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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1989

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New Books List: 414 titles

  • Last Whales

    Lloyd Abbey

  • The Shaman Tree

    Richard Abshire

    In the sequel to Gants, Texas police officers Abshire and Clair describe the later trials of ex-homicide detective Charlie Gants, hero of the critically praised original. While recovering from the breakdown caused by the terrors of the first case, Ch...

  • Blue Chip Bride

    Audra Adams

    RISKY BUSINESS Janet Demarest knew firsthand that not all marriages sprang from storybook romances. But marriage as a business arrangement? She had only to think of her late husband's near-bankrupt estate and her stepson's welfare to accep...

  • Traveller

    Richard Adams

    A brave man and a brave horse, riding together into battle-each depending on the other, even communing with the other-make for one of the most memorable and moving stories of the Civil War ever written. Robert E. Lee's gallant and beloved horse Tr...

  • Tinker's Journey Home

    Charlotte Adamson

  • Crux

    Richard Aellen

    Certain that he had been set up by his fellow platoon members, ex-POW Keith Johnson plots the deaths of the three men but complicates the scheme by falling in love with the daughter of his ex-wife--one of his intended victims...

  • Kiet and the Golden Peacock

    Gary Alexander

  • Side Effects

    Woody Allen

    A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, SIDE EFFECTS is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how gifted he is. Included here are such classics as REMEMBERING NEEDLEMAN, THE KUGELMASS EPISODE, a new sory cal...

  • Desire's Gamble

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    HIGH-BETTING ROGUE It was a gamble and ravishing risktaker Josie Leigh had lost. Now the arrogant rogue was demanding she pay up -- with her virtue! The high-spirited beauty vowed she'd never succumb... Until the handsome rake whisked her away t...

  • Destiny's Kiss

    Blaine Anderson

    She Fled from Danger Trembling, Lady Alysanna saw her stepsister's body on the library floor, and looming over it, the stranger who slayed her. With that violent act, Alysanna's world of privilege crumbled. She fled her ancestral home under a cloud ...

  • Busybodies

    Patrick Anderson

  • The Boat of a Million Years

    Poul Anderson

    A New York Times Notable Book and Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist: This epic chronicle of ten immortals over the course of history “succeeds admirably” (The New York Times).   The immortals are ten individuals born in antiquity from various ...

  • Raiders of the Revolution

    Keith William Andrews

  • Visual Guide to Xanth

    Piers Anthony

  • The Voice of Cepheus

    K.P. Appleby

  • Baby in the Box

    Frank Asch

  • Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure

    Janet Asimov

  • Cold Cash Warrior

    Robert Asprin

  • Angel and Me

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

  • Northstar Rising

    James Axler

    A century after a global nuclear holocaust, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warriors wander through the tropical jungles of Minnesota, where they stumble upon an abandoned cryonics complex, revive Dr. Mildred Wyeth from suspended animation, and battle a ...

  • Tourists Are for Trapping

    Marian Babson

    A troupe of travelers in London may harbor a killer in this novel from an Agatha Award"winning author praised for her “wit and whimsy” (Kirkus Reviews).   A group of tourists has arrived in London -- shaken by the mysterious death of one o...

  • A Gift of Wings

    Richard Bach

    From the bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, comes an inspiring collection of short stories of being a pilot. With perfect insight, Richard Bach captures the true esssence of flying and the magic of being in the air. Philosophical and ...

  • Working at Love

    Judy Baer

    Marli McKensie and her friend Christie open a vintage clothing section in Marli's mother's store as a school business class project, leading to wild financial success and romantic problems when the two girls hire single male help....

  • King of the Mountain

    Fran Baker

    Kitty Reardon was sunshine and shadow in one enticing package, Ben Cooper thought, but they were opposites in every sense of the word! He was rich, the mine owner, and management; she was poor, a coal miner, and union for three generations back. Bu...

  • The Star of Bethlehem

    Mary Balogh
    in

    Here are five all-new stories of Christmas by the highly acclaimed authors you love to read all year 'round. These heartwarming holiday tales touch on all the great themes of the season -- joyful homecomings, bittersweet reunions, renewals of the spi...

  • Codename: North Star

    Ned Bannister

  • In the Flesh

    Robert L. Barker

    In the depths of an abandoned steam bath, strangely beautiful women seduce two businessmen into a ritual of macabre sexuality; in a Greek asylum, wise men race frogs to decide the fate of the world; a petty convict's cellmate reveals to him the grues...

  • Strands of Starlight

    Gael Baudino

    SWORD OF JUSTICE Miriam is a frail young outcast whose healing powers have branded her a witch in the Inquisition of 14th-century Europe. Fleeing her city in search of the Free Towns and acceptance, she is brutally violated by a man she heals from...

