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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1997

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New Books List: 531 titles

  • Doom Star

    Tony Abbott

    The Time Surfers have got to find the photon crystal before it’s too late! The crystal has the power to change time: the present, the future -- even the past! But Zoa, a slimy, slippery dronth, is hunting for the crystal too, using every power and ...

  • Dr. Nightingale Meets Puss in Boots

    Lydia Adamson

    A WHISKER FROM DEATH Farm animals--cows, horses, pigs, and a goat or two--are country vet Deirdre Nightingale's specialties. So she knows a swine when she sees one--whether human or animal. But a trip to New York City will let her observe an old f...

  • Hidden Memories

    Robin Allen

    Sage Kennedy is a woman of commitment, compassion, vision, and vitality--and nobody understands this dedicated and desirable woman more than her fiance, Ramion Sandidge. Having just orchestrated the new Georgia governor to victory in a heated and rac...

  • Nancy Whiskey

    Laurel Ames

    Nancy Riley Had Finally Found Her Destiny In Daniel Tallent, the man of her dreams. A man of dangerous secrets whose appeal rivaled the adventure and excitement of the American wilderness they traveled, and whose passion matched her own, newfound ...

  • Dr. Skincrawl's Creepy Creatures: With 3-D Glasses

    Chris Angelilli

  • Plumed Serpent

    Evelyn Anthony

    Grief-stricken and embittered after the assassination of Ivan Sasanov, Davina Graham had steadfastly refused to return to the Secret Service. Until now...

    In Washington, the British wife of one of the President's closest confidants claims that her ...

  • Baby Business

    Laura Anthony

    HOW MUCH TROUBLE COULD ONE INFANT BE? It didn't take millionaire bachelor Clay Barton long to find out. Frazzled and frantic, he summoned the lovely pediatrician down the street -- who instantly transformed the tiny terror into an adorable, co...

  • Staying Cool

    Nancy Antle

  • Elephants Aloft

    Kathi Appelt

    Readers will be swept along with Rama and Raja, two Indian elephants as they travel between mountains, behind waterfalls, and across the seas in Kathi Appelt’s simple, clever story. Bold illustrations and a tale told in prepositions add up to a gre...

  • The Alien

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us...well, we just won’t let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is ...

  • Mary Mehan Awake

    Jennifer Armstrong

    The close of the Civil War finds Mary Mehan as emotionally traumatized as the demobilized soldiers around her, and she must begin a journey of emotional and physical renewal. This moving sequel to one of the most highly praised young adult books of 1...

  • The Mercy Seat

    Rilla Askew

    A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDAn epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalryFayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a ...

  • Desire's Promise

    Karen A. Bale

    A PASSION FOR VENGEANCE... Cassidy Raines had come to St. Louis on a mission of vengeance. She wouldn't rest until she'd destroyed the powerful businessman who'd murdered her mother in a jealous rage. Planning to use her youth and beauty...

  • Silent Melody

    Mary Balogh

    Lady Emily Marlowe was beautiful, wild, and unspoiled. She could not hear or speak, though she listened with her eyes and answered with her smile. She was betrothed to a man who would have her as a pretty possession, a captive listener. But there was...

  • Good Night, Baby Mickey!

    Greg Banker

  • The Lazarus Hotel

    Jo Bannister

    AND THEN THERE WERE NONE... A group of six strangers meet for a weekend therapy retreat at London's newest but incomplete luxury hotel. Assembled in all of their idiosyncratic glory, the six quickly discover that no one is there by accident. They ha...

  • Warrior's Revenge

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    ALIEN ASSASSIN! It's Spider-Man's worst nightmare come true: the Incredible Hulk is on rampage through crowded New York streets. And that's just the beginning of the super hero's troubles! Spider-Man must find a way to get the Hulk to work with...

  • Festival

    Victoria Barrett

    Leaving behind a broken engagement in New Orleans, Catherine Morgan journeys to Scotland, where she encounters James Cameron, whose family had died under suspicious circumstances, and is swept back in time, into the life of a twelfth-century woman an...

  • Death of a Macho Man

    M.C. Beaton

    WHAT ACCOMPANIES A HUGE, TATTOOED STRANGER TO A TINY HIGHLAND TOWN? DEATH. Everybody in Lochdubh knew about the Macho Man, a mean bully claiming to be a professional wrestler. His insults at the local pub caused some bonny brawls. His sneaking aro...

  • Death of a Dentist

    M.C. Beaton

    MURDER WITH BITE In Scotland, where thrift and a "nice set of dentures" are admired, Dr. Frederick Gilchrist's cheap rates and penchant for pulling teeth have gained him a clientele. However, wiser Highlanders--like Lochdubh policeman Hamish Macbe...

  • Harvest Dance

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    A tall, handsome drifter appears in the rural Wyoming town of Meredith Trichak, illuminating her loveless life but filling her with a fear of the unknown. A CHANCE FOR NEW BEGINNINGS He appears during the harvest dance, a tall, lean stranger fa...

  • The Legends of the Ferengi

    Ira Steven Behr

    "Once you have their money, never give it back." -- #1 "Anything worth doing is worth doing for money." -- #13 For centuries these and the other famous Ferengi "Rules of Acquisition' have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful ...

  • The Confession of O. J. Simpson

    David Bender

    A provocative, fictional account of the sensational O. J. Simpson case speculates on what would happen if O. J. Simpson decided to accept Fred Goldman's challenge by confessing to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in exchange for...

