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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 1991

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New Books List: 429 titles

  • Hard Rock

    Nicholas Adams

    Cathy is heartbroken when her boyfriend Larry dumps her for another girl and kicks her out of his rock band, and when band members begin to die off, people begin to wonder how far Cathy will go for revenge. Reprint....

  • Immaculate Deception

    Warren Adler

    IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL, EVERYONE PLAYS TO WIN....ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GAME IS MURDER! Congresswoman Frances "Frankie" McGuire was deadset against abortion and let everyone know it ... Until they found her dead in her luxury Beltway apartment. The ...

  • Sabrina

    Martha G. Alexander

  • UFOs and Aliens

    William R. Alschuler

  • Waiting for Orders

    Eric Ambler

    Waiting for Orders collects nine short stories that span the sixty-year career of master spy novelist Eric Ambler. The stories include thrilling portrayals of wartime Europe in “The Army of the Shadows” (1939); six cases featuring a refugee Czech...

  • Comanche Moon

    Catherine Anderson

    They called him Hunter, the fierce Comanche warrior chosen by his people to journey across the western wilderness in search of the elusive maiden who would fulfill their sacred prophecy: For the sake of the Comanche, find the honey-haired woman; ...

  • Snow Kill

    Keith William Andrews

  • One Good Turn

    Judith Arnold

    SHE'D SAVED HIS LIFE One summer in Washington, a wide-eyed optimist named Jenny Perrin had shown Luke Benning how easy it was to believe in yourself, how good it felt to pursue your dreams, how perfect love could be. Luke never knew why she'd d...

  • Act of Passion

    Harrison Arnston

    Her husband and his mistress are murdered in their bed, and everyone suspects Ann Cohen, leaving her attorney and friend Bill Connally with the fight of his life on his hands defending Ann, in a courtroom drama of smoldering passions...

  • Listen to Your Heart

    Katherine Arthur
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    Jamie Exeter felt happy running her St. Louis flower shop--until the man of her dreams appeared in the flesh. Zack Durham was used to world travel and worldly women. Yet he very skillfully edged his way into Jamie's heart for what, her heart told her...

  • To Tame a Cowboy

    Katherine Arthur

    She'd heard about ruthless tycoons Clay Cooper, however, just wasn't that type. Working as an accountant for the millionaire cattle rancher, Jennifer Tarkinton found him a warm and attractive man. Strong, vibrant and with unlimited rese...

  • Asimov Chronicles

    Isaac Asimov

    Fifty years after his first professional sale, Isaac Asimov is still writing, prolifically, and turning out high-quality work. In commemoration, Greenberg has brought together one story from each of those 50 years, beginning with that very first sale...

  • Julie's Outrageous Idea

    Carrie Austen

  • An Awfully Big Adventure

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Fifteen-year-old Stella is hired as an assistant stage manager for a theater repertory company's Christmas production of "Peter Pan," and although the director envisions a lighthearted play, Stella brings about an entirely different result...

  • Little Red Riding Hood

    Rita Balducci

    The big, bad wolf laughs out loud for readers to hear as poor Little Red Riding Hood cries, ""Let me out!"" from behind the locked closet door, along with many other sound effects accompanying this full-color storybook....

  • A Certain Magic

    Mary Balogh

    A Friend In Need Lovely young widow Alice Penhallow and handsome Piers Westhaven, the future Lord Berringer, were ideal friends. Piers provided Alice with a charming companion. Alice offered Piers understanding and advice he sought a suitable wif...

  • The Farthest-Away Mountain

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Setting out on a journey to reach the beautiful mountain she can see from her window, Dakin must escape from the clutches of a great black flying monster, outwit a giant ogre, and confront the evil Snow Witch. Reprint....

  • Wishes on the Wind

    Elaine Barbieri

    TWO HEARTS FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS, DESTINED FOR EVERLASTING LOVE... A tragic mining accident devastated the O'Connors, the proud Irish immigrants who worked in the Pennsylvania coal mines owned by the rich Lang family. Now one determined young w...

  • Punisher: Intruder

    Mike Baron

  • The Middle Kingdom

    Andrea Barrett

    Barrett's two previous novels won her comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. The Middle Kingdom--now available in trade paper--is the story of a dutiful wife in an unhappy marriage who accompanies her husband on a business trip to China. But once...

  • Valentine's Day Ball

    Donna Bell

    A ROMANTIC TRADITION Tradition held that at eighteen years of age, all the Heartland ladies met the man they would marry at the Valentine's Day Ball. So it was that Miss Jane Lindsay was on the shelf at the advanced age of twenty-four -- for w...

  • Suzi Sinzinnati

    Joe Bellamy

    With highly effective deadpan humor, Bellamy's first novel relates the strenuous tussle between 18-year-old Moke Galenaille's libidinously romantic yearnings and his academic commitment as a pre-med student at Duke. In the summer of 1960, Moke return...

  • Flying Dinosaurs: Pterodactyls

    Michael Berenstain

  • Silken Dreams

    Lisa Bingham

    HE WAS A WANTED MAN. SHE WAS A WOMAN WHO KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED... He was her Highwayman, a lusty, sensuous stranger existing only in Lettie Grey's mind: a man whose mere gaze unleashed her most wanton passions, whose velvet touch left her aching...

