Books Published in September 1990

New Books List: 575 titles

  • Warriorwards

    Dafydd ab Hugh

  • Turnaround Jack

    Richard Abshire

    DALLAS DETECTIVE JACK KYLE IS ON THE TRAIL OF AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE -- A TRAIL THAT ENDS DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS'S CRIME WORLD private eye Jack Kyle is back, and his new client, Guy Borodin, has just the kind of simple case Kyle loves. Borodin s...

  • People Will Talk

    Audra Adams

    SMALL-TOWN BLUES After six months as acting sheriff in quiet Branchport, tough New York cop Vince Messing vowed he'd once again be ready to hit the city streets. But he hadn't counted on falling for local beauty Amanda Simpson. One look at...

  • The Hunt Out of the Thicket

    John Morel Adler

    This stunning book of short stories introduces the literary world to an author who writes of the outdoors with rare artistry and exactitude. John Morel Adler knows the woods, thickets, swamps, rivers, and coasts of his native Georgia and South Caroli...

  • Fool and the Fish: A Tale from Russia

    Alexander Afanasyev

  • ...To End All War

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY -- WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ? World War III has reduced America's purpled mountain majesty to a battle-seared landscape of blasted rubble and toxic waste. A few tattered pockets of civil...

  • Tides of Valor

    Peter Albano

    Rodney and Nathan Higgins are of the same blood, but they are destined to lead two very different lives. Rodney loves the life his father had worked for, living on New York’s Fifth Avenue in all the luxury that comes with it. Nathan is a Marxis...

  • Beaky

    Jez Alborough

  • Kiet and the Opium War

    Gary Alexander

    Bamsan Kiet, chief of police in the capital city of Luong, a mythical Asian country that exists placidly among its violent Indochinese neighbors, is troubled by a flourishing opium trade, gangster-style rubouts, and friction from his soon-to-be inlaw...

  • Scrambled Eggs

    Suzanne Allen

  • Front Runner

    Rob Allyn

    Two very different young men--Andrew Sebastian, born to privilege and wealth, and James Brackler, battling his way out of poverty and neglect--become deadly rivals in the high-stakes arena of Washington power politics...

  • Scene of the Crime

    Mickey Alman

  • The Society Ball Murders

    Jack Albin Anderson

    Reporter-sleuth Patty Nottingham and her boyfriend, pianist Rex Murphy, embark on their own investigation after the police claim that the bizarre death at a society ball of San Francisco society matron Binky Crenshaw was due to over dieting and lipos...

  • Game's End

    Kevin J. Anderson

    The finale to the Gamearth Trilogy. Itâ,"s all-out war between the players and characters in a role-playing game that has taken on a life of its own. The fighter Delrael, the sorcerer Bryl, as well as famed scientists Verne and Frankenstein, use...

  • The Ghost Inside the Monitor

    Margaret J. Anderson

    PHANTOM OF THE MONITOR Something weird is going on in Sarah's father's new computer store. When Sarah looks at her reflection in the monitor, the face she sees isn't hers! It belongs to a younger girl, named Pascale, whose tragic story mysteriously ...

  • Daddy's Home

    Paul Dale Anderson

  • Stolen Dreams

    Susan Anderson

    Abducted by a thief--and seduced by love! Jocelyn had always possessed a fiery spirit...but a new fire was ignited within her by the burning caresses of the handsome highwayman who was her captor. Dash was tortured by dark memories and driven b...

  • Arrogant Invader

    Jenny Arden

    She thought she was perfectly safe from Jeb There had never been much love lost between Gwenyth Morgan and Jeb Hunter. Jeb might be successful, but he was also arrogant and ruthless, running her father's old quarry with a single-minded desire ...

  • That Champion Chimp

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • Napoleon and Josephine

    Theo Aronson

  • Never Doubt My Love

    Katherine Arthur

    Cassie had put the past behind She'd jumped at the chance of nursing Lincoln Snow. After all, the now prominent stockbroker had once been the object of her schoolgirl dreams. Gradually, under her care, Lincoln was soon on the road to recove...

  • Seasons

    Warabe Aska

  • Allie's Big Break

    Carrie Austen

  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

    Avi

    The Seahawk looms against a darkening sky, black and sinister. Manned by an angry, motley crew at the mercy of a ruthless captain, the rat-infested ship reeks of squalor, despair...and mutiny! It is no place for the lone passenger, thirteen-year-old ...

