Wolf, chief of the Chippewa, call to her across the lake's sti...

  • DeLacey's Angel

    Monique Ellis

    A Lord's Prayer Ever since he returned home from Waterloo, Col. Richard DeLacey, Earl of Rochedale, could think of nothing save the angelic beauty who'd appeared on the battlefield to tend his wounds. Her saucily up-tilted nose, serious blue-gray ...

  • Gene Roddenberry

    Joel Engel

    A no-holds-barred look at the complex and driven visionary who created Star Trek gives a backstage portrait based on inside sources that reveals the whole man, alcoholic, self-promoting, womanizing, yet intensely creative....

  • Skywriting

    Margarita Engle

    Visiting the Cuban half-brother from whom she was separated at birth, Carmen is astonished to learn that Camilo has been captured while fleeing to America with a mysterious package that contains a 500-year-old secret. Reprint....

  • Free to Love

    Doris E. English

    Young, bright, and beautiful, Stephanie Hayz is fighting to preserve a childhood home on the New England coast. Amid rumors that entrepreneur Jay Dalton wants to convert it into a gambling casino, Stephaine forms a reluctant partnership with filmmake...

  • California Gothic

    Dennis Etchison

  • Emma and the Handsome Devil

    Marcia Evanick

    He smoothed her rough edges into sensuous curves ... She'd figured Brent Haywood would be happy to sell his half of Amazing Grace, but when the gorgeous hunk said he was staying, Emma Carson wondered what he could possibly want with a chicken farm -...

  • Longarm and the Deadly Thaw

    Tabor Evans

    On the trail of a wanted mail thief who has a penchant for killing U.S. marshals, Longarm travels through the frozen gold towns of the Wisconsin Territory and encounters the steamy Maddy Williams. Original....

  • Man of My Dreams

    Colleen Faulkner
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    Sarah Commages arrives in the Virginia Colony as an indentured servant with a troubled past and no hope of a future. Then, as revolution rages through the land, she dons the disguise of a high-born lady to aid the patriot cause -- only to be swept in...

  • The Burning Sky

    Ron Faust

    To salvage his broken-down ranch, near-bankrupt Ben Pearce devises a hunting scheme, the consequences of which he cannot begin to imagine. The prey: three rare, fierce cats -- a leopard and two mountain lions caught in the wild. The predators: an arr...

  • Mermaid's Dream

    Alane Faye

    Anthropology professors Laly Lawrence and Sugar Stephens are modern, independent women. They're also certified deep sea divers--and they're in the middle of the Caribbean searching for ancient artifacts. Then, after an unexpected earthquake and a sto...

  • Violet

    Jane Feather

    She was a bandit known as La Violette, and she had fallen into the hands of the French. Now it was Julian St. Simon's assignment to rescue her -- then force her to reveal the strategic military secrets only she knew. But Tamsyn was no timid flowe...

  • Brooding Angel

    Marie Ferrarella

    HE WAS HER HERO For Mary Clancy, Alex Mitchell had been everything. She'd fallen in love with his dark, brooding eyes, with his sense of honor and his sexy ways. He was everything she'd dreamed of -- and he was hers. Until something took her...

  • Daybreak

    Harold Fickett

  • Bittersweet Deception

    Liz Fielding

    Bachelor alert! "Your word, like any other woman's, Kate, is worthless." Kate's latest assignment was the answer to her prayers, but she'd have turned it down flat if she'd known that Jason Warwick was to be her boss! Hi...

  • Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

    Zlata Filipovic

    A chronicle of the war in Sarajevo from a child's perspective begins in October of 1991, just before the writer's eleventh birthday, and details Zlata's struggle for survival and normalcy in a chaotic nation. Reprint. NYT. ...

  • Painted Leaves

    John Fink

    When John Fink's first book about the Gillespies, The Leaf Boats, appeared, readers discovered that the author had created a family of such richness and depth that they wanted to know more of this Irish-American clan. This second book about the Chica...

