Books Published in March 1992

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1992

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New Books List: 527 titles

  • A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

    David A. Adler

    Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods - the wool from his sheep, the shawl his wife made, the mittens his daught...

  • Call to Battle

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY -- WOULD JOHN ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ? Once vital and proud, America has been reduced to a toxic wasteland in the aftermath of World War III. Buried in the poison ruins of nuclear attack, its spirit all b...

  • Clothes Horse and Other Stories

    Janet Ahlberg

  • A Foot in the Grave: and Other Ghost Stories

    Joan Aiken

    A collection of eerie tales illustrated with black-and-white images conjures up truly believable ghosts and lets them loose in modern settings with frightening results. Stories include: • Cold Harbour • Movable Eyes • Beezelbub's Baby...

  • Maggie's Whopper

    Sally Hobart Alexander

  • The Mouse Bride

    Linda Allen

  • The Kid Can't Miss!

    Russell Almon

    When the most losing team in ninth grade basketball begins winning at the hands of one pint-sized player whose basketball seems to have a mind of its own, their coach and everyone else cannot understand why. Original....

  • The Twins: Two by Two

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen: A Traditional Tale

    Anonymous

  • Trust Me

    Judith Arnold

    PROCEED WITH CAUTION Will Turner was reputed to be man at his finest. But Chloe Verona's experience with blind dates was bad luck at its worst. Would tonight be any different? It was -- when calamity capped the evening. Will eagerly offered...

  • Long Spikes

    Jim Arnosky

    A persistent mouse accompanied by a purple umbrella embarks on many adventures, from leaving his zero-shaped entrance and climbing two hills to encountering a fish with ten really sharp teeth, in an adorable introduction to counting....

  • Trade Off

    Harrison Arnston

    Less than eager to take on another murder case in light of her failing marriage, attorney Laura Scott reluctantly agrees to defend John Slocum, a drifter who had been discovered bent over the mutilated body of a local teenager. Original....

  • Keep My Heart Forever

    Katherine Arthur

    From their first encounter Gale launched an offensive Maggie and Galen had been childhood friends. But when Maggie returned home to West Virginia, Galen treated her as his sworn enemy. Was it her success as a model, or her relationship with mi...

  • Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 2

    Isaac Asimov

  • Hunting the Wild Pineapple

    Thea Astley

    Leverson, the narrator at the centre of these stories, calls himself a 'people freak.' Seduced by north Queensland's sultry beauty and unique strangeness, he is as fascinated by the invading hordes of misfits from the south as by the old established ...

  • Hunting the Ghost Dancer

    A.A. Attanasio

    In order to be accepted into a new tribe, Timov and Hamr, two survivors of a doomed people, must hunt the savage ghost dancer, a vicious Neanderthal that has been terrorizing the tribe. By the author of Radix and Wyvern. Reprint....

  • Kingdom of the Grail

    A.A. Attanasio

    Ten years after the aged Baroness Ailena Valaise was turned out of her castle by her son, Guy, Ailena returns, restored to her youth by a drink from the Holy Grail, and announces her plans to end Guy's reign. Reprint....

  • Good Morning, James

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Thomas' Big Book of Words

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Valley of the Spotted Horse

    Paul Bagdon

    In need of a horse of his own, Scrapper John, the orphaned son of a rugged mountain man and a Native-American woman, enters the dangerous Valley of the Spotted Horses from which few have returned alive. Original....

  • Little Brother

    Allan Baillie

  • Bright Shark

    Robert Ballard

    Assigned to locate Dakar, the Israeli naval vessel that vanished years ago without a trace, troubleshooter Wendell Trent travels three miles below the ocean's surface, while two governments risk an armed encounter to abort America's search. 45,000 fi...

  • The Flower Fairies Year

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • The Greta Garbo Murder Case

    George Baxt

    Accepting the role of Joan of Arc, Hollywood star Greta Garbo finds herself in the middle of a picture involving German expatriates and a cast of spies. By the author of The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case....