  • Deception

    David Bischoff

  • Downright Dangerous

    Natalie Bishop

    Seeing hardened, jaded Jake Danziger again sent chills down Hope's spine, but her blood still ran hot for the man she'd so innocently given herself to years ago. She was older now, and wiser, thank heaven. Surely this time she'd be woman ...

  • Little Grover Takes a Walk

    Tom Brannon

  • Tenbow

    Matt Braun

    At the foot of the Wind River Mountains and just east of the continental divide was Tenbow Valley, eighty miles of rich, watered graze on the way to Oregon territory. From Cheyenne, Jack Stillman has come to Tenbow to solve a string of murders. Each ...

  • Richard Brautigan

    Richard Brautigan

    This cult classic from the author of Trout Fishing in America “reads like a spaghetti Western crossed with Frankenstein, viewed through an opium haze” (The Sunday Times).   The celebrated poet, novelist, and guru of the 1960s San Francisco l...

  • Twice Blessed

    Leigh Bristol

    The muscular arm that gripped Tori and carried her from Don Diegos's hacienda belonged to an undeniably dangerous man. Strong, tall, looking every inch the Texas Ranger he once was, Ethan Cantrell had been sent by Tori's father to retrieve his spitfi...

  • The Marquis of Carabas

    Elizabeth Brodnax

    Helping her card-sharp father, the phony Marquis of Carabas, in his hoax, Catherine "Cat" Brown poses as the Marquesa of Carabas, finding London society at her feet, except for the suspicious Alex Carrock, in a Regency retelling of "Puss-in-Boots"...

  • A Cast of Smiles

    Amanda Brookfield

  • Children's Crusade

    Rebecca Brown

    The narrator relates her childhood memories of parental and sibling relations, with all of their bewildering boundaries and limits, and finds herself drawn into a bizarre custody battle which separates her from her brother...

  • Turtle Knows Your Name

    Ashley Bryan

    Celebrate black identity and heritage in this funny, rhyming picture book from Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan.A young village boy living in the Caribbean has one problem—his name is so long that not one person can remember it. But...

  • Tropical Storm

    Patt Bucheister

    A Hurricane in Tight Jeans... Wyatt Brodie had come to Biloxi to bring Cass Mason back to Key West -- and he wasn't taking no for an answer! Her desperately ill mother was asking for her, but was Cass ready to face Delta, the woman who'd given her t...

  • Ivory Joe

    Martyn Burke

    Originally published by Bantam Books and hailed by critics, this love story, set in 1950s New York, Havana, and the deep south, begins with a divorce. In the eyes of Christie, their young daughter, Leo, and Tina Klein, mismatched and volatile, belong...

  • Oklahoma Man

    Delayne Camp

    Cowboys weren't easy to love Veterinarian Killian Whittier was trained to deal with animal ills--not cowboys' egos. Investigating alleged animal cruelty on the set of a Western movie brought her head-to-head with Gus Breedlove and his stubborn pri...

  • Future on Fire

    Orson Scott Card

    "New writers bring vision. The writers of the eighties changed us all, quite often against our will." --FROM ORSON SCOTT CARD'S INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE ON FIRE 'Future on Fire is the first volume in a series that will collect representative stori...

  • The Baby Contract

    Suzanne Carey

    LOVE CHILD Why had Molly Fitzwilliam Dunlap ever agreed to act as surrogate mother for Raoul de Montfort's heir? She'd loved the handsome, honorable Parisian all her life, and she knew giving up their child would break her heart. Still, Molly coul...

  • Hide and Seek

    William M. Carney

    HIDE IN DARKNESS Joey and Megan Brennan looked like two normal kids. But they each had phenomenally high I.Q.s that put them way ahead of other kids at school. It never occurred to them to wonder why they were the way they were. Until the day t...

  • LGB We like Kindergarten

    Clara Cassidy

  • The Ghost Ferry

    Emily Cates

  • Secret Lives

    Diane Chamberlain

    SHE CAME LOOKING FOR THE TRUTH... WHAT SHE FOUND CHANGED HER FOREVER Eden Riley barely knew her mother, a famous children's author who died when she was very young. Now Eden, an actress disillusioned with the glamour of Hollywood, has returned to...

  • Choose Your Enemies Carefully

    Robert N. Charrette

    WHEN MAGIC RETURNS TO THE EARTH its power calls Sam Verner. As Sam searches for his sister through the slick and scary streets of 2050, his quest leads him across the ocean to England, where druids rule the streets...and the throne. But all is not w...

  • Danny's Girl

    Sandra Chastain

    The Town's Bad Boy -- All Grown-Up... The note said, "Meet meat our place at midnight," just as it had all those years ago, but Katherine Sinclair resisted the seductive claim Danny Dark's words had laid to her heart when she was ...

  • Belinda Goes to Bath

    Marion Chesney

    The delightful Miss Hannah Pym returns to the English countryside in search of adventure and romance in distress. With her infallible wisdom and charming demeanor she can steer even the most misguided of hearts back on course! No sooner does Mi...

  • Moonlight Charade

    Judy Christenberry

    A HEART UNMASKED BY LOVE It was a daring, desperate gamble -- hiring a perfect stranger to impersonate her long-lost cousin. But the headstrong young beauty Katherine St. Cloud had no choice. Unless she located a male heir -- immediately -- her ...