  • Merry Christmas

    Alan Benjamin

  • Dumbo's Book of Opposites

    Alan Benjamin

  • Let's Find the Colors

    Alan Benjamin

  • Above the Law

    Patricia D. Benke

    In charge of the investigation into a Mexican laborer's murder, deputy district attorney Judith Thornton, aided by a recent law graduate, discovers that someone is poisoning the laborers' water supply. Original....

  • Masquerade

    Connie Bennett
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    When shy, unassuming Charlotte Nolan won a masquerade cruise, she had no idea that looks could be so deceiving -- or that her wildest romantic fantasies were about to come true....

  • Gathering Evidence

    Thomas Bernhard

  • The Princess and the Frog

    Lisa Bingham

    Once upon a time... Reclusive Edward Babcock had never seen a lovelier sight than the woman he pulled from the sea. She insisted she was a princess, and was quite certain he was her bodyguard Boris. Edward had spent a lifetime hiding his true iden...

  • Marrying Jake

    Beverly Bird

    HE COULD NEVER BE A HUSBAND Policeman Jake Wallace had a jaded heart--and he'd vowed no woman would snag it. Then he began the kidnapping investigation--and met Katya Essler, a gentle beauty who awakened his lonely soul .... SHE WAS MEANT TO BE A...

  • The Wrong Kind of Money

    Stephen Birmingham

    A gripping novel of dark family secrets, bigotry, lust, and lies set in the world of the phenomenally wealthy The Liebling family is among the wealthiest in New York, but in the eyes of “old money” gentile aristocrats like the patrician Van Degan...

  • Blind Trust

    Terri Blackstock

    SHERRY'S LIFE LAY IN THE HANDS OF THE MAN SHE LOVED THE MOST ... AND TRUSTED THE LEAST Two weeks before he was to marry Sherry, Clint Jessup disappeared without a trace. Now, suddenly, eight months later, he's back with no word of explanation. Onl...

  • Where No Man Cries

    Emma Blair

    Glasgow between the wars is a town divided, taut with violence and steeped in hardship - a town with no time for dreams. And Angus McBain knows that better than most: being poor in Glasgow has killed his father and aged his mother before her time. An...

  • Winter Tides

    James P. Blaylock

    Fifteen years ago, on a deserted California beach, Dave Quinn swam out into the winter ocean to save two drowning girls - identical twin sisters. He was only able to save one. Now, years later, he meets Anne, a struggling artist from Canada. He has n...

  • The Scent of Murder

    Barbara Block

    Robin Light was behind the fish tanks of her Syracuse pet shop when the teenager walked in the door. With her electric blue hair, corpse-white lipstick, and in-your-face nose ring, Amy Richmond wasn't the type you could forget. But her appearance pal...

  • I'm Off to Montana for to Throw the Hoolihan

    Stephen A. Bly

    Tap and Pepper are ready to settle down. Too bad no one else is. Now that Tap's a husband and soon-to-be father, he'd like to settle into a quiet routine. But with him, it's more like riding a bucking bronco down a sheer cliff without a saddle. He's ...

  • The Beach House

    Georgia Bockoven

    The beach house is a peaceful haven, a place to escape everyday problems. Here, three families find their feelings intensified and their lives transformed each summer.When thirty-year-old Julia, mourning the death of her husband, decides to sell the ...

  • Cat and Mouse in the Rain

    Tomek Bogacki

    When best friends Cat and Mouse head for the green meadow for a frolic-filled day in the outdoors, their entertainment is cut short by a sudden rainstorm, until a new friend, Frog, shows them that even being wet can be fun....

  • The Canon of Maverick Brands

    Frank Bonham

  • That's how It Is when We Draw

    Ruth Lercher Bornstein

  • Brazen Angel

    Elizabeth Boyle

    A DOUBLE LIFE... She was every man's fantasy -- and most dangerous desire. One bewitching look, the whispered promise of unspeakable ecstasy, and London's richest and most notorious rakes followed the Brazen Angel like sheep -- ready to be f...

  • Glenraven

    Marion Zimmer Bradley; Holly Lisle

    MAGIC KINGDOM IN TROUBLE Sophie had lost a child. She was looking for peace and rest. She didn't know what it was, but Glenraven promised her that. JayJay had bad luck with husbands--a three time loser now, all she wanted was to be a million mi...

  • Heaven in High Gear

    Joan Brady

    Her cool sexy demeanor betrays nothing, but twenty-nine-year-old Heather Hurley suffers from major anxiety attacks -- her life in L.A. isn't going exactly as planned. Now, in a bar near her hometown on the Jersey shore, her future is about to change ...

  • Beyond the Outposts

    Max Brand

    From pre-Civil War Virginia to the distant prairies of the far West, the epic journey of young Lew Dorsey begins as he searches the frontier for his father--an escaped convict on the run-- but finds much more than he was looking for. Reprint....

  • Trick or Treat!

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Hit the Nerve

    Stephen Vincent Brennan

    An anthology of writings, including plays, stand-up routines, monologues, and songs, all of which explore the unusual aspects of coming of age in America, features such works as Sam Shepard's "True West," "Spic-o-rama" by John Leguizamo, and Anna Dea...

  • Operation: Baby

    Barbara Bretton

    He was tall, dark...and naked! Samantha Wilde had never seen a man who could make her swoon--until she saw her pilot out of uniform. One look at the guy and she didn't see the storm clouds brewing; by then they'd crash-landed into a romantic, lush...

  • Satisfaction Guaranteed

    Helen Brooks

    Seduced by the boss... Jessica Taylor's wedding would have been perfect -- if only her fiance hadn't run off with the bridesmaid...Jessica's sister. Instead of marriage vows, Jessica found herself making vows of a different kind: never...

