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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1993

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New Books List: 490 titles

  • Rebel Mine

    Joyce Adams

    SOUTHERN SPITFIRE After a Union bullet killed her beloved twin brother, golden-haired Brianna Devland risked her life time and again for the Rebel cause, vowing vengeance against all Northerners. Then she met Major Trevor Caldwell. With one breathle...

  • Funnybones

    Allan Ahlberg

    This is how the story begins.
    On a dark dark hill
    there was a dark dark town.
    In the dark dark town
    there was a dark dark street . . .

    This new edition of the classic story includes an accompanying CD, featuring the story read by a...

  • The Black Cat

    Allan Ahlberg

    In a dark dark streetThere is a dark dark house . . .In this FUNNYBONES story, the skeletons go sledging - WHEE! - and crashing - BANG!They can't see their bones in the white snow but they can see a black cat . . . until she slips into their dark, da...

  • A Moment of Madness

    Barbara Allister

    A Fateful Flowering Once upon a time Georgiana Carrington had been an ugly duckling, a tall and gangling girl stumbling awkwardly through her first London season. Now time had passed, and Georgiana had grown to be an enchanting beauty. Once upo...

  • Galatea in 2-D

    Aaron Allston

    DA VINCI NEVER HAD DAYS LIKE THIS... Illustrator Roger Simons always thought that art should imitate life -- until the day his painting came to life and propelled him into danger. On one fateful day he learns three things that change his life: tha...

  • Coming Up Roses

    Catherine Anderson

    NO ROSE CAN BLOSSOM WITHOUT LOVE Widow Kate Blakely knew nothing of love -- but she knew plenty about unhappiness. She'd married young, hoping to put down roots in a safe haven, but her husband had shattered her naivete and made her fear for h...

  • First And Ten

    Douglas A. Anderson

    With his teammates being murdered during a players' strike against the NFL, Buffalo Bills player Santa Arkwright becomes involved in a dangerous investigation that not only makes him the prime suspect, but also a primary target...

  • Richie's Rocket

    Joan Anderson

  • NR Woodland Christmas

    Marie Angel

  • Here Come the Babies

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Alien Plot

    Piers Anthony

    Alien Plot: A man of our world is sent across the boundaries of an alien dimension. His task is to infiltrate the native culture--But once there he discovers that an alien plot of ground can become home.

    This brand-new story leads off a collec...

  • Love Shack // Tease

    Katherine Applegate

    Grace thought moving out of her mother's place would fix her messed-up life. But now she's moved in with Justin, the first guy she ever wanted...and with Kate, the only girl Justin's ever loved. Kate's still crazy about Justin - but she can't forget ...

  • A Difficult Man

    Lindsay Armstrong

    The personal touch Redesigning the interior of Gareth Walker's country house was Juanita's first opportunity to stake her independence in a world that had been so difficult to enter. She had no designs on the man himself -- though she was ...

  • Flashfire

    Judith Arnold

    Matt Calloway He'd had his fill of fighting twenty years ago, but the way he figured it, when a buddy ripped you off, there was more than one battle to wage. Gary Villard Matt's former comrade in arms and a desperate man...desperat...

  • A Wedding for Emily

    Elizabeth August

    A lifetime of waiting Sixteen years ago, Ryder Gerard watched as Emily Sayer was deserted by her family and scorned for her unwed pregnancy. His dead brother was the father of her son--and Ryder worried that this boy would share the Gerard secret...

  • No Moon, No Milk!

    Chris Babcock

  • Hero in Disguise

    Stella Bagwell

    Partners in crime Tragedy had forced Victor Damien to leave crime reporting for the safer -- and saner -- world of business news. Now he was known as the Ice Man and nothing blew his cool -- until his boss gave him the bad news. Not only was he be...

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    Jennifer Baker

  • Maverick Guns

    Jack Ballas

  • Jungle Adventure

    Helen Balmer

  • Indy Girl

    Brenda Bancroft

    A.J.'s friends and family have been calling her Indy Girl since she was a toddler. Now this accomplished race car driver is determined to make the Indy 500 within two years. She won't let anything stand in her way. Not the business pressures at the f...