  • City Girl, Country Girl

    Amanda Clark (1)

    Somehow, all the rules had changed Hannah Chase, an ambitious reporter and confirmed "city girl," didn't expect to enjoy her enforced vacation in Harrison Falls, New York. She just wasn't interested in small country towns. And she ...

  • The Darkened Room

    Anna Clarke

    Found innocent of her husband's murder because of insufficient evidence and desperate to escape the notoriety, Mary Wentworth moves into a London boardinghouse, where she meets the inquisitive Malcolm...

  • Missouri Flame

    Gwen Cleary

    SHE WAS HIS FEVER Missouri-bound Bevin O'Dea had never even met the farmer she was journeying to wed, but she believed a marriage based on practicality rather than passion would suit her fine...until she encountered the smoldering charisma of th...

  • Four Month Friend

    Susan Clymer

  • Angel in Marble

    Elaine Coffman

    A FALLEN WOMAN Tibbie Buchanan was a heavenly beauty, yet some still whispered about her sins. Her glorious honey-colored hair wouldn't stay hidden under her bonnet. Her drab dresses couldn't hide her alluring curves. Once she'd loved a ...

  • The Traveler

    Don Coldsmith

    In childhood his name was Woodpecker. Now he is the Storyteller, weaving long-ago tales and trading as he traverses the lands of the People. Married to the beautiful Plum Leaf, the Storyteller sets out on the great adventure that will be his own life...

  • Babette Cole's Beastly Birthday Book

    Babette Cole

  • Jamais Vu Papers, the

    Wim Coleman; Pat Perrin

  • Home to Stay

    Marion Smith Collins

    A WEARY HEART'S HAVEN Liz Ennis, a gifted photographer, had become skittish toward love -- a cheating fiance had seen to that. After a devastating break-up and a year of traveling, Liz returned home, determined to start anew...minus any plans ...

  • Dick Tracy Goes to War

    Max Allan Collins

  • The Irishman's Horse

    Michael Collins

    One-armed detective Dan Fortune finds a new mystery when he is hired to investigate the disappearance of a U.S. Embassy attache in Guatemala, leading to untold dangers as he encounters an international drug smuggler known as "The Irishman"...

  • Amoralists

    Cyrus Colter

    A collection of 18 short stories focusing on the lives of black people in Chicago during the 1960s. With one exception, the stories examine the experience of America's blacks and centres on life in the slums and of lives spent making ends meet betwee...

  • Freshman Loves

    Linda A. Cooney

    Melissa, Winnie's roommate, is in love with Brooks. She's never been happier--until romance threatens the track scholarship she needs to stay in college. Will Melissa give up Brooks to stay on course? It's KC's second to join the elite Tri Beta so...

  • Secret Song

    Catherine Coulter

    You met Roland de Tournay in Earth Song - a handsome rogue with a subtle wit and quick tongue who was variously an actor, and adventurer, a master of disguise. Now in Secret Song he meets his destiny when he must rescue from a Welsh stronghold Dar...

  • Starbridge

    A.C. Crispin

    The crew of the Desiree was unprepared. The Simiu were unexpected...Earth's first contact with an alien race turns to disaster when a friendly encounter erupts into inexplicable violence and the threat of interstellar war. But two ordinary individ...

  • Scarlet Lady

    Monette Cummings

    The stage was set for love... Lord Donald Hawes thought actresses were famed for their scandalous reputations. How surprised he was, then, when the lovely Teresa spurned his advances. Intrigued, Lord Hawes vowed to pursue her. But suddenly the ...

  • Winter Scream

    Chris Curry

    THE GATEWAY IS OPEN. NOW COMES A TORMENT OF FLESH AND SOUL THE WORLD HAS NEVER KNOWN... Toffetville is a tidy little town in the San Bernadino Mountains of Southern California. The ancient Yuhaviatam clan is gone, their tales forgotten. Except at ...

  • An Infamous Sea Bath

    Emily Dalton

    SHE was determined to rescue him at any cost! Miss Georgiana Lacy cared not a whit for the avaricious manoeuvrings of her socially-conscious mother. To discover that she had unwittingly sprung her mother's trap put her sadly out of curl. Th...

  • Hot Prospect

    Kayla Daniels

    Reporter, my eye! Sneaky Ben Halliday had weasled his way into Sierra Sloane's cozy tent, claiming he was covering modern-day gold prospectors. The sexy schemer didn't even have a pencil! Sierra had panned enough fool's gold to spot a phony! Obviousl...

  • No Blood Spilled

    Les Daniels

    A coffin drifts on the Bay of Bengal...Within lies Sebastian Newcastle, rapt in the dreamless sleep of the Undead. His flight from England, spurred by the agonizing memories of his ruined love, Felicia Lamb, ends in the heart of India's darkest cult...

  • L.A. Heat

    Rebecca Daniels

    NOWHERE TO RUN Police detective Steven Savage knew the woman was trouble the moment he spotted her on the L.A.-bound plane. Beautiful, elegant California heiress Amanda Wainwright was a real class act--an irresistible risk a tough cop from the str...