  • Running With the Demon

    Terry Brooks

    In a sleepy steel-mill town, the ultimate battle between Good and Evil is about to begin... Sinnissippi Park, in Hopewell, Illinois, has long hidden a mysterious evil, locked away from humankind by powers greater than most could even imagine. But ...

  • Pirate's Cross

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Cosmic Voyage

    Courtney Brown

    A professor at Emory University offers evidence that extraterrestrials have visited and are living on Earth, and recounts his own communication with a distant galactic federation of extraterrestrial civilizations. Reprint....

  • Pussy Willow

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Strange Deliverance

    Mary Brown

    Stumbling across the mysteriously deserted village of Deliverance, a group of refugees believes the picture-perfect settlement to be ideally suited to them and wonder about the impenetrable nearby forest known as ""The Wilderness."" Original."...

  • One Stormy Night

    Ruth Brown

  • Horse Race

    Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie, Carole, and Lisa are going back to the racetrack. They can't wait to help cool off their friend's sleek Thoroughbred racehorses by walking them. They'll even earn a little money for doing something they'd do for free! What could be better? Th...

  • The Call of Solitude

    Ester Schaler Buchholz

    Drawing on studies of animal and infant behavior, a clinical psychologist offers proof of the inherent biological and psychological need of humans for solitude and shows how solitude helps humans in other areas of life. 20,000 first printing....

  • After

    Melvin J. Bukiet

    In 1945 the Allied forces are trekking across Europe, pausing incidentally to free the Jews from Hitler's camps. Newly emerged from the ashes, three ex-prisoners-a logician, a saint, and a schemer-come toghether. Led by nineteen-year-old Isaac Kaufma...

  • Surrender

    Lynn Bulock

    Cassie Neal is too independent to admit she needs a man in her life. Even when her children introduce her to the perfect man, Lee Winter, she must struggle with feelings of hate and anger before she can let him, and God, back into her heart. Only thr...

  • The Doctor Is Sick

    Anthony Burgess

    "Fine, sly, rich comedy." -- New York Times Book ReviewDr. Edwin Spindrift, a very ordinary lecturer in linguistics, has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condit...

  • A Heart for the Taking

    Shirlee Busbee

    From her arrival in Virginia, Baroness Merrivale, better known as Fancy, and Chance Walker cannot abide each other. She thinks he looks like a backwoods barbarian. He thinks she is a haughty upstart and, worst of all, the fiancee of the scoundrel who...

  • A Double Coffin

    Gwendoline Butler

    HISTORY AND DESTINY He may have seen more than ninety years, but former British Prime Minister Richard Lavender still has the political savvy to know when things need handling quickly and discreetly. Hence his summons to Commander John Coffin of L...

  • Deceive Me Not

    Eve Byron

    TO LOVE IN SILENCE Beautiful but sheltered -- haunted by her father's early demise -- Lady Melissa Seymour shields her fragile emotions behind the exquisite exterior she presents to British society. But one man has penetrated her guard and enter...

  • Edge

    Michael Cadnum

    A teenage boy searches for revenge on the streets of Oakland The battle is nearly over. The outsiders -- who came to Oakland looking for excitement -- are about to get back on the highway and go home. But they hurt 1 of Zach’s friends, and he can...

  • A Tender Masquerade

    Linda Cajio

    THEY WERE EQUALLY SKILLED IN THE ART OF DECEPTION As war between Mexico and the U.S. looms on the horizon, Rafe Timmons, a man forced to forsake his heritage, works undercover for the American government. Assuming the identity of a dead businessman,...

  • Blood of Texas

    Will Camp

  • Just Be Nice & Get Ready for Bed!

    Shelagh Canning

  • Batman and Mr. Freeze

    Shelagh Canning

  • Sweet Lies

    Viveca Carlysle

    Forced out of a prestigious cosmetics firm by company politics, Jesslyn Owens starts her own business, only to become the prime suspect in a case of industrial espionage, pursued by Palladin Rush, hired by the government to investigate her. Original....

  • Windfall

    Emily Carmichael

    IN HIS WORLD, SHE IS A COMMONER Ellen O'Connell is a spirited no-nonsense Montana cowgirl...and a medical doctor. Having just finished her clinical training in Europe, she stops unexpectedly at a baronial mansion where Lord Chesterfield's yo...

  • Conan the Great

    Leonard Carpenter
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Mission: Children

    Marisa Carroll

    It was like living in a movie, or a fairy tale. But was there a happily ever after? Devon once played the prince to Kathleen's pauper, but "society" put an end to that passionate interlude. Not to the passion, though. Togetherness w...

  • Dorothy's Darkest Days

    Judith Caseley

  • Loverboys: Stories

    Ana Castillo

    Loverboys is the award-winning author Ana Castillo's stunning collection of twenty-three stories that depict the wildly varied faces of love, from rapturous beginnings to bittersweet endings.From the regret-tinged soulfulness of the title story in wh...

  • Dead Duck

    Helen Chappell

    JUDGE FINDLAY S. FISH NEVER KNEW WHAT HIT HIM. . . .

    The murder weapon was an expensive antique snow goose decoy--a treasure that a zillion others at the Eastern Shore Decoy Jamboree would gladly kill for.

    Reporter Hollis Ball of The W...

  • Finity's End

    C.J. Cherryh

    One of science fiction's most accomplished authors, C.J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her bestselling, Hugo Award-winning classics, Downbelow Station and Cyteen, with a thrilling, critically acclaimed new Merchanter novel of a starship-dwelling...