  • Against a Dark Background

    Iain M. Banks

    They had government permission to hunt down and assassinate her. What the religious Huhsz cult wanted was simple--the most deadly and enigmatic weapon constructed, the Lazy Gun, lost among the planets of the Thrial star system. Whoever controls the G...

  • The Magic Hare

    Lynne Reid Banks

    For everyone who loves magic, here are the delightful tales of a wild and wonderful animal who is clever enough to outwit giants and dragons,greedy kings and bad-tempered queens, but caring enough to help those in trouble, even if he has to travel...

  • Winter Walk

    Lynne Barasch

  • Knight's Honor

    Suzanne Barclay

    The Family Rogue How could Jesselynn Harcourt look upon Alexander Sommerville, rakish son of a House her own had sworn to hate, and see anything more than the face of an enemy? Yet the man possessed a leonine glory that twisted her heart and set h...

  • Life of Death

    Clive Barker

    She nearly died on the operating table...masked men removed the cancers, and her womb...but Elaine Rider lived on, mourning. Until, after a midnight visit to the newly opened crypt of All Saints Church - a plague pit heaped with bodies, festering now...

  • The Initiation

    Nick Baron

    Eager to fit in at the Cooper Riding Academy, Kimberly Kilpatrick turns her back on her boyfriend, Griff, and joins the popular clique, but when kids start drowning in a nearby lake, she begins to question her decision. Original....

  • Paladin's Woman

    Beverly Barton

    TALL, DARK -- AND DANGEROUS Nick Romero, Navy SEAL, DEA Agent, Latin lover, was a man alone -- and satisfied to remain that way. Until the night he rescued Addy McConnell, a tall, cool woman with hair like fire. And, rumor had it, a soul like ic...

  • To Die Like a Gentleman

    Bernard Bastable

    In 1842, the young Queen Victoria is on the throne, and the landed gentry is in its prime. At Elmstead Court, Sir Richard Hudson rules his household with a subtle tyranny.Despite simmering tensions, Miss Frances Weyland is impressed by the warmth of ...

  • Sheltering Rebecca

    Mary Baylis-White

  • Law of the Gun

    Frederic Bean

  • Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet

    M.C. Beaton

    ROMANCE--ANDMURDER--WAFT UPON THE SWEET COTSWOLD AIR.... The feisty Agatha Raisin, until recently a London public-relations executive, believes that the attractive new village vet has taken a shine to her. Yet before romance can bloom, Dr. Paul Bl...

  • Rosebud

    Ludwig Bemelmans

    Tough Seattle cop Lt. Spencer Watley, killed in the line of duty, is reincarnated in the body of his former police dog to redeem himself not only by nabbing the cyber-crooks responsible, but also by helping a troubled teenager face physical and emoti...

  • Sunset Embrace

    Cherie Bennett

    I don't believe it. My father showed up on the island. Then came his ditzy fiancee -- and then my mother! And I though I was getting away from my family! On top of everything else, I don't know what to do about Kurt. How do I know for sure that he's ...

  • Fear Was My Father

    Kay Bergstrom

  • Return to Paradise Island

    Louise Bergstrom

    When she was only a few months old, Eve Woodburn was abandoned, naked and crying, on a deserted Everglades island. The media called her "The Baby on the Beach." Eventually, little Eve was adopted by the Woodburns and taken to their home in Il...

  • Beneath the Wind

    Cordelia Frances Biddle

  • The Bengal Rubies

    Lisa Bingham

    Aloise Crawford's father had imprisoned her for years in a French academy before he ordered her back to George III's England for a scandalous reason: to auction her to any suitor who bid highest for her and her dowry of the fabulous Bengal Ru...

  • A Vow of Sanctity

    Veronica Black

    A Sister Joan Mystery.
    All is not well on beautiful Loch Morag in Scotland, where Sister Joan is resting at a spiritual retreat. Children make signs to ward off the evil eye whenever she passes. She suspects she is being followed. And in the dark ...

  • The Eastern Gun

    Clifford Blair

  • Slow Burn

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    The deaths of a young woman and little girl in a suspicious fire that destroys a woman's clinic lead homicide detective Marti MacAlister and her partner, Vik Jessenovik, on the trail of an evil killer with a taste for young girls. Reprint....