  • City of Childhood

    Valerie Townsend Bayer

    As two researchers reconstruct the life of nineteenth-century English novelist Emma Forster, they uncover the outrageous secrets that lurk behind the staid Victorian facade of her family, in a multi-layered story within a story...

  • Disney's Darkwing Duck in Clean Money

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Disney's Beauty and the Beast Word Book

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Tour De France

    James Becket

  • Nightingale

    Michael Bedard

    Long, long ago there was an Emperor of China whose palace was quite the most wonderful in all the world. But when visitors came from afar, it wasn''t the palace that impressed them. Instead, they spoke of the song of the nightingale that lived i...

  • Missing Pieces

    Stanislaw Benski

    As the director of a nursing home in Warsaw, Benski watched the scant numbers of Poland's surviving Jews dwindle before his eyes. He wrote these stories to preserve their memory. Translated by Walter Arndt. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Harvest in Tra...

  • The Wind Monkey: and Other Stories

    Leo Berenstain

    Dramatizes the clash of Indonesia's native culture with the onslaught of Western society in stories featuring a woman travel writer caught in a web of occult mysteries and a Western scientist whose monkey is kidnapped for religious reasons. A first c...

  • Child of the Light

    Janet Berliner

    This remarkable book follows the lives of three friends, Solomon Freund, a Jew, Erich Wiesser, his Catholic neighbor and brother in blood, and Miriam Rathenau, whom both boys love, and who happens to be niece of Germany's foreign minister Walther Rat...

  • The Neon Madonna

    Dan Binchy

    A retired international Vatican diplomat, Jerry O'Sullivan becomes the parish priest of a tiny coastal Irish village, but he soon finds himself in the midst of a controversy over alleged miracles at a tacky local shrine...

  • Piglet Bakes Half a Haycorn Pie

    Betty G. Birney

  • Dead Time

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Eleanor Taylor Bland's legions of fans, as well as new readers, will now be able to read the highly acclaimed novel that launched one of the first-- and one of the best-- mystery series written by an African American writer about an African American ...

  • Beware of Boys

    Tony Blundell

  • The Dog Who Would Not Smile

    Stephen A. Bly

    Nathan T. Riggins panicked as he hurried from one empty building to the next. Where was everyone? How could everybody in a whole town just disappear?In the deserted Post Office, bags of unopened mail lay everywhere. With increasing dread, he looked t...

  • The Meri

    Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    Witness to her parent's murder, Meredydd-a-Lagan is taken in by a teacher of the Divine Art and eventually apprenticed to the Meri--a bridge to the Spirit of the Universe--but she never forgets her vow of vengeance. Original....

  • Slow Poison

    Sheila Bosworth

    The witty, dramatic, and fiercely tender story of a Southern family whose prodigious charms are matched only by their propensity for tragedy   “Miss Cade passing.” The letter arrives with little fanfare and fewer details, yet the meaning is ...

  • Big Sarah's Little Boots

    Paulette Bourgeois

  • Sweet Dreams, Willy

    Lizi Boyd

    Willy refuses to sleep at bedtime and lets his imagination take him on a romp through the night world to visit the birds, the fish, the moon, and the stars--but he soon discovers that everyone has to sleep some time....

  • Murder MacHree

    Eleanor Boylan

    "Clara Gamadge is a detective in the honorable tradition of Hercule Poirot....Boylan's writing is crisp and intelligent, her heroine endearing."
    PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
    When Clara Gamadge's friend Armand Evers predicts his own death, he's right on ta...

  • It Came from Outer Space

    Tony Bradman

  • Cloak of Darkness

    Ann Brahms

    Attending a Halloween party dressed in the identical costume as her best friend, Kelly, Piper Jordan is horrified when Kelly is murdered and even more shocked when she realizes the killer had intended to murder Piper. Original....

  • Rules of Evidence

    Jay Brandon

    Raymond Boudro, San Antonio's best black criminal lawyer, has publicly branded white police detective Mike Stennett a racist. But now Boudro has accepted Stennett as a client, with one warning: The truth or I ruin you. Stennett is accused of beating ...

  • Group Soup

    Barbara Brenner

    The Bank Street College of Education presents a lesson in working together, in which Rhoda Rabbit, who says she is too hungry to help make lunch, learns the hard way that the secret ingredient in Group Soup is sharing....