  • Positive Match

    Tony Chiu

    Caduceus 21 is the future of health care. Few people know its balance sheet is fueled by a hidden trade in human organs. Only one person suspects where the organs are coming from. But Dr. Nguyen-Anh Dupree can't prove his dark suspicions without h...

  • Kar Kalim

    Deborah Christian

    Inya, a powerful sorceress, agrees to train an upstart mage who turns on her by opening a dangerous interdimensional gate, traveling to a forbidden land, and returning in the form of a very powerful magician who is bent on conquering Inya's land. Rep...

  • Rutherford's Return

    Alana Clayton
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    To have a tendre for them can ruin a reputation, but ladies simply can't resist Regency England's most dashing, daring rakes. They steal kisses and hearts with equal abandon -- and thrill us with romantic escapades that often lead to love... ...

  • Endpeace

    Jon Cleary

    When Scobie Malone and his wife are invited to a dinner party thrown by the wealthy Huxwoods and the patriarch of the family turns up murdered following the festivities, Scobie finds himself caught up in the mysteries of wealth, power, and family....

  • A Lying Silence

    Laura Coburn

    DEATH OF THE INNOCENT Homicide detective Kate Harrod had not risen to be chief of San Madera, California, by avoiding ugly cases put this one shook even her. For Kate was more than a cop. She was a mother raising a child on her own, and she would do...

  • Your Turn - to Scream

    M.T. Coffin

  • Night for a Fairy Ball

    Roberta Collier

  • Right Chest, Wrong Name

    Colleen Collins

    Russell Harrington used to be a mild-mannered English professor. He's always followed the rules--even his engagement to a proper, nice woman was considered appropriate. Until... THE BACHELOR PARTY! He ended up riding off into the night on the bac...

  • Elizabeth and the Major

    Lynn Collum

    HE QUITE FORGOT HIS MANNERS... Miss Elizabeth Fields, a spinsterly vicar's daughter, had been invited to the strangest party of her rather uneventful life. She was to accompany her shy friend Juliet to an eccentric relation's estate where the finest...

  • Husband in Red

    Cara Colter

    THE BRIDE LEAST LIKELY... Was that the infamous Sadie McGee diapering babies and telling bedtime stories to an adorable brood in the small town she once left behind? And who would have thought that rugged firefighter Michael O'Bryan would be p...

  • She Is the Darkness

    Glen Cook

    The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid. At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any writte...

  • Country Fair

    Elisha Cooper

    Nothing looks or sounds or smells like a good, old-fashioned country fair--and this one is no exception. There are tall canvas tents and a whirling Ferris wheel. There are pigs and cows and horses and rabbits. Sheep are being sheared and teams of oxe...

  • I'll See You in My Dreams

    Ilene Cooper

  • Chocolate Star

    Sheila Copeland

    He played the wrong game. The song of preacher, college basketball star Sean "Sylk" Ross prayed that God would get him in the NBA, until he started playing games of love and power. Then the way to fame was leading him toward a mistake that could sen...

  • Halloween Strut

    Stephen R. Covey

  • The Saber-Toothed Poodnoobie

    Bruce Coville

    Accidentally traveling back in time to Splat, Blork and his friends run into a prehistoric poodnoodie and must learn how to survive in a world filled with ravenous monsters and the most mysterious creature they have ever faced. Simultaneous....

  • Jaguar

    Helen Cowcher

    Young readers are introduced to the concept of nature's delicate balance in the rain forest and are presented with facts about the many animals that live there, in a suspenseful, lavishly illustrated story....

  • Hitchhikers

    Joy Cowley

    When he and his mother pick up a pair of hitchhikers who possess a strange talent--everything they say comes true--an old woman reveals her sinister identity, a haunted cottage brings summer chills, and more. Original....

  • Savage Wilderness

    Harold Coyle

    1754. On one side stand the British, under General Edward Braddock, joined by the American colonial militias; on the other, the French, aided by their Indian allies. From the shores of Lake Champlain to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, they are locked i...

  • Rosamunda's Revenge

    Emma Craig

    He'd been hired to escort miss Tacita Grantham from New Mexico Territory to San Francisco -- an easy job for a rugged Westerner like him. But he didn't count on her little rat of a dog sinking it's teeth into his leg. Nor did he plan on f...

  • Never Trust a Lady

    Kathleen Creighton

    THE MAJOR PLAYER: Embittered Interpol agent Tom Hawkins. He'd sworn off women and family -- until he met a suspect he couldn't forget, maddeningly attractive Jane Carlysle.... THE PAWN: Divorced small-town mom Jane Carlysle -- known to co...

  • The Hutt Gambit

    A.C. Crispin

    Here is the second novel in the blockbuster new trilogy that reveals the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler, ...

  • Roughstock

    Laura Crum

    A veterinarian and amateur sleuth, Gail McCarthy attends an equine seminar during which one of her colleagues is murdered, a case that tickles her curiosity and leads her on a trail leading uncomfortably close to home...

  • Halloween Mice!

    Doug Cushman

  • Dream of Love

    Joan Darling

    SUN KISSED One moment, surrounded by the warm, tranquil waters of the Gulf Coast, Ashley Swann was drifting through the painful memories of a lost love. The next, she was thrashing for her life, struggling to survive, only to be drawn safely towa...

  • End Game

    Peter David

    In the face of catastrophe on the Thallonian homeworld, Captain Calhoun confronts his own bloody past, and when the planet's ultimate secret is revealed, the crew of the Excalibur faces the empire's total destruction. Original....