  • The Honey Trap

    Pamela Bauer

    It was a nightmare situation Veronica Lang's estranged husband had defected, taking sensitive documents with him. Now Ronni was being followed. When someone threatened her little Steffie, she knew she had to run. Logan McNeil offered mother and...

  • Death of a Perfect Wife

    M.C. Beaton

    CONSTABLE HAMISH MACBETH IS A HAPPY MAN He has his home, his cattle, hens and geese, his friends and neighbors, and soon, he hopes, he'll have lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe as well. God's in his heaven and all's right with the world...until so...

  • Another Time, Another Love

    Anne Beaumont

    Her future plans did not include men Laurel was happy to sell the lease of her London flat to Australian property tycoon Connor Dyson. That meant she could move sooner to the country with her small daughter. A traumatic experience had left her ...

  • Sand Child

    Tahar Ben Jelloun

    Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun tells a story of power, colonialism, gender, and sexual identity in North Africa.In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique ...

  • Seeing Is Believing

    Janet Bieber

    MR. WRONG He was a sight for sore eyes--and Lynda Fisher's were wide open, taking in the gorgeous hunk doing a striptease for her birthday present. Shocked by the passion he aroused, she struggled to appear unaffected. How could she--ambitious, pr...

  • Arizona Ecstasy

    Rosanne Bittner

    Arizona Bride Lovely Lisa Powers hated the Indian who captured her. He had killed her mother, ransacked her wagon and now planned to plunder her virtue. But as days in the arid Southwest became weeks and months, the fair-skinned Illinois beauty tu...

  • I Pledge Allegiance

    Howard Blum

    An investigative reporter takes readers into the world of the Walker spy ring family, detailing how John Walker, his son, and his brother betrayed the United States during their seventeen-year operation. Reissue....

  • Companions

    Lygia Bojunga-Nunes

  • Risks

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

  • Undue Influence

    Miriam Borgenicht

    Though reluctant to defend a man accused of rape and murder, criminal attorney Lydia Ness knew it was her shot at the big time. Moreover, she believed Jerry Eldstrom was innocent. Young, earnest and sincere, with an airtight alibi, he seemed like a d...

  • Wolfman

    Art Bourgeau

    Danielle Reade needs to appraise a house in a backwater town. There's no Starbucks, and the bars on her phone are a joke.   Making matters worse, someone is living in the house. Ashford Altman is the tall, sexy brother of the original ...

  • Black Baby

    Clare Boylan

    As a child Alice had paid the nuns half a crown to adopt a black baby from the mission in Africa - a baby that never appeared. Now a loveless spinster of sixty-seven, still yearning for a daughter, Alice's life is one of dull predictability, unbroken...

  • Ecstasy's Wings

    Muriel Bradley

    A Bonapartist and godchild of the former empress of France, Nanon de Cavonac was terrified when she fell into the hands of her enemy, Colonel Devin D'Amboise. Her only consolation was that she had thwarted his plot to kidnap Josephine...Now, trapped ...

  • Doomstalker

    Gary Brandner

    Devil in the flesh . . .Brian Kettering was six years old the day the horror began. That was the day he ran home alone from the church picnic in the park. The day the streets were strangely, utterly silent. The day he watched his father confront a hi...

  • Linebacker

    Cat Branigan

  • Memory of Snow and of Dust

    Breyten Breytenbach

    Meheret, an Ethiopian journalist, recounts her family history and her love for "mixed-blood" South African Mano in a series of letters to her unborn child and is betrayed by another writer who plagiarizes her work...

  • Games of Chance

    Laurey Bright

    Gun-slinging pilot Jacqueline Renton would risk her life without batting an eye, but never her heart. Her past had taught her that love was a game women always lost, and she refused to play. Then Dr. Finn Simonson hired her to fly him on a mercy miss...

  • Courage Mountain: The Further Adventures of Heidi

    Fred Brogger

  • The Manipulator

    Dana Brookins

    Bobbie Topin felt safe in the quiet backwater of Slopetown, Missouri. Safe amid the warmth and kindness of his foster family. Safe from the horrors of the past. He wanted only to forget what had happened back in Edgar Falls, and lead the kind of happ...

  • Warrior's Embrace

    Betty Brooks

    WANTON WITCH Unjustly branded a witch and cruelly taken captive, Irish-born Johanna McFarley barely escaped her brutal tormentors before she discovered a fierce, black-eyed stranger lying half-dead in her path. After risking her safety to nurse th...

  • Murder Can Be Fun

    Fredric Brown

    A novel about an ex-reporter who, disenchanted with his career writing a radio soap opera, looks to create a new show, dubbed "Murder Can Be Fun," and change genres. Things get dicey when killings happen, using our hero's unpublished scripts as a tem...