  • Otherwise

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

  • Doctor Knickerbocker and Other Rhymes

    David Booth

  • Adobe Palace

    Joyce Brandon

    A proud widow with a young son, Samantha Forrester staked her claim in wild, untamed Arizona in 1889. Indomitable and determined, she built her own cattle ranch -- but a high-born lady living alone was prey to the greedy vultures of this isolated fro...

  • Cave of Wonders

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Future Perfect

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Bed and Breakfast Juliana Anderson had carved out a pleasant life running a bed and breakfast in rural Massachusetts. Dressed in Victorian garb to match the old mansion, Juliana kept the place tidy, cozy, and running like a charm. Guests were tr...

  • Ruth Law Thrills a Nation

    Don Brown

    In 1916 a young woman named Ruth Law attempted to fly from Chicago to New York City in one day--something no one else had ever done. This is the story of that daring attempt. Beautifully detailed watercolors dramatize a dangerous journey made by the ...

  • Kane's Way

    Dixie Browning

    HOW NOT TO PLAN A WEDDING Aurora Hubbard's wedding was two weeks away, and she still hadn't decided on a dress, a church -- or whether this marriage would be a big mistake. So when her fiance's best man arrived, full of advice and funn...

  • Believing Heart

    Lynne Marie Bryant

    DUKE -- A Tall, Dark Fantasy Pirate Whose Lips Tasted of Danger... He'd been shanghaied by a sunset-haired sea witch, Duke King realized as her boat sailed off beneath a moonlit sky and he took the lady in his arms! Mamie MacBride knew it was re...

  • The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

    Ron Burns

  • Minus Time

    Catherine Bush

    As a member of the twenty-something generation in the 1990s, Helen finds the threat of environmental disaster, chemical fires, and contaminated water connected to the collapse of her family's personal relationships....

  • James in the House of Aunt Prudence

    Timothy Bush

  • Joy Ride

    Richard Lee Byers

    Mike, a teen who frequently drinks and drives, finds a kindred spirit at The Night Owl Club--the hottest hangout in town--when he meets a mysterious girl who encourages him to drink and drive. Original....

  • Colorado Gold

    Linda Cajio

    A WOMAN OF DISHONOR Desperate family circumstances had forced Mary Alice Macaffee into a life of crime...running a dozen fancy scams clear across Colorado -- and she wasn't about to let U.S. Marshal Hud Jackson get the better of her now! There w...

  • Swept Away

    Jean Anne Caldwell

    THEY WERE SISTERS AT HEART, three mail-order brides who meet on their journey westward. This is the sweeping tale of the courage that changed their destinies forever -- and the passions that shaped the glorious frontier! JENNIFER FAIRCHILD. Hungry...

  • Playing Love's Odds

    Michaila Callan

    Follow The Mark It was not the sort of investigation Logan Burke usually handled. Nowadays he was hired by your average Joe -- not sleek, polished corporate players in plush Houston office suites. But it was a straight-forward case of industrial e...

  • Honey Dust

    Sue Cameron

    No one knows what goes on in Hollywood like insider and former columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, Sue Cameron. It's her beat--and now she spins a fast-moving tale baring the juiciest facts she's uncovered during twenty-five years of reporting abou...

  • Master of Moonspell

    Deborah Camp

    Destiny calls lovely and spirited Julienne Vale to Moonspell in the Florida Keys -- to serve as governess to the motherless child of the grand estate's enigmatic master. And from her first glimpse of Captain Buccaneer LaFlamme astride a galloping sta...

  • Keeping up with Cheetah

    Lindsay Camp

  • The Lady and the Tomcat

    Bethany Campbell

    Max Dunne is a pirate... And he's stolen Lindsey's young son's cat! But that isn't quite how Max sees the situation. He claims he found the odd-looking kitten abandoned in Key West, and after investing a small fortune to make "...

  • Monkey on a Chain

    Harlen Campbell

    High on a mountain above Albuquerque lives a man who's a throwback to the outlaw heroes of the Old West. Rainbow Porter lives on the edge, watches his back, and occasionally drops into the valley below to lend a hand to those in trouble.


    To hi...

  • Samantha's Pride

    Joanna Campbell

    Will Pride's winning streak ruin him? Wonder's Pride, the three-year-old colt of champion mare Wonder, is the newest star in Thoroughbred racing and the favorite for the biggest race of them all - the Kentucky Derby. But when Pride wins the Derby, i...