  • The Two-Front War

    Peter David

  • Four Dreamers and Emily

    Stevie Davies

    Academics and Wuthering Heights fans are descending on the Bronte family homestead for an Emily Bronte conference. Among their ranks are a single, over-sixty, self-professed expert on the Brontes; an overworked wife, mother, and university lecturer; ...

  • Life in the Iron Mills

    Rebecca Harding Davis

    This edition of Life in the Iron Mills opens up the novella to the consideration of a range of social and cultural issues within the ninteenth century through a broad selection of historical and cultural documents that focus on topics such a...

  • Old Scores

    Nicholas Delbanco

    At thirty-six, Paul Ballard is a handsome college professor who has captivated, if unwittingly, more then one coed; their attentions means little to him. He is also detached from the turmoil of the 1960’s. In his New England farmhouse he lives a qu...

  • Goldilocks

    Dom DeLuise

  • Admit Desire

    Thea Devine
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    Nick's brother was getting married - to the woman who had left him at the alter two years before. And when Nick saw them together, he realized he wanted Francesca more than ever. But little did he know that she, too, would do anything to have him in ...

  • Independence Day

    Dean Devlin

    A "prequel" to the tale of extraterrestrial invasion dramatized in the blockbuster 1996 film, Independence Day, details an evil government conspiracy to conceal the reputed UFO landing in Roswell. National ad/promo....

  • Where Next,Mr. Noah?

    Mike Dickinson

    This story has very short and simple text, with bright supporting illustrations, helping the beginner reader to follow the story. It is part of a series created especially for children who are just beginning to read for themselves....

  • The Dragon and the Gnarly King

    Gordon R. Dickson

    As a young mathematician, Jim Eckert was transported to a parallel medieval world where he found he had the ability to transform himself into a large but none-too-bright dragon named Gorbash. Jim Eckert's daring exploits have earned him a title - Bar...

  • An Illustrious Lord

    Helen Dickson

    Rachel Fairley wholeheartedly disapproved of her neighbor, Lord William Kingsley, because he had inherited a slavery plantation in Barbados. Rachel thought it abhorrent that his money came from such an inhumane industry. And when she finally met him,...

  • For Love or Money

    Kathy DiSanto

    Whoever said a kiss was just a kiss had never kissed Brent Maddox.... The hunk at her front door couldn't be real, Jennifer Casey hoped, or else the most gorgeous man she'd ever seen had found her dirty, disheveled and utterly unprepared! When a ...

  • Toy Story

    Walt Disney

  • Terror at High Tide

    Franklin W. Dixon

    The Ebony Pearl, shipwrecked some forty years ago, has risen from the bottom of the sea to haunt Nantucket. For the Hardys, it’s full speed ahead as they search for the dark secret of the Ebony Pearl before it claims another victim....

  • A Well Pleasured Lady

    Christina Dodd

    A PROPER SPINSTER Prim, plain, desperately virtuous Lady Mary Fairchild stared at the seductive gentleman and wondered--did he remember the elements of the night they met? Surely not. In the ten years since, she had abandoned her youthful impetuousn...

  • The Rebel and the Lily

    Christine Dorsey

    Christine Dorsey's historical romances capture the adventure of long-ago times and the passion of heroes and heroines who lose their hearts to love. Now, she brings us the exciting second book in the trilogy featuring a renegade Scot, a rebellious I...

  • The Cost of Living

    David Dorsey

    Richard Cahill is working more insane hours than ever - and getting less and less in return. His e-mail grows in geometric proportion to the amount of time he spends answering it. He's days away from the big client presentation for the account that w...

  • Marilyn: Shades of Blonde

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Exploring the many facets of the legendary actress, a collection of short fiction expounds upon and expands the myth of Marilyn Monroe, from the story of Marilyn saving Nikita Kruschev to the appearance of Marilyn on Mt. Rushmore. 20,000 first printi...

  • The Tank Lords

    David Drake

    THE SAGA OF THE SLAMMERS BEGINS! COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER: He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. When a planetary government faces unfriendly natives, guerrilla insurgents, or ruthle...

  • Lord of the Isles

    David Drake

    With Lord of the Isles, David Drake returns to fantasy with a towering and complex epic of heroic adventure set in an extraordinary and colorful world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. In the days fo...

  • The Taste of a Man

    Slavenka Drakulic

    Meeting by chance and falling in love, both Tereza and Jose have complete lives in other countries, but they become caught in a terrifying web that seems to have them trapped, in a tale of obsessive love, passion, and their deadly results. Original. ...

  • Sister Carrie

    Theodore Drieser

    Theodore Dreiser had a hardscrabble youth and the years of newspaper work behind him when he began his first novel, Sister Carrie, the story of a beautiful Midwestern girl who makes it big in New York City. Published by Doubleday in 1900, it gained a...

  • The Lost Tag

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Future Indefinite

    Dave Duncan

    In a place called Nextdoor--the farthest flung outpost of British imperialism--earthborn mortals possess the powers of gods. For five years, the young Englishman Edward Exeter has tried to escape the magnetic pull of a Great Game that has designat...

  • Days of Cain

    J.R. Dunn

    What would you do with opportunity to alter the past? Would you use the power to eradicate the greatest evil in the annals of humankind--even if it meant destroying the continuity of history? Is the future worth the sacrifice of millions of lives?Fro...

  • Tropical Heat

    Suzanne Dye

    HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS Devin Terril's job was simple: chaperon his friend's husband-hunting sister on a 7-day Caribbean cruise to keep her out of harm's way. If Devin remembers what the Plain Jane looks like, the last thing she'll have to do is figh...