  • Desert Interlude

    Mons Daveson

    "Don't be misled by handsome Arab princes." That was her employer's advice when Leonie left for a job in Egypt. Not that she needed it -- she was a modern career girl, not a silly fool dreaming of romance in the desert. Still, s...

  • Black Sheep, White Lamb

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

    After a robbery goes wrong, a teenager finds he has a knack for murder in Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis'' riveting psychological thriller that illuminates the dark corners of a killer''s mind.

    The hamlet of Hillside ...

  • Garfield at the Gym

    Jim Davis

  • Hunter's Way

    Justine Davis

    A FATHER'S SEARCH Josh Kincaid Profile: Hard-edged business tycoon One point of vulnerability: Jason, his missing son Josh Kincaid would do anything to get Jason back, even work with unorthodox investigator Hunter Garrett. He'd spent a lifetim...

  • Silver Pigs

    Lindsey Davis

    One fine day, A.D. 70, comely blonde Sosia Camillina quite literally runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the lam from a couple of street toughs, and after a quick and dirty rescue, P .I. Falco wants to know w...

  • Devil's Moon

    Suzannah Davis

    Disguised as a Japanese native, Miri approached the ruggedly handsome English sea captain, the infamous Tony Benedict. Passage on his ship was her only hope of rescuing her young sister from a forced marriage to her father's murderer. Terrified of di...

  • The Harp of the Grey Rose

    Charles de Lint

    Throughout the Celtic lands they would call him… SONGWEAVER! But for now he was merely Cerin of Wran Cheaping -- an orphaned youth of seventeen years raised by a wildland witch. Then, in the light of the Mead Moon, he encountered the maid of th...

  • The Little Country

    Charles de Lint

    Come walk the mist-draped hills of Cornwall, come walk among ancient standing stones. Listen to the fiddles, and the wind, and the sea. Come step with Janey Little into the pages of... The Little Country....

  • Rebels

    Peter De Rosa

    "A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff."--The Sunday Press (Ireland)On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and...

  • Daughter of the Sunset Isles

    Dinah Dean

    Gytha is the daughter of ill-fated Harold Godwinsson, elected King of England only to suffer defeat and death at the hands of William the Conqueror. Her youngest brother Ulf is taken to France; her mother Edith becomes ill and mute with grief. Gytha ...

  • Calamity Kate

    Terry Deary

  • Custard Kid

    Terry Deary

  • Red Limit Freeway

    John DeChancie

    Space trucker Jake McGraw hits the road on a perilous race through the universe as the Skyway story continues. Jake McGraw is a man on the run from half the universe. After stumbling upon what seems to be the fabled roadmap to the stars, Jake must ou...

  • Teddy Bear Towers

    Bruce Degen

  • The Last Gambit

    David Delman

  • I Never Win!

    Judy Delton

    Charlie comes in second in the school sack race, strikes out in Little League games, and always lands on Boardwalk when someone else owns it, until things finally go his way and even Charlie can't believe it...

  • My First Passover

    Tomie DePaola

    Passover is a time for families and friends to celebrate their faith and shared history. Tomie dePaola’s simple text and beautiful illustrations provide insight into this special holiday for young readers....

  • The Conquest

    Jude Deveraux

    Lovely 17-year-old Zared Peregrine is the pride of her family, a treasure her rough-hewn brothers, Rogan and Severn, will strive at any cost to protect from their ancient enemies, the Howards. The Peregrines have suffered loss enough in this blood fe...

  • The Seventh Raven

    Peter Dickinson

    "A Phoenix Award winner from the Children''s Literature Association.This steady, sober hostage story is not quite a thriller . . . but anyone . . . can be engaged by the argument and enveloped in Dickinson''s carefully textured citadel.""- Ki...

  • Muffin Mouse's New House

    Lawrence Difiori

  • Rock 'n' Revenge

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Fate of Princes

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    A bloody war. An infamous king. A legendary story. Paul Doherty explores the mystery of the Princes in the Tower in his unforgettable novel, The Fate of the Princes. Perfect for fans of C.J Sansom and Susanna Gregory. In this gripping novel, master h...

  • The Substitute Bridegroom

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    A Marriage of Necessity Elizabeth Goldsborough was the happiest of young ladies. Not only was she the Incomparable of the London season, she was to wed the most handsome gentleman of the ton, the dashing Simon Bellgrave. Then, shockingly, all w...

  • No Place Too Far

    Robyn Donald

    Kathy had been warned "The man's light years ahead of you in sophistication, and a hell of a lot tougher than you'll ever be." That might have been the case when Kathy Townsend was an unworldly girl of eighteen, on her own in Au...

  • Blood on the Bayou

    D.J. Donaldson

    HOT NIGHTS... COLD-BLOODED MURDER Death has many forms and New Orleans Chief Medical Examiner Andy Broussard has likely seen them all. But the body of a young stripper -- with its puncture marks and ghastly bites -- is different. His sense of forebod...

  • The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    Angus Thermopyle was an ore pirate and a murderer; even the most disreputable asteroid pilots of Delta Sector stayed out of his way. Those who didn't ended up in the lockup--or dead. But when Thermopyle arrived at Mallorys Bar & Sleep with a gorgeous...