  • Spell of Fate

    Mayer Alan Brenner

    The author of Spell of Catastrophe and Spell of Intrigue delivers “a winner . . . An off-the-wall kind of fantasy” in the third Dance of Gods adventure (Interzone).   Trouble is converging on the imperial city of Peridol, and ...

  • Devil in Texas, the

    Aristeo Brito

  • Sc-Sacred Hoop

    Bill Broder

    The Sacred Hoop is a unique experience in historical fiction. From a retelling of Genesis to the saga of the Steam God (the Transcontinental Railroad) in nineteenth-century America, Bill Broder has illuminated in fiction the larger chronicle of human...

  • A Closed Eye

    Anita Brookner

    In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying pros...

  • Knee Holes

    Jerome Brooks

    Infatuated with the teacher who placed her in an honors program, fifteen-year-old Hope becomes spokesman for the gifted students when trouble appears to be simmering between that teacher and another in the program....

  • The Elf Queen of Shannara

    Terry Brooks

    The End of a Quest "Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren. It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. "There was not...

  • Racehorse

    Bonnie Bryant

    AN INJURED RACEHORSE NEEDS SPECIAL HELP FROM THE SADDLE CLUB! When Carole discovers that her horse Starlight has a slight injury, she's disappointed at having to spend the next two weeks without a mount. But Judy, the local veterinarian, has an idea:...

  • The Falcon's Wing

    Dawna Lisa Buchanan

    After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Bryn tries to make a new life when her father moves them to a rural community in Canada to live with her elderly aunt and her cousin Winnie, a loving girl with Down's syndrome...

  • Knight and Day

    Carole Buck

    NO LAUGHING MATTER As a counselor at a center for abused children, Donna Day knew what secrets could do to a person -- and comedian Martin Knight was chock-full of secrets. Strong, sexy and blessed with a sense of humor that could make the saddest...

  • Bury Him Kindly

    Pat Burden

    When a car is found abandoned near the well-protected property of local recluse Alice Meddlar and her simpleton son, Robby, the local residents smell foul play, and Chief Superintendent Henry Bassett steps in to investigate....

  • Amelia's Fantastic Flight

    Rose Bursik

    In love with airplanes, Amelia builds one of her own and takes off on an adventure-filled flight around the globe, where she observes a baby sloth in Brazil, the pyramids of Egypt, a panda in China, and much more....

  • Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

    Robert Olen Butler

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana” (People).  A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler’s Pulitzer Prize...

  • Minnie 'n Me: What Will I Wear?

    Lyn Calder

  • Ariel above the Sea: Walt Disney's the Little Mermaid

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Battlecry Forever!

    Joanna Campbell

    Certain that Battlecry, the unmanageable thoroughbred at her parents' stable, would behave himself under her tutelage, fifteen-year-old Leslie D'Andrea is delighted when her parents give her a chance to prove Battlecry's worth....

  • Pyramid of Dreams

    Marilyn Campbell

    FORBIDDEN FRUIT She was a stranger to his futuristic world, an outsider in the rainbow-hued crystal city who must not be allowed to return to her home. Yet though Aster would never be accepted by his people, Romulus found himself irresistibly draw...

  • Dark & Dangerous

    Marsha Canham

    Torn between desire and duty Assistant DA Megan Worth knew her Justice Department-paid vacation had too many strings attached -- specifically identifying Michael Vallaincourt, casino manager. She recognized him immediately. Michael had been her firs...

  • The Memory of Earth

    Orson Scott Card

    High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet--to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves...

  • Navajo Wedding

    Suzanne Carey

    A BRIDAL PRICE Lara Stone's stepfather was in trouble, and the only person who could possibly help was his illegitimate son, Zack Silverheels. Lara knew Jack had never overcome the pain of being scorned by the man who refused to acknowledge him as...

