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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JANUARY 1991

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New Books List: 669 titles

  • Traveling to Tondo

    Verna Aardema

  • The Forge of Virtue

    Lynn Abbey

    Lord Ironhawk's son, Jordan Hawson; Althea; Drum, the blacksmith; and Jordan's kid brother, Squirt, search for Balthan, Althea's magician brother, the only one to know the truth about the evil infesting the land of Britannia...

  • Intimate Connections

    Joanna Adams

    One man had the power to destroy her career -- and discover her hidden passion....

  • Heartbreaker

    Nicholas Adams

    Dating five pretty girls at the same time, Wayne thinks he is the luckiest guy alive, until the girls being dying off one by one, and Wayne, the only thing they have in common, becomes a prime suspect. Reissue....

  • New Kid on the Block

    Nicholas Adams

    Looking forward to a visit from her pen pal, Amanda, Elizabeth plans to introduce her to everyone at Cresswell High, but the girl who arrives and claims to be Amanda is not at all what Elizabeth expected. Reissue....

  • Bedroom Eyes

    R.S. Adams

  • The Property of a Lady

    Elizabeth Adler

    THE MAGNIFICENT IVANOFF EMERALD It surfaced at Christie's in Geneva, "The Property of a Lady" -- a lady now sought by powerful men intent on seizing a legacy that could tilt the world balance of power... THE TERRIFYING IVANOFF SECRET She lived l...

  • The Legend

    Jerry Ahern

    In the assault on the forces of darkness, can one man survive? The commando raids would be launched simultaneously. Already inside the Soviet Underwater Complex, the US Marines were surfacing, stripping off their environment suits, PV-26 sh...

  • The Shoemaker's Boy

    Joan Aiken

    The Shoemaker's boy works alone in his father's shop, when his father goes off on a long quest to find a way to cure his wife's mysterious illness. At night Jem has some strange and frightening experiences. He has three strange visitors a...

  • Chip Gets a Dog Phonics Reader

    Toni Albert

  • Beth and Baby Jill Phonics Reader

    Toni Albert

  • Rancher's Bride

    Jeanne Allan

    "It's simple -- we'll get married." Clay made it sound so easy, Dallas thought. But marriage to a virtual stranger was a daunting prospect, even if it was the best solution to little Nicky's problems. Clay also made it clear...

  • A Time Without Shadows

    Ted Allbeury

    Did Winston Churchill betray a French Resistance network in order to appease Joseph Stalin? Philip Maclean, an Englishman, loved both France and a lovely young Frenchwoman, Anne-Marie Duchard. After the German invasion he escaped to England, but h...

  • Murder at Midnight

    Mickey Alman

    Fresh from their first successful case, high school sleuths Dan and Alex must face a new challenge from the wealthiest kid at school, Quentin Esterhaus, who boasts that he can commit the perfect crime...

  • The Thorn Bush Blooms

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

    Julia Alvarez

    When their father's part in a plot against a cruel dictator forces them to flee the Dominican Republic, the Garcia sisters--Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia--come to America. But 1960s New York City is vastly different from the genteel, if troubling...

  • Suzy's Secret Snoop Society

    Mary Anderson

  • Inconstant Star

    Poul Anderson

    First you scream, and then you leap.... When humans and kzinti met, the kzinti introduced themselves with a scream-and-leap of joyous anticipation. But--surprise!--the monkey boys and girls of Planet Earth not only fought back but won! How, how coul...

  • Jungles and Rain Forests

    Julia L. Andrews

  • Latchkey Kids

    Carol Anshaw

  • Whisper...He Might Hear You

    William Appel

    After a near fatal knife attack, criminal psychologist Dr. Kate Berman vows to stay out of the most recent case involving a sadistic killer of women--until an old police buddy draws her into the investigation. Reprint....

  • Whisper, He Might Hear You

    William Appel

    Kate Berman, an expert in fathoming the minds of deranged killers, comes out of her early retirement to track a serial murderer who targets women with sexy voices, and who turns his attention to Kate's family...

  • The Palace of the White Skunks

    Reinaldo Arenas

    The second novel in the Pentagonia, this is a phantasmagoric novel of adolescent rebellion and political revolution.