  • Mercy Hospital: Dr. Cute

    Carolyn Carlyle

  • Captive Bride

    Rosemary Carter

    A wedding deception? "I want you to be my wife." Kyle had asked Liane to marry him not once, but twice, which at least should have argued sincerity on his part. Or, perhaps it was just determination -- if he was serious, wouldn't he...

  • Bitter Possession

    Jenny Cartwright

    THOSE GUILELESS BLUE EYES! They'd seduced her once before...so successfully that she'd married charming and powerful Jack Hellec. But Rosie had learned the hard way that she couldn't trust those eyes -- or the man -- when he betrayed her just days a...

  • Tender Wishes

    Jo Anne Cassity

    Even the most stubborn heart can be swept away -- by true love... JOHNNA MAE Jilted by her fiance, Johnnie's tomboy spirit got the best of her -- and a perfect stranger got the brunt of her anger! ADAM Crossing paths with the lady scorned...

  • Under Eastern Stars

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

  • Programmed for Peril

    C.K. Chambray

    Living a prosperous life in Connecticut with her new fiance+a7, her daughter, and a successful computer business, Irish Morley suddenly finds herself stalked by a devastating secret from her past. Original....

  • At Her Captain's Command

    Patricia Chandler

    SHE HAD COURAGE Angie de Vasconceles felt the power of the sea and, like her father before her, knew firsthand of its mercilessness. But she defied its strength, to prove the sea flowed in her veins. HE HAD POWER Captain Joseph Callais revered t...

  • Montezuma's Man

    Jerome Charyn

    Teaming up with a cop who occasionally deals on the wrong side of the tracks, police commissioner Sidel plans to raid Mafia hideouts and finds himself on a trail of ancient puppets, heroin, and corruption that leads straight to Sicily. Reprint....

  • Signs of Devotion

    Maxine Chernoff

    A new collection of short stories from the author of Bop contains twenty tales permeated with such themes and motifs as characters searching for signs of acceptance and the truths revealed in a shared look, or an offhand remark....

  • The Glitter and the Gold

    Marion Chesney

    THEY'D BEEN MARRIED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES. NOW IT WAS TIME TO SET MATTERS TO RIGHT. Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Both sets of impoverished parents had decided to recoup their families' losses by marrying their offspring to the pro...

  • Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace

    Marion Chesney

    The Poor Relation Hotel is the rage of London, but its French chef's extravagance and Society guests' unpaid bills have reduced its owners once again to genteel thievery. Cut off by her own relations, pretty, dainty widow Eliza Budley must...

  • Crazy in Alabama

    Mark Childress

    Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of...

  • The Five-Dog Night

    Eileen Christelow

  • Band of Gold

    Zita Christian

    A GOLDEN TRAIL TO HEARTBREAK AND HEAVEN "Take up a man's profession and there's not a man alive who will think of you as a woman!" Remembering her mother's words, young doctor Aurelia Breighton thought herself quite without cha...

  • This Business Is Murder

    Joyce Christmas

    FORCED OUT OF A JOB AND INTO A MURDER INVESTIGATION Betty Trenka isn't exactly looking forward to retirement. She knows how to run an office better than men or women half her age. But she has no choice, and she takes her pension and retires to a s...

  • Without Remorse

    Tom Clancy

    John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife, when he befriends a young woman with a checkered past. When the past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge a...

  • Women of Mystery 1

    Mary Higgins Clark

    A collection of mystery stories by noted female authors includes contributions by Amanda Cross, Mary Higgins Clark, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Antonia Fraser, Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Joan Hess. Reprint....

  • Such Times

    Christopher Coe

    In haunting narrative, the acclaimed author of I Look Divine evokes gay life in the 1970s and early '80s and the years of loss that followed. Deftly interweaving past and present, Coe creates a moving portrait of people living on the razor's edge of ...

  • Yussel's Prayer

    Barbara Cohen

  • Twice in a Lifetime

    Christy Cohen

    FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, AN ACT OF BETRAYAL TORE FOUR BEST FRIENDS APART.... SARAH. A lonely newlywed in a new town, she was thrilled when Annabel came into her life. Suddenly Sarah had someone to talk to--and the best part was that her husband seemed t...

