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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1991

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New Books List: 423 titles

  • Deepcore

    James B. Adair

  • A Cat in Wolf's Clothing

    Lydia Adamson

    THERE WAS A CROOKED CORPSE Dubbed "one of Manhattan's finest little-known actresses," beautiful cat-sitter turned sleuth Alice Nestleton has been called into action again. This time the New York City cops have put her onto a case that's right up h...

  • Pulse Points

    Heather Allison

    The sweet smell of success! Hillary Simpson craved it. And for a perfumer, success meant a hit fragrance with international distribution. Paul St. Steven, who was associated with the renowned -- and very traditional -- French fashion house of St. ...

  • Time Patrol

    Poul Anderson

    THE GUARDIANS OF TIME Forget minor hazards such as the H-Bomb. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the ...

  • A Captain's Lady

    Helen Argers

    SHIPS AHOY . . . HEARTS AT SEA! Charlette Varrick's London debut has gone scandalously atilt. Her sea tycoon father loses the celebrated Channel ship race to Darrel Huntly, Charlette's childhood playmate. The consequences make for a dreadf...

  • On Ships at Sea

    Madelyn Arnold

    Stories explore the lives of different types of lesbians, from women who are raising children, to those whose existence revolves around the bar scene, to those who have failed to recognize how much of their lives they have hidden from themselves...

  • Ruins and Romance

    Rebecca Ashley

    DIGGING, AMONG THE BURIED RUINS SHE FOUND THE MOST PRICELESS TREASURE OF ALL... Although some considered her spinster life dull. Elinor Wentworth was quite comfortable designing ladies fashions, attending a London rout or two, and listening to th...

  • Visions of Fantasy

    Isaac Asimov

  • Sister Dearest

    D.E. Athkins

    Following her horrible accident, Vicki feels as if everyone is treating her like an invalid, and when someone begins playing vicious pranks on her--pranks that remind her of the accident--Vicki hopes that her siblings will help her...

  • Bagged

    Jo Bailey

  • Flameweaver

    Margaret Ball

    Back Cover Plot Teaser: "The Russians are pushing south into the Hindu Kush, expanding their empire at the expense of the forgotten tribes that surround the British Raj. Little did they expect such resistance as they found in the fabled city of Gandh...

  • The Best Christmas Ever

    Mary Balogh
    in

    Bringing together five all-new Christmas stories by some of the most highly acclaimed Regency authors, this rich collection celebrates the joys and traditions of the holiday season. These are stories that capture the essence of Christmas - the genero...

  • Candle or the Sun

    Gopal Baratham

  • The Hellbound Heart

    Clive Barker

    Clive Barker's iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart, the novella adapted into the film Hellraiser, unleashed a new mythology of horror, brilliantly conceived and born of the darkest imagination. Now, enter this visionary world -- the merciless real...

  • Just a Kiss Away

    Jill Barnett

    A JUNGLE OF DANGER A BATTLE OF PASSIONS AN INESCAPABLE LOVE! Arriving on a lush Pacific island, Eulalie Grace LaRue was soon to be reunited with the father she hadn't seen since childhood. Yet before Lollie's dreamed-of meeting could take place,...

  • Promise of Paradise

    Karen Lawton Barrett

    FRIENDS AND ENEMIES From the minute he walked into Eden's shop and asked for author Aurora Prince, she knew he was trouble. The fact that Eden Pendleton penned the steamy historical novels credited to "Aurora" was a well-kept secret, ...

  • The Billiard Table Murders

    Glen Baxter

  • Sapphire Magic

    Nina Beaumont

    Love Was a Myth Count Ferdinand von Berg was a cynical man. He'd known the carnage of battle, and his heart wore the scars of many a capricious lady. When he met the enchanting Arabella, he wanted to believe in her innocence. But he had learne...

  • Perez and Martina

    Pura Belpre

  • A Christmas Keepsake

    Janice Bennett

    TIME TRAVELER Browsing through London in the softly falling snow, Christina Campbel as delighted to find an antique Christmas "snow ball" with an old-fashioned ice-skating scene inside. And when she examined it more closely, Christie was surprised t...

  • Into Their Labors

    John Berger

  • John Berkey - Painted Space

    John Berkey

    Finally, a collection of the work of award winning artist John Berkey! From King Kong to Star Wars, John Berkey's incredible paintings have captured the imaginations of millions. His ability to paint that which cannot be photographed and the amazing ...

  • Body and Soul

    Marcelle Bernstein

    When Anna Summers first leaves the convent after thirteen years, she doesn't exactly "leap over the wall." In fact, she is pulled reluctantly into the contemporary world. Called home after her brother's death to care for her ailing pregnant sister-in...

  • More Than Meets the Eye

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Elizabeth's romantic interest in an Asian American student angers a prejudiced bully named Brad....

  • Twelfth Night

    Jo Beverley
    in

    Lady Alice Conyngham was jilted exactly six years ago. Now, at this year's Christmas festival, she must face the scandal of years past and the gentleman to whom she'd given her heart....

  • Comanche Sunset

    Rosanne Bittner

    HE SAVED HER LIFE Mail order bride Jennifer Andrews headed for Texas ready for adventure. But when her stagecoach was attacked by Comanche warriors, the auburn-haired beauty wished she'd never left St. Louis. Then all at once the renegades were go...