    "A beautiful, heartfelt book by a passionate and epic writer at the height of his powers." --Oscar Hijuelos...

  • Feuds and Fantasies

    Rebecca Ashley

    SHE HAD NOT MATURED TO SEVEN-AND-TWENTY WITHOUT LEARNING THAT ROMANCE WAS A FLEETING THING.... If only she had not developed a tendre for William Haversly -- her fierce enemy since the duel in which he shot her brother. To make matters worse, Fion...

  • Hunting the Wild Pine

    Thea Astley

    At the center of these eight interconnected tales of Australian life is the brooding narrator Leverson, a keen observer of the varied human types flooding into beautiful Queensland, whose every story explores human weakness and strength...

  • Love without Wings

    Louis Auchincloss

    The author of The Vanderbilt Era examines sixteen famous friendships, from Boswell and Johnson to Hawthorne and Melville.This delightful series of short essays explores friendship in its various forms -- from true intimacy to professional detente bet...

  • Ready-Made Family

    Elizabeth August

    ALL IN THE FAMILY Never trust a man were words Emily Hartley chose to live by. And except for occasional bouts with loneliness, she did just fine...until bachelor father Jed Sawyer made her an offer she couldn't refuse. The rugged farmer wante...

  • Allie's Pizza Pool Party

    Carrie Austen

  • Fatal Fortune

    Marian Babson

    EUROPE ON $50 A DAY. MURDER GRATIS. Dingy hotels with pushy concierges were not Hope Bradstone's idea of acceptable accommodations. But then again, running of to Brussels at the drop of a hat was hardly acceptable, either--especially when Hope's...

  • The Lost City of Zork

    Robin Wayne Bailey

  • Frosty the Snowman and the Magic Day

    Rita Balducci

  • The Nutcracker

    Rita Balducci

    A Christmas classic returns to Little Golden Books, with beautiful new artwork by a beloved Golden Books illustrator! The Nutcracker is back in print as a Little Golden Book, with all-new illustrations by Sheilah Beckett, who started illustratin...

  • Kitten Named Cuddles

    Jacqueline A. Ball

  • Sara's Biggest Valentine

    Jacqueline A. Ball

  • The Shadow Gate

    Margaret Ball

    THE ONLY GOOD ELF IS A DEAD ELF Or so the militant order of Durandine monks thought, and they planned on making sure that all the elves in their world were very, very good. The elves of the Three Realms have sent out one last spell to bring help.....

  • Golden Rose

    Mary Balogh
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    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • Never a Bride

    Leanne Banks

    ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID... When Joshua Daniels agreed to be in his friend's wedding, he had no idea he'd be paired off with a blue-eyed, golden-haired beauty. But Cassie Warner was every guy's dream come true: bright, clever, and sweet ecstasy in his ...

  • No Plain Pets!

    Marc Ian Barasch

  • Heat

    Jean Barrett

    JUNGLE LOVE Destiny had taken New Orleans executive Anne Richmond to the lush, untamed upper reaches of the Amazon ...and to Ross McIntyre, the brooding, dangerous American expatriate who was her unwilling guide through his beautiful, treacherous ...

  • The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

    John Barth

    A National Book Award winner offers his most inventive novel to date. Journalist Simon Behler finds himself in the house of Sinbad the Sailor after being washed ashore during a sea-going adventure. Over the course of six evenings, the two take turns ...

  • Merry Tree

    Susan Baum

  • Nicoji

    M. Shayne Bell

    They owed their souls to the Company Store--Not if they could help it, they didn't! When Sam and Jake answered the call of American Nicoji and volunteered for off-planet agricultural jobs they thought they were turning in their dead-end lives on E...

  • Catch of the Season

    Barbara Benedict

    THE CHASE FOR LOVE To compete against twenty other women for a marriage proposal from that devilishly handsome bachelor, the Earl of Fairbright? The very idea was insane! But Andrea Grantham is coerced into entering the silly contest -- and, aft...

  • Something about a Convent

    Jackie Bennet

  • Believe in Me

    Connie Bennett

    She didn't trust anyone Crystal Elliott was the adult child of an alcoholic. As such, the guiding rule of her life was Don't Talk About It. Little wonder she had difficulty forming relationships. But she was almost ready to share everyt...