  • The Midnight Circus

    Peter Collington

  • Fire on the Mountain

    Marion Smith Collins

    DARKNESS That was Major Vincent Thornborough's new world. A fiercely independent man, the air force pilot wasn't prepared to accept help, especially when it came from Amanda Upton -- a woman with whom he shared a special past. Although Vin...

  • Line of Fire

    Max Allan Collins

    Torn apart by his inability to protect President Kennedy from assassination thirty years earlier, Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan must overcome his personal demons to protect a new president from a deadly contract killer. Movie tie-in....

  • Mr. Smithson's Bones

    Richard Timothy Conroy

    When ancient and modern bodies suddenly start appearing around the Smithsonian Institution, ex-Foreign Service officer Henry Scruggs, now working for the Institution's stodgy Foreign Affairs Office, finds his quiet days completely disrupted...

  • Forbidden

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Annabel Jayquith and Daniel Ransom meet at a party. They fall instantly in love, unaware that their lives are inextricably bound together by the crime that shocked a nation. Daniel is the high-profile son of a slain US senator who had presidential...

  • Freshman Freedom

    Linda A. Cooney

    Shipwrecked on a deserted island, Courtney goes natural--just in time to meet up with the island's sole inhabitant, a heartstopping hunk. Liza's new flame saves her life. But does this swashbuckling hero have more dangerous desires? KC gets hoo...

  • A Year of Rhymes

    Bernard Cooper

    A young boy living in 1950s small-town America endures the ordeal of his own sexual awakening and the slow death of his brother to leukemia. By the author of Maps to Anywhere. 10,000 first printing....

  • Noah's Ark

    Lucy Cousins

    A simple retelling of the biblical story of Noah features striking full-color illustrations of the inhabitants of the ark, from Noah with his snowy white beard to pink flamingos, green alligators, and large, gray elephants....

  • Lord of Legend

    Charlene Cross

    SCOTLAND'S FLAME-HAIRED BEAUTY The hawk swooping after a female sparrow near her castle sent a chill of foreboding through lovely Chandra Morgan, Lady Lochlaigh. Legend said the ladybird would feel the hawk's talons in her heart as he carried her aw...

  • Another Woman

    Margot Dalton

    Leah Temple is living a nightmare. Somewhere in her past -- a past she cannot recall -- is a secret she is terrified of uncovering. Paul Temple is fighting his own demons. His wife is back! Or is she? Gone is the conniving, devious shrew who'...

  • The Prodigal Husband

    Pamela Dalton

    Beautiful dreamer Elizabeth James had married, dreaming of the happy days and loving nights ahead with her new husband. But a husband who spent most of his days and nights on the road turned out to be her unhappy reality. After three lonely years ...

  • His Woman's Gift

    Lacey Dancer

    Chase Away The Night Then Professor Sloane McGuire was asked to escort a certain guest lecturer during her visit to Duke University, he couldn't say no. Eve Noble's writings had touched him, made him think, wish and remember. She was living proof ...

  • Running Scared

    Kate Daniel

  • Dragons!

    Jack Dann

    A collection of dragon stories from some of the masters of the fantasy genre includes contributions from James P. Blaylock, Avram Davidson, Tanith Lee, Lucius Shepard, and L. Sprague De Camp. Original....

  • A Very Stylish Affair

    Emma Darcy

    Contents flammable! Sydney lawyer Jason Lombard is a ten on the male Richter scale in every superficial sense. He also seems unable to even look past Sophie's hair, which is a bit...well...flamboyant at the moment. She suspects her days as his...

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

  • Starfleet Academy

    Peter David

  • Jajouka Rolling Stone

    Stephen Davis

    Beatniks, hippies, rock-and-roll stars, and other Western thrill-seekers parade through Jajouka, where money and greed have corrosive effects on a tribe that has existed in peace for centuries. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo....

  • Guns and Gold

    Clay Dawson

  • Take a Number

    Janet Dawson

    In Alameda County, east of San Francisco, the all-American pastimes of adultery, divorce, and mindless violence prosper--and a cad like Petty Officer First Class Sam Raynor, USN, fits right in. Private investigator Jeri Howard is working for Raynor's...