  • One Crow

    Jim Aylesworth

  • Encore Murder

    Marian Babson

    Old rivalries result in murder when Evangeline Sinclair's old acting adversary, Griselda von Kirstenburg, announces her intention to write her memoirs, which will feature unflattering portrayals of Evangeline and Trixie Dolan, and steal the thunder o...

  • Tomorrow's Promise

    Judy Baer

    In Yesterday's Dream Lexi Leighton's personal world collapses around her and her faith in God is shaken, but in the end she is assured that He is still with her. Yet her beloved grandmother only gets worse and so does the darkness of the circumstance...

  • Yesterday's Dream

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton has always been there for her friends--a consistent source of help and stability for those in need. But an early morning phone call from the hospital begins a series of events that starts her personal life on a downward spiral. The ...

  • Forbidden Fires

    Madeline Baker

    Beautiful and hot-headed, Caitlyn had vowed to hate all Indians until the day she died. After all, weren't they the ones responsible for the senseless massacre of her beloved brothers? But when she gazed into the defiant eyes of the half-breed ...

  • Track of the Giant

    Will Baker

  • City of Strangers

    Robert Barnard

    DEADLY NEIGHBORS Wynton Lane, with its imposing Victorian houses, is a bastion of respectability. Belfield Grove Estate is not. Belfield Grove harbors families like the infamous Phelans. Led by their foul-mouthed, beer-swilling patriarch, Jack, they...

  • Heartlight

    T.A. Barron

    PCL (Pure Condensed Light) = FTL (Faster Than Light travel) A butterfly's wing, a silicon chip, and a new equation for light hold the key to humankind's boldest dream--faster than light travel. A distinguished astronomer and a sensitive young w...

  • A Relative Stranger

    Charles Baxter

    "In his quiet cosmic wonderment, Baxter is the equal of John Updike and Anne Tyler at their largest and best."―GQ

    Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our fine...

  • The Perez Family

    Christine Bell (1)

    Made into a major motion picture that starred Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei, The Perez Family is a profound little parable about the redemptive power of love. And when you put it down . . . you have glimpsed a single human truth, brilliantly stat...

  • Toad School

    Cathy Bellows

  • One Cow Moo Moo!

    David Bennett

    Can you guess what's chasing all the animals in the barnyard?

    Bet you can't!

    Can you make as much noise as the animals in this book?

    No way!

    Will this book make it fun to count to ten and back again?

    Sure will!
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  • I Can Hear the Mourning Dove

    James W. Bennett

  • Forever in Time

    Janice Bennett

    MODERN WOMAN Erika Van Hamel had been living alone on the tiny British island for two years when a stranger identifying himself as Gilbert Randall washed up after a boating accident. Although he was strikingly handsome, he wasn't exactly her typ...

  • Judith Resnik

    Joanne Bernstein

  • Rememory

    John Gregory Betancourt

    For catmen Hangman and Slash, prowling the burned-out urban Sprawl is the ideal life. These genetically modified people live to rip off hot cargoes from rival animen. It's a fine life of thief vs. thief...cat vs. dog... Fine, that is, until Slash sco...

  • Overlanders: A Classic Story of the Australian Outback

    Dora Birtles

  • Prince of Dreams

    Carly Bishop

    She was no ordinary doctor He was no ordinary man The Petrakis men were legendary. Power, wealth, adoration -- they had it all. But for Alex Petrakis, locked in a coma after a daredevil accident, all the money in the world couldn't guarantee ...

  • Sand Against the Tide

    Paul Bishop

    A retired cop-turned-fishing boat captain, Calico Jack Walker must pay for ignoring his instincts when he charters his boat to two shady characters who try to hijack the ship and almost murder his son. Reprint....

  • Story of the Tooth Fairy

    Sheila Black

    A delightful book about losing baby teeth and giving them to the tooth fairy is accompanied by an adorable tooth pillow. This book & pillow set is the perfect way to help your child through this time in their life....

  • Close to Home

    Cynthia Blair

    When Jessica MacAllister takes time off from her career to move to the suburbs and become a full time wife and mother, it’s not all Ozzie and Harriet. Then her cigar-chomping real-estate agent is murdered, and she can’t resist investigating. Jess...

  • A Ticket to the Boneyard

    Lawrence Block

    Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate eno...