  • A Logical Lady

    Janice Bennett

    A SINGULAR SENSATION Miss Elizabeth Carstairs, in the ordinary way of things, was a level-headed young lady, not given to flights of romantic foolishness. But when Mr. Frederick Ashfield arrived at Halliford Castle, after two years on the Continent,...

  • Wings of Love

    Elizabeth Connor Bernet

  • Special Circumstances

    Marc Berrenson

    Taking on a seemingly routine murder case, L.A. attorney Ben green grows suspicious when the judge demonstrates an unusual interest in the acquittal of his client, and the assistant D.A. seems intent on botching the state's case...

  • By My Heart Betrayed

    Olga Bicos

    HER BEAUTY WAS THE BAIT... Esmeralda MacClure knew that using her fiery beauty as a weapon was heartless. But her cousin's betrayal had stolen her family estate and now, forced to work as a seamstress, she has no choice if she wants to reclaim her...

  • Trust and Treason

    Margaret Birkhead

    In 1588, the illegitimate son of the Woodfall family, trained by a secret fraternity to protect the Queen, discovers his relatives are behind a plot to assassinate Her Majesty, forcing him to choose where his loyalties truly lie...

  • Spitfire

    Sonya Birmingham

    IMPASSIONED CRUSADER Enraged over the pitiful plight of local miners, feisty flame-haired Carrie O'Leary decides to take action. Gun in hand, she bursts into the offices of the Crested Butte Courier and kidnaps editor Matt Worthington, the handsome ...

  • Rothman Scandal

    Stephen Birmingham

    A powerful family’s media empire is rocked by betrayal and greed in this fast-paced novel from the #1 New York Timesâ€"bestselling author. Alexandra Rothman was a smalltown girl from the Midwest -- until she married into New York City’s most powe...

  • Cheyenne Temptress

    Veronica Blake

    SHE'D CONQUER VICE Disarmingly lovely Jubilee Hart was one determined lady! She'd traveled all the way from the nation's capital to the vice-ridden frontier to speak out for woman's suffrage and to close down the gambling saloons. And the minute...

  • Friendly Fangs

    Hanya Bloom

    While on a school camping trip, Vic and his best friend are trapped in a cave with Clint, the class bully, and Missy Timmons, the class busybody--both of whom are determined to prove that Vic is a vampire...

  • Monsieur Pamplemousse Rests His Case

    Michael Bond

    Ever eager to expand the influence of France's leading gastronomic guidebook beyond her native shores, the Director of Le Guide has been cultivating a useful transatlantic connection in the form of a certain Mrs Van Dorman. Ex-parfumier, presently a ...

  • The Last Brady

    Barbara Boswell

    The Arrogant Tyrant with a Wicked Grin... Jack Blackledge was sexy, tough, and hard to handle - and Colleen Brady knew she'd have her hands full working as assistant to the difficult columnist! She'd come all the way to Buffalo to escape her overp...

  • Charles Darwin

    John Bowlby

  • Mongster

    Randall Boyll

  • Funnelweb

    Russell Braddon

    A hate-filled violin virtuoso enlists the aid of the world's deadliest spider, the Australian funnelweb, to serve his deranged will, and Inspector Cheadle is left trying to untangle mysterious strands of false leads before others die horribly...

  • A Time to Dance

    Melvyn Bragg

    A fifty-four-year-old bank manager, struggling against the confines of his over-controlled world, and an eighteen-year-old woman, seeking to heal wounds from a troubled past, find unlikely love together...

  • Coward of the Clan

    Max Brand

    THEY MADE HIM AN ORPHAN. BUT HE MADE HIMSELF A MAN... The Brett clan had killed his family in a night of brutality and bloodshed that was little more than a blur in Paul Torridon's memory. Then they had adopted him for their own -- the spoils...

  • Red Bandanna // Carcajou's Trail

    Max Brand

  • Fun Weekend

    Franz Brandenberg

    When Adrian and Paula and their parents get in their van to set out for A Fun Weekend, there is so much to do on the way that their plan changes--and comes to an even more enjoyable conclusion. Full-color illustrations....