  • Heart of the Wolf

    Saranne Dawson

    The stranger and his comrades had rescued Jocelyn from her enemies, yet the young princess wasn't sure if Daken was friend or foe. Long ago she had heard the stories of Daken's people and their magical power to assume the shape of wolves. If the lege...

  • Lindbergh

    Chris L. Demarest

  • Stubborn As a Mule

    Roz Denny

    Shadow Mountain Ranch, near Jessup, California Franzi DeLisle--She's not your typical rancher--she raises mules. But then, there's nothing typical about Franzi, from her skill as a tracker to her distrust of lawmen. She's tough and sel...

  • The Wizard's Shadow

    Susan Dexter

    BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT Crocken the peddler had made a bad bargain. For a bag of gold and a chance to keep breathing, Crocken had grudgingly agreed to conduct the shadow-remnant of a murdered wizard to the distant kingdom of Armyn. Crocken kept...

  • Space Winners

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Stranded on the Quarantined World of Quebahr, the first high-school students selected to leave Earth for study in the Galactic Federation must overcome their lack of training and learn to adapt and survive. Reprint....

  • Blood and War

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Legion of the Damned

    William C. Dietz

    When all hope is lost--for the terminally ill, for the condemned criminal, for the victim who cannot be saved--there comes one final choice. You can choose life--as a cyborg soldier in the Legion. Both more and less than human, these steel warr...

  • The Fugitive

    J.M. Dillard

    A man unjustly accused of a crime is pursued across treacherous terrain by the authorities in a work that has been made into a Warner Brothers film starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Henry's Halloween

    Jeffrey Dinardo

  • The Businessman

    Thomas M. Disch

    The Businessman presents the sinister tale of Bob Glandier, a morally repulsive Twin Cities executive who murders his estranged wife and attempts to go back to business as usual, until she returns sets about arranging his divine retribution. With hel...

  • The Magic Carpet Ride

    Walt Disney

  • The Pacific Conspiracy (Ring of Evil #3)

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Trapped in the Indonesian jungle without reinforcements, the boys must penetrate the camp of an evil terrorist network--the Assassins--before the worldwide group can carry out its deadly scheme. Original....

  • The Wrestler's Cruel Study

    Stephen Dobyns

    As Michael Marmaduke searches for his missing fiancee, he progresses from confused innocence to darker self-knowledge and grapples with the issues of kidnapping, the struggle between good and evil, and the meaning of heroism....

  • Consider This, Senora

    Harriet Doerr

    The long-awaited and highly praised second novel by the author of Stones for Ibarra. The American characters here find themselves waiting, hoping, and living in rural Mexico-a land with the power to enchant, repulse, captivate, and change all who pas...

  • Stormy Weather

    Gail Douglas

    MITCH -- A Teasing Rogue Whose Wicked Grin Promised Endless Pleasures... Even though she wasn't wearing a sarong and lei, Mitch Canfield knew instantly that the pretty woman in the sunny yellow coat had to be Tiffany Greer! The native Hawaiia...

  • Pirate Moon

    Kathleen Drymon

    Katelin Ashford was a bit hotheaded, but hardly wicked enough to be exiled from her beloved London to the wilds of the Caribbean just to avoid a scandal! But her trip across the Atlantic turned out to be fraught with peril and passion when a storm bu...

  • Leaving Home with a Pickle Jar

    Barbara Dugan

  • The Mouse Bride: A Mayan Folktale

    Judith Dupre

  • The Shining Ones

    David Eddings

    TO WAKE THE STONE Years past, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power. It rested at the very bottom of the deepest ocean, that nevermore should its awesome power sing temptation to mortal men. Then a menace arose, a ma...

  • Savage Illusion

    Cassie Edwards

    Visions of Destiny A Blackfoot Indian raised by white settlers, Jolena Edmonds had never lived among her own people. Yet in her dreams, a hard-bodied brave came to her, filling her with a fiery longing. And on a trip through the Montana Territory,...

  • Death Warrant

    Hank Edwards (1)

    With cattle baron Terrill and the T Bar Ranch in trouble and someone fixing to stir up a vicious range war, tough as nails Federal Judge Clay Torn must put aside his justice's robes and pick up a rifle. Original....