  • The Guns of Sacred Heart

    Clifford Blair

    Tom Langston and teacher Sharon Easton, caught in a snowstorm, must get the badly wounded Marshall Breck Stever to the nuns at the Sacred Heart Mission, but they also must decide what to do with Stever's dangerous prisoner, Ned Tayback...

  • The Lords of Misrule

    Sara Blayne
    in

    When two of England's most eligible bachelors arrive at Willougby Hall for the Christmas festivities, Maggie Willoughby soon finds that mischief abounds, starting with a stolen kiss under the mistletoe!...

  • Secrets of a Midnight Moon

    Jane Bonander

    HE TOOK HER AS HIS CAPTIVE... Abandoned by her lover, condemned by her family, beautiful, honey-haired Anna Jensen was determined to put her unhappy life behind her. Answering an ad for a schoolteacher, she headed for the untamed wilds of the Calif...

  • Otherwhere

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

    In this second book of the Others trilogy, the last of the Others are in exile, fleeing their ravaged Archipelago across a sea fraught with danger to sanctuary in a land of ice, for nowhere else in the World is safe for them. Reunited with her Interm...

  • Sweet Enchantress

    Parris Afton Bonds

    CHATELAINE To some she seemed a seductress, to some a sorceress, but to the people of Montlimoux, she was chatelaine, mistress of moonlit spires and sunlit meadows, of a sleepy contented land that time had left behind. The bewitching Countess Domi...

  • Dinosaur Dilemma

    Clyde Bosco

  • Leroni of Darkover

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    THE POWERS OF LARAN UNLEASHED Return once again to Darkover, the magnificent world of the Bloody Sun, with Marion Zimmer Bradley and the many writers devoted to expanding the Darkover universe as, in these all-new stories, they reveal legendry and...

  • Cactus Blossom

    Emily Bradshaw

    THE DEDICATED LAWMAN AND THE DESPERADO'S DAUGHTER She was only ten when she first saved Aaron Hunter, and eighteen when she saw -- and saved -- him again. "Cactus Maxie" Maxwell rescued the lawman from her outlaw father and brothers -- only to bec...

  • Rainbow's End

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    HIS DESIRE WAS FIERCER THAN A ROCKY MOUNTAIN STORM...HERS WAS RECKLESS AND DANGEROUSLY WILD No one ever tamed Josselyn "Red" O'Rourke -- not her hard-drinking, miner father, "Da," not the convent nuns who raised her, and certai...

  • Fade the Heat

    Jay Brandon

    On a quiet April night, San Antonio's peace is shattered by insistent screams. A cleaning woman working late in a downtown office building points to a young computer expert as her attacker. Her version of the incident is rape; he claims he's been fra...

  • Could This Be Love?

    Melissa Brennan

  • Snowmen

    Sam Brown

  • Not a Marrying Man

    Dixie Browning

    MR. NOVEMBER Who: MacCasky lord, former U.S. Marshal. Type: Tough, rugged, fiercely independent. Latest Mission: To find the mother of the little girl who'd appeared on his doorstep. Unforeseen Complication: Enigmatic Banner Keaton. She was not t...

  • Star Rider

    Bonnie Bryant

    PINE HOLLOW GOES HOLLYWOOD! Lisa, Carole, and Stevie can't believe their luck: Skye Ransom, the teen idol The Saddle Club met on their trip to New York City, is about to star in a new movie -- and he wants the girls to help him with his riding! It's ...

  • Red-Hot Satin

    Carole Buck

    MR. WRONG That was what Hayley Jerome needed -- and fast! She'd told her meddling mother that she had a fiance, and now they were all supposed to meet. The hitch was that there was no fiance, until sexy co-worker Nick O'Neill conned his wa...

  • A Chance Encounter

    Gayle Buck

    The Accidental Bride Miss Joan Chadwick was not swept off her feet by the good looks of Lord Humphrey Dewesbury. Nor was Lord Humphrey intoxicated by the charms of the modest vicar's daughter. Instead, Lord Humphrey was affected by alcohol, not am...

  • Midnight Heat

    Mary Burkhardt

    MOONLIT RIDE Outraged by the poverty and injustice she saw all around her, lovely Rosaleen O'Rahilly rode out every night to rob any Englishman foolish enough to travel the roads of Irish Kinsale after dusk. The brave beauty wanted nothing more ...

  • Hanukkah Book

    Marilyn Burns

    Hanukkah is an exciting holiday, filled with special foods, songs, games, and the giving and receiving of gifts. It is also a time when people come together to retell the story of Hanukkah. THE HANUKKAH BOOK is filled with fascinating facts, time-...

  • Red Lightning, Black Thunder

    Jimmie H. Butler

  • Night Music

    Linda Cajio

    A Match Made In ... Devlin Kitteridge was the last unmarried grandchild in his family, a confirmed bachelor-and impossibly arrogant, Hilary Rayburn decided. But she just couldn't turn down his scheme to bring her grandfather and his matchmaking gr...

  • Season of Joy

    Caryn Cameron
    in

    A SEASON OF JOY by Caryn Cameron Elizabeth McGowan was dreading the Christmas of 1777. As bitter winter settled in, she fought to preserve her young son's farm from both the marauding British and the starving Americans at Valley Forge. Then Amer...

  • The Legend of Under Widden

    Stella Cameron

    WHAT WAS HAPPENING AT UNDER WIDDEN? Huddled in a hill-lined bowl a few miles from Lyme Bay, England, the village of Under Widden shifts in and out of the mist from the sea that slinks over the land. It is a place that speaks of a legend, a tale of...