  • Prehistoric Monsters

    Kate Brasch

  • The Dream Compass

    Jeff Bredenberg

    First in the Merquan Chronicles, a science fiction adventure of a revolt against tyranny in a postapocalyptic world from “a writer to watch closely” (Roger Zelazny).
     
    Earth has been devastated in a long-forgotten...

  • Trespasses

    Carolyn Bridgwood

    You have to love good more than you hate evil, otherwise there's no point in our being alive.... When Kitty Conway is orphaned at the age of eight, she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle, who live with their six children in a state of eccentr...

  • The Witch Grows Up

    Norman Bridwell

  • Consuming Passions

    Freda Bright

  • The Tree Still Stands

    Mae Briskin

    Briskin ( A Boy Like Astrid's Mother ), winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for short fiction, has created a sensitive, realistic and memorable novel of a Jewish girl's experiences during WW II. Through the eyes of young Ruth Levy we observe the ...

  • Tombley's Walk

    Crosland Brown

    The beast that walkslike a man feeds beneath a blood-red Texas moon.

    Billy Ed and Dory Barnes left the honky-tonk in Tombley''sWalk on a warm Texas night. They were looking for a little privacy. They neverreturned.

    Billy Ed''s body was...

  • Texas! Chase

    Sandra Brown

    ALL HE WANTED WAS ENOUGH WHISKEY TO FORGET Ravaged by grief after a car crash took his cherished wife and unborn child, Chase Tyler had abandoned his family business. He'd hit the rodeo circuit and the bars with equal disregard for his life, unwilli...

  • Scotch on the Rocks

    Howard Browne

    In Depression-era Texas, the Dawson family loses their farm and possessions to the bank and takes to the road, where they discover a bullet ridden corpse and a truckload of whisky and find themselves in business once again...

  • Something from the Heart

    Amanda Browning

    "Morgan's coming home!" her stepfather cried Those three words should have released a flood of warm memories for Leigh. Instead, thoughts of their last disastrous encounter blotted out the rest. Just when she'd been coming to te...

  • Riding Camp

    Bonnie Bryant

    A SUMMER VACATION TREAT The three members of The Saddle Club -- Carole, Stevie, and Lisa -- are delighted when they get a chance to go to Moose Hill, a sleep-over riding camp in the hills of Virginia. It promises to be two wonderful weeks of riding,...

  • Team Play

    Bonnie Bryant

    STEVIE’S GOT A QUADRUPLE DOSE OF TROUBLE -- CAN THE SADDLE CLUB GIRLS HELP? A riding team from Italy is coming to Pine Hollow, and Stevie volunteers to entertain them during their visit. It's a job that stuck-up Veronica diAngelo wanted for her...

  • Paradise Remembered

    Carole Buck

    SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER HIM.... For six years, Elyssa Collins had dreamed of a nameless, faceless stranger who aroused her deepest desires. He was a man she couldn't remember -- and he was the father of her only child. Then Elyssa met pow...

  • Hearts Betrayed

    Gayle Buck

    Love's Table Turned Michele du Bois burst upon the London season as society's most dazzling beauty. Gentlemen swarmed around her like bees after honey -- only to have their dreams of marriage brutally dashed. Men were mere playthings to...

  • We're so Happy!

    Bill Buford

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  • The Sufi Fiddle

    Richard Bulliet

    To relieve the tedium of jury duty, recently divorced Castle Winter and a beautiful computer expert named Pansy borrow a piece of evidence, a violin engraved with Arabic writing, and suddenly find themselves pursued by several menacing characters...

  • The Jaguar's Eye

    Caroline Burnes

    She wasn't a typical tourist Hard work on the Maya excavation wasn't all that distinguished Celeste Coolridge. The villagers claimed a mystical tie to the fiery-haired stockbroker. They invited her to their secret rites. And when a man was mauled ...

  • Higgledy Piggledy Hobbledy Hoy

    Dorothy Butler

  • Sleepwalker

    Michael Cadnum

    San Francisco Bay Area archaeologist Davis Lowry has everything -- success, a fascinating profession -- but he is troubled by a bout of sleepwalking. For a change of scenery, he travels to York, England, where a bog man has been unearthed. A series o...