  • The Scandalous Masquerade

    Marissa Edwards

    A larcenous lady. Her dear mother would faint dead away! But their current straitened circumstances had left Cara Brentwood little choice but to don cloak and boots and roam the midnight highways in search of unsuspecting noblemen. After all, the ton...

  • Ten Tall Oaktrees

    Richard Edwards

  • Lunch Boxes

    Fred Ehrlich

  • The Very Scary Almanac

    Eric Elfman

    A compendium of trivia, facts, and lore about the world of the supernatural and the occult furnishes information on topics ranging from cannibalism, Ouija boards, and the Bermuda Triangle to vampires, zombies, poltergeists, and werewolves. Original....

  • Lone Star and the Steel Rail Sellout

    Wesley Ellis

    A mysterious gold coin sets Jessie and Ki on the trail of a greedy killer!A coin slipped into Ki's pocket by a stranger leads Jessie and Ki into an ambush, and the Lone Star duo must tangle with a greedy baron and his henchmen who plan on blowing up ...

  • Hush Little Baby

    Sally Emerson

  • Sacrifice

    L.L. Enger

    In the late 1960s, two young men left a small Michigan town. One was Gunsten Pedersen, who went on to a career with the Detroit Tigers. The other was Harry Summers, a gifted infielder who disappeared from Copper Strike on a rainy June night. Now an e...

  • Longarm and the Captive Women

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Navaho Drums

    Tabor Evans

    MURDERED CAVALRY...MISTAKEN IDENTITY When Longarm takes to the canyons in response to an urgent appeal from General Sherman, he expects Indian trouble. Since the death of Kit Carson in '68, snipers in rimrock hideaways have turned Four Corners Cou...

  • Curtains for the Cardinal

    Elizabeth Eyre

    Spiriting away the beautiful daughter of a prince who had killed his son in a fit of rage and was threatening to make her another victim, the black-cloaked Sigismondo finds himself in a deadly game of hide and seek. Reprint....

  • The Lost Keats

    Terence Faherty

    A man with more questions than answers, Owen Keane has one foot in the priesthood, the other in detective novels - a trait that finds him questioning his own vocation. So when a fellow seminarian disappears, Owen sees it as a chance to unravel a myst...

  • A Silence of Dreams

    Barbara Faith

    'Til death do us part... Nicky Fairchild had backpacked her way to Venice hoping to find sunshine and warmth. Instead she'd nearly died of pneumonia, then been swept off her feet by Dr. Carlo Santini, the sensuously brooding widower who...

  • Quest to Riverworld

    Philip Jose Farmer

    By the banks of a ten-million-mile river, everyone who has ever died enjoys a new life, in a collection of science fiction stories--by Harry Turtledove, George Alec Essinger, and Philip Jose+a7 Farmer, among others. Original....

  • The Liberated Man

    Warren Farrell

    The book that started it all " a revolution in male-female understanding that challenged the way women look at men . . . .and changed the way men look at themselves. The book that explains why men feel so trapped and how women who help men and hurt...

  • The Trial of Abigail Goodman

    Howard Fast

    Abigail Goodman, a forty-one-year-old college professor and mother of two grown children, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and, after much soul-searching, has an abortion, only to be arrested and tried for murder. 50,000 first printing....

  • Napoleon Must Die

    Quinn Fawcett

    When her husband is unjustly accused of theft and murder in Napoleonic France, Mme. Victoire Vernet sets out to clear his name and finds herself in the middle of a plot to assassinate Napoleon. Original....

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    Stephen Gallagher

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    Julie Garwood

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    Tess Gerritsen

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  • Halloween Fun

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    Carol Grace

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    Maria Greene

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    Colin Greenland

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    Rosey Grier; Kathi Mills

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  • Freddie the Fly

    Charles Grodin

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    Jessie Haas

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    Liza Hadley

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    Carolyn Haines

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    Carole Halston

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    Diana Hamilton

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    Irene Hannon

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  • My Christmas Counting Book

    Lee Hansen

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    Leann Harris

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    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

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  • Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales

    Sarah Hayes

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    Barbara Hazard

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    Jeremiah Healy

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    Connie K. Heckert

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    James Herriot

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    Carl Hiaasen

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    Douglas Hirt

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