  • Wonder's Victory

    Joanna Campbell

    Ashleigh's determined to make her dreams come true ... In her second year of racing, Wonder, the Thoroughbred filly Ashleigh Griffen has helped raise, is the star of Townsend Acres Stables -- until the worst happens. Just as Wonder is about to ...

  • Waking Nightmares

    Ramsey Campbell

  • Through a Dark Mist

    Marsha Canham

    RISING ABOVE AN EAGLE'S EYRIE, THE SOARING PASSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE As the misty forest quivers with the deadly flight of arrows, a tale of revenge and fated passion unfolds. An outlaw known as the Black Wolf of Lincoln dares to stand before th...

  • Bound by the Heart

    Marsha Canham

    HER HEART WOULD NEVER BE FREE Rescued from the stormy waters of the Caribbean, Summer Cambridge, daughter of the British governor of Barbados faced a new threat aboard the American ship Chimera. Captain Morgan Wade, the notorious buccaneer, brazen...

  • The Armchair Conductor

    Dan Carlinsky

  • Bad Blood

    P.M. Carlson

    When a noisy neighbor is suddenly murdered, feisty independent Maggie Ryan attempts to solve the crime, all the while dealing with a delicate secret from her own past....

  • The Ice Princess

    Lorraine Carroll

    DeShea Ballard had come to Louisiana in search of the sister she had lost as a child, only to find her sister had died, leaving an orphaned son, Danny. DeShea longed to shower Danny with love, but her nephew's Uncle Nick was a fierce -- yet fasci...

  • The Wooing of Miss Masters

    Susan Carroll

    AUDRA LEIGH MASTERS HAD NO INTEREST IN DUKES, ELIGIBLE OR OTHERWISE! The entire county, however, was agog with the news that the infamous Duke of Raeburn -- whose frown was as legendary as his fortune -- was hosting a ball to choose a duchess! ...

  • What Smart Women Know

    Steven Carter

    Get smart about men and relationships with the help of this straightforward guide. Learn how to read that vitally important first date, how to tell the good guys from the bad, how to handle a breakup and after and the eleven commandments for a smart ...

  • Just Jason

    Grace Catalano

  • Occupational Hazard

    John Chaloner

    This slick yet intriguing novel begins when Max Beaumont, media tycoon, is given unwelcome publicity after saving the life of the American ambassador to England. To appease public interest and control further prying, Max chooses old acquaintance Feli...

  • Else-Marie and Her Seven Little Daddies

    Gabrielle Charbonnet

  • Royal Magic

    Ruth Chew

    Cindy stared through the glass at the jungle scene in the museum. The diorama showed four chimpanzees with pink fruit from the trees. "It's like a magic window!" "Everything seems so real," Cindy said. "I can feel a warm breeze,” said Jack. "Is ...

  • Mama's Disappointment

    Judy Christenberry

    Decked out by her greedy stepmother in order to attract a titled husband, Emma is certain that she wants nothing to do with any man interested in her outer appearance, until she meets Richard Fairchild, who is less shallow than he seems...

  • Friend or Faux

    Joyce Christmas

    IT'S NOT SO MUCH THE HEAT AS THE ENNUI.... Since Manhattan's summer season is ever so dull, what else can Lady Margaret Priam do but Treed her brother's desperate fax and return to the family castle especially since one of his guests has been murd...

  • Pride's Harvest

    Jon Cleary

    In the town of Collamundra, Australia, the corpse of Japanese farm manager Kenji Sagawa is found in one of his cotton mill’s threshing machines. The prosperity that his company had brought to the small town had also engendered racial tension, and D...

  • Dog Magic

    Anna Coates

    Matt and his sister Kate are stunned one day when Toby, their dog, speaks to them, telling them that his puppies--who lived next door with Toby's wife, Polly--have been stolen, and Matt and Kate must help him find them...

  • Beverly Hills, 90210

    Daniel Cohen

  • Ump

    James Cohen

    When he gets into trouble with the Golla brothers, Ump, a Mafia hitman, seeks refuge in a small Midwestern town, but when the townspeople discover Ump's profession, they try to enlist his talents in disposing of unwanted "problems"...

  • The Anne of Green Gables Treasury

    Carolyn Strom Collins

  • Tough Tender

    Max Allan Collins

    Has Nolan met his match? MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins’ veteran thief faces off against a cold-blooded femme fatale in this double-length adventure originally published as two complete novels and unavailable in stores for three decades.“Pulp ...

  • Tiger's Tale

    Sally Cook

    Was it only fate -- or true fortune? When Candy told Marshall Scott's fortune at the village fete, she found the famous photographer bewitchingly handsome but infuriatingly arrogant -- and enigmatic, too. She'd lightheartedly predicte...

  • Melancholy Baby

    Lori Copeland

    Hot and Bothered! Teal Anderson couldn't believe it, but the small Missouri town she'd grown up in was just the same -- except for Bud Huntington! He'd been the best-looking boy in high school, and the wildest -- but now the reckless rebel was the t...

  • C U When the Snow Falls

    Deirdre Corey

    What could be worse? Molly can't believe her bad luck! Her mother has invited the horrible Erica Soames to stay with them for a week while Erica's parents are away. Erica is one of the Know-It-Alls, the mean show-offs that the Friends 4-Ever don't l...

