Books Published in December 1994

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1994

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New Books List: 473 titles

  • The Secret of the Villa Mimosa

    Elizabeth Adler

    WAS IT AN ACCIDENT... Dr. Phyl Forster watched the TV news, horrified at the sight of the broken body in the ravine. Then she raced to the hospital to see the victim. Miraculously, the girl was alive, but without name or memory. An irresistible ch...

  • Blind Justice

    Bruce Alexander

    In 1768, thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor arrived in London. The city streets, bustling with gamblers, prostitutes, and thieves, were certainly no place for a boy on his own, and trouble wasted no time in finding the lad. He was falsely charged with ...

  • The House of Hope

    Kate Alexander

    In 1861, Vittorio Speranza set sail from Italy for England with his inheritance: an ancient marble statue of Hermes, a fifteenth-century depiction of the Nativity by the Italian master Monaccio, and a gold cup attributed to Benvenuto Cellini.Arriving...

  • The Santa Sleuth

    Heather Allison

    "You're getting the hang of this parenting business." Kirk's words startled Amanda. Parenting. It had been years since she'd thought about having a child. She didn't have time for a child. She had goals, plans .... An el...

  • Double Jeopardy

    Aaron Allston

    Spark Parker and Buffalo Lincoln, trained sleuths and veteran combat drivers, and Detective Pif Heiligmann, need all their skills to unravel a twisted case involving sinister operations at a corporate cloning facility and a knife-wielding child moles...

  • Angel Love

    Bonnie Altenhein

  • The Wild Swans

    Hans Christian Andersen

    From the Golden Book archives comes a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, gloriously illustrated by Gordon Laite in the late 1960s but never published until now!   Gordon Laite’s breathtaking artwork for a Little Golden Book edition of the...

  • Grizzly

    Christine Andreae

    English professor, poet, and professional house sitter Lee Squires is swamped in a sea of student compositions when she receives a call for help from childhood friends in Montana. Happy to leave her students and Washington, D.C., Lee travels out to t...

  • Forest of Darkness

    Michael Andrews
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The popular Dragon Strike game heroes--the warrior, the thief, the elf, and the wizard--need the reader to guide them through the horror-filled forest to reclaim the crown jewels from the evil wizard Teraptus' castle...

  • The Monster Squad

    John Angus

    Caitlin O'Neil is a smart, tough Los Angeles vice cop - or at least she was until she broke her captain's jaw while rejecting his less-than-welcome sexual advances. Suddenly out of a job, she winds up in Oregon's rural Loren County, where she impress...

  • Letters to Jenny

    Piers Anthony

    "Dear Mr. Anthony,

    "I need your help. I'm at wit's end and am grabbing at straws, so I decided to write to you in hopes that you might take a few minutes of your time for my daughter Jennifer.

    "Jennifer is twelve years old, and has very...

  • Aisha Goes Wild

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another. . .but they're only just beginning to fond out the truth. Aisha goes wild when a chance encounter rekindles all her old feelings about a guy named Je...

  • Lucas Gets Hurt

    Katherine Applegate

    Lucas gets hurt when he watches Zoey, the love of his life, drift back into the arms of her old boyfriend, Jake. That's when Claire appears, wanting to help Lucas forget his problems. But if Zoey finds out what happened between Lucas and Claire, will...

  • Vengeful Bride

    Rosalie Ash

    Marry in haste... Emma had a secret in her past...a secret that meant she mustn't fall in love with Dominick Fleetwood. She had behaved recklessly with him once, and now he was back in her life -- asking her to marry him. Emma found, to her su...

  • The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss

    Louis Auchincloss

    This New York Times"bestselling author’s story collection “displays consistent excellence in observing the spheres of art, law, money and society” (Publishers Weekly).   Whether set in the world of Wall Street, the nineteenth-century Vir...

  • The Forever Gift

    Elizabeth August
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    The joy of Christmas and the magic of marriage await you when you join four of your favorite authors in this very special holiday collection. And in Elizabeth August's The Forever Gift the holidays can be hard when you're alone like Abigai...

  • Natural Born Killers

    John August

  • Prison of Ice // Icebound

    David Axton

    A thrilling adventure of science gone wrong and psychopathic terror in the polar icecaps by a modern master of horror and suspense....

  • A Cowboy for Christmas

    Stella Bagwell

    Just what Lucinda needed: A Cowboy Lucinda Lambert was on the run when rugged Chance Delacroix came to her rescue. But the haven she found in his arms was a joy she knew couldn't last. Leaving was the only way to keep Chance and his family out o...

  • Masquerade

    Madeline Baker
    in

    A talented beauty... A tormented soul... A tortured love... He must see her again. Her resemblance to his long-ago love and her beauty lures him to Leanne, a singer in the cast of "The Phantom of the Opera". Jason Blackthorne pretends to be a co...

  • Longing

    Mary Balogh

    Sian Jones had been to Britain's finest schools, but manners and French lessons did not erase the stigma of being a lord's illegitimate daughter. Perhaps she would have been content among Welsh ironworkers, her mother's people, had not A...

  • Keepsake

    Linda Barlow

    An abandoned daughter, her power-hungry mother, a security expert widower, a sinister industrialist, and a twisted family clash in a tale of bitterness, greed, multimillion-dollar business dealings, obsession, and murder. When her mother is murde...

  • Christmas Bow Murder

    Brian Battison

    When blonde, attractive, and promiscuous Stella Caraway is found murdered, a scarf around her broken neck tied in a bow and her near naked body displayed like a bizarre gift, her stormy marriage immediately points to her evasive husband, Steven, as t...

  • 500 Great Books by Women

    Erica Bauermeister

  • O the Red Rose Tree

    Patricia Beatty

    A new edition of a popular classic recounts the charming 1893 adventures of the four thirteen-year-old girls from The Nickel-Plated Beauty as they try to help an old woman complete her dream quilt....

  • Final Cut

    David Belbin

    Accepting a film role that will become the culmination of her successful career, model Sarah Wood begins to suspect a sinister force behind accidents that result in an out-of-control fire scene, the death of a camera technician, and her own near-drow...