  • Banned in Boston

    Gail Douglas

    The Long, Tall Texan... Rugged and powerful Matt Harper looked like the last man to need a bodyguard, no matter what his mother said! After a series of threatening letters, the Houston matriarch overruled her son and hired a security consultant --...

  • Cleaver of the Good Luck Diner

    James Duffy

  • A Robot Named Chip

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • Goblin Moon

    Teresa Edgerton

    Strange things happen under the Goblin Moon ... Tidewaters rise, earthquakes rumble, and hobgoblins crawl out from their dens. A coffin drifts silently down the river Lunn--in it, a spellbound sorcerer and his forbidden books of magic. A mas...

  • The Justice of Company Z

    J.T. Edson

    When it looks as though the brutal killer of Eloise Charmain might buy his way out of paying for his crime, using a crooked lawyer, a faked alibi, bribery, and murder, the justice riders of Company Z embark on a trail of vengeance...

  • Touch the Wild Wind

    Cassie Edwards

    THE BACK OF BEYOND Alone and penniless, beautiful Sasha Seymour had thrown in her lot with a rough bunch, and she was bound for an even rougher destination --- the Australian Outback, where she and her jackaroos hoped to carve a sheep station from t...

  • Contraband Desire

    Lucy Elliot

    Healing the Wounds of War The Civil War was drawing to its bitter close, and runaway slaves were streaming across the Union lines by the thousands, fleeing the ravaged plantations of the South. Elizabeth Whitley, a courageous abolitionist dedicated ...

  • American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology

    Emory Elliott

    Emory Elliott, one of our outstanding American Literature scholars and critics and his co-editors have assembled an extraordinarily rich, diverse, and iconoclastic anthology. It constitutes a virtual revision of American literary history. -Joyce Caro...

  • Art in the Blood

    P.N. Elrod

    CRITIC BY NIGHT I'm a vampire, not an artist, but I know what I like. And I don't like murder. So when the career of a talented young artist is fatally cut short, I know I won't sleep easy in my coffin until I find the killer. But the world ...

  • Nora Ephron Collected

    Nora Ephron

  • The Northern Light

    Lynn Erickson

    Captain Craig Saybolt was a dangerous man He'd spent a year in jail for a crime he didn't commit. But someone had run his Alaskan oil tanker aground. Now heaven help that someone when Craig caught up to him. Marie Vicenza was in it for ...

  • Longarm in the Mexican Badlands

    Tabor Evans

  • Suicide Squeeze

    David Everson

    Robert Miles's baseball career is barely a footnote in the annals of America's pastime, but as an Illinois P.I., he's a heavy hitter. That's why he finds himself in the starting line-up of a baseball fantasy camp "dream" game at Wrigley Field. Blackb...

  • Suicide Squeeze

    David H. Everson

    A hit-and-run charge, a legislator's missing daughter, and death threats against a banned Chicago Cubs pitcher are somehow connected, and political operative and private investigator Bobby Miles must find out how before events escalate into murder...

  • Echoes of Summer

    Barbara Faith

    Eden Adair was missing a vital piece of her past, and only one man could help her retrieve it: Linc McAllister, the doctor whose sure, steady hands had delivered her baby sixteen years ago...then delivered the infant into adoption and consoled Eden i...

  • Remember the Night

    Sally Falcon

    BUSINESS AND PLEASURE At the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Joanna Trent decided she was tired of being a practical, levelheaded bore. It was time to shake up her life, throw caution to the wind, and indulge herself in an impetuous vacation romance ...

  • The Case of the Haunted Health Club

    Carol Farley

    When Flee Jay and her younger sister, Clarice, stop by the new Fit and Trim Health Club to find out about the grand opening, they discover the body of a murder victim in a building that has obviously been closed up for ten years...

  • Love's Sweet Bounty

    Colleen Faulkner

    RECKLESS FURY Jessica Landon was on a train bound for the Washington territory when masked bandits stole her carpetbag containing all the money she had in the world. Left with nothing but her fury, she set out after the thieves herself, without c...

  • A Girl's Best Friend

    Marie Ferrarella

    Down-on-her-luck Mikki Donovan prayed that diamonds were indeed a girl's best friend: a letter postmarked fifty years ago had landed in her mailbox, with clues leading to a fortune in the sparkling gems! Mikki raced to Texas, but the first thing ...

  • The Moscow Club

    Joseph Finder

    Did Lenin, on his deathbed, write a testament denouncing the newly founded Soviet Union as a police state? Did an ultra-secret American organization aid Beria in a failed coup following the death of Stalin? How do these two seemingly unrelated incide...

  • Fires of Midnight

    Karen Finnigan

    SHE WAS A PROUD IRISH BEAUTY ... torn from her beloved homeland, spirited away to England, and forced to take part in a treacherous conspiracy against her country's legendary hero. HE WAS AN INFAMOUS IRISH REBEL ... driven by bold dreams of veng...

  • Most Ancient Song

    Casey Flynn

    From the far mists of time, out of emerald legends come... The Gods of Ireland The peaceful Nemedians have crossed vast seas in search of a new home. At long last they discover a lovely green isle and decide to settle in its single beautiful val...