  • Family Read-Aloud Christmas Treasury

    Marc Brown

  • The Arousers

    Gerald A. Browne

  • Old Acquaintances

    Gayle Buck
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    Here are five all-new stories of Christmas by the highly acclaimed authors you love to read all year 'round. These heartwarming holiday tales touch on all the great themes of the season -- joyful homecomings, bittersweet reunions, renewals of the...

  • The Titan Game

    Niven Busch

    Reluctantly taking over the armaments empire he inherited from his father, Jason Strick finds himself drawn into a dark world of espionage, sabotage, and high-tech destruction when a remote-controlled robotic tank runs amok...

  • Stringer in a Texas Shoot-Out

    Lou Cameron

    When a legendary old gunslinger finally meets his Maker in some godforsaken West Texas town, Stringer heads to the scene for what he thinks is a routine story. But when he gets to Comanche Woe, it turns out he’s landed in the middle of a dust storm...

  • Special Operations

    Frank Camper

    Four fighting men and a hundred ways to die.Sometimes fiction is the only way to tell the truth. SPECIAL OPERATIONS tells the story of an off the books RECONDO team mission into Laos and North Vietnam in 1967. This account is written by LRRP veteran ...

  • Run, Isabella

    Suzanne Carey

    HER FATHER'S LEGACY Summoned to her dying father's bedside, Isabel Sloan stood before the man whose betrayal had shattered her girlhood dreams. Gathering her strength, she forgave him, and freed the ghosts that had haunted her. But her father had ...

  • Interlude

    Donna Carlisle

    NEVER SAY DIE Wealthy, well traveled, good-looking, intelligent -- Alan Donovan was all that and more. But it didn't seem to amount to much when he found himself trapped in his car during a sudden spring blizzard. Capable, competent Colorado ...

  • Guide to the Gods

    Richard Carlyon

  • The Little Mermaid

    Jan Carr

    What is Ariel going to do? Ariel is a beautiful mermaid who longs to be human. Her father, King Triton, has always told her that humans are bad, and he is angry when she falls in love with a handsome human prince named Eric. In order to win the...

  • Battle at Thunder Mesa

    G.A. Carrington

  • Shelia's Dying

    Alden R. Carter

    Grade 7-12 Sheila's Dying is a deeply moving story of the illness and death of a young girl. Sheila was orphaned as an infant and now, at 16, is dying of uterine cancer. Except for the alcoholic grandmother she lives with and cares for, Sheila is all...

  • Arms of Vengeance

    Nick Carter

  • Parlor Games

    Mavis Cheek

  • Elizabeth Cole

    Susan Cheever

  • Misfit Match

    Sydney Ann Clary

    He had rescued her. Now she would rescue him At the age of twenty, Catherine Carr was at the mercy of her aunt and her three cousins. Treated no better than a slave and threatened with an odious marriage, Catherine decided to escape. As it woul...

  • Reaper

    C. Terry Cline

    He reads the horoscopes every day. Then he chooses his victims, forcing them to write their final words to a famous astrologer: Dear Violet ...I am about to die. Ex-cop Ken Blackburn has been hired to protect Violet and her family. But the game is un...

  • The Winchesters

    James Lincoln Collier

    Fourteen-year-old Chris Winchester is torn between two worlds. By birth, he's part of the indomitable Winchester clan, owners of the enormous electronics factory that employs nearly everyone in town. Yet Chris' father gave up his stake in the busines...

  • Maze

    Jackie Collins

  • Witch Watch

    Paul Coltman

  • The Children of Segu

    Maryse Conde

    This sequel to Segu concerns the 19th-century tribal wars, Islamic conquest and French occupation of the African kingdom, focusing on characters with kinship bonds to the Traore family. ``Male characters supply the dominant points of views; women are...

  • By Love Enslaved

    Phoebe Conn

    PAGAN ECSTACY... Fiery-tempered Dana's violet eyes blazed with fury. Of all the male slaves on the Viking isle of Fyn, none was more insolent than tawny-haired, breathtaking Brendan. Now, naked and splendid, he awaited her punishment. Yet even...

  • The Houdini Directive

    Mike Connor

    Alphonse Sterling, a renegade psychic who claims to be Harry Houdini reincarnated, plans a spectacular orbital illusion that will divide what remains of America after two decades of war with China, and only alcoholic psychokinetic Ryan Arcad can stop...

  • The Skyrifters

    Clare Cooper

    A novel of suspense and survival after a dramatic mid-air explosion involving nuclear warheads. Separated from his family but befriended by the apparently crazy Mrs Milliagan, Sam resorts to a life of scavenging in the largely empty town....

  • The Potato Kid

    Barbara Corcoran

    A Summer Like No Other Ellis has a perfect summer planned. Horseback riding and working at a stable where world champion horses are trained is like a dream come true. But before the summer even begins, Ellis's mother comes up with one of her brigh...