  • Inspired Love

    Ann Bell

    A single parent, Beth Slater has finally carved out a life for herself and her four-year-old son in Rocky Bluff, Montana. Thanks to Edith Dutton, a Crisis Center telephone volunteer to whom she once turned for help, Beth now has a dream to cling to a...

  • Only St. Nick Knew

    Nikki Benjamin

    Christmas was coming, complete with mistletoe, merriment -- and way too many memories for reclusive young widow Alison Kent. Luckily, she'd gotten an assignment in far-off New Mexico. There, no one would gaily intrude upon the hollow ache inside ...

  • Hot Winter Nights

    Cherie Bennett

  • Bands of Gold

    Angela Benson

    DREAMS CAN COME TRUE... 1. Move to Atlanta. 2. Get job. 3. Buy house. 4. Make friends. As the award-winning manager of a successful engineering firm, Christina Marshall has accomplished almost all of her personal goals. But deep within her hear...

  • Less Than Meets the Eye

    David Berlinski

    Investigating the death of a philosophy professor at a fashionable northern California university, Aaron Asherfeld interrogates the radical racial, sexual, and intellectual factions at the college, each of which harbors a secret about the dead man....

  • The Death of a Difficult Woman

    Carole Berry

    BONNIE INDERMILL Objective: A fulfilling career and a committed husband...or at least, a temp job to pay the bills and a date for the weekend. Experience: Assistant office manger, assistant fitness counselor, assistant fund-raiser, assistant ...

  • Hearts Denied

    Cheryl Biggs

    LOVE'S REVENGE It was seven years since Travis Braggette had abandoned Suzanne Forteaux at the altar. Now the sight of him on the dusty street of Virginia City, Nevada, stole Suzanne's breath away. He was taller and even more handsome than...

  • Scream Around the Campfire

    J.R. Black

    When they spot an enormous hairy beast in the woods, summer camp at Camp Slumbering Pines goes from dull to deadly for Gina and Frank Giardelli, and the campers have the biggest fright of their lives. Original....

  • Besieged Heart

    Jennifer Blake
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    Five short stories follow themes of hidden secrets and revealing love and include the works of popular romance authors Jennifer Blake, Madeline Baker, Georgina Gentry, Shirl Henke, and Patricia Rice. ...

  • Shortgrass Song

    Mike Blakely

    Shortgrass Song is the saga of young Caleb Holcomb as he makes his way through life in an epic as big as Texas itself. Caleb's adventures take him through Civil War battles, buffalo hunts, Indian wars and barroom shoot-outs. On his way he meets:Snake...

  • Fires of Innocence

    Jane Bonander

    NIGHTS OF HEAVEN In the heart of California's rugged Yosemite Valley, Scotty MacDowell, a young naturalist's daughter, rescues a wounded stranger from a blinding snowstorm. She nurses him back to health, and as the snows melt in the mountain passe...

  • A Very Merry Step-Christmas

    Barbara Boswell
    in

    The joy of Christmas and the magic of marriage await you when you join four of your favorite authors in this very special holiday collection. And there are more merry complications when children plot to get their single parents married in Barbara ...

  • Challenges

    Ben Bova

    Bova offers a new collection of wide-ranging science fiction stories, essays about the onrushing future, and observations about the craft of SF itself.Included - among others - are such tales as the touching "The Man Who Hated Gravity," the satirical...

  • Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue

    Paul Bowles

    In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen -- often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class -- who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a gre...

  • Castle Terror

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    ISLE OF HEARTBREAK Susan Moore had a lesson to learn: Flee from a hopeless romance, and you may find yourself a pawn in an even more dangerous and tragic game of love. The castle on Sanctuary Island, to which Susan's mysterious nursing assignme...

  • Sandal

    Tony Bradman

  • Blackie and Red

    Max Brand

    Blackie and Red were running away from the orphanage when they were found by Andy Connell. He offered them a home with him and his wife.

    The boys were as different as the color of their hair, and each had his own approach to getting ahead in ...

  • The Lady and the Robber Baron

    Joyce Brandon

    LOVE LOST... AND FOUND New York City, 1880 -- the era of empire builders who steamrolled a nation's vast resources into billion-dollar industries. No timberland was too immense, no railway too long for the ruthless robber barons who were building...

  • Mrs. Jeffries on the Ball

    Emily Brightwell

    DINNER, DANCING ... AND DEATH The Jubilee Ball in honor of Queen Victoria was meant to be a festive affair... but for Hannah Greenwood, it was a fatal event. Since the victim belonged to the prestigious Hyde Park Literary Circle, the shadow of suspi...

  • Voima

    C. Dale Brittain

    Three young mortals are caught up in the conflict between the immortal Wanderers, the lords of Voima, and those who would overthrow them, in a struggle between kingdoms, sexes, generations, and the demands of love and honor...

  • The Moves Make The Man

    Bruce Brooks

    Runaway’s Basketball Buddy Tells All Bix Rivers has disappeared, and who's going to tell his story? His stepfather? Man, that dude does not know Bix deep. Can Bix's momma tell you? I reckon not -- she is crazy in the hospital. Ain't nobody but m...

  • Dreamers and Schemers

    Chelsea Brooks

  • Dark Oasis

    Helen Brooks

    'For such a bewildered kitten you have very sharp claws!' When Kit was stranded in Morocco with no money, her memory a blank, the arrogant Frenchman had come to her rescue when she needed him most, setting himself up as her protector and c...

  • Daredevil

    Lynne Marie Bryant

    "I give you my heart--I know you will keep it safe...." Casey Boone was his buddy, his best friend, the only girl he'd ever loved--but now that he might never walk again, Dare King struggled not to let her see his panic...or the pain he still felt...

  • To the Death

    John Bryson

  • Dark Intentions

    Carole Buck

    DRAWN TO THE LIGHT A tragic car accident had robbed Royce Williams of his vision -- and stolen his spirit. And he might have remained lost in shadow forever, if not for one mysterious woman, an extraordinarily gifted teacher of the blind. Against hi...