  • Play for a Kingdom

    Thomas Dyja

    In this “brilliantly imagined and neatly plotted” Civil War novel (Boston Globe), two battle-scarred companies-one Union, one Confederate-embark on a series of baseball games amid the carnage at Spotsylvania. “Wonderfully conceived and eloquent...

  • Savage Tears

    Cassie Edwards

    Long had Marjorie Zimmerman been fascinated by the Dakota Indians Minnesota Territory--especially their hot-blooded chieftain. With the merest glance from his smoldering eyes, Spotted Horse could spark a firestorm of desire in the spirited settler's ...

  • The Colonel's Courtship

    Monique Ellis

    Could she ever forget him? At eighteen, Suzanne Hodges lost her heart to the handsome but penniless Lieutenant Stephen Gracechurch. They even made plans to wed. Until Suzanne's father mortgaged her future to Sir John Phelps, an aging luminary in...

  • Slippage

    Harlan Ellison

    With this, his best-selling and most critically acclaimed collection ever, Ellison celebrates four decades of brilliant, outrageous writing. The award-winning novella "Mefisto in Onyx" is the centerpiece of an irreverent and wildly imaginative book t...

  • Captive at Kangaroo Springs

    Robert Elmer

  • And Demons Walk

    Roger Elwood

    It could happen. A sinister plot catches the world off guard. How would you react if the world crumbled around you tomorrow? This is what your customers will discover as they become absorbed in the plot of Without the Dawn. Packed full of action, adv...

  • Nervous Laughter

    Earl Emerson

    Thomas Black hits P.I. pay dirt when he shadows an alleged philanderer to a tryst. But instead of two illicit lovers, he finds two bodies, an apparent murder-suicide. The dead man's grieving widow doesn't believe her late husband pulled the trigger--...

  • A Cup of Tea

    Amy Ephron

    Rosemary Fell was born into privilege. She has wealth, well-connected friends, and a handsome fiance, Philip Alsop. Finally she has everything she wants. It is then, in a moment of beneficence, that Rosemary invites Eleanor Smith, a penniless youn...

  • Slow Burn

    Leslie Esdaile

    SOMETIMES A WOMAN HAS TO LOSE HER HEART... Bad things can happen to good people, and lovely, divorced Claudia Harris has had more than her share. Now, her sister's sudden death in a freak medical accident has sent her into the depths of despair she ...

  • Agent of Chaos

    Rutledge Etheridge

    While the Silver and Gold Fleets struggle to recover from their Great Battle, the "Grounders" are safe from the plundering of the space clans, and when renegades target a world for destruction, it is up to a Grounder spy to thwart any alliance betwee...

  • The Man for Her

    Ann Evans

    Everybody knows Adam Connor is the ideal man for Jesslyn Russell. But... Jess knows she'd never fit into Adam's world. He's looking for a wealthy, sophisticated woman -- someone who'll help him make his farm, Rising Star, the most ...

  • Longarm and the Maiden Medusa

    Tabor Evans

  • Boo Goes There?

    Peter Fasolino

  • An Independent Woman

    Howard Fast

    The critically acclaimed author returns to his best-selling Immigrants saga to finish the life story of his beloved heroine, wealthy matriarch Barbara Lavette, who embarks on a new marriage and faces the challenge of her life. Reprint....

  • Big, Scary Wolf

    Jane Feder

    Rose is convinced that there is a wolf lurking behind her toy box, until her father gives her various reasons why a wolf would not want to live in her room, and together they banish the wolf from their house....

  • Mommy and the Policeman Next Door

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE CASE OF THE KIDNAPPED MOMMY Officer Guy Tripopulous knew that this was not his usual type of case. The ransom note was smeared, the letters printed, and the victim's children seemed awfully...informed. But Guy was willing to play along. He...

  • Anybody's Dad

    Amy J. Fetzer

    CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE A...FATHER?! Tessa Lightfoot refused to share her long-awaited child with a total stranger, much less marry the man! True, Chase Madison had gotten her pregnant -- courtesy of his unwitting sperm-bank deposit. And his t...

  • Digger

    Joseph Flynn

    Twenty-five years ago John Fortunato was a soldier in Vietnam, fighting in the crushing darkness of the tunnels of Cu Chi, from which the Vietcong launched their deadliest operations. When he got back to his hometown of Elk River, Illinois, he secret...

  • 1 Ragged Ridge Road

    Leonard Foglia

    Estranged from her husband, Carol Robbins and her young son transform a mansion into the Christmas Inn bed and breakfast, before learning of the bizarre, unsolved double murder of the mansion's former owners...

  • Pooh: A Christmas Wish

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Shadow Baby

    Margaret Forster

    A powerful, moving story about motherhood, abandonment and guilt which casts a shadow across generations.
     
    Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways, see...

  • Builder

    Alan Dean Foster

    Spun off from a computer game and a collaborative serial novel being created on the Internet, a novella introduces readers to a cosmos of infinite realms where entire cultures live independently in different dimensions. Original....

  • The Seven Stars

    Anthea Fraser

  • The Prioress' Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    After Domina Alys was made prioress, St. Frideswide's became nothing more than a guest house for her relatives, the Godfreys. There was less and less peace to be had anywhere--especially for Sister Frevisse. Constantly tormented by Domina Alys, Frevi...

  • Key Witness

    J.F. Freedman

    Wyatt Matthews is a corporate attorney with money, power, and position - and the guts to throw it all away on the most unwinnable case of his career. But between truth and injustice is a far more dangerous law. Marvin White is a career criminal w...

  • Mother Nature's Hidden Agenda

    Kate Freiman

    A WONDERFULLY RIGHT MAN... Lily Davis had her life planned out in perfect sequence...and it didn't include falling in love with the sexy yet traditional Blake Sommers. But the rugged single father snuck in under Lily's skin and captured her ...