  • Stationfall

    Arthur Byron Cover

  • Moon of Cobre

    William R. Cox

    Matt Buxton, sole owner of the expansive Cobre spread, is determined to protect his crazy kid brother from justice after he shoots a saloon girl in the back, but Marshal Ben Hancock is equally determined to bring him to justice...

  • Bagthorpes Liberated

    Helen Cresswell

    Upon returning from a vacation, the members of the eccentric Bagthorpe family find chaos as a tramp takes over their house, their maid disappears, and the demonic Cousin Daisy arrives with her pet goat....

  • Dying Voices

    Bill Crider

    Pecan City, Texas, is a quiet, uneventful town. Hartley Gorman is a sedate, fundamentalist college (although a dean was murdered there once—in Bill Crider's One Dead Dean). English professor Carl Burns is about to begin yet another year in su...

  • The Flight of the Flamingo

    Elizabeth Darrell

    1929, Sheenmouth Abbey. Leone Kirkland, daughter of a Marine Aviations tycoon, leads a life surrounded by males and aviation. When her father brings home an young orphan, Leone hopes to find a friend in him. However, the Kirkland males once aga...

  • Howling Mad

    Peter David

    WHO'S ARIAID OF JOSHUA WOLF? We all know what happens when a man is bitten by a werewolf: Every full moon, he turns into a wolf. Of course. But what happens when a wolf is bitten by a werewolf? And what if this wolf is snatched up by unsuspecting...

  • The Hacker

    Chet Day

  • Under a Summer Sun

    Samantha Day

    He disliked her on sight! Anne was surprised by Rob MacNeil's initial reaction to her. Most people instantly took to her good nature and model-like beauty. Weary of big-city life, disappointed in love, she'd returned to her family's...

  • Valmont

    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  • Neuromancer: The Graphic Novel

    Haven Tom De

  • Public Secret

    Rena Dean

    JANE WAS THE KEY TO HANK'S FREEDOM After weeks of captivity as a hostage, Hank Wandersee rejected the federal government's protective custody and instead appealed to Jane Woodruff for sanctuary. Years before, they had forged a deep and lasting ...

  • Darkthunder's Way

    Tom Deitz

    FIRE IN THE OTHERWORLD There are circles within circles, lands of magic and wonder that touch upon our own. But now war is on the horizon in the mystical realm of the Sidhe--a brutal clash of Faery against Faery that threatens to cross secret boun...

  • Gold

    Darrell Delamaide

    Drew, a young reporter for an international financial news service, gets an incredible tip from a stringer in South. Africa: revolutionaries have blown up all the major gold: mines - in that country, the largest producer of gold in the world. If rele...

  • Angel's Mother's Baby

    Judy Delton

    Finally, Angel’s family life is nearly perfect: one mother (who is able to spend more time at home), one new father (who turned out all right despite being a TV clown), and one little brother (even though he gets an embarrassing case of hea...

  • Find Demi's Dinosaurs

    Demi

  • Copper

    Al Dempsey

  • Taste of Victory

    Sandy Dengler

    Book 3 in the bestselling Australian Destiny SeriesTaste of Victory returns to the turbulent story of Cole Sloan and Smantha Connolly which began in the bestselling Code of Honor. Sloan's sugar plantation lies in ashes, and both must seek a new futu...

  • My First Chanukah

    Tomie DePaola

  • Wishes

    Jude Deveraux

    Jace Montgomery was a stranger in Chandler. Tall, proud, and ruggedly handsome, he would make any woman's heart beat faster. Even shy, sweet Nellie Grayson -- Nellie, who thought only of her beautiful younger sister's happiness. With Nellie's tireles...

  • A Lady's Point of View

    Jacqueline Diamond

    It all seemed so innocent until she fell in love Meg Linley had been cursed. Though her beauty could not be denied, she could barely see and was forbidden to wear spectacles. When she inadvertently cuts Beau Brummel at a ball, the scandal sends he...

  • Private Practice

    John Dickinson

  • A Bitter Homecoming

    Robyn Donald

    He was wrong in his assessment of her Completely wrong. But as far as Leon venetos was concerned, there was no smoke without fire. The scandalmongers had branded Alexa as the mistress of wealthy financier Sam Darcy and that was enough for Leon...

  • The Bar Stories

    Nisa Donnelly

    On a nondescript street somewhere in San Francisco sits Babe's bar, a legendary place where women who love women come to celebrate, to dry their tears, to spin dreams, and, every once in a while, to have their dreams come true.The Bar Stories present...

  • Gambling Lady

    Gail Douglas

    When tall, elegant Stefanie Sinclair married dashing Cajun rogue T J. Carriere, she dreamed of forever in his arms... until a constant clash of wills and a terrible misunderstanding drove them apart after only six months. Captaining her Mississippi r...

  • Counting the Cost

    David Drake

    Colonel Alois Hammer's indomitable armored brigade attempts to win a two-front war against an overwhelming foreign foe while protecting the existing civilian power structures against the opposition of religious fanatics...