  • Lord Rathbone's Flirt

    Gayle Buck

    A Compromising Position It was bad enough that family misfortune reduced Verity Worth's position of privilege to a state of near poverty. It was even worse when she took the post of paid companion to Miss Cecily Pettiforth and had to rein in a...

  • Granta 49

    Bill Buford

    U6 Glossy paperback 1994 255p. 8.25x5.75x0.70 PORTRAITS OF SEVEN RICH MEN (AND THEIR SECRETS) MONEY - GET IT, SPEND IT, SAVE IT, LOSE IT. RISK IT, WIN IT, LOSE IT AGAIN, GET IT AGAIN: AND THEN GIVE IT ALL AWAY....

  • Surprise Package

    Lynn Bulock

    What Miranda Wants for Christmas: A Miracle The last thing Miranda Dalton needed under her Christmas tree was a man. But that's what she got when a handsome drifter plowed into her front yard. Jared Tarkett was the most intriguing guy to hit Redbud ...

  • Desert Hawks

    Frank Burleson

    Fighting in a bloody war between the U.S. Army, the army of Mexico, and the Apaches, young Lieutenant Nathaniel Barrington experiences his first great test of manhood on southwestern battlefields and in the arms of two beautiful women. Original....

  • Final Therapy

    Robert A. Burton

    Learning that one of his colleagues has crossed a professional boundary with a patient, prominent psychologist Alan Forester is further dismayed when a patient of his own turns up dead in a series of sadomasochistic murders. Original....

  • Breaking the Fall

    Michael Cadnum

    An Edgar Award Finalist: A lost teen allows a friend to draw him into a suicidal game Stanley chose the house carefully. It has 3 chimneys and a perfect lawn. Stanley knows it’s nicer than any place he will ever live -- and tonight, he’s breaking...

  • Irresistible Stranger

    Linda Cajio

    He promised to help her find her secret dream -- then make it real... Leslie Kloslosky didn't believe her friend's premonition that she'd meet the perfect man on her vacation in England -- right up to the instant a tall, dark stranger...

  • Forty Whacks

    Sheila Macgill Callahan

    Investigating the arrest of a woman named Liza Borden for an axe murder in Fall River, Massachusetts--the hometown of Lizzie Borden--Brian Donodio uncovers a record of animal abuse at a research facility where Borden and her victim are employed....

  • The Jilting of Baron Pelham

    June Calvin

    A Trio of Temptations Though new to the London marriage mart, Miss Davida Gresham had three marvelous men in her young life. One was the devastatingly attractive Baron Montgomery Pelham, newly jilted by the most beautiful belle of the ton, and see...

  • Ashleigh's Christmas Miracle

    Joanna Campbell

    Ashleigh Griffen is expecting her first child after the New Year, but on Christmas Eve, as she visits the stables to give treats to her favorite horses, a stallion's kick puts her life and her baby in jeopardy. Original....

  • Worlds Apart

    Marilyn Campbell

    LOVE BEYOND THE STARS Army nurse Julie Evans will never believe Logan McKay's words of love--he is, after all, a convicted murderer. Yet this powerful soldier is capable of breaking her heart. Thrown together on a military plane en route to the U....

  • The Long Lost

    Ramsey Campbell

    David and Joelle's long-lost relative, Gwendolen, helps them recover from a family tragedy, but soon the young couple is caught in a web of evil and dark secrets seemingly spun from Gwendolen's white hair. Reprint....

  • Two Lumps of Coal

    Valerie Scho Carey

  • Shaded Leaves of Destiny

    Sally Carleen

    The man at the top of the staris A menacing silhouette at the top of the stairs waited for the woman to approach -- and then it struck! When she woke from her near-deadly fall, Amanda struggled to merge two sets of memories separated by decades. O...

  • Lord of the Manor

    Jeanne Carmichael

    HIS LORDSHIP'S RETURN DISRUPTED HER HOUSEHOLD...AND HER HEART! Miss Althea Underwood made a deathbed promise to her cousin. She would remain at Keswick House, oversee its affairs, and most importantly, raise the baby girl now orphaned by her m...

  • Little Women

    M.J. Carr

  • Deceptive Desire

    Sally Carr

    Open to persuasion... "I want you, Blaize," Cal said softly. "And I will never give up until I succeed." Tracking down elusive entrepreneur Cal Smith hadn't been easy... but now, by a stroke of luck, Blaize found herself living under the same r...

  • Anything for Danny

    Carla Cassidy

    Danny's Christmas Wish: His Parents Married ... Again! He was only nine years old, but Danny knew what was best for his mom and dad. That was why he'd asked for a trip to the Grand Canyon. So they could be together again. Like a real family... ...

  • A Remembered Love

    Laura Cassidy

    WHEN FRIENDS BECOME LOVERS... Christopher Rokesby and Alice Ashley were longtime friends, becoming adults as the black clouds of civil war appeared. Henry Carrington rounded out their trio, but his interests took a turn for the worse. War in their...

  • Elusive Lovers

    Elizabeth Chadwick (1)

    The Chicago Girls ... Plain or pretty, shy or sultry, they all showed up in Breckenridge, Colorado, chasing a handful of wishes -- and finding a life full of love. A PORTRAIT OF PASSION After an innocent kiss left her good name in shreds, Krist...

  • Tamar

    Ann Chamberlin

    Tamar is only a young girl when she arrives at the harem of King David of Jedea. The daughter of one of David's new wives, she soon finds that King David plans to use her a pawn to establish his rule in the lands he has conquered. Her life becomes a ...

  • A Timeless Christmas

    Patricia Chandler

    Christmas Past In a freak snowstorm on Christmas Eve, Miguel de Pima was hanged for an unspeakable crime--loving Dorthea McAllister, the beautiful, red-haired daughter of the self-appointed judge of Los Realer. Christmas Future As justice o...