  • Soiled Dove

    Dirk Fletcher

    Chasing after train robbers who have stolen a fortune in Federal money and kidnapped a voluptuous governor's daughter, Spur McCoy is unprepared for the wily resistance of Amy Hellman, who has no intention of being rescued. Original....

  • The Fearful Summons

    Denny Martin Flinn

    Captain Sulu of the U.S.S. Excelsior and his crew are kidnapped. When Federation-conducted negotiations come to a standstill, Captain James Kirk and the former officers of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM reunite to rescue their old comrade. The officers l...

  • A Father's Wish

    Christine Flynn

    A FATHER'S WISH Alexander Burke had never understood why Kelly Shaw had given up their child. But once he found little Ryan, Kelly was gone. He'd never forgiven her or forgotten her. And now she was back...but she didn't know the truth - that Ryan w...

  • Congo: The Movie Storybook

    Ron Fontes

  • Independence Day

    Richard Ford

    In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America. Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his div...

  • Death Watch

    Elizabeth Forrest

    From the author of Dark Tide, a tale of intrigue and terror presents the story of an innocent woman, an escaped serial killer, and an obsessed psychiatrist who uses virtual reality to transform the fragile personalities of her patients. Origi...

  • Major Attraction

    Roz Denny Fox

    Major A.C. Bannister -- known as Ace -- grew up on the mean streets of a Texas town. The army was his one chance to get out, and he took it. He worked his way up through the ranks and now, as ROTC head at a Texas college, he's admired by all the youn...

  • Season of Shadows

    Ellen Foxxe

    The last royalist refuge.

    When the peasant rebellion, led by the Chamber of Statesmen, overthrew the royal line of Albin, only one haven remained to such loyal warriors as the king's military leader, Sir Andrew the new world. This largely unexp...

  • Lily's War

    June Francis

    Torn between duty to her family and a last chance at love...Busy bringing up her motherless brothers and sisters, romance is the last thing on Lily Thorpe’s mind. But when the handsome preacher Matt Gibson asks Lily to return with him to Australia ...

  • Cathedral of Thorns

    Steven Frankos

    THE QUEST FOR THE ELIXIR OF LIFE CONTINUES... Aitchley Corlaiys's powers are growing, and they have never been needed more than now. The brigand Harris Blind-Eye has escaped--with the lovely Berlyn as his hostage. He has stolen the mysterious alch...

  • The Strength of Desire

    Alison Fraser

    The truth will out! The first time: Hope had always been strongly attracted to Guy, but she did the right thing and turned her back on him...until that fateful weekend, when their desire boiled over. In-between times: Hope tried to put her shor...

  • You Know Who

    Nicolas Freeling

    An Irish diplomat is dead of a shotgun blast. Henri Castang, a French detective in exile, is obsessed with his friend's death, and with his friend's lover. From the land of Joyce and Yeats to the Italian Alps, Castang follows his obsession through a ...

  • The Seacoast of Bohemia

    Nicolas Freeling

    Hired by a wealthy woman to find the young son that was kidnapped four years earlier, former French policeman Henri Castang ventures into Czechoslovakia, where he finds a connection between the boy and an ex-SS officer. Reprint....

  • Shawnee Moon

    Judith E. French

    TWILIGHT OF DESTINY Condemned for a desperate act, Cailin MacGreggor approaches the gallows frightened yet unbowed. But with a word, her young life will be spared-if she agrees to wed the despised enemy who destroyed her stepfather on the field of...

  • The Picador Book of Latin American Stories

    Carlos Fuentes

  • Dudley Finds a Home: Picture Book

    Alex Galatis

    The first book in a new series based on the popular Canadian television show follows the eight-foot-tall Dudley Dragon as he searches for a new home, while offering readers gentle instruction on how to preserve nature. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Walking Words

    Eduardo Galeano

    Drawn from the mythic folklore of rural and urban Latin America, a collection of tales, fables, and puzzles by the author of Memory of Fire is complemented by traditional woodcuts by a Brazilian artist....