  • The War Machine

    David Drake; Roger MacBride Allen

    What's worse than a corrupt, decadent, autocratic, oppressive regime? Corrupt, decadent; autocratic, oppressive aliens... "For Reasons of State" they ripped his marriage apart and forced his wife into the bed of another man. Now their Empire is in...

  • Babar: The Movie Storybook

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • The Skintight Shroud

    Wayne D. Dundee

  • The Sorceress of Darshiva

    David Eddings

    THE ENDLESS QUEST Troubles and delays continued to mount as Garion, Belgarath, Polgara, and the company pursued Zandramas across the known world. Possessed by the Dark Destiny, she had stolen Garion's infant son for a ritual that would destroy al...

  • Code of Dusty Fog

    J.T. Edson

    Dusty Fog is grateful when Raymond Sangster saves him from a potentially deadly ambush but is subsequently torn by the Western code of honor, as Sangster wants his help in building a railroad across a friend's land...

  • Stand and Deliver

    Nicholas Edwards

  • The Widow's Trial

    John Ehle

  • A Thunder on Neptune

    Gordon Eklund

  • A Cinderella Christmas

    Lucy Elliot
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    A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS by Lucy Elliot It seemed Mary Hillyer's purpose in life was catering to the needs of her capricious family. Kindhearted Mary was destined for spinsterhood, or so the New England townsfolk thought. Then, one Christmas, Jack...

  • Sweet Protector

    Patricia Ellis

    ROGERS TO THE RESCUE! It all started when feisty photojournalist Melanie Rogers spotted Mac Chandler being abducted by two nasty-looking thugs straight out of some TV crime drama. Naturally, like the concerned citizen and incorrigible snoop she wa...

  • Lone Star and the Shadow Catcher

    Wesley Ellis

    Coal mining is always a dirty business, but for Jessie and Ki it may be deadly in the eighty-eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, ...

  • Vic and Blood: The Chronicles of a Boy and His Dog

    Harlan Ellison

    Three stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of a boy and his telepathically linked dog—inspiration for the Fallout video games and Mad Max movies.

     The cycle begins with “Eggsucker,” which chronicles the ...

  • The Picolinis And The Haunted House

    Anne Graham Estern

  • Back to the Bedroom

    Janet Evanovich

    For months he'd thought of her as the Mystery Woman, draped in a black velvet cloak, with outrageous red curls, flawless skin, and carrying a large, odd case--but the night David Dodd saw a helicopter drop a chunk of metal through the roof of his lov...

  • Longarm and the Redwood Raiders

    Tabor Evans

  • Mother for Hire

    Marie Ferrarella

    ARMED WITH LOVE... Widowed attorney Bryan Marlowe had no strategy in the war his mischievous boys were waging against every nanny he hired. Just as he reached his wit's end, he found spirited child psychology major Kate Llewellyn. She soon had...

  • Trial by Fury

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

  • Thunder's Tender Touch

    Carol Finch

    LOW-MINDED GUNSLINGER... Refined Piper Malone would never have deigned to speak to bounty hunter Vince Logan back in Chicago. He was everything she feared in a man -- big, brash, and bold -- but the fair-skinned aristocrat needed him to recover her ...

  • The Plot to Kill Wallis Simpson

    Graham Fisher

    In British author Fisher's first book to appear in the U.S., an antique desk yields an astonishing manuscript--hidden for over 50 years--containing a wickedly imaginative account of why Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, precipitiously fled Engl...

  • The Microwave Factor

    Aaron Fletcher

  • The Next to Die

    Richard Fliegel

    In this first Allerton Avenue Precinct novel, a fatal embarrassment gets longtime Sergeant Shelly Lowenkopf shipped out of the Bronx - to California. As police consultant on a movie set, he's on ice until he testifies before a New York grand jury. Bu...

  • Where Angels Fear to Tread

    E.M. Forster

    When the widow Lilia Herriton marries the much younger, disreputable, and pitiable Gino, events of poignancy and pathos play themselves out. The mores of a narrow and lifeless society present a solemn background. Told with sympathy, a lightness, and ...

  • A Delicate Matter

    Rebecca Forster

    HER PAST WAS SHADOWED BY SHAME, HER FUTURE BRIGHT WITH PROMISE! There was nothing left for her in Sanger, California, but an empty house, painful memories, closed doors. Calla Oaks was alone now, free to go to Los Angeles and follow her dream. ...

  • Stormy in the West

    Norman A. Fox

    IT WAS THE WORST BLIZZARD IN FIFTY YEARS. BUT SNOW WON'T WASH AWAY THE BLOOD. He'd left Arrowhead a shattered young man, fleeing from the sight of his father hanged, from the knowledge that the man had brought it on himself. Now Mark Sabin is back, ...