  • My Lucky Lady

    Casey Claybourne

    A CAPTIVE OF LOVE Lord Campton cannot believe his eyes. A bedraggled waif has stowed away in his trunk -- and now, threatens him with his own pistol! All he wanted was to get away from the frivolous pursuits of the London ton and enjoy a peaceful...

  • Dead and Buried

    Melissa Cleary

    TAKE A BITE OUT OF CRIME Walter Hopfelt's job was keeping the Rodgers University campus safe from crime. But now the security chief's career is over -- along with his life. His mysterious death has opened a can of worms...and reopened the case of a s...

  • A Dangerous Dandy

    Pat Cody

    SHE SWORE TO OUTWIT HIM Eyes blazing, Miss Vanora Chalmers swept away from the insufferable Mr. Holton Fenmore. To properly present her younger sister to London Society, Vanora had to rely on the Fenmore family's eminent sponsorship. But not onl...

  • The Master of Petersburg

    J.M. Coetzee

    J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summon...

  • Into the Darkness

    Daniel Cohen

    A collection of nineteen spooky horror tales recount the adventures of a midnight subway rider, a lone dweller at a college dormitory, a babysitter's confrontation with her worst nightmare, a hitchhiker, and more. Reprint....

  • Mankiller

    Judd Cole

    Not at peace with the life he was raised in among white settlers, Cheyenne returns to his people to find himself an outcast again, and although a brave warrior, he now finds he must prove himself in battle with Mankiller. Original....

  • Surrogate Dad

    Marion Smith Collins

    SEEING IS BELIEVING When Alexandra Prescott's innocent sketch made her and her son targets for murder, the independent-minded widow needed someone to depend on. The most unlikely candidate? Luke Quinlan, new neighbor, pin-striped lawyer - and defi...

  • Miss Scrooge

    Toni Collins

    What Miss "Bah Humbug" Needed: Christmas was coming, and Casey Tucker got grumpier by the minute. Why couldn't do-gooder Gabe Wheeler just let her spend this darned season alone? But being with Gabe soon had her warming to the idea of go...

  • Black Ribbon

    Susan Conant

    IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A DOG.... Canine-loving detective Holly Winter is a columnist for Dog's Life magazine. She thinks a week at Waggin' Tail, a camp for canines in the scenic Maine woods, will be a vacation in pet heaven. So does Rowdy, her cha...

  • Beloved

    Phoebe Conn

    HE WAS DANGER When Alanna meets the Seneca scout called Hunter, she sees only a cruel savage like the ones who killed her family. But the handsome warrior also exudes an aura of dangerous sensuality...and soon Alanna realizes that for this hunter, s...

  • Freshman Noel

    Linda A. Cooney

    LOVE ON THE SLOPES... Winnie and Josh are spending New Year's at the same ski resort -- but will they dare give their marriage a second chance? KC's fallen for a mystery hunk! Has she found Mr. Right at last? Faith never dreamed she would ...

  • Beware of the Dog

    Peter Corris

    The blonde was in black stockings, bra and neck ribbon. And she was on fire, as the house around her exploded before Cliff Hardy's eyes. For Hardy it started at a college lecture he gave. One student had begun to haunt him, and another hired him to h...

  • The Nightingale Legacy

    Catherine Coulter

    Caroline Derwent-Jones is at the eve of her nineteenth birthday. She's chomping at the bit to get out from under the control of her smarmy guardian, the frighteningly obsessive Roland Ffalkes. But Ffalkes has other plans for Caroline. She manages to ...

  • Tandia

    Bryce Courtenay

    Half Indian, half African and beautiful, Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked and violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid, consumed by hatred for the white man, Tandia at last finds refuge in a brothel deep in t...

  • Oddly Enough

    Bruce Coville

    A collection of nine short stories featuring an angel, unicorn, vampire, werewolf, and other unusual creatures....

  • Search & Rescue

    Melissa Crandall

    Leaping into the body of a doctor who is searching for a downed airplane in the wilds of British Columbia, Sam Beckett is unaware that a lightning bolt has caused Al to leap into one of the plane's crash victims....

  • Thunder on the Reef

    Sara Craven

    "I want you back in my life -- back in my bed!" Macy had fallen for Ross Bannister's charms before, only to be totally disillusioned when he had abandoned her for better things. Now they had met again and she had no intention of mak...

  • Mistletoe Magic

    Beth Cruise

  • Strange Bedpersons

    Jennifer Crusie

    SHE'S GOTTA HAVE HIM Nick Jamieson wasn't the right guy for Tess Newhart. He was caviar and champagne and she was take-out Chinese. He wore tailored suits and she wore faded jeans. He wanted to get ahead and she wanted...him. Because when Nic...

  • Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express

    Debbie Dadey

  • Mystery for Christmas

    Richard Dalby

    A collection of mystery tales from writers past and present--from Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy to H. R. F. Keating and Muriel Spark--of murder, ghosts, bizarre disappearances, journeys through time, and other mysterious events casts a pall over t...

  • Kim & the Cowboy

    Margot Dalton

    WHERE ARE THEY NOW? It's sixteen years since the Class of '78 graduated from the Berkely School for Girls. Four young women, four close friends, stood on the brink of adulthood and dreamed about the directions their lives would take. None could kn...

  • Big and Hairy

    Brian Daly

  • Wink a Hopeful Eye

    Denise Danks

    Journalist Georgina Powers is far from happy when ex-colleague Charlie East invites her for a wild weekend in Las Vegas and doesn't turn up until she's boarding the flight home. But for once he's got a good excuse. He won a million dollars in an all-...

  • 1, Conker...

    Tom Davies

  • The End of the Story

    Lydia Davis

    The End of the Story is an energetic, candid, and funny novel about an enduring obsession and a woman's attempt to control it by the telling of the story of it. With ruthless honesty, artful analysis, and crystalline depictions of human and natural l...

  • Bride of the Castle

    John DeChancie

    Preparing for his marriage to Linda, groom Gene dreads facing his wedding guests and swears he would rather face a horde of barbarians until an unexpected shift across a portal into a bizarre world makes his haphazard wish come true. Original....