  • Bet You Can't!

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Becoming angry at the risk Alex runs by demonstrating her strange new powers in public, Annie dares her sister to get through one whole day without using her powers, but a shoplifter makes Alex realize that it will be harder than she thought. Origina...

  • Twilight

    Kit Gardner

    Nowhere to Run What strange twist of fate had led Rance Logan to a woman widowed by his own hand? He'd been trying to escape the past, only to run smack into it again in the form of Jessica Wynne, a fragile beauty with a spirit of steel-a woman mu...

  • Tex the Cowboy

    Sarah Garland

    A comic-book style narrative, in six episodes, of the exploits, and foibles, of a lovable, bumbling buckaroo and his "not-too-purdy" horse, Gloria. By the author-illustrator of Billy and Belle. ...

  • David Braves the Giant

    Tony Geiss

    A long time ago there was a brave little boy who protected his sheep with a sling. One day he used his sling to fight a bad giant named Goliath. This little boy was David. And this was only the first of many adventures God had in store for him....

  • Noah Saves the Animals

    Tony Geiss

    It was a man who lived a long time ago. In fact, he lived in a huge boat called an ark. He lived there for a year with two of every kind of animal in the world. Can you imagine? You probably know his name by now. That's right. It was Noah....

  • Song of the Warrior

    Georgina Gentry

    Slender, dark-haired Willow had been sent East as a child. Now, she returned to her mother's people, the Nez Perce of the Great Northwest, to teach them the white man's ways. The magnificent full-blooded warrior Bear had been raised to be pro...

  • Thief of Hearts

    Tess Gerritsen

    He was a gentleman. . . In tuxedo and bow tie, Jordan Tavistock was the unlikeliest burglar. But when a chum asked him to steal back some X-rated love letters from her ex-lover's estate, he had no choice but to oblige. He never expected to get cau...

  • Melissa

    Eva Gibson

  • Johnny Mnemonic

    William Gibson

  • For Mercy's Sake

    Nancy Gideon

    SOMETHING WAS VERY WRONG... Spencer Halloway could feel it. You'd think a stranded woman on a deserted road would be glad to see the sheriff, but not this woman. There was a tell tale look in Mercy's eyes -- a look Spencer had seen before....

  • Ronald Morgan Goes to Camp

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • Lord Wakeford's Gold Watch

    Paula Tanner Girard

    It's love Duncan Fairchild, Earl of Wakeford, was courting Katherine, Baroness of Gilfallen, and a new sensation of the season. But -- heaven help him -- the woman he couldn't forget was Willie, the baroness's gamine companion who, he was certain,...

  • The Jericho Files

    Alan Gold

    When her grandfather is killed after giving her a yellowing photograph taken in pre-Holocaust Poland, lawyer Miriam Davis and her journalist lover Paul Sinclair uncover a decades-old KGB plot to infiltrate the Israeli government. Reprint....

  • Pooh and the Honey Tree

    Golden Books

  • Bikini

    Christopher Golden

  • Always in My Dreams

    Jo Goodman

    THE SINS OF A FATHER The youngest daughter of a New York financier, Skye Dennehy didn't run from danger; instead, she embraced it. And now her powerful father had asked her to spy on a reclusive inventor whose latest creation could change the world....

  • White Angel

    Gary Gottesfeld

    "An outstanding thriller. Be warned: once you begin WHITE ANGEL, it's impossible to put down. Gottesfeld hooks you right from the first paragraph."
    --Michael Connelly
    Edgar Award-winning author of Black Echo
    "She just looked up at the angel...

  • Garden Tales

    Jane Gottlieb

  • Blessing in Disguise

    Eileen Goudge

    SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN Grace and Nola. They are daughters of the same man, but grew up worlds apart. Grace in Georgian southern comfort, child of a powerful senator. Nola in the Washington, D.C. slums, a young black woman determined to succeed as a ...