  • Change of Heart

    Julie Caille

    A LADY WITH A PAST For six years, Diana Farington Verney had buried herself in the country, far from the gossip surrounding her ill-fated, marriage and her late husband's demise. Indeed, London was be last place the lovely widow wanted to be, bu...

  • Nights in White Satin

    Linda Cajio

    The Handsome Blue-Eyed Devil... Jill Daneforth arrived in England determined to retrieve her mother's prized emerald necklace from a swindler who had stolen her legacy. But one look from her host, aristocratic Rick Kitteridge, took her mind off cr...

  • Passion's Bold Caress

    Pamela Caldwell

    HE STORMED HER CASTLE Lady Ailee of Coldwell was not afraid -- merely outraged -- when the band of marauding knights laid siege to her castle. Donning chain mail armor and mounting a mighty destrier, she saw that her people were sheltered within the...

  • Hopscotch, the Tiny Bunny

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Braden's Brides

    Caryn Cameron

    God's Country Before Abigail Rosemont even arrived on the lush Australian frontier of New South Wales, her longed-for life of adventure had begun -- with Duke Braden's searing kiss at sea. But New South Wales was a land divided -- by ri...

  • Midnight Sun

    Ramsey Campbell

  • Xenocide

    Orson Scott Card

    THE WAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET LUSITANIA WILL BE FOUGHT IN THE HEART OF A CHILD NAMED GLORIOUSLY BRIGHT. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different i...

  • Quiver River

    David Carkeet

  • Murder in the Dog Days

    P.M. Carlson

    On a sweltering summer day, reporter Olivia Kerr and her husband Jerry invite Olivia's colleague Dale Colby and his family to the beach. Accompanying them is a very pregnant Maggie Ryan, Jerry's sister, and her family. Dale's last-minute decision to ...

  • Daniel's Dinosaur

    Mary Carmine

  • The Steel Albatross

    M. Scott Carpenter

  • Return to Tomorrow

    Marisa Carroll

    Rachel McKendrick Phillips had nowhere left to run As a prisoner in a Vietnamese labor camp, Rachel had done things to survive that she couldn't bear to think about. Even safely home in the United States, her memories would give her no peace. S...

  • I'm a Little Mouse

    Noelle Carter

  • A History of Magic

    Richard Cavendish

    Although many books on magic and witchcraft have been published in recent years, a good comprehensive history of the subject has been lacking. The gap is now filled by Richard Cavendish's A History of Magic, which deals with magic in the West from pr...

  • Take a Nap, Harry

    Mary Chalmers

  • Forget Me Not

    Patrice Chaplin

  • Liars Autobiography

    Graham Chapman

    Graham Chapman reveals what it was like to be part of the revolutionary and zany Monty Python teamRequired reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual...

  • Martin and the Tooth Fairy

    Bernice Chardiet

  • Shadows on the Sand

    Maggi Charles

    Millionaire Derek Van Heusen believed only in what he could buy or build, and dreamy do-gooders rarely broke his stride. Until fiery Abigail Eldredge nearly stopped him in his tracks. Even as she slowed the mighty wheels of modern progress, his beaut...

  • A Vocation and a Voice

    Kate Chopin

    Published for the first time as Chopin intended, this is a collection of her most innovative stories, including "The Story of an Hour," "An Egyptian Cigarette," and "The Kiss."For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of cla...

  • Goldilocks

    Judith Christenberry

    HEART OF THE WILDERNESS When Susan McCormick set out to explore the Rocky Mountains, she was only looking for a little peace and quiet. But the majestic wilderness turned threatening when Susan took the wrong path and a storm blew in. The isolated...

  • A Stunning Way to Die

    Joyce Christmas

    Antiques dealer Bedros Kasparian calls in his old friend Lady Margaret Priam to investigate when the body of a beautiful blackmailer and soon-to-be-ex-wife of a wealthy Hollywood lawyer, Sylvie Code, is found in his shop...