  • The Real World of Sherlock Holmes

    Peter Costello

  • Twistor

    John Cramer

    In a Seattle research laboratory, Dr. David Harrison has accidentally stumbled upon something truly remarkable: the Twistor Effect, an unparalleled scientific phenomenon that opens doors into numerous alternate universes. His discovery is a breakthro...

  • Proof of the Pudding

    Monette Cummings
    in

    HOLIDAY CHEER TO WARM THE HEART... 'TIS THE SEASON WHEN LOVERS' EYES SHINE BY THE LIGHT OF A BLAZING YULE LOG, WHEN A QUICK KISS IS SHARED BENEATH THE MISTLETOE, AND WHEN LOVE IS THE MOST SPLENDID GIFT OF ALL... Savor the beauty and passion of ...

  • Fowl Prey

    Mary Daheim

    Leaving the Hillside manor in capable hands, bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle heads north to Vancouver's Hotel Clovia with her irrepressibly voracious cousin Renie for a pre-Thanksgiving getaway. But when an addled and impoverished popcorn ...

  • Rebel to the Rescue

    Kayla Daniels

    Fire...it had claimed the Creole Courtyard guest house, and all that Tory Clayton had to show for herself. What she gained was the pesky presence of an undeniably attractive arson investigator. Why wouldn't the rogue realize the only fraud was in...

  • Crystal Clear

    Cay David

    A RARE GEM It was the sort of sale that most jewelers only dreamed about. When a sleek, successful Los Angeles attorney breezed into Chrystal Cummins's jewelry store and purchased the most expensive item in the shop, Chrystal thought her problems ...

  • The Rift

    Peter David

    Every thirty-three years, a rift in space connects the Federation with a mysterious race called the Calligar who live on a planet hundreds of light years away--much too far to travel in a Starship. Captain Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise- are dispatch...

  • Murther and Walking Spirits

    Robertson Davies

    “The elder statesman of Canadian letters continues to explore the themes of sin, guilt, and self-discovery . . . A masterful effort.” -- Library Journal   Connor Gilmartin’s inauspicious, but much beloved, mortal life comes to an untimely ...

  • A Creole Christmas

    Diane Wicker Davis
    in

    A lovely New Orleans innocent's Yuletide wish for love comes true when she loses her heart to her handsome girlhood hero....

  • Suffer Little Children

    Thomas D. Davis

    Zara Divine reaches her thirteenth birthday and feels the need to make contact with the many “others” she has sensed in her mind. The Children of the Truth Cloud have dark and awesome powers. Their growth threatens the very fabric and existence o...

  • The Enchanted Land

    Saranne Dawson

    CHANGELING Abandoned on a doorstep as a baby, Emily had always been called a fairy child. As a grown woman her elusive charm made friends wonder if she were indeed a changeling; her blonde, elfin beauty was enough to enchant any man. But Alec swore ...

  • Graveyard Peaches

    Celeste De Blasis

  • Hard News

    Jeffery Deaver

    Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, Current Events - and she's got the story she...

  • Hidden City

    Jim Debrosse

    While working on a story about a famous actress visiting his hometown of Cincinnati, metro reporter Rick Decker gets a lead on a story about a Navajo Indian from Arizona who has died of the bubonic plague in Cincinnati while on a mission to help Litt...

  • Soulsmith

    Tom Deitz

    In the Georgia backwoods stands a magnificent estate -- its inhabitants the possessors of awesome powers passed on from generation to generation. Local residents look upon those who dwell within with respect and fear...trusting their fortune and thei...

  • Shattered Illusions

    Linda Renee Dejong

    A devastating trauma and near-fatal accident steals a young woman's memory, thrusting her into an unfamiliar world of glittering privilege, bitter rivalries, and dangerous desire... When she wakes up in the hospital, everyone recognizes her as Ama...

  • Sky Babies

    Judy Delton

    Molly needs to borrow or rent a baby. Fast.It's Christmastime and baby-tending time. Rachel will practice with her cousin Rhonda. Mary Beth has a little sister to take care of. And Sonny's hit the jackpot! He has two new babies to feed and burp--but ...

  • Terror on Track

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Hired to transport a deadly virus by train to a safe laboratory, Frank and Joe discover that one of the passengers on the train is a spy determined to steal the virus and sell it to the highest bidder...

  • Iron Horse

    Bill Dolan

    A multinational military force organized in 2175 to clean up Africa, the AfriKorps team guard a heavily-armored railroad train that will run through controlled territory. Then rumors of an impending attack of the eastern sector by mutant marauders se...

  • A Penny for the Old Guy

    Gaylord Dold

    While in London attending a veterans convention, Roberts visits his war-time romance Amanda. When Amanda’s young son is drowned in the River Cam in Cambridge, Roberts goes to work. But, surprisingly, the mystery takes Roberts to Amsterdam where pol...

  • The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    Author of The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson retums with the second book in his long-awaited new science fiction series--a story about dark passions, perilo...

  • Isaac Asimov's Robots

    Gardner Dozois

  • The Gates of Ivory

    Margaret Drabble

    A woman tries to uncover the mysterious fate of a friend in Cambodia in this “very smart” and suspenseful novel (The New York Times Book Review).   Liz Headleand is one of London’s best-known and most prominent psychiatrists. One day she a...

  • Guerrilla War

    Jack Drake

  • Gifts of Love

    Shannon Drake
    in

    A beautiful but impoverished mail-order bride travels west to discover Christmas joy--and passionate adventure -- in the arms of a rugged ex-gunfighter....