  • Union Forever

    William R. Forstchen

    SPLIT IN THE RANKS ON A CRACKED-MIRROR WORLD Colonel Andrew Keane and his blue-coated soldiers were not the first humans time-space-warped to a world so familiar yet so foreign. Humans abounded on the perverse planet--humans treated like cattle by...

  • Lady's Maid

    Margaret Forster

    “Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.” -- Booklist Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awa...

  • It Changed My Life

    Betty Friedan

  • Monster Boy

    Mel Gilden

    MONSTER BOYA SUPER TRIP!The fifth grade class trip to the Museum of Strange Sciences and Inventions sounded super to Danny Keegan and his monster pals. But when class bully Stevie Brickwald starts touching the museum displays, things get very weird!D...

  • Sugar and Spice

    William Gill

  • Slaughterday

    George G. Gilman

  • Moonwise

    Greer Ilene Gilman

    FOREVER LOST IN THE SEDUCTIVE MADNESS OF A WORLD OUT OF TIME. Ariane and Sylvie had spent endless hours spinning fantastical worlds out of the depths of their shared imagination. But when Ariane returned for a long overdue visit, she found herself...

  • Father Melancholy's Daughter

    Gail Godwin

    A touching and exhilarating tale of a father and daughter wounded by betrayal, who build a new life together out of hope and dreams and love....

  • The Night Remembers

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Ed Gorman wrote this 1991 gem as a tribute to Bill Pronzini's Nameless series. Now Pronzini provides a foreword to this much-deserved reprint of a classic modern noir about past crimes and their punishment....

  • Too Many Questions

    Lesley Grant-Adamson

    "YOU'VE HAD YOUR WARNING, FLYNN. NOW I'M GOING TO KILL YOU." Private investigator Laura Flynn is not sure who her nasty caller is. Possibly the same person whose anonymous threats have already sent her client, beautiful fashion designer Kate Mulle...

  • The Tides of Treachery

    John Grant

  • Mutants Amok

    Mark Grant

  • Mutant Hell

    Mark Grant

    From back cover: They were created to serve, now they're dedicated to destruction! A FUTURE GONE MAD They had been bred as the perfect killing machines. Mutant warriors-vicious, fearless... and unstoppable. Genetically designed soldiers created to...

  • The Touch of Love

    Vanessa Grant

    Keep your imagination where it belongs That's what Melody Connacher told herself. It was okay to go a little crazy when writing songs, hidden away on her beautiful island--but to reach out her arms and whisper his name, that was madness. Sc...

  • The Luck of Troy

    Roger Lancelyn Green

    Based on the legend of the fall of Troy, this story begins as the siege is drawing to a close. Carried off by Paris with his mother, Helen, when he was two, Nictostratus has divided loyalties. Only when he discovers that Paris is planning to betray A...

  • Night Light

    Jennifer Greene

    ON A DARK AND WINDY NIGHT... Storm-tossed Bree Reynaud knocked on the door of a spooky mansion, never expecting to be greeted by an attractive man and his wise-beyond-her-years daughter. Simon Courtland was cranky, but when he offered the exhauste...

  • White Is the Moon

    Valerie Greenley

  • The Victim

    W.E.B. Griffin

    A brutal Mafia slaying rocks the city of Philadelphia when the only living witness is revealed - a wealthy debutante involved with the targeted mobster. One of the suspects is a cop, Matt Payne, unwittingly takes on the ultimate battle between organi...

  • The Firm

    John Grisham

    AT THE TOP OF HIS CLASS AT HARVARD LAW; HE HAD HIS CHOICE OF THE BEST IN AMERICA. HE MADE A DEAD MISTAKE. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The fir...

  • Donna O'Neeshuck Was Chased by Some Cows

    Bill Grossman

  • Autobiography of my Body

    David Guy

    As he embarks on a relationship with a sexually insatiable woman, Charles Bradford plumbs the depths of sexual desire and fantasy, entering an erotic, complex, dangerous, and destructive world. Reprint....

  • Jester in the Backcourt

    Tommy Hallowell

  • Ghost-Walker

    Barbara Hambly

    Elcidar Beta Three--a tranquil, undisturbed planet strategically located between the Federation and the Kiingon Empire. Home to the Midgwins, a race of people who throughout all time have lived in peace with their planet, and themselves. But now, tim...

  • An Inconvenient Marriage

    Diana Hamilton

    Could she sacrifice her happiness? Marriage to a man she hardly knew -- what an appalling prospect! Yet Christa realized she had no choice. Ross Donahue would not negotiate. "I am not particularly interested in owning Liddiat Hall," he ...

  • The Gilded Dove

    Peggy Hanchar

    Kansas McKay could feel Cole Slater's desire stirring her own buried passions. But she couldn't forget the heartbreak and humiliation of running from the town and the man who'd always see her as a whore's daughter. Here in Virginia City, where sh...

  • Dooley Mackenzie is Totally Weird

    Janice Harrell

    Andie faces the trials of teen life when the boy she is dating sends a Christmas card to her parents signed "your future son-in-law," and one of her new friends, Dooley Mackenzie, is getting into trouble so his father will notice him...

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    Thomas Harris

    Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by her boss, Section Chief Jack Crawford, the FBI's most successful tracker of serial killers, to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter'...