  • Science Spook

    Hanya Bloom

  • The Big Garage on Clear Shot

    Tom Bodett

  • Love on Strike

    Janice Boies

    Lillie Evans is attracted to artist and rebel Jay Carson because he is different, but ideological disagreements could destroy their new relationship when a teachers' strike finds them on opposite sides of the picket line...

  • The Heart's Intrigue

    Evelyn Bond

    DEVIL IN DISGUISE Lady Clarissa Tregallen preferred the windswept wilds of Cornwall to the jam-packed ballrooms and noisy routs of the London ton, but as the future bride of the tediously respectable Duke of Mainwaring, Clarissa would soon bid her...

  • Washington Deceased

    Michael Bowen

    For some it is an "honor cottage." For United States Senator Desmond Gardner it's a minimum security federal prison that he and Sweet Tony Martinelli now call home. Unlike Gardner, Martinelli's rap sheet smacks more of crime in the streets than crime...

  • Eminently Suitable

    G. Bruce Boyer

  • East Is East

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    A young Japanese seaman jumps ship and washes ashore on a barrier island in this “marvelous [and] razor-edged” (Cosmopolitan) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain. “A hilarious black farce about racial stereo...

  • Shocker : No More Mr. Nice Guy

    Randall Boyll

  • The Heirs of Hammerfell

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Now, after a five-year absence, Marion offers us the chance to return to Darkover at the time of The Hundred Kingdoms, an age of war and strife when Darkover was divided by border conflict into numerous small, antagonistic kingdoms. The Heirs of H...

  • The Christmas Sky

    Franklyn Mansfield Branley

  • Clifford's Happy Days

    Norman Bridwell

  • Married?!

    Annette Broadrick

    IN THE NICK OF TIME Nick Montgomery had been pulling Dani Devereaux out of scrapes since they were kids. But now Dani wondered if she'd finally gone too far -- appearing on his doorstep at midnight, interrupting his hot date with an even hotte...

  • Apache Captive

    Betty Brooks

    SHE WAS HIS WOMAN For four long years, Chama had kept his distance as the captive he called Fire Woman temptingly came of age. The raven-haired Apache warrior had jealously guarded her from the other braves, and now that he had paid the bride-pric...

  • The Crevasse

    Jerry Brown

  • Lady of Penross Manor

    Joan Winmill Brown

    When Charlotte Winton accepts the position of governess at Penross Manor in Cornwall, she is unprepared for the secretive and unfriendly servants, the mysterious face she sees at the east turret window, and her burgeoning relationship with Lord Penro...

  • Manchild in the Promised Land

    Kenneth T. Brown

  • Big Bad Love

    Larry Brown

    "Larry Brown writes like a force of nature." -- Pat Conroy Larry Brown caught the rapt attention of readers and critics with the 1988 publication of Facing the Music, his prize-winning first collection of stories. The following year, his first novel,...

  • The Homing Instinct

    Dixie Browning

    WHERE THE HEART IS Chloe Palmer knew she was lost the moment Quint Stevens lifted her from her ruined car and brought her -- as if she were a stray kitten -- into his warm, secure, all-male pigsty of a home. He had the kind of shoulders a woman...

  • Saddle Club-Boxed Set 4 Vols.

    Bonnie Bryant

  • The Haunting of Frances Rain

    Margaret Buffie

  • The Vor Game

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    THE PRINCE AND THE MERCENARY Together, they can get into a lot of trouble. Trouble only the combined forces of the Free Dendarii Mercenaries can get them out of. At least, that's what they're hoping... In this latest adventure with the galaxy's...

  • White Bird

    Clyde Robert Bulla

    John Thomas, a boy who lives in the woods of Tennessee with his stern guardian Luke, leads a lonely, solitary life. One morning after a storm, he finds an injured bird and makes his pet. When another young boy steals White Bird, John Thomas sets out ...

  • Such Nice Kids

    Eve Bunting

    This cautionary tale, as tantalizing as a tabloid headline, illustrates the manner in which a single error in judgment can set off an avalanche of mistakes. When Pidge needs to borrow a car for a hot date, he turns to best friends Meek and Jason. Unw...

  • Some Enchanted Season

    Patricia Burroughs

    The Hunk with the Wicked Grin... Once Kevyn Llewellyn spotted him in the crowd, she knew her search was over. Rusty Rivers had the magnificent body she needed for the warrior-god of her fantasy painting, and she had to have him right away-even if ...

  • The School Trip

    Nick Butterworth

  • Fantastic Four: Trial of Galactus

    John Byrne