  • The Devil and Mother Crump

    Valerie Scho Carey

  • Cast Adrift

    Donna Carlisle

    SWEPT AWAY... Tall, lean, overbearing Jess Seward wasn't exactly scientist Kelsey Morgan's fantasy in the flesh. But Kelsey had sacrificed a lot for two weeks at sea to complete her dolphin research. And she wasn't about to let any las...

  • Fair Winds

    Helen Carras

    SUMMER ENCHANTMENT Eve Marsdon's friends thought she'd gone crazy. First they couldn't believe a schoolteacher from suburban Maryland had the grit to spend a summer in New York City studying sculpture. Then Eve announced that she'd been unable to ...

  • Red Dragonfly on My Shoulder

    Sylvia Cassedy

  • Strike of the China Falcon

    Stephen Cassell

    Nearly shot down in an airplane over Mexico by Chinese bullets, ex-Vietnam War veteran Nick Thurston is determined to get to the bottom of a dangerous international terrorist plot called Operation Dragonfly. Original....

  • The Mixquiahuala Letters

    Ana Castillo

    Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and fem...

  • Keeper of the Light

    Diane Chamberlain

    THREE PEOPLE, ONE OBSESSION Christmas night on North Carolina's Outer Banks --a gunshot victim is brought into the emergency room where Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty. Midway through surgery, Olivia learns that the person whose heart she literally ho...

  • Love and a Blue-Eyed Cowboy

    Sandra Chastain

    HUNTER -- He Was Dangerously Sexy, His Eyes Full of Sinful Promises... He was bruised, broke, and brash enough to think he could win the top prize in the motorcycle scavenger hunt, but Hunter Kincaid hadn't counted on a smart-mouthed half-pint...

  • Deborah Goes to Dover

    Marion Chesney

    The engaging Miss Hannah Pym delights all as she resumes her matchmaking adventures aboard the English stage... When lonely hearts chance across her intrepid path they're sure to find themselves en route for romance! Destined for Dover, Mis...

  • Run Wild My Heart

    Maureen Child

    A BOLD DECISION For beautiful Margaret Allen, traveling alone across the western plains was her only escape from a loveless marriage -- a marriage secretly arranged by her father as part of a heartless business scheme. In a fury, she left her quiet,...

  • Gertrude, the Bulldog Detective

    Eileen Christelow

  • Rehearsal for a Renaissance

    Douglas W. Clark

    Traveling to Venice with the hopes of bringing some of the Englightenment back to his backward town of Pomme de Terre, Corwyn stumbles upon a terrible plot to sink the city of Venice into the sea. Original....

  • Lunch with Aunt Augusta

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Jemima, a ring-tailed lemur, sets off with two siblings to lunch with Aunt Augusta, and despite her father's cautions not to eat too much and sit with tail straight, the vivacious Jemima cannot help getting into trouble....

  • Teddy B. Zoot

    J. Clarke

  • A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy

    Ann Cleeves

    Vicars' wives do not usually get themselves murdered... ... especially when they are as vibrant and caring as beautiful Dorothea Cassidy. But murdered she unquestionably was; and from the outset Inspector Stephen Ramsay is hard put to figure out why...

  • Abeng

    Michelle Cliff

    Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt...

  • No Bad Bears

    Michele Durkson Clise

  • World of Silence

    Don Coldsmith

    The only survivor, along with his granddaughter, of an attack by the Forest People, Hunts-Alone and the young girl journey forward toward a new destiny, carrying with them the seeds of their ancient heritage. Original....

  • Walks in the Sun

    Don Coldsmith

    Twelve brave young men set out, led by the  indomitable Blue Jay, seeking a better wintering land to  the mysterious south. But the quest becomes an  obsession that plunges the men--and the beautiful,  enigmatic woman who joins them--into a l...

  • Tarzana

    Babette Cole

    Tarzanna meets a boy in the jungle, who invites her to live in his world for a while, but Tarzanna hates it in the concrete jungle and, after freeing the animals in the zoo, persuades the president to send her home on Jungle Airways....

  • Nickajack

    Robert J. Conley

    In the East, his people has lived on the land for thousands of years. Now it was a nation bitterly divided, and Nickjack had decided to leave it behind. But when his country's broken heart came chasing after him in the West, he found himself with ene...