  • Threnody for Two

    Jeanne Hart

  • Heartshot

    Steven F. Havill

    Posadas County, New Mexico, hugging the San Cristobal mountains separating it from Mexico, has very few mean streets. No city-slick cop shop either, but an earnest, elected Sheriff and his aging Undersheriff, William C. Gastner. Pushing sixty, and th...

  • Julian's House

    Judith Hawkes

  • The Journey of Pietari and His Wolf

    Kaarina Helakisa

  • Lydia

    Lois T. Henderson

    A fictional account of the first Christian businesswoman recounts, against the backdrop of first-century Macedonia, her conversion to Christianity through Paul's preaching and her life in a pagan business community of men...

  • Penelope's Pendant

    Douglas Hill

  • Evan's Corner

    Elizabeth Starr Hill

  • Hearts in Hiding

    Anne Hillary

    A LOGICAL MATCH How had be gotten himself in such a damnable mess! How had a few careless words led to such a colossal misunderstanding? Now his entire family believed him to be married--and Simon was not about to enlighten them, not with his pride ...

  • Nightlife

    Brian Hodge

    THE JUNGLE HAS ITS OWN TRUTH: LYRIC, VIOLENT, EROTIC, PRIMEVAL To the warrior-priests of the Venezuelan forest people, the drug is a sacred substance: part pain, part pleasure. Skullflush is psychic whiplash, an exhilarating gateway to an advanced...

  • Mutant Garbage

    Ann Hodgman

  • Crime of Passion

    Kay Hooper

    LOST AND FOUND Lane Montana is a finder of lost objects--misplaced jewelry, missing heirlooms ... even people, occasionally. But when a summons on her answering machine sends Lane to the home of wealthy Jeffrey Townsend, the able locater finds som...

  • What Eric Knew

    James Howe

    Who pushed Eric down the stairs? Right before he moved away, Sebastian Barth's friend Eric had an unfortunate accident. Now he's sending Sebastian mysterious notes hinting it wasn't an accident at all. Was it the ghost in the cemetery? Was Eric's acc...

  • Foster Love

    Janis Reams Hudson

    DESPERATE LOVE It was supposed to be a brief undercover assignment in Central America. Agent Morgan Foster kissed his children good-bye, promising to return in six months. But the operation backfired, and Morgan spent the next four years of his li...

  • Sammi's Heart

    Janis Reams Hudson

    LUCKY BREAK Samantha Carmichael's knack for solving production problems prompted the president of Elliot Air to promote her from the assembly line to a newly-created executive position--at triple her salary. Sammi couldn't believe her good luck .....

  • Gumboot's Chocolatey Day

    Mick Inkpen

    One day, Gumboot is given a large bar of chocolate. He puts it in the basket of his bicycle and rides off to the park. Happily munching on the chocolate, he stops to watch the ducks as they feed and play. Gumboot decides he will give the ducks some f...

  • The Long Farewell

    Michael Innes

    The head of Scotland Yard probes the suspicious death of a Shakespearean scholar with a collection of secrets in this classic British mystery. Lewis Packford, an Elizabethan scholar, is found shot in his library. It was rumored Packford recently acqu...

  • Mystery Man

    Lisa Jackson

    Chelsea Reed needed the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so for thirteen months she'd been desperately seeking the elusive Devlin McVey. Finally her search led her to a lush Caribbean island -- and a brusque, bearded stranger. My...

  • The Cat Who Smelled Like Cabbage

    Neta Jackson

    Although Siamese Cat is prejudiced against Alley Cat because of her ugly appearance and unconventional behavior, Black Cat makes up her own mind and finds Alley Cat to be a gentle and kind friend. Includes a Bible verse and discussion questions....

  • My Friend Whale

    Simon James

  • Mentor

    Kris Jensen

  • The Wind Dancer

    Iris Johansen

    Legend held that whoever possessed it would rule the destinies of nations. Renaissance Italy, where intrigues were as intricate as carved cathedral doors and affairs of state were ruled by affairs of the bedchamber ... where the rustling richness ...

  • The Good Luck Murders

    Brian Johnston

    WELCOME TO WISTFIELD Murder had already shattered the picture-postcard-perfect village of Wistfieki before architectural historian Winston Wyc arrived in the serene town...two senseless, seemingly unrelated crimes. Then, at the height of the town's...

  • Second Time Loving

    Penny Jordan

    Once bitten, twice shy No man would make a fool of Angelica again -- not after the way Giles had treated her. She certainly wasn't interested in the attractive and charming Daniel Forbes. Although Daniel was at least honest enough not to of...

  • The Extraordinary Egg-Hunt Machine

    Amelia Judson

  • Yesterday's Promise

    Dianna June

    FORGOTTEN PROMISES Headstrong and hauntingly lovely, Faith Jenninggs had returned to Texas and the men who awaited her. Ruthless DIEGO MONTEZ, a distant cousin, was determined to take her beloved ranch, no matter what the cost. Respectable MAT...

  • World Spirits

    Aline Boucher Kaplan

  • The Whispering Winds of Blackbriar Bay

    Lee Karr

    Anna McKenzie had promised her dying father that she'd take her young brother away from the rough gold mining camp near Carson City and seek sanctuary with her aunt on the shore of Lake Tahoe. An orphan now, and destitute, Anna was filled with forebo...

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Don't Do Drugs!