  • Can a Chick Swim Phonics Reader

    Cimochowsk

  • Mole King Cole and Anna Phonics Reader

    Cimochowsk

  • Sue and Jule-Phonics Read Set 2

    Cimochowsk

  • Zig-Zag Buzz and Hum-Phonics Readers

    Cimochowsk

  • Snip and Snap-Phonics Read Set 3

    Cimochowsk

  • Peach for Chad Phonics Reader

    Cimochowsk

  • Camp Flint-Phonics Reading Set 3

    Cimochowsk

  • Dark Twilight

    Joseph A. Citro

    They say it dwells beneath Lake Champlain. Some say they have seen it, viciously thrusting its serpentine head at the Vermont sky. Monstrous eel? Or frightening campfire tale? One man wants to know. Something has drawn him to a lonely island. Somethi...

  • In My Mother's House

    Ann Nolan Clark

  • The Proteus Vector

    Michael Clark

  • Discovered!

    Clay Coleman

  • Mutiny!

    Clay Coleman

    Stranded on an uncharted subtropical island, the seven boys find hope when a psychotic doctor arrives, promising to rescue them, but first they must capture one of the techno-punks for the doctor to examine...

  • How I Met My Wife: And Other Stories

    Nicholas Coleridge

    A collection of stories which aim to combine vivid description of place with sharp observation of human nature. The stories include a man's elaborate pursuit of a woman he has met for just one day through Turkey and India and one in which a gentle re...

  • Dick Tracy and the Nightmare Machine

    Max Allan Collins

  • Diablo at Daybreak

    Dale Colter

  • Can Do, Jenny Archer

    Ellen Conford

  • Tempt Me With Kisses

    Phoebe Conn

    Daniel Aragon knew trouble when he saw it, and Harmony Russell was more than he could handle. The auburn-haired beauty was a temptation from the moment he spotted her on the San Francisco pier ... a temptation, and a torment. For her uncle was one of...

  • Fire and Forget

    Bob Cook

  • Vital Signs

    Robin Cook

    Where life begins, terror lurks... In the eyes of her envious peers, Marissa has it all: a superb professional reputation, a flourishing pediatrics practice, even a fairytale marriage with the man of her dreams - Robert Buchanan, an entrepreneur invo...

  • Inherit Your Love

    Sally Cook

    The black sheep wasn't about to turn white And that was why Laura didn't relish the idea of telling Alex Gillon he was about to become the Earl of Exonby -- and the owner of a Gloucestershire estate. She liked it even less once she'...

  • The City When It Rains

    Thomas H. Cook

    Freelance photographer David Corman sees a chance to sell a story when a woman leaps to her death in New York's Hell's Kitchen, but as he investigates her life he inadvertently reveals shocking personal truths...

  • Beating Bully O'brien

    Karen Mueller Coombs

  • Snow White and Rose Red

    Barbara Cooney

  • Freshman Games

    Linda A. Cooney

    DON'T MISS THE BOAT KC's a star in the university calendar. She can join any sorority, date any guy. Now that she can have anything she wants, can she make the right choices? Winnie's heart belongs to Josh, but Travis won't take no for an answe...

  • Freshman Dreams

    Linda A. Cooney

    Winnie can't believe she's being romanced by two fabulous guys. Can she choose between them before she loses them both? Christopher will do anything to keep vulnerable Lauren from printing a frat hazing article. Will Lauren fall under his spell? ...

  • Four Russian Plays

    Joshua Cooper

  • The Deceiver

    Louise Cooper

    THE SHATTERING SAGA BEGUN IN THE TIME MASTER TRILOGY CONTINUES With his dying breath, Keridil Toln, High Initiate of the mystic brotherhood known as the Circle, warned his colleagues of a danger beyond their imagining. For a servant of Chaos had ...

  • Squeeze Play

    Lori Copeland

    The Best-Looking Guy in Town... Dex Matthews was back, and Carly Winters still thought her ex-fiance was too handsome for his own good...and hers! The brilliant marketing director had challenged and charmed her like crazy when they'd first met, st...

  • The Valentine Street Hustle

    Ryanne Corey

    ALL THE RIGHT MOVES The minute she walked into his bar, Thomas Murphy knew he was in trouble. She was Newport high society, a real class act. But she handled a pool stick like a pro, and she had a wicked left hook -- he could testify to that. Yes,...