  • Love Me 'Til Dawn

    Phoebe Conn

    He was a fugitive masquerading as a lawman. She was an innocent sentenced to die for a crime committed in self-defense. And once destiny brought them together, nothing could tear them apart. Not the shadows of their pasts, not the uncertainty of thei...

  • The Run of the Country

    Shane Connaughton

  • Death As a Career Move

    Bruce Cook

    Hired by Majestic Studios to keep their name out the news after a corpse is found in their recording department, Los Angeles private eye Chico Cervantes investigates himself and discovers that the murdered man had had many secrets to hide....

  • Best Wishes Whoever You Are

    Deirdre Corey

  • The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love

    Elizabeth Cox

    Molly Hanner's marriage to William is slowly unraveling, and the pulls of entropy this exerts upon them and their three children painfully instruct Molly in the many ways people barely miss loving each other. But divorce is only a catalyst in Moll...

  • House Guest

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Dangerous relations . . . Abducted, accosted and then accused of murder--what a welcome for Londoner Anne Clarence on her first trip to the United States. In Denver to meet her grandfather for the first time, Anne discovered that the wealthy patri...

  • Deeper Than Roses

    Charlene Cross

    Emerald eyes wide with terror, auburn hair streaming, exquisite Kristiana Harcourt fled into the night. Her noble father lay dead. With his murderer, Edward MacHugh, in hot pursuit, she galloped wildly to freedom only to fall into the arms of a golde...

  • Loving Arms of the Law

    Mary Curtis

    From the moment he set eyes on Carol Jeffries, lawyer Steven Arnold was knocked off his feet -- literally. She was a regular Calamity Jane, and all her escapades somehow directly involved him. They were complete opposites, but he was drawn to the bea...

  • Gunslinger's Scalp

    Kit Dalton

  • Time Trap

    Sean Dalton

    When a time-traveler is mistakenly sent to Medieval Greece, he finds bandits, Crusaders -- and his own evil twin -- in this sci-fi series debut. In the 26th century, chaos threatens to overwhelm civilization -- but the historians on staff at the Time...

  • As the Sparks Fly Upward

    Gloria Dank

    Bernard Woodruff should have known better than to expect anything but disaster from a visit to his wife’s indolent but good-natured brother, Snooky.  In a cabin in the Vermont woods, the irrepressible Snooky rhapsodizes about the simple pleasu...

  • I've Got Your Number

    Karen J. David

  • Suspicion's Gate

    Justine Davis

    BADDER THAN BEFORE Years ago, teenage Nikki Lockwood had been the only one in town to see past Travis Halloran's bad-boy leather jacket and tough talk -- until she'd seen just HOW bad he was. He'd carelessly caused her father's death, then lied a...

  • Dance of Deception

    Suzannah Davis

    Amid the unrest of the Napoleonic wars, Genevieve Maples struggles to keep her grandfather's theatrical troupe afloat, unaware that Bryce Darcy Cormick, an actor in the troupe, is actually a spy. During an uneasy pause in the Napoleonic wars, lov...

  • Texas Manhunt

    Clay Dawson

  • The Glory That Was

    L. Sprague de Camp

    When the World Emperor of the 27th century seals off Greece behind a force wall and Wiyem Flin''s wife soon disappears, Knut Bulnes agrees to help look behind the wall for the woman. The two soon find themselves in Classical Greece.

    ...

  • Coney Tale

    Paul Ratz de Tagyos

  • Coyote Bird

    Jim DeFelice

    THE COLD WAR IS OVER. BUT NOW, A THREAT FAR MORE CHILLING WAITS OVER THE HORIZON. In Washington, D.C., the president is worried. Two of America's frontline spy planes have disappeared. In Tokyo, an aggressive, secretly remilitarized Japan is plot...

  • The Outsider

    Barbara Delinsky

    Cameron Divine -- The roguish research scientist came from light-years away on a mission. A flesh-and-blood woman changed everything. Summer VanVorn -- A simple folk healer. Sexy, vulnerable, she'd been waiting all her life the right man to co...