  • Castaway Angel

    Kathleen Drymon

    A STORM OF PASSION When spirited Alisha Whitlaw learned that the hated British had killed her father, she knew she must flee her safe Caribbean island and sail home to Virginia. Heedless of the coming storm, she boarded the first ship bound for the ...

  • An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Hang on to your cowboy hats! The Mousekewitz family is heading West, and Fievel is saddled up for adventure. The evil Cat R. Waul and his gang of wicked cats have lured all the mice to Green River with promises of cheese trees and friendly felines. B...

  • Double-Yuck Magic

    Kathleen Duey

    Unable to have a dog in her family's new apartment--an apartment in which weird things are going on--twelve-year-old Mathilda tries to figure out how to get a dog with the "Mad Inventor's Handbook" she has found...

  • The Christmas Gang

    James Duffy

  • A Christmas Spirit

    Sarah Eagle
    in

    HOLIDAY CHEER TO WARM THE HEART... 'TIS THE SEASON WHEN LOVERS' EYES SHINE BY THE LIGHT OF A BLAZING YULE LOG, WHEN A QUICK KISS IS SHARED BENEATH THE MISTLETOE, AND WHEN LOVE IS THE MOST SPLENDID GIFT OF ALL... Savor the beauty and passion of ...

  • The Sapphire Rose

    David Eddings

    THE SECRET OF THE STONE Finally the knight Sparhawk had come to possess Bhelliom, legendary jewel of magic that alone could save Queen Ehlana from the deadly poison that had felled her father. Sparhawk and Sephrenia, ageless instructor in Styric m...

  • Home Court Advantage

    Andrea Edwards

    Jenna Lauren wouldn't call herself happy, exactly; settled was more like it. Thirteen years after the best and worst time of her life, she was back in high school, as a teacher, and back on an even keel...until Rob Fagan returned to rock the boat...

  • Dangerous Waters

    Bill Eidson

    Riley Burke has it all: a successful advertising agency, a beautiful house, a trim sailboat, and a gorgeous wife. But no longer sure of his wife’s love, he begins an affair, the first in their ten-year marriage. As Riley and his would-be lover ...

  • Leave It to Lexie

    Lisa Eisenberg

  • Lone Star and the Deadly Vigilantes

    Wesley Ellis

    Vengeance is this posse's game -- and Jessie and Ki are moving targets in the one hundred and eleventh Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontie...

  • Sarah's Laughter And Other Stories

    Susan Engberg

  • Dumford Blood

    S.K. Epperson

    Police officer Ben Portlock investigates the grisly killings of pregnant animals, the supposed suicide of the Dumford, Kansas, garbage collector, the return of his troubled ex-con girlfriend, and dark secrets from the past that someone will do anythi...

  • Longarm and the Grave Robbers

    Tabor Evans

  • The Man and His Line

    Yoram Ever-Hadani

  • When Michael Calls

    John Farris

    Auntie Helen, the little boy sobbed, I'm home, and nobody's here!The phone trembled in Helen Connolly's hand. She could not believe her ears. This was her nephew, Michael Young, on the phone — Michael, who had been dead for sixteen years.Who...

  • Back of Beyond

    Shirley Faye

    SHINING STAR From the top of his Stetson hat to the toes of his leather boots, Jesse Fortune was a superstar. Although Dani Alworth had heard countless stories about the country and western idol, she'd never imagined she would have the chance to p...

  • Spontaneous Combustion

    David B. Feinberg

    “A funny, often moving book about being single, Jewish, gay, and HIV-positive . . . both urgent and convincing.” -- The New York Times Book Review
     
    In this sequel to David Feinberg’s national bestseller Eighty-Sixed, B.J. Rosenthal na...

  • Iceman

    Cynthia Felice

    In the distant future, fire and ice can lead to revolution...Jacinta was a starborn noblewoman and cyberlinked ship's navigator, ignorant of the strange ways of planet Earth in its second Ice Age. When her shuttle crashes on a desolate patch of Earth...

  • Murder With a Twist

    Tony Fennelly

  • Someone to Talk to

    Marie Ferrarella

    Brendan Connery may have been a brilliant lawyer, but as far as nurse Shelby Tyree was concerned, he was one stubborn man...though her heart ached for him. His long-estranged father was a patient in her ward, and Brendan resist her every attempt to r...

  • Circle of Love

    Carol Finch
    in

    Struggling to survive in the aftermath of the War Between the States, Pilar Maguire feels nothing but envy toward her handsome neighbor and his grand house on the hill...until he helps her remember the true meaning of Christmas....

  • I Wake Up Screaming

    Steve Fisher

    The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s.

    "She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely.  Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich ...

  • Trail to High Pine // West of the Barbwire

    Lee Floren

    TRAIL TO HIGH PINE: The High Pine country of Montana was like a tinderbox. For Dab Jones and the men of the Double J refused to lose an inch of their spread to landgrubbing sodbusters. It was cowmen against nesters, and before long the range would ig...

  • Davy Crockett and the Creek Indians

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Long Lightning

    Norman A. Fox

  • Dark Dreaming

    Pat Franklin

    The dream always started the same...

    Psychology Meredith Morgan understands the how and why of dreams. She understands that dreams are how our subconscious mind tells us things we are too busy to notice.

    It was a nearly senseless dream...

    Sh...