  • Straight

    Dick Francis

    As Derek Franklin, an injured steeplechase jockey, nears the end of his career, he is thrust into trouble and mayhem by the accidental death of his older brother, Greville. “I inherited my brother’s desk, his business, his gadgets, his enemies, h...

  • A Call to Darkness

    Michael Jan Friedman

    The Enterprise discovers a lifeless, Federation research vessel, orbiting a plant hidden behind a mysterious energy shield. Over the strong objections of his senior officers, Captain Picard and an away team beam over in search of the missing crew -- ...

  • Oh, What A Busy Day!

    Gyo Fujikawa

  • Fortune's Heirs

    Kathleen Fuller

    Abandoning her domineering and manipulative Greek husband, Louise Tyler Papatestue returns to the Riverview estate only to encounter the enigmatic Gary Woods, who, in his open affection for Louise, might very well be harboring ulterior motives...

  • Back to the Future, Part 2

    Bob Gale

  • Traitors and Heroes

    Martin Garbus

  • A Silver Mirror

    Roberta Gellis

    WHEN POWER AND DESIRE RULED MEN'S HEARTS... In the turbulent age when hearts knew no surrender, willful King Henry III waged a scheming war, setting the lords of England and France in bloody opposition. Within this raging conflict, two indomitabl...

  • North Dallas after Forty

    Peter Gent

    Twenty years after North Dallas' championship, the gridiron gang--quarterback Seth Maxwell, a movie star; Jo Bob Williams, sheriff of Purgatory County; B.A., ex-coach-turned governor; and one-time receiver Phil Elliot--returns to celebrate...

  • Adoring Slave

    Rosemary Gibson

    "The blissful domestic bit is not for me" Working for her arrogant stepbrother Kent was the biggest challenge in Jana's young life. He was every inch the demanding boss and the job was certainly no sinecure! And as far as Jana was concerned, he w...

  • Ritnym's Daughter

    Sheila Gilluly

    WHEN SHADOWS STALK It should have been a time of jubilation in the realm of IUyria at the Greenbriar court. For the Lordling, Prince Gerrit, had come of age and the folk of many lands were gathering to celebrate. But others, too, were gathering --...

  • Wouldn't It Be Lovely

    Eve Gladstone

    Wouldn't it be lovely... If Liz Grady could make peace with Brad Kent? It hadn't taken Brad long to discover that beneath the reporter's fire-breathing exterior was a woman who was warmer and softer than any woman had a right to be. But the st...

  • Last Coincidence

    Robert Goldsborough

    Playboy Sparky Linville has a nasty notion of fun and games. But when he picks popular Noreen James as his unwilling playmate, the result is murder - and a case that rocks Manhattan's trendy Upper East Side and divides the family of Lily Rowan, Noree...

  • Broken Consort

    James Gollin

  • Midnight Princess

    Jo Goodman

    UNDER HIS SPELL When a bedraggled waif arrived half-dead on the doorstep of his Fifth Avenue mansion, handsome newspaper publisher Christian Marshall didn't know what came over him to let her stay on as a housemaid. The hard-drinking, short-tempered...

  • Where the Towers Pierce the Sky

    Marie D. Goodwin

    An apprentice astrologer traveling in time takes thirteen-year-old Lizzie Patterson back with him to his own era, war-torn France in 1429, where she finds herself working as a double agent to protect Joan of Arc from her enemies....

  • Best English Short Stories, 1989

    Giles Gordon

  • The Baby Leopard

    Linda Goss

  • Man Who Heard Too Much

    Bill Granger

    It begins in Sweden. A low-level defection by a Russian sailor in Stockholm coincides with the theft of critical tapes at a high-level Soviet-American conference in Malmo. At stake is a sophisticated computer virus potentially more lethal that any ...

  • Lassiter and the Golden Dragon

    Loren Zane Grey

  • The Other Side of the Canyon

    Romer Zane Grey

  • Stairs of Sand

    Zane Grey

    Ruth Virey, beautiful, young, and headstrong, gets herself in trouble from the get go with her fiery temper and impulsive ways. Willing to risk anything to escape her life at a "barren desert waterhole," she finds herself having jumped from the fryin...

  • Send Bygraves

    Martha Grimes

    In Send Bygraves, Martha Grimes has given us her most fascinating book, a dramatic mystery poem that uses the conventions of the traditional British mystery to explore the very nature of crime, the criminal, and the criminal investigator. Illustrated...

  • Bitter Trumpet

    Fred Grove

    A SURVIVOR Jesse Wilder survived the horrors of Shiloh. He survived the hell of a Yankee prison camp and the shame of volunteering for the Union Army of the West--the only way to escape certain death in the camp. But when the war ended and he came...

  • Peanut in Charge

    Dorothy Haas

    Peanut knows she and Jelly can handle baby-sitting for the neighborhood twins until their real baby-sitter can watch them. But when a snowstorm hits Evanston and the baby-sitter can't get there, Peanut discovers what it is really like to be in charge...