  • Prized Possessions

    Avery Corman

    It happened to Elizabeth it could happen to you. Elizabeth Mason is beautiful+, gregarious and intelligent, Shortly after joining Layton - a prestigious East Coast college - to further her studies, she is invited out by Jimmy Andrews, the college ...

  • Park Plaza

    Richard Hubert Francis Cox

    A fabulous, historic diamond is the prize coveted by both an ex-Irish Republican Army bomber and a priest trying to restore the jewel to its rightful owner, in a thriller set in a lavish Manhattan hotel...

  • Passion's Chains

    Catherine Creel

    HE HAD BETRAYED HER Lady Eden Parrish stared in shock at the bare-chested, blue-eyed rogue who stood so proudly on the Bridgetown auction block-- he was none other than her husband, the despicable Roark St. Clair! Eden had been sent to Barbados in d...

  • The Trouble With a Small Raise

    Camilla T. Crespi

    DYING TO GET AHEAD A large office is like a small town: you have to be an insider in order to know who is doing what to whom. And at the plush, elegant offices of HH&H Advertising, executive Simona Griffo observed plenty going on-cutthroat competiti...

  • Shadow World

    A.C. Crispin

    In what is to be his last assignment, Mark Kenner sets out on a diplomatic mission to bring the Elspind into the Cooperative League of Systems, but he must first survive in an environment that is hostile to the pending alliance...

  • The Raven's Bride

    Elizabeth Crook

    In 1829, Sam Houston was the thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee, a “beautiful…imperious giant genius of a man,†whose political horizons seemed limitless. The marriage of this charismatic, ambitious statesman to twenty-year-old Eliza All...

  • The Sheriff Kill

    Jack Curtis

    Only one human being could have gotten Kiowa Smith to quit his drifting ways -- Paddy Burke, the tomcatting hombre who offered to partner him on a new ranch outside the town of Galilee, Kansas. But Paddy lies dead at the hands of Sheriff Ben Clark, f...

  • Society Page

    Ruth Jean Dale

    "Anybody but Annie Page!" Newspaper publisher Nick Kimball needed a society columnist; Annie had the necessary contacts. But he didn't like her any more than he'd liked her late husband, Robert. According to Nick, Annie was a &#...

  • Night Rider's Moon

    Kit Dalton

  • Beyond the Void

    Sean Dalton

  • Clean Air, Clean Water

    Bill Dana

  • Against All Odds

    Joleen Daniels

    Karl Hallstrom's blood was boiling. The object of his ire was pretty Jaime Mitchell, the sweetly stubborn social worker who planned to put his feisty grandfather in a home. But his angry assault revealed a chink in Jaime's armor, allowing him a glimp...

  • The Love Knot

    Catherine Darby

    The hypocrisies and infidelities of the privileged class in fifteenth-century England are explored in a novel featuring sisters Philippa, married to the brilliant yet troubled poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Katherine, pressured into a passionless, high-...

  • Vendetta

    Peter David

    The Borg--half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal att...

  • Dolphins

    Margaret Davidson

  • Venus in Copper

    Lindsey Davis

    The way Marcus Didius Falco sees it, no one can claim the monopoly on sleaze and corruption in the Eternal City because the competition is so keen. Most recently a Palace spy for the Emperor Vespasian, Falco is now in private service, trying to preve...

  • Portrait of a Stranger

    Helena Dawson

    Her next commission would launch her career Charlie was convinced of it -- until she discovered that her eminent subject, Calum Sutherland, was none other than the disagreeable, narrow-minded businessman she'd earlier antagonized. Much as s...

  • The Swords of Zinjaban

    L. Sprague de Camp

    The Producer thinks he''s God''s gift to women—whether they''re human or alien. The Director is delighted to work on a wild and woolly planet, where he can really behave like Attila the Hun. Some of the local natives are trying to steal the ...

  • The Teddy Bear That Prowled at Night

    Edna Groff Deihl

  • Aces

    Robert Denny

  • Southern Seduction

    Thea Devine

    CAUGHT BY FATE Cassandra Taggart was tired of obeying orders. Though her late husband's will required her to hire a man to run her Georgia plantation, the beautiful young widow was determined to manage things herself. To satisfy the lawyers, she i...

  • Lady Harriet Takes Charge

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