  • Came a Dead Cat

    James N. Frey

  • Roommates

    Kathryn O. Galbraith

  • Blood

    Janice Galloway

    'BLOOD is a virtuoso work: the writing sinewy and beautiful. . . the integrity of vision coruscating; the whole driven by the author's restless experimentation with form. And at least two stories, 'Blood' itself and 'Fearless', will certainly end up ...

  • The Biggest Thanksgiving Turkey Ever

    David Gantz

  • The Other Sinbad

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    First there was Sinbad the sailor, famous for his seven voyages, and for the lavish dinner parties he would hold upon his return, such feasts often lasting a month or more. Then there was Sinbad the porter, a man of humbler origins, with ambitions be...

  • Cheyenne Mistletoe

    Georgina Gentry
    in

    The first winter after the land run, Genevieve Malone barely has enough to keep her family going, but when a half-breed drifter seeks shelter on a snowy December night, she welcomes him into her home -- and her heart....

  • Beverly Hills, 90210

    Mel Gilden

  • Dangerous Proposition

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Warm Winter Nights... Liss Tremayne was desperate to locate the ranch before the snow completely obliterated the road, but night had fallen in the Canadian Rockies. Why had she left her safe life behind to bring her two young sons into the wildern...

  • Tidewater Promise

    Jo Goodman
    in

    Virginia beauty Courtney McClellan has lost her faith in happily-ever-after...until a childhood friendship blossoms into a once-in-a-lifetime love. ...

  • Solved

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Finally! We have the answers. Here skilled spinners of mysteries crack classic unsolved crimes. Non-fiction accounts can only speculate as to who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy, who was Jack the Ripper, and whether Marilyn Monroe'...

  • Invitation to Murder

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Challenge to write a story based on the premise of a young woman found murdered in her apartment, eighteen top mystery and suspense writers--including Bill Pronzini and Loren Estleman--contributed to this unique collection. Reprint....

  • Cross Your Heart Hope to Die

    Eileen Goudge

    A high school tradition takes a deadly turn and a killer crushes the competition in the second suspense-filled thriller following Dying to Win.   Senior year isn’t supposed to end like this -- with the death of a fellow student. Now, instead o...

  • Jailbird

    Eileen Goudge

    In the heart-stopping series finale from the author of If Looks Could Kill, a new festival queen is crowned, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer.   With a suspect who has confessed to the murder of the Peach Blossom Queen behind bars, the...

  • The Last Good German

    Bill Granger

    They met before. Their encounter nearly cost Devereaux--code name November--his life. Now, amid a perilously uncertain global thaw, they meet again: America's November Man, an agent without faith, and a defunct East Germany's Double Eagle, an agent...

  • Something Stirs

    Charles L. Grant

    The Pack, a group of teenagers, gathers to mourn at the Starlite Diner. Eddie, their leader, is dead. The survivors are all outcasts from high school's usual cliques:Scott, who heard the scream the night Eddie died; Katie, who lives with her senile g...

  • Sting of the Scorpion

    Ginna Gray

    THE SCORPIO MAN The Scorpio man is proud, enigmatic, tempestuous and possessive. His woman may never know what he's thinking...but she'll always know what he's feeling. ONE SCORPIO MAN IN PARTICULAR Jake Taggart was a man with a miss...

  • In Annie's Eyes

    Billie Green

    Her First Lover Her Only Love... He stood in the doorway of the candle-lit room, and Anne Seaton felt quiet anguish and desperate joy fill her heart! Max Decatur was back in her life after eleven lonely years, and the past had to be faced, no ma...

  • Winter Destiny

    Grace Green

    He was unscrupulous and she wanted him Rich. Reclusive. Ruthless. Courtenay West thought the tabloids had been far too kind in their assessment of Vancouver's powerful shipping magnate, Graydon Winter. She had made the mistake of loving Gra...

  • African Assignment

    Carol Gregor

    Warning: Predatory Male Proceed with Caution Africa was the chance of a lifetime for a secretary with a bad case of wanderlust. Frankie O'Shea knew Cal Fenton was desperate -- or he would never have hired her as his driver on his latest photo...

  • A Gallant Gentleman

    Leslie Davis Guccione

    A GENTLEMAN NEEDS A LADY.... When Kay McCormick was hired as Sailing Master at a prestigious Connecticut yacht club, she never expected to find the man of her dreams in Jake Bishop. Devastatingly handsome, the rugged seaman was every woman's f...

  • Monkfish Moon

    Romesh Gunesekera

    The nine haunting stories of Monkfish Moon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, announce the appearance of an extraordinary writing talent. Published to universal acclaim in England, these stories expertly reveal lives shaped by the luxuriant ...

  • Home in His Arms

    Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

    SHE NEVER FORGOT THE FIRST TIME SHE SAW HIM Ever since Jessie Jordan first laid eyes on Mitchell Jade, she couldn't erase the image of his jet-black hair and intense green eyes. And she couldn't shake the feeling that somehow, somewhere, she'd met...

  • Shadows of Blackbriar Hall

    F. Jacqueline Hallquist

    A WOMAN SEDUCED BY A LOVER'S SECRETS...AND HAUNTED BY THE VOICE OF FEAR... WHAT DID LIZBETH REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MAN SHE MARRIED? WHAT SECRETS DID HE HIDE IN HIS SOUL? Unlucky in love, Lizbeth Roberts was surprised by an unexpected proposa...