  • Roarke's Folly

    Claire Delacroix

    WHAT COULD A NOBLEMAN WANT WITH A WOMAN OF HER STATION? A cloth merchant's daughter, Adela lived a life of responsibility. Little color was there to the fabric of her dreams until the day an impudent knight with mischief in his eyes began to untangl...

  • Full Bloom

    Stacey Dennis

    Suddenly widowed in the midst of a most unexpected pregnancy, Samantha Wells has more than her share of grieving and rejoicing to do... as well as managing a thriving new business raising Samoyeds and caring for her son and her aging, irrepressible a...

  • Remembrance

    Jude Deveraux

    Hayden Lane, a best-selling romance writer, is a happy young woman -- or so she believes. Certainly her pals might chide her for not getting out more, but writing her novels is time-consuming. Besides, the tales she weaves of dark intrigues and timel...

  • Yesterday's Husband

    Angela Devine

    Sleeping with the enemy? "You've had your choice -- your father's company in exchange for your body!" Emma Prero had walked out on her husband eight years ago but now Richard Fielding was back -- with a vengeance. Her father had...

  • Lord Harlequin

    Marian Devon

    HOW DARE THIS UNQUALIFIED ARISTOCRAT WALTZ IN AND COMMAND THE STAGE! Lord Worth, now a fugitive after being falsely accused of shooting a man, needs a place to hide -- and a clown's makeup in the perfect disguise. The last place anyone would look...

  • The Dragon, the Earl, and the Troll

    Gordon R. Dickson

    'Tis the season for treachery: The Earl of Somerset is throwing a lavish Christmas feast, a revel above all others to celebrate the holiday. But the Dark Powers have chosen this joyous time to launch a massive offensive. An army of land-hungry trolls...

  • Little Mermaid Postcard Book

    Disney Book Group

  • Circle of Life

    Disney Book Group

  • A Taste for Terror

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Frank and Joe, in Tunisia for the anniversary of the Explorer's Guild, search for a killer in their midst when Thor Sonderstrom, who funds the expeditions, is mysteriously poisoned and secrets, hatreds, and dangers lurk in every corner. Original....

  • The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay

    Nisa Donnelly

    An unlikely trio of friends is reunited after almost 20 years. As each of them deals with the trials of the past, nearly overwhelming loss, and the uncertainty of the future, they unite, and, with love and friendship, form a family and create a place...

  • Konfidenz

    Ariel Dorfman

    Realizing that someone has been watching her when an anonymous caller reveals detailed knowledge about her private life, a woman becomes further distraught when the caller offers disturbing information about her missing lover...

  • The Sharp End

    David Drake

    Introducing a new kind of Hammer's Stammer: A survey team looking for trouble out on The Sharp End The gangs ruled Cantilucca. Guns were the only law, and there was no lack of guns. It was hard to imagine matters getting worse. THEN THE SURVEY...

  • Dressed to Kill

    Margaret Duffy

    Nobody likes Mrs Pryce, a meddling and small-minded misery in the Bath square where she lives. Her neighbours are weary of her allegations, the latest being that someone is stealing her plants. Ex-Detective Sergeant Joanna Mackenzie, now a private in...

  • Madigan's Luck

    Bill Dugan

    One hope in hell.Up till now, Dave Madigan's luck was all bad -- but that can change with one successful drive across the open range. He's got a contract with the army to round up fifty head of horses and deliver them to Fort Peterson, a hundred mile...

  • A Time for the Death of a King

    Ann Dukthas

    She was a passionate lover. Was she also a murderess? Edinburgh, 1567. Like an angel of mercy, beautiful Mary, Queen of Scots nurses her ill husband before suddenly leaving his bedside to attend the wedding festivities of her maid of honor. Hours ...

  • Queen Margot or Marguerite De Valois

    Alexandre Dumas

    Classic historical novel set in the 16th century. According to Wikipedia: "Alexandre Dumas (24 July 1802 " 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read...

  • Crooked Man

    Tony Dunbar

    New Orleans lawyer Tubby Dubonnet is a simple man. He likes fine food and drink. He misses his ex-wife. And he always does his best for his client, whether it's the doctor who refers patients to Tubby for malpractice suits or the man who drives a Mar...

  • The Third Christmas

    Margot Early

    First there was the year without Christmas. The year Skye Haverford Blade died so mysteriously, leaving behind not only her husband but her young son. Now it's three years later. This Christmas - the third Christmas - Jean Young joins David Blade...

  • How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

    Umberto Eco

    “Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly).   A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “...

  • Thirteen Notches

    Hank Edwards (1)

    Released from Yuma Prison after serving five years, gunfighter and former thief Frank Allison sets out to make a new life for himself, hoping to make amends by turning over the gold from his last robbery to authorities, but someone has other plans. O...

  • Lone Star and the Texas Tornado

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki fight to save a mysterious hellraiser from a life sentence of death and vengeance!Rewarding an act of heroism with a seat on the spring roundup, Jessie learns that her new hand, Dustin Gamble, has a larger score to settle and is threate...

  • The Green Rose

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    SWEET DECEPTION The young and beautiful widow, Meriall Sentlow, was intrigued by Sir Grey Neville's offer of freedom, solitude, and a home of her own -- in exchange far a mock betrothal. All she had left to bargain with was herself, especially...

  • The Art of the Sword

    Ru Emerson

    Searching for the source of Zero, a highly addictive drug that threatens Rhadaz society, Chris finds a lethal dose of the untreatable drug in his own veins and turns to Ariadne, a reluctant swordmaster, for help...

  • The Man With My Name

    Paul Engleman

    Phil Moony, prematurely "retired" from his job as a paramedic with the Chicago Fire Department for running afoul of the local political machine, is at loose ends. So when a stranger mistaking him for a different Phil Moony calls him in the middle of ...

  • The Twelve Gifts of Christmas

    Rita Clay Estrada

    WAS HE NAUGHTY OR NICE? On the first day of Christmas, Carly Michaels's true love gave to her...a headache! Pete Cade might be the hunk every woman dreams of finding under her tree. But he was also a real Scrooge. At the top of Carly's Chr...