  • A Different Kind of Christmas

    Alex Haley

  • Like a Family

    Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

  • Squall Line

    James W. Hall

    Thorn is back! The hero of last year's surprise suspense hit, Under Cover of Daylight, Thorn is a Key Largo fisherman turned avenger despite himself and cursed with a nose for trouble. The mysterious disappearance of his boyhood friend, an FBI agent,...

  • A Saturday Life

    Radclyffe Hall

    This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Saturday Life' is a novel about a girl named Sardonia who hops from one obsession to another. Marguerite Rad...

  • Moonlight Masquerade

    Katrina Hamilton

    Her ancestral home overrun by Royalist troops, her beloved father imprisoned, beautiful young Averil was suddenly alone in a land torn by conflicting passions and constant peril. Only one man could help her--the mysterious Tottman. A master of disgui...

  • Desire

    Georgia Hampton

  • Tincture of Death

    Ray Harrison

    Sergeant Bragg and Constable Morton travel to the Orient to investigate the mysterious death of the biggest opium dealer in the East, and in the process, stumble upon another murder that is unquestionably linked to the first...

  • Act of Rage

    Joseph Hayes

    A suburban wife and mother is violently raped in the woods near her placid Connecticut town by an unidentified assailant, and in the course of her pursuit of justice, suspicion begins to fall on many of her close friends, acquaintances, and even on h...

  • Classics For Christmastime - Five Novels About the Spirit of the Holiday

    Linda Hayward

  • Grumbles from the Grave

    Robert A. Heinlein

  • Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman, T

    Steve Heller

  • Puppet Soldiers

    Eric Helm

  • No Man's Land

    John Heminway

  • The Gallant Lord Ives

    Emily Hendrickson

    The youngest daughter of the Baron Fflokes, Alissa had far more than her odd last name to contend with. For she lived in the shadow of her sister Henrietta's dazzling beauty and her sister Elizabeth's glowing charm, and had lost all hope of outshinin...

  • Haunted

    James Herbert

    Meet the cynical paranormal investigator David Ash in James Herbert's Haunted, the first chilling novel in the David Ash trilogy.Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook.Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will...

  • A Diet to Die For

    Joan Hess

    Thanks to her deplorable weakness for saying yes when she should say no, Claire Malloy finds herself escorting Maribeth, an overweight, depressed heiress, to her diet and fitness sessions. But while the arduous regime is taking off pounds, it also se...

  • Marriage by Consent

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    THE BESIEGED BEAUTY Miss Willa Drake was beautiful, charming, high-born, and newly impoverished -- and the two most handsome lords in London wanted to aid her in very different ways. The wealthy, elegant Viscount Revis assured her he would be ...

  • Dixie Church Interstate Blues

    Ingrid Hill

    Hill's luminous first collection of stories is set deep in the Dixie South. Her tales range wide and include failing patrician families in New Orleans and their warm, feistily acerbic black servants, lower-middle-class families in various states of d...

  • Ash Ock

    Christopher Hinz

    A compelling novel of humanity fighting back against telepathically linked killers in a postapocalyptic world…A quarter of a millennium ago, before the nuclear apocalypse forced the inhabitants of earth to flee their home planet, few humans could h...

  • Endless Ecstasy

    Kathryn Hockett

    SHE'D DO ANYTHING FOR HIS LOVE... When she looked up into the bluest eyes she'd ever seen, Jessie Watson thought she had died and gone to heaven. The tall, blond cowboy was as close to perfect as any man she'd ever seen and when he came ...

  • Angelina Book and Doll Package

    Katharine Holabird

    This soft, lovable Angelina with movable arms and legs is a perfect likeness of her picture book counterpart--right down to her winsome smile. She's 9- inches tall, she's costumed in a removable tutu, and she's packaged in a see-through box that fold...

  • The Unfrightened Dark

    Isabelle Holland

  • Bowser the Beautiful

    Judith Hollands

  • The Rescue of the Red-Blooded Librarian

    Judith Hollands

    Monica and Dee Ellen, ten-year-olds who hope to become detectives and who have pledged their friendship in ketchup--find their first case hitting close to home when Monica's mom is the prime suspect in a jewel theft....

  • The Glass Shoe

    Kay Hooper

    Beautiful heiress Amanda Wilderman insisted she didn't believe in princes, yet shed agreed to attend the masquerade ball as Cinderella. Dashing entrepreneur Ryder Foxx had no use for fairy tales but made an impossibly handsome Prince Charming. He ...

  • Kiss of the Falcon

    Stephanie Howard

    "The last ferry to the mainland leaves at midnight. Be sure you're on it". Terri arrived on the tiny Italian island of Santa Pietrina on a mission of mercy; she had promised her sister Vicki that she would find little Laura, Vicki'...

  • Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light

    Tanya Huff

    THE WILD MAGIC was loose in Toronto, for an Adept of Darkness had broken through the barrier into the everyday mortal world. And in this age when only fools and innocents still believed in magic, who was there to fight against the invasion by evil? ...

  • Miracles

    Susan Hufford

  • Scoundrel

    Charlotte Hughes

    Blue Mitchum had grown up the bad boy of Peculiar, Mississippi -- every mother's nightmare and every daughter's fantasy! He'd left his fingerprints on plenty of the town's girls, but he'd never touched Cassie Kennard...except in t...

  • Emerald Windows

    Tracy Hughes

    He'd been her window on the world... Small-town Hayden, Florida, had no use for stained-glass artist Brooke Martin, and the feeling was mutual. She despised the people who'd ruined her reputation with vicious gossip; she loathed those who&...

  • The Khrushchev Objective

    Noel Hynd

    When Party Chairman Khrushchev and President Bulganin set sail to visit a Western democracy, wheels are set in motion on a conspiracy dealing with kidnapping, extortion, political assassination, and possibly World War III...

  • Medusa

    Hammond Innes

    HMS Medusa is an obsolete frigate with an ill-assorted crew and an insecure captain. Why has she been dispatched under secret orders to be a sitting duck in one of the most vital ports of the Mediterranean?

    Drawn into a close involvement w...

  • Another Time

    Sidney Jacobson

  • Finally Home

    Arlene James

    DIFFERENT STROKES Nicolet Collier had it all -- a powerful job with a Dallas bank, a stunning apartment, an expensive wardrobe. So why, on assignment in a one-horse town in Oklahoma, did she feel as if something vital were missing? And how could c...

  • Shiloh's Promise

    BJ James

    MR. NOVEMBER Name: Shiloh Butler Past: Vietnam. The lush, deadly jungle. The prison camp. The men--his men--who didn't survive. Present: Shiloh was determined to pay his debt to one of those men by protecting his widow. Future: He would save M...

  • Tumbleweed Christmas

    Kristin James
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    TUMBLEWEED CHRISTMAS by Kristin James "Bah humbug" rancher Daniel MacKenzie met his match in his new housekeeper, Melinda Ballard. Daniel was sure he didn't have time for the fripperies of Christmas, but Melinda was determined to bring t...

  • The Two-Ton Secret

    Gail Jarrow

    Thirteen-year-old Seth's determination to see a basketball game leads him to lie, the first action in a series of events that lead him to search for the identity of the hit-and-run driver who has injured his sister....

  • On Station

    Roger Jewett

  • Wicked Jake Darcy

    Iris Johansen

    Women called Jake Darcy mad, bad, and dangerous to know, but Mary Harland insisted rakes were a thing of the past...yet wondered if the stories could possibly be true. She felt too innocent to enchant such a wanton man, but when Jake swept her into h...

  • Penguins

    Wolfgang Kaehler

  • A Train for the King

    Nurit Karlin

  • The Devil in the Shape of a Woman

    Carol F. Karlsen

    Confessing to "Familiarity with the Devils." Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very s...

  • Ramblin' Man

    Barbara Kaye

    She rarely allowed herself to dream But when cowboy George Whittaker left the Davis Mountains for greener pastures it just about broke Laurie Tyler's heart. She vowed to forget him. George was the sweetest man she'd ever met, but he was, i...

  • The Bedside Companion to Crime

    H.R.F. Keating

  • Guilty Secrets

    Carolyn Keene

    Ecstatic over her new boyfriend and her role in planning the halftime show at the homecoming football game, Nikki Masters finds her joy tempered by Tim's chilly behavior and Brittany's schemes of sabotage...

  • Something to Hide

    Carolyn Keene

    Ned’s marketing project for his Emerson College class -- introducing Spotless beauty cream to the public at a local mall -- is threatened by a mysterious individual who has laced the product with poison. It’s up to Nancy to uncover the perpetrato...

  • The Himmler Equation

    William P. Kennedy

  • Thirty-Eight Weeks till Summer Vacation

    Mona Kerby

  • The Dark Half

    Stephen King

    Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the twisted imagination that produced his best...

  • Reluctant Bride

    Valerie King

    INDIGNANT MISS When Charity Holwell heard how rudely her handsome suitor, the Earl of Redbourne, had treated her beloved cousins, the blue-eyed beauty was enraged. But when the rogue finally asked for her hand, she gave her assent ... with revenge, ...

  • What It's All About

    Norma Klein

  • The Ice Cream Man

    Kathleen Korbel

    WHO WAS NICK BARNETT? Divorcee Jenny Lake had to find out. The virile stranger didn't look like your average neighborhood ice cream man, and Jenny's neighbors were convinced he was some sort of criminal. Jenny couldn't believe it. But was that bec...