  • Baby, It's You

    Celeste Hamilton

    Meg Hathaway had taken the rabbit test - and flunked. Even though her marriage - and the rabbit - had died, the sparks between her and her impossible, gorgeous ex-husband were very much alive. So much so, that for her thirty-second birthday, Andy Bas...

  • Taking Sides

    Lucy Hamilton

    THE GOOD DAUGHTER Hope Carruthers was determined to clear her father's name, even if it meant confronting the intimidatingly sophisticate Sean Boudreaux. She was prepared to deal with his objections but hadn't counted on the fires this dev...

  • There Won't Be War

    Harry Harrison

  • Walls of Blue Coquina

    Sam Harrison

    Bobby Sauls sits on his porch amid a cluster of cottages on the Florida coast, awaiting an all-important, unspecified event. ``Harrison's elaborate exploration of a dying man's need to believe in some transcendental experience while attempting to tie...

  • Creed's War

    Bryce Harte

    Wanted for a crime he didn't commit and determined to exact vengeance on his brother's killers, Slate Creed rambles from Texas to New Orleans, avoiding the bluecoats chasing him but finding more trouble with a card cheat...

  • The Medusa in the Shield

    David G. Hartwell

  • Hug Dancing

    Shelby Hearon

    With wit and feeling Shelby Hearon takes us into the life and world of Cile Tait, age thirty-nine, of Waco, Texas. A woman of charm and integrity, she summons up the courage to burn her bridges and defect from her marriage to the Grace Presbyterian C...

  • Mistletoe and Folly

    Sandra Heath
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    Bringing together five all-new Christmas stories by some of the most highly acclaimed Regency authors, this rich collection celebrates the joys and traditions of the holiday season. These are stories that capture the essence of Christmas - the genero...

  • The Tango Player

    Christopher Hein

    In Leipzig, East Germany, in 1968, Dallow, a young history professor, is released from prison after spending twenty-one months there for playing a tango with subversive lyrics and sets out to rebuild his life in a corrupt system that has lost face...

  • Paradise and More

    Shirl Henke

    AARON: Second in command to Cristobal Colon, he set sail for the Indies seeking adventure in the new world and fleeing persecution in the old. MAGDALENA: Caught between King Fernando's desire and Queen Ysabel's jealousy, she followed the m...

  • The Dragon and the Jewel

    Virginia Henley

    He would sell his warrior soul to possess her forbidden innocence. HE WAS HER FOLLY AND HER PASSION. With her sapphire eyes and silken dark hair, Princess Eleanor was a bewitching beauty made for a man's pleasure. But once a child bride widowed...

  • Tales of the Master Race

    Marcie Hershman

    Marcie Hershman's haunting Tales of the Master Race circles the streets of Kreiswald, an imaginary town in Germany, during the crucial years of the Third Reich. It takes us inside the lives of "ordinary" German citizens-Aryan men and women-marking th...

  • Three Little Witches and the Two-Day Spell

    Debra Hess

  • George V. Higgins Victories

    George Higgins

  • A Christmas Charade

    Karla Hocker

    'Tis the season for sweet delights...and tender secrets! AN UNWILLING GUEST Elizabeth Gore-Langton was hardly in a position refuse to accompany Lady Astley to the Christmas party at Stenton Castle. After all, a paid companion must follow her ...

  • Desert Destiny

    Sarah Holland

    "I am master and here -- I am the law" Sheikh Suliman El Khazir was a powerful man and used to getting what he wanted, and what he wanted was for Beth to be his desert bride! Despite her growing attraction, all Beth's instincts told...

  • Locked in the Screaming School

    Judith Hollands

  • The Safety of Objects

    A.M. Homes

    The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generationOriginally published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this extraordinary first collection of stories by A. M. Homes confronts the real ...

  • Holiday Spirit

    Kay Hooper
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    A matchmaking grandmother and three holiday ghosts arrange a sensuous reunion for a headstrong noblewoman and her seductive former fiance....

  • House of Cards

    Kay Hooper

    MURDER IS RELATIVE Lane Montana, finder of lost objects, dreads the upcoming family reunion at her mother's estate--especially tire inevitable interrogation of Lane's new lover, police lieutenant Trey Fortier. But the gathering takes a far more un...

  • The Best American Short Stories 1991

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • The Best American Essays 1991

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • To Catch a Lorelei

    Phyllis Houseman

    JUST A PRETTY FACE When she saw the gorgeous, bronze-skinned hunk posing in the ad for Anytime Jeans, Lorelei Hunt couldn't help herself. The powerful message in Daniel Logan's eyes prompted her to pick up a pen and write the first fan letter of h...

  • Dangerous Infatuation

    Stephanie Howard

    "I simply do not like you." Talk about getting off to a bad start! These were not the most encouraging words to hear from a man who was not only a sheikh, a prince of the realm, but also the owner of the newspaper that Angela Baker was hop...

  • Conqueror's Kiss

    Hannah Howell

    PASSION'S BOUNTY There was no sanctuary from the Scottish invaders for petite, raven-haired Jennet Graeme behind the walls of her besieged town of Berwick. She bravely resisted the towering, blond knight who stormed the battlements and claimed...

  • Whoo?

    Richard Hoyt

    When private eye John Denson travels to Washington State to clear a client of a small-time marijuana charge, he finds himself in the midst of a turf war between the mighty logging industry and the imperiled spotted owl. When a spotted owl is found mu...