  • Down Among the Dead Men

    Geraldine Evans

    A FAMILY AFFAIR When rich and beautiful Barbara Longman is found dead among the meadow flowers, Inspector Rafferty doesn't believe it's the latest grisly offering by the Suffolk serial killer - though he believes her killer would like him to think s...

  • Longarm and the Man-Eaters

    Tabor Evans

    Disregarding local fears that a legendary tribe of cannibals has returned when two sailors are discovered with their hearts cut out, Longarm pursues the truth until he is shanghaied and left for dead on a slave ship...

  • Paradise Found

    Peggy Fielding

    TO MAKE HER DREAMS COME TRUE... Sarah Collins wanted magic. So she left her Iowa farm behind and journeyed across the Pacific Ocean to become the wife of a man she barely knew. SHE TRAVELED TOWARD THE UNKNOWN... But when Sarah arrived in ...

  • Junior

    Lenore Fleischer

    When his work on developing a powerful and safe new anti-miscarriage drug is canceled, Dr. Alexander Hesse allows himself to be implanted with a fertilized egg, unaware that it has been stolen from Dr. Diana Reddin's research project...

  • Manhattans & Murder

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    MANHATTAN MURDER AT CHRISTMASTIME Promoting her latest book brings bestselling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher to New York for Christmas. Her schedule includes book signings, Larry King Live, restaurants, department stores... and murder? It all...

  • Earth 2

    Carol Flint

    When wealthy and powerful Devon Adair's only child, Ulysses, develops a fatal illness, she decides that his only hope is to settle on a new planet, and uses all her resources to do so, in spite of strong opposition...

  • Chosen for Death

    Kate Flora

    First in the Thea Kozak series, CHOSEN FOR DEATH is a haunting novel about adoption and the quest by those who yearn to find that part of themselves that was "given away" at birth -- a search that sometimes brings disastrous results. Carrie though...

  • The Thundering Trail

    Norman A. Fox

    Determined to fulfill his adopted father's last request, Chan Loring faces a thousand miles of dust, raging rivers, hostile Indians, and his murderous kin in his efforts to move the Loring longhorns north from Texas to Montana. Reprint....

  • Tainted Love

    Alison Fraser

    A prisoner of passion... Clare Anderson: a woman with a past... Fen Marchand: an Oxford University professor, and father to ten-year-old Miles, who was badly in need of a housekeeper -- so badly in need that he agreed to take on Clare.... Sh...

  • The Bishop's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    MOURNING DARKENED A MEDIEVAL MANOR... AND SO DID MURDER Death, the pious say, is the great mystery, and Sister Frevisse finds it puzzling indeed. She has come to Ewelme Manor to rieve for her uncle; Bishop Beaufort arrives to mourn his old friend....

  • The Diary of Emily Dickinson

    Jamie Fuller

    A workman stumbles upon Emily Dickinson's journal in a crevice in her conservatory, a diary that reveals Dickinson's views on God, family, nature, death, love, poetry, fame, her role as a woman in a patriarchal society, and the trials of her everyday...

  • Alistair MacLean's Golden Girl

    Simon Gandolfi

    Forced to fake his own death, spy Patrick Mahoney takes refuge off the Central American coast aboard the catamaran Golden Girl, where he is assigned to be the bait for gunrunners and crime lords. Reprint....

  • Inspector Proby's Christmas

    John Gano

    Snow is falling in Hampton and the city's inhabitants are busy with festive preparations, when a young woman is savagely murdered in the city's picturesque cathedral. Inspector Proby is assigned to the case. Now he faces his own nightmare before Chri...

  • Gambler's Delight

    Georgina Gentry
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    Five short stories follow themes of hidden secrets and revealing love and include the works of popular romance authors Jennifer Blake, Madeline Baker, Georgina Gentry, Shirl Henke, and Patricia Rice. ...

  • Golden Eyes

    John Gideon

    Transporting his ancient European stone house to a small Oregon town, a vampire moves into the lives of the people of Oldenburg, laying claim to their souls by awakening their darkest desires. Original....

  • The Pumpkins of Time

    Mel Gilden

    Pumpkins, dandelions, aliens from space, and a little time travel add up to a fast-moving, funny science-fiction novel for middle grade readers. “Gilden salts this humorous sci-fi tale with literary references, keeps the plot spinning like a plate ...

  • The Jungle Book

    Mel Gilden

  • No Ordinary Love

    Monique Gilmore

    Experiencing second thoughts about her engagement to a powerful businessman who seems to have it all, reporter Georgette Willis takes a skiing trip to Colorado, where she meets firefighter Ray Fusche+a7e, who teaches her what love is really all about...

  • Sweet Promise

    Layle Giusto

    SWEET SURRENDER When Cindy Stewart met World Heavyweight champion Turk Johnson on an exotic Caribbean island, she fell--heart-first--beneath his sensual spell. The pain and yearning came later, when Cindy realized that she'd just been a romantic fli...

  • Far Side of Desire

    Ralph Glasser

    On his son Gideon's 13th birthday, Leo, a successful businessman, starts to reflect on his own life. Aware that he does not spend enough time with his son, he takes him to Rome, where, by chance they meet Chiara, a women Leo once loved, but who is no...

  • Wrath of God

    Robert Gleason

    A motley army led by an indomitable old woman and a Los Alamos renegade who tore a hole in time and rescued three heroes from death--Patton, "Stonewall" Jackson, and Amelia Earhart--are the last hope for America. Original....

  • Pippa Passes

    Rumer Godden

    A young English ballet dancer, Pippa Fane, journeys to Venice with a touring company and discovers love, evil, and the vast complexities of the adult world. By the author of An Episode of Sparrows. ...

  • People Will Talk

    Lucianne Goldberg

    A wickedly irreverent tale of New York high society finds everyone running for cover after the reigning queen of New York gossip dies and underlings are willing to do--or say--anything to take over her position. 25,000 first printing....