  • The Passions of Chelsea Kane

    Barbara Delinsky

    A WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR HER PAST After the death of her adoptive mother, Chelsea Kane is a woman consumed by a need to discover her natural heritage. She arrives in the New Hampshire town where she was born, aching for answers. It is while she is loo...

  • Trash Bash

    Judy Delton

    It's springtime, and time to save the earth. Molly's ready to start. If other people won't recycle, it's up to the Pee Wee Scouts to do it for them. Digging through people's trash and storing old light bulbs and egg cartons behind Molly's garage is h...

  • I Am Running Away Today

    Lisa Desimini

  • An Uncommon Intrigue

    Georgina Devon

    A BEWITCHING MISS Of noble birth on her father's side, Miss Mary Elizabeth Sinclair was decidedly startled to have the British Home Office employ her as a spy. While she did not mind rejoining her mother's gypsy family, nor posing as "Ta...

  • Fortunate Lives

    Robb Forman Dew

    The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells....

  • Blood Confessions

    Al DiBartolomeo

    As a favor to his brother Frank, Vincent Vespers agrees to help the dying Don Carmine Tucci pen his memoirs and suddenly he becomes trapped in a deathly struggle for control of the don's empire. Reprint....

  • Play Dead

    Peter Dickinson

    A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author’s “gripping thriller” (Reginald Hill). Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone...

  • White Rhino

    Bill Dolan

    In the valley, vicious Equinox Women perform deadly mating rituals with captive men. In a cave, an ancient man longs for the return of the mystical White Rhino, and in a prison, a killer who wants Creighton's blood escapes. Before AfriKorps can sprea...

  • The Golden Mask

    Robyn Donald

    She wasn't a child anymore! Eden knew little of life beyond her family's New Zealand sheep station. She realized exactly how little when Blade Hammond returned to Onemahutu. Five years had only enhanced his golden looks and rugged physique...

  • Once Bitten, Twice Shy

    Robyn Donald

    Beauty and the beast Fashion model Simone Atkinson had her reasons for being afraid of men whose guarded expressions hid private demons. Which is why all alarms went off when Angus Grey began his pursuit. He'd obviously convinced himself he kn...

  • Kansas Kiss

    Christine Dorsey

    DEFIANT PASSION Young Samantha Lowery cautiously examined the handsome Confederate officer she'd wounded. A band of ex-Rebel marauders had sworn to drive her from her land, and she was certain this man was one of them. Although she was mesmeri...

  • Catnap

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    "Catnap features two of the most lovable characters you'd ever want to meet: public relations expert Temple Barr, a petite redhead with a high heel shoe fetish; and the irrepressible Midnight Louie. When these two kneel nose to nose over a dead body ...

  • Damsel in Distress

    Shannon Drake

    A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS An enemy of ruthless and powerful noblemen who would usurp the English crown, beautiful headstrong heiress Katherine de Montrain is forced to marry for her own protection-vowing to wed but never to submit to her handsome virile ...

  • Better Than Before

    Judith Duncan

    FAMILY SECRETS... Years ago, an adolescent crush and an unplanned pregnancy sent Carlie straight into the arms of Derek Pearson, the steady schoolmate who'd always loved her. Forgiving, dependable, it was Derek who picked up the pieces of her ...

  • Casting for Murder

    Mikel Dunham

  • Death and Taxes

    Susan Dunlap

    SCHEDULE M, FOR MURDER Until someone put a poisoned needle in his bicycle seat, Phil Drem was the meanest, most nit-picking IRS agent in Berkeley, California. But when Detective Jill Smith began searching Berkeley's backwaters for the tax man's...

  • The Time of Her Life

    Marjorie Eatock

    Evelyn Cass's old friends whispered about her behind her back; they felt sorry for poor Evelyn -- alone at fifty-five, having to sell her house and go to work! So brave! Funny though, how all of a sudden she was looking ten years younger... -- ...

  • The Gombeen Man

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Reunited with old friends and lovers at the funeral of friend and IRA hero Connor Larkin, American reporter Con Edwards quickly becomes involved in the intrigue surrounding Irish politics and terrorism...