  • Antique Collector

    Glyn Hughes

    When one of his wealthy, elderly lovers dies, leaving him a sizeable inheritance, Jack Shuttleworth--a middle-aged drag queen traveling in a gypsy caravan in Northern England in the summer of 1915--finds himself the target of his dead lover's sister...

  • A Legal Affair

    Bobby Hutchinson

    Red Alert! Zach Jones had ulterior motives for volunteering at the legal clinic. It was a great way to meet impressionable female students. He hadn't counted on being knocked out the minute he saw red-haired Jenny Lathrop. Zach wanted to get t...

  • If I Had a Sheep

    Mick Inkpen

  • What About Grandma?

    Hadley Irwin

  • Gold Digger

    Arlene James

    Dangerous Liaisons Meyer Randolph had been searching forever for that special woman, and when he saw Elaine Newcomb, something instinctively told him she could be The One. But soon he wished he'd never laid eyes on her. Though Elaine claimed ...

  • Hour of the Hunter

    J.A. Jance

    THE HUNTER IS FREE TO KILL AGAIN - AND HOUR BY HOUR, HE DRAWS CLOSER... The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture-murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd...

  • Racing With the Moon

    Muriel Jensen

    HE WANTED HER... ... He fulfilled her every wish. ... He caressed her with a gentle touch. ... He penetrated her soul with his knowing eyes. Genny Scott knew Jack Fleming was very dangerous, and life in New Hampshire was going to be very ...

  • Space: A Three-Dimensional Journey

    Brian Jones

  • Rebel's Mistress

    Kathy Jones

    SHE FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM It was too clever a plan to fail. Dedicated abolitionist Carrie Blackwell would sell much-needed salt to the Confederacy at a reduced rate, thereby gaining the Southerners' trust. In the meantime, she would go about her busine...

  • Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the jolly new janitor really be Santa Claus? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! "He could be Santa Claus," Liza suggested quietly. "Mr. Jolly does keep the building...

  • A Cure for Love

    Penny Jordan

    Remedy for an aching heart Though Lacy's brief marriage went disastrously wrong, she still has her daughter, Jessica. But there has been no man since Lewis, the one who loved and left her, twenty years ago. Lacey is a woman in full control...

  • Typhoon

    Mark Joseph

    In the forbidden waters of the White Sea, the captain and crew of the "USS Reno" witness the destruction of one of the Soviet secret bases by a Soviet submarine, and soon commander "Plutonium Jack" Gunner is caught in an internecine battle in enemy w...

  • Deerslayer

    M.S. Karl

    When a young boy is implicated in a murder, Brady goes hunting for the real killerIn Pete Brady’s new hometown, hunting is a religion, and he is expected to convert if he’s to run the local newspaper. When Sheriff Garitty takes his son ou...

  • Putting on the Ritz

    Joe Keenan

    The witty duo from Blue Heaven invade the entourage of a tasteless real estate/media magnate, attempt to turn his talentless wife into a chanteuse, and vie for the affections of a suave magazine editor, in this deftly delicious comedy of bad manners,...

  • Final Notes

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy visits deceased country singer Curtis Taylor’s hometown to investigate a report that Taylor has been seen alive. But Nancy discovers that he’s not only dead; he was also murdered! Nancy must work quickly to unmask an elusive murderer at the...

  • New Year's Evil

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY DREW heads for Quebec City to investigate sabotage on the set of the romantic TV thriller Dangerous Loves. But the action behind the scenes is far more chilling than anything on camera. Somebody is secretly determined to turn the film into a fl...

  • A Mind of Her Own

    Carolyn Keene

  • Wlt

    Garrison Keillor

    In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) to rescuer their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next quarter century, the ...

  • Blood Tide

    Bill Kelly

  • Green with Envy

    Jerry Kennealy

    P.I. Nick Polo’s wry commentary on modern society--especially as experienced in San Francisco--with fast-paced adventure to create a thoroughly entertaining romp. Polo is accosted by a fellow investigator who accuses him of planting a bug on a clie...

  • Offspring

    Jack Ketchum

    Confident that the inbred family of cannibals who ravaged the town of Dead River, Maine, ten years before are gone for good, the town's residents are ill-prepared for the return of the flesh-eating monsters. THE STORY BEHIND THE GRUESOME LEGEND…...

  • Sammy Carducci's Guide to Women

    Ronald Kidd

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Ronald Kidd

  • The Reckless Wager

    April Kihlstrom

    Fair Game The rich and handsome Earl of Basingstoke had a low opinion of women--and a high opinion of himself He smugly wagered that he could conquer any young lady he chose. And his confidence soared when he got to choose the unworldly, unsuspect...

  • Lethal Attraction

    Rebecca King

    Captured! Like a bird of prey, he'd circled unseen, then swooped and carried her off to his mountain home to devour at his pleasure. It was a fitting assessment of Leon de Villada and the methods he'd employed to turn Jade Lorrimer's w...

  • Season of Storms

    Kate Kingsley

    Pride and Passion When orphaned half-breed Claire Fortier was thrust into the dizzying heights of Creole society, the proud girl relied on her innate cool-headedness to master her circumstances. How, then, could she let such an insulting roue as P...

  • Deadly Breed

    T.J. Kirby

  • Made to Order

    Risa Kirk

    He was a dreamer Growing up fatherless on the streets of Chicago's roughest neighborhood, Del Rafferty vowed to escape poverty and create a good life for himself. He'd succeeded in his dream and now made his living creating new images for his corp...