  • Travellers in Magic

    Lisa Goldstein

    Fifteen stories of ordinary lives that take fantastic turns Robert never quite feels at home with Cassie’s family, a gang of eccentrics including a reptile smuggler, a worshipper of Osiris, and an old woman who believes her photographs can see ...

  • Day of the Dead: And other Portal Reflections

    F. Gonzalez-Crussi

  • Songs from Home

    Joan Elizabeth Goodman

  • Murder in the First

    Dan Gordon

    When Willie Moore, an Alcatraz inmate who has just spent three years in solitary confinement in total darkness for a failed escape attempt, kills another prisoner, his court-appointed lawyer, Henry Davidson, who is defending his first case, tries to ...

  • Goblins

    Charles L. Grant

    Opening the X-Files... MeetMulder and Scully, FBI. The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job: investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampagi...

  • Love in a Mist

    Patricia Grasso

    "TRUST THE KING WHO WEARS A FLAMING CROWN AND POSSESSES THE GOLDEN TOUCH...." Cast out of Wales at her mother's death, Keely Glendower clung to her magical dragon pendant and her mother's prophetic words as she faced Queen Elizabeth's enemy court...

  • Happy Are the Poor in Spirit

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Every family has a few, skeletons in their closet. The Cain family has a ghost, and it's trying to murder tie rich and famous Bart Cain. After three near-fatal attempts on his life--and three eerie phone calls from a woman who's supposed to be dead--...

  • Enchanting

    Sharon Green

    She created him-a handsome hero whose breathtaking adventures leapt from her computer to capture the imagination of millions. Tarren the blue-eyed Barbarian had not only swept Deanne Lane into a fantasy world...he has made her a bestselling author. ...

  • Silken Dreams

    Sharon Green

    Satin Desires -- Years before, in a distant, exotic land, Amanda Edmunds was enchanted by Jack Michaels -- the enigmatic hero known as the Golden Devil. Amanda was a chld then, but now she is a woman -- returning to London to search for a vanished fa...

  • Great Stories of the American West

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Short stories by more than twenty-five diverse authors, including John Jakes, Elmore Leonard, Evan Hunter, Loren D. Estleman, John D. MacDonald, and Marcia Muller, represent some of the best stories about the West ever written....

  • Albion's Story

    Kate Grenville

    In this "startling, fasciniating, disturbing" (Library Journal) companion to Lilian's Story, Kate Grenville takes on a daunting challenge: to imagine, from the inside out, how an apparently respectable Victorian gentleman can persuade himself that he...

  • Sins

    Jillian Grey

    SHAME On the day she graduated from high school, Ericka Cassidy's world shattered forever. Her parents were murdered... and she was the prime suspect. Run out of town in the wake of the devastating double tragedy, Ericka vowed that one day she'd ret...

  • Switching Well

    Peni R. Griffin

  • Heart of the Jaguar

    Roslynn Griffith

    Lieutenant Sam Strong returns after leaving beautiful Louisa Janks, a half-breed Comanche, six years earlier, but their stormy reunion is interrupted when bandits capture Louisa -- and Sam must save them both from certain death. HE BROKE HER HEAR...

  • Love Is Hell

    Matt Groening

    It's the 10th Anniversary Edition of Love Is Hell! A book that's been in the making for a solid decade! This medium-sized guide is now available to the public with extra bonus fun-pages never-before-included in previous volumes of the same name! Slig...

  • Rough Water

    Sally Gunning

    Pete Bartholomew's sister invites him and his ex-wife on a whale-watching cruise with her obnoxious boyfriend, but the boyfriend turns up dead, the radio is sabotaged, and they are trapped on a boat with an unknown killer. Original....

  • Magister Setn Inhe

    Gary Gygax

  • Festival of Deaths

    Jane Haddam

    EIGHT NIGHTS OF MURDER! That's what Hanukkah in Philadelphia shapes up to be this year, as a killer stalks America's most outrageous talk show host from NewYork to the City of Brotherly Love--bailiwick of ex--FBI man Gregor Demarkian. The good ...

  • Final Refuge

    James L. Haley

    At night, in a quiet Texas wildlife preserve, someone is stalking the rhinoceroses as they sleep in their lair, killing them, and stealing their horns.Who would do such a thing to an endangered creature, and for what sinister motive?Eric Jackson is t...

  • The Cheerleaders

    John Hall

    DIE, TEAM, DIE! Holly always wanted to be a Harding High cheerleader. Her best friend, Alison, did, too ... when she was alive. After Alison died, Holly finally made the squad. Now she's getting creepy phone calls. Threatening calls. Cal...

  • Winning Isn't Everything, Lauren!

    Katy Hall

    Lauren Armstrong chooses cheerleading over gymnastics, determined to be at the top of the pyramid in the televised state championships--but suddenly her best friend needs her help, and it means giving up her big day on TV...

  • Bride of the Rat God

    Barbara Hambly

    HOLLYWOOD, 1923: Gin, gems, and life in the fast lane...Chrysanda Flamande was the sultriest vamp of the silver screen. She had everything--fawning friends, glittering parties, exotic diversions, and baubles to spare. Then an elderly Chinese g...

  • Knight Dreams

    Christina Hamlett

    A PASSIONATE LEGACY As assistant to a quixotic English matriarch, Laurel Cavanaugh has never done anything more exciting than arrange tea parties and charity events. She thinks nothing of her new assignment: to help penniless, darkly handsome Gavi...

  • Thin Air

    Gerald Hammond

    Assisting the local detective sergeant with a baffling murder case, in which a cranky old farmer found death at the hands of any one of several suspects, firearms expert Keith Calder reconstructs the ingenious method used by the killer....

  • Between Two Loves

    Rosemary Hammond

    A guilty secret and a dangerous attraction... The sudden shock was so overwhelming that for a moment she was afraid she'd faint. What would he do if he found out about their mutual past? She had been in the car that had killed Ross Calvert&...