  • Outlaw in Paradise

    Patricia Gaffney

    As the owner of a saloon in Paradise, Oregon, Cady McGill is surviving in a man's world. She can't afford to let her guard down for anyone -- especially the man in black who arrives out of nowhere to arouse her suspicions...and her senses. ...

  • One Red Rose

    Julie Garwood

    THE CLAYBORNES ARE BACK -- AND LOVE IS IN BLOOM! Adam Clayborne has always put great stock in the power of books. As an escaped slave -- and a wanted man -- reading has been his only ticket to the wonders of distant lands. Adam is content with hi...

  • Coyote Summer

    W. Michael Gear

    Upper Missouri River, 1825

    Against the wild grandeur of the Rocky mountains and a richly woven tapestry of Indian cultures--Sioux, Mandan, Crow, Shoshoni--Coyote Summer unfolds into an unforgettable tale of love and reconciliation, destiny, ...

  • Bargaining with the Boss

    Catherine George

    Moment of truth! Eleri worked hard at being levelheaded, to make up for one solitary mistake in her teens. But there were times when being sensible was difficult! Take the situation with James Kincaid.... Eleri had been in love with James, her ...

  • Atalanta: 165402

    Laura Geringer

    Presents the story of Atalanta, who is raised by a she-bear to become stronger and faster than any man but who meets her match in Calydon's greatest hunter, Prince Meleager, with whom she fights the Wild Boar and the underworld's Furies. Original....

  • Guardian

    Laura Geringer

  • Lady on Top

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Polly Predictable! When Ali Kozinski realized that her neighbors knew her gardening schedule -- weed the tomatoes on Saturday, carrots Sunday -- she knew it was past time for a new and improved Ali Kozinski! Especially after sexy photojournalist K...

  • Served Cold

    Ed Goldberg

    ED GOLDBERG IS: Raymond Chandler if he was funny, Robert B. Parker if he was Jewish, Kinky Friedman if he wrote about food, Dick Francis if he was from the Lower East Side, John D. MacDonald if he was alive! Meet Lenny Schneider, who calls himsel...

  • Big Bag

    Golden Books

  • Christmas in the Hundred-Acre Wood

    Golden Books

  • Rudolph Saves the Day

    Golden Books

  • Rhyme Time

    Golden Books

  • Unravelling

    Elizabeth Graver

    From a small, bogside cabin in rural New England, 38-year-old Aimee Slater unravels the story of her life, attempting to make sense of the tangled thread that leads from her mother's house-a short, unbridgeable distance away-to the world she now inha...

  • Alissa's Miracle

    Ginna Gray

    He'd told her that he could never have a child... and widow Alissa Kirkpatrick was so in love with enigmatic Dirk Matheson that she agreed to a childless marriage. She put away that dream of babies, moving on to her life with her handsome bridegro...

  • Great Stories of the American West II

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Offers a collection of eighteen short Western stories by such acclaimed authors as Erle Stanley Gardner, Owen Wister, O. Henry, Loren D. Estleman, Ed Gorman, John Jakes, Louis L'Amour, Mark Twain, and others. Reprint....

  • The Fortune Teller

    Martin H. Greenberg

    An anthology of seventeen stories featuring fortune tellers ranges from the humorous to the spine-chilling and presents previously unpublished writing by Vicki Nelson and Neil Gaiman, creator of the comic book series, The Sandman. Original....

  • Bozo the Clone

    Dan Greenburg

    "My clone looks like me.My clone talks like me.He helps me with my homeworkand takes care of my bullies.And he could be the answerto all my problems.Or he could be my biggest one yet!...

  • Nobody's Princess

    Jennifer Greene

    MR. AUGUST Prince of a guy: Alex Brennan. Honest, loyal...a fairy-tale hero. Damsel in distress: Began Stuart. Jaded, cynical...detests fairy tales. ONCE UPON A TIME... there was a free spirit named Began who believed in Prince Charming and...

  • Missing, Presumed Dead

    J.M. Gregson

    Detective Inspector Percy Peach, as bouncy and as aggressive as a bantam cock, is feared greatly by the petty criminals of Lancashire - and not a little by his own chief, the feeble Superintendent Tucker. Peach finds to his disgust that his new detec...

  • Rangers of the Lone Star

    Zane Grey

    The fully restored manuscript of the author's classic tale of western justice chronicles a U.S. deputy marshal's mission to stop cattle rustling and shut down a cattle baron mayor bent on maintaining the status quo. Reprint....

  • Brand New Cherry Flavor

    Todd Grimson

    Seeking revenge against her enemies in the film business, a gorgeous Hollywood actress with a wide-ranging erotic appetite forms an alliance with a Latino man who proves to be a thousand-year-old Mayan witch doctor. Original....

  • Deadly Beloved

    Jane Haddam

    DOWN THE AISLE -- TO DEATH Armies on the eve of invasion could learn a thing or two about preparation from the denizens of Cavanaugh Street, who never do anything halfway. This time it's a wedding that's taking over the collective consciousness of t...

  • Cement of Blood

    Gregory Hall

  • Noah's Ark

    Kirsten Hall

    A patient elephant, a gentle giraffe, and a wise owl explain the story of the Great Flood to a confused bear cub, offering an inside look at the story of Noah's Ark, accompanied by bright playful art and an adorable charm bracelet....

  • Scandalous Bride

    Diana Hamilton

    Have you heard the latest? Don't tell anyone, but.... Nathan Monroe didn't know what to believe: he'd just heard that the woman he'd married wasn't all that she seemed. Olivia Monroe was apparently a ruthless woman who would do...