  • Hard Guy

    Thornton Elliott

    After doing five years for robbing jewelry stores, Vietnam veteran Glen Odum vows to go straight, but his ex-wife and partner-in-crime lures him back into the underworld when she begs him to protect her from a brutal crime boss....

  • Lone Star and the Horse Thieves

    Wesley Ellis

    The outlaws have left a cold trail for Jessie and Ki -- but things are starting to heat up in the one hundred and fifteenth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice...

  • Stand Down

    Zack Emerson

  • Borderland

    S.K. Epperson

    Not much had changed in remote Denke, Kansas, since the pioneer days: descendants of the same families still walked the streets; the same customs still held the residents together; the same fears still forced the people to hide their dark secrets fro...

  • Golden Boys

    Joseph Epstein

  • The Hunter Victorious

    Rose Estes

    HUNTER AT BAY Once he was chieftain of a stone age land ... then a captive battling monsters on planet Arena. Now Braldt the Hunter, his woman Keri, and his kinsman from Earth are trapped on Valhalla, a doomed world of shapeshifters and science...

  • The Stone of Time

    Rose Estes

    Swordsman Caltus Talienson, sorceress Bith, Hathor the troll, and the elf Endril band together to battle the forces of the Dark Lord of Mistwall, an evil force that has so far decimated the defenders of the Westwoods. Original....

  • Longarm in the Sierra Oriental

    Tabor Evans

  • The One That Got Away

    Percival Everett

  • The Magic House

    Robyn Eversole

    April, who sees her house in an imaginative way that can turn the stairs into a waterfall and the living room into a desert, tries to share her vision with her older sister Meredith as Meredith practices her ballet steps...

  • Death of the Duchess

    Elizabeth Eyre

    With his bald head and black cape, the sleuth Sigismondo cuts an imposing figure as he courts death and danger in Renaissance Italy. At home among both royals and rogues, he is a master of the noble art of detection--and with his companion, the peasa...

  • The Suitable Suitor

    Alicia Farraday

    She was like a breath of fresh air Only just turned eighteen, Melody Maitland had had little choice but to become a runaway in order to avoid a loveless marriage. When discovered by Lord Dake, who in no uncertain terms advised her he meant to ...

  • Lady Arden's Redemption

    Marjorie Farrell

    The Unbending Beauty Lady Arden Huntly was beautiful, highborn, and wealthy. Her entry into the marriage mart should have been a stunning success. Instead it was a disaster. For Arden was as arrogant as she was exquisite. No lord was good enough f...

  • Savage Surrender

    Colleen Faulkner

    FEARLESS CAPTIVE Determination and a will to live were all that kept Lady Rachael Moreover from giving up in the first days after her capture by the Iroquois. She'd never surrender to those savages, no matter what they threatened! But the broad shou...

  • Moonlight Rebel

    Marie Ferrarella

    She needed a safe haven Coming to the colonies and living on a Virginia plantation in the midst of a brewing revolution was not the life Krystyna would have chosen. But she had been offered no choice when she fled her native Poland, just ahead of ...

  • When a Sparrow Falls

    Jean Fiedler

    Busy with her teaching career and her impending marriage, Liz Ransome is suddenly, slowly terrorized by minor pranks, strange phone calls, and a whispered threat, and death may follow in twenty-eight days if she does not discover the identity of her ...

  • Poor Monty

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    Tess Gerritsen

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    T.G. Gilpin

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    Emma Goldrick

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    Olivia Goldsmith

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    David Goodis

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    Pat Graversen

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    Andrew M. Greeley

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    Jill Gregory

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    Kay Gregory

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    Patricia Hagan

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    Adam Hall

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    Lynn Hall

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    Diana Hamilton

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    Laurell K. Hamilton

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    Peggy Hanchar

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    Lindsey Hanks

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    Sarah M. Hayes

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    Marcy Heidish

    Georgetown author Alice Grey, determined to discover the truth about an eighteenth-century Massachusetts midwife burned as a witch, finds herself haunted by dark dreams and a serious of gruesome murders. Reprint....

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    Rosalie Henaghan

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