  • Wild Sage

    Peggy Hanchar

    "Peggy Hanchar is a genius at portraying life, love and the pursuit of happiness." Affaire de Coeur
    Beautiful and indomitable Wild Sage is Comanche, adopted by the tribe as a child. But in her veins flows the blood of the white man, enemy of her p...

  • First Culprit

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  • Comet Luck

    Madge Harrah

    Fearing the tabloid claims that the latest appearance of Halley's Comet will result in the end of the world, young Annie promises herself that she will accept any other kind of bad luck if the comet passes without harming anyone. Original....

  • Bloodlust

    Janice Harrell

    They’re the new kids at school -- and their father wants to suck the life out of the student body -- in this thrilling sequel to Bloodlines.   It’s hard enough moving to a new city and a new school when your father is a vampire. Now twins Ar...

  • Black Cipher

    Payne Harrison

    Black Cipher signals the dawn of the cryptothriller.

    Payne Harrison, the author of the best-selling Storming Intrepid and Thunder of Erebus, spins his narrative magic vet again -- this time exploring the fascinating but clandestine world of co...

  • Mirrors Kill

    David Harsent

    A chilling study of the international arms industry matches a man and a woman against a fearsome killer, high-level global espionage, and the trade in black market nuclear weapons. By the author of Point of Impact. 25,000 first printing....

  • This Little Piggy Went to Murder

    Ellen Hart

    It's election year in Minnesota, and Jack Grendel is running hard for the U.S. Senate. But a pair of grotesque murders threatens to derail his campaign. One is the bizarre hanging of a consultant for Grendel Shipping. The other is the shooting of Jac...

  • Damaged Dreams

    Mary Hawkins

    An accident has reduced her to long months of recuperation, and a broken engagement has placed her in the throes of a deep depression. Not only that, but for the first time Brenda Sparks feels totally unloved and unattractive. Her life is at an all-t...

  • Not His Wife

    Sally Tyler Hayes

    MAN ON THE EDGE Brian Sandelle was determined to watch hip ex-fiancee marry another man. But he couldn't do it alone. He'd recruiter Shelly Wilkerson, lifelong friend, to be by his side ...to help him pick up the pieces of his lonely life. If only...

  • Parting Gifts

    Lorraine Heath

    They fulfilled a promise for tomorrow -- with a tender vow of love... MADDIE Desperate for food and shelter, she came to a Texas brothel, knowing what she had to do to survive... CHARLES A widower with three children, he knew he wanted more...

  • Final Tour

    Jonellen Heckler

    Sass Lindsey, a burnt-out musical legend whose triumphs are overshadowed by her abusive childhood and fantasies of violent death, goes on a final tour and suddenly realizes how vulnerable she is on stage in a blazing spotlight....

  • The Spawn of Loki

    Jason Henderson

    The historical fantasy Macduff Saga continues as the hero of Shakespeare’s Macbeth confronts a foe greater than the mad Scottish king -- the God of Mischief.  Not in the legionsOf horrid hell can come a devil more damn’dIn evils to top Macbe...

  • The Book of Bad Virtues

    Tony Hendra

    A parody of the wisdom of the ages presents a primer on being bad that offers poems, proverbs, classic tales, and irresponsible stories encouraging such behaviors as heedless hypocrisy, blatant laziness, unbridled lust, and flagrant disloyalty...

  • Falling in Love

    Shirl Henke
    in

    Five short stories follow themes of hidden secrets and revealing love and include the works of popular romance authors Jennifer Blake, Madeline Baker, Georgina Gentry, Shirl Henke, and Patricia Rice. ********** e-book edition A Novella Denve...

  • Grim City

    Joe L. Hensley

    Grimsley City, Kentucky, hasn't been particularly welcoming to Jim Carlos Singer. His father was killed in an as-yet-unsolved hit-and-run, his own practice hasn't gotten off the ground, and he's been the target of a series of anonymous threatening le...

  • Dark Prince

    Keith Herber

    The vampire Sullivan prowls the streets of San Francisco looking for human blood, but when competing clans entangle him in their schemes, he is accused of vampire cannibalism and discovers how quickly the hunter can become the hunted. Original....

  • The Choice

    Donna Hill
    in

    Jewel Avery embraced the sweet, sensual love of Taj Burrell as a gift to be cherished -- despite the fact that he was a "younger man." But her teenaged daughter didn't approve. Now, Jewel feared she could lose one of the two most important people in ...

  • The Leafless Forest

    Douglas Hill

    In his magical stronghold at the heart of a petrified forest Lebarran Magister gathers the surviving loyal members of the Order of the Apotheosis and plans for his coming triumph over the free peoples.And in the Void, waiting hungrily for Lebarran's ...

  • The Lightless Dome

    Douglas Hill

    In the shadowed swamps far from Prince Phaedran's fabulous city of Quamarr, a sorcerer tests the fabric of the universe. At his command something stirs in the emptiness beyond the stars. It is incalculably evil, immeasurably old. It is summoned by th...

  • Seduced

    Metsy Hingle

    WANTED: WIFE AND MOTHER Michael Grayson needed a wife. He had custody of his orphaned niece, but her rich, ruthless grandmother wanted the girl, and Michael was afraid he'd lose the child. Still, he wouldn't have to worry -- if sensuous, b...

  • Win, Lose or Die

    Diane Hoh

    For new recruit Nicki, college tennis becomes a match to the death A scholarship to college is what every high school student dreams about. But for military brat Nicki Bledsoe, who’s changed schools eight times over twelve years, a tennis schola...

  • Mrs. Malory: Detective in Residence

    Hazel Holt

    MURDER 101 When Mrs. Sheila Malory leaves her cat and English village to teach a literature course at a small American college, she finds herself right at home. There she meets Professor Carl Loring and his curator brother, Max, who, between them,...

  • In Wintertime

    Kim Howard

  • Loving Evangeline

    Linda Howard

    UNDER SUSPICION Robert Cannon: Somebody was out to destroy his life's work--and that somebody was going to pay .... Evangeline Shaw: She seemed the very picture of small-town innocence--but he knew better .... There was no doubt that the wom...

  • Redvers Come Home

    Roscoe Howells