  • The Reality Dysfunction: Expansion

    Peter F. Hamilton

    This is a stunning universe of Edenists, telepathically gene-linked to their sentient ships and living worlds; of nano-augmented star pilots and warriors...and of terrifying ancient alien mysteries beyond human comprehension. DOMINOES OF THE DAMNE...

  • The Frenchman

    Elizabeth Hand

    Moving back to Seattle to escape the emotional burden of his work for the FBI's Violent Crimes section, retired FBI agent Frank Black discovers that his talent for "seeing what the killer sees" comes in handy when a serial killer begins to stalk the ...

  • Splitting Heirs

    Rick Hanson

    Having to scrape the bottom of his checking account each month to pay his mortgage makes Adam McCleet game for almost anything. So when he discovers that Garden Porcelli, the eccentric Salmon King of Oregon, has made him a beneficiary in his will, Ad...

  • Cinderella's Party Clothes - Little Look-Look Book

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    Little Look-Look Books features favorite characters and subjects in a colorful paperback. This portable, affordable, first library will capture young children's imaginations and help them develop a love of books that will last a lifetime....

  • Snow White's Apple Pie - Little Look-Look Book

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    Little Look-Look Books features favorite characters and subjects in a colorful paperback. This portable, affordable, first library will capture young children's imaginations and help them develop a love of books that will last a lifetime....

  • Assault on St. Nazaire

    Duncan Harding

    Churchill was in despair. Britain fighting alone had been brought almost to its knees by the German U-boat blockade. The Germans were sinking allied merchantmen faster than they could build them. Britain would soon be starved into submission.

    The p...

  • Double Dead

    Gary Hardwick

    Jesse King, a brilliant black assistant district attorney, is implicated in the murder of the mayor of Detroit and flees to the mean streets of his youth, where a shattering discovery makes him the target of the real killers. Original....

  • Off the Face of the Earth

    Aljean Harmetz

    When an eight-year-old boy disappears from a suburban mall in Los Angeles, the police call it a murder and close the case, leaving the son's determined mother and a maverick police officer on their own to find the missing child. Reprint....

  • The City of Exile

    Deborah Turner Harris

    Queen Mhairi of Caledon agrees to give up possession of the mysterious and dangerous artifact known as the Anchorstone to her enemy, King Edwin of Beringar, in order to end the war between their kingdoms...

  • Signs of Life

    M. John Harrison

    Chronicles the symbiotic relationship between Mike Rose--head of a courier company that serves the genetics industry, and Isobel Avens--a woman twenty years younger than he and obsessed with the desire to fly...

  • Seven Reasons Why

    Neesa Hart

    THERE WERE SEVEN REASONS WHY... Small-town veterinarian August Trent knew she had to accept sexy attorney Zack Adriano's marriage proposal -- and they were all under the age of ten. Her foster sons' futures were at stake. If August wanted ...

  • Where Is My Broom?

    Margaret A. Hartelius

  • Armageddon

    Richard Hatch; Christopher Golden

    Eighteen years have passed since the battlestar Galactica and its ragtag fleet of survivors began their epic journey to find the legendary planet Earth. Commander Adama has died, and the brash Colonial warrior Starbuck has disappeared during a recon ...

  • Seduced by a Stranger

    Morgan Hayes

    Her fiance wanted her found.... Teddy Logan is on the run. She knows her fiance, Alan, is determined to find her, but she can't go back yet -- not until she's sure there's going to be a wedding. And Birdseye, Colorado, seems to be the ...

  • Frankenturkey II

    Betsy Haynes

    ...and he'd love to have you for Thanksgiving dinner! There's a special new turkey in the pen behind Annie and Kyle's house. Whenever they're near him, all their wishes come true. But Kyle and Annie don't know that Frankenturkey has returned from ...

  • Giant

    Nicholas Heller

  • The Rest of the Earth

    William Haywood Henderson

    After the Civil War, Walker Avary leaves Boston to seek his own place in the world, wandering through the western wilderness before settling in Wyoming's remote Wind River Valley with a young Native American woman whose tribe had been destroyed by en...

  • Death Takes Passage

    Sue Henry

    History is repeating itself one hundred years later on Alaska's breathtaking Inside Passage. Re-creating the famous Voyage of 1897, the Spirit of '98 is setting sail from Skagway, Alaska, en route to Seattle, Washington, carrying two tons of Yukon go...

  • Who Rides With Wyatt

    Will Henry

    Wyatt Earp becomes the sheriff of Tombstone, a town known as "the Sodom in the Sagebrush," and with his long-barreled Colt shotgun, he cleans up the town, ridding it of stagecoach hold-ups, cattle rustlers, and gunfire in the streets. Original....

  • The Magic School Bus Taking Flight

    Gail Herman

    In order to discover how things fly, Ms. Frizzle and her class are shrunk inside Wanda and Tim's model airplane and learn about how wings and moving air affect flight in a series of high adventure. Original....

  • Out Of Bounds!

    Hank Herman

    Mark Fisher couldn't be more embarrassed. At every Branford Bulls game, there's a goofy guy in the bleachers yelling his lungs out, making up dumb cheers, and screaming at the coaches to put Mark in to play. It's Mark's father! Mark tells him to stop...

  • Thief of Hearts

    Rita Herron

    A PERSONAL AFFAIR Gabe Thornton's interest in the "personals" column is strictly professional. The Atlanta journalist's assignment is to canvass the classifieds for the "crazies" who look for love at two dollars a line. H...