    Bobbi Katz

  • Erin and the Movie Star

    Marilyn Kaye

    When a film production company decides to shoot a movie at Camp Sunnyside, Erin sees it as her opportunity to become a star, but her flirtations with the teen heartthrob starring in the film soon have her in over her head....

  • Two's Company, Four's a Crowd

    Marilyn Kaye

  • Traveling Ladies

    Janice Kulyk Keefer

  • Make No Mistake

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy attends the funeral of a local millionaire -- and finds that greed dies hard Carson Drew's client Clayton Glover is dead, but a controversy is just coming to life. The million-dollar question: Who will inherit the businessman's riches? But the...

  • Dangerous Games

    Carolyn Keene

    AMERICA'S HOTTEST TEEN DETECTIVES TEAM UP IN A SPLIT-SECOND RACE WITH TERROR An urgent message draws NANCY DREW and her friends to the International Championship Games in California. It seems a mysterious figure called the Black Knight wants to forc...

  • The Secret at Seven Rocks

    Carolyn Keene

    IN A WORLD OF WILD ANIMALS, NANCY FACES THE MOST DANGEROUS BEAST OF ALL -- MAN. Why would anyone want to destroy a wildlife refuge? On vacation in the Rocky Mountain town of Seven Rocks, Nancy vows to find the answer. Blame has fallen on disgruntl...

  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    Ellen Kelly

    FOR LOVE OF LIBERTY It was a fierce battle, but naturalist Liberty Bishop was determined to stand her ground. All she wanted was one small parcel of land among the thousands of acres of timberland owned by her neighbor. If she could turn the land ...

  • The Art of Ken Kelly

    Ken Kelly

  • Honor at Daybreak

    Elmer Kelton

    From one of the West's greatest living storytellers, winner of numerous awards, including the Spur, the Golden Saddleman, and the Western Heritage Award, here is Elmer Kelton's magnificent new novel of the wildcat West Texas oil boom of t...

  • The Worst Team Ever

    Leonard Kessler

  • Hidden Fires

    Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

    He had spent a hundred years seeking the woman called Silver; he still didn’t know if he was going to kill her.

    Garth Kristinsson’s parents were free-traders, the aristocracy of con artists, able to fleece the dishonest with their ow...

  • The Willful Widow

    Valerie King

    The lovely young widow, Mrs. Henrietta Harte, was not all inclined to pursue the sort of romantic folly the persistent King Brandish had in mind. She had to concentrate on marrying off her penniless sisters and managing her spendthrift mama. Surely M...

  • Project Valentine

    Geeta Kingsley

    MY VALENTINE So what if Jessica Hansen barely topped five feet and weighed ninety-nine pounds soaking wet? Heart-stoppingly handsome Karl Wagner didn't even have the decency to look twice at her! Nor was he giving poor Arthur--the last, largest do...

  • Send No Regrets

    Risa Kirk

    A break with tray might be in order John-Henry Hennessey had made himself into the perfect president of Hennessey Bank, granting loans to qualified businesses only. Paula Trent was in a race against time to prove she could make her cookie busin...

  • Just Friends

    Norma Klein

    Everyone thinks of Isabel and Stuart as "just friends." So it's no big deal when their pals Ketti, Lois and Andria decide that Smart will be Ketti's next "love" target.

    No one suspects the truth: that Iz has always thought of Stuart as hers, a...

  • The New World Avenue and Vicinity

    Tadeusz Konwicki

    Konwicki careens purposefully from private history (his vices, obsessive Lithuanian reveries, and advancing old age) to a time capsule of cultural history: to portraits of the artists, writers, actors, and film directors who accounted for the explosi...

  • Highland Bride

    Kathryn Kramer

    Their heritage made them enemies. But their desires made them lovers.... Beautiful, emerald-eyed Moira was sworn to another-but she knew once she laid eyes on the devastatingly handsome Captain Ryan Matthew Paxton, that no other man could possess...

  • How Spider Stopped Litterbugs

    Robert Kraus

  • A Saving Grace

    Elizabeth Krueger

    YESTERDAY'S CHILD Family honor and a plea from his dying father sent Jeremy Boulanger on an unwelcome errand of conscience. All he wanted was to offer his help to a young woman whose childhood had been taken from her. But the more he saw of the be...

  • All Kinds of Trucks

    Edith Kunhardt

  • By the Sword

    Mercedes Lackey

    BY SWORD, SORCERY, AND HONOR BOUND -- Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Yet now at last her brother wag preparing to wed, and when ...

  • Midnight Fire

    Linda Ladd

    CARLISLE KINCAID Her sheltered youth bred a proud and reckless spirit--one that would carry her into the heart of a violent foreign land. CHASE LANCASTER A bold adventurer, he swore to protect the unpredictable, convent-raised beauty--driven by ...

  • Texas Iron

    Robert Lake

    Their father dead under mysterious circumstances in Vengeance Creek, Texas, the McCall boys reunite and head south, finding a shady town kingpin in charge of the homestead and a pack of hired guns backing up his claim...

  • Aces of the Mound

    Dick Lally

  • Home Run Kings

    Dick Lally

  • Hit Men

    Dick Lally

  • Record Breakers

    Dick Lally

  • Looks Aren't Everything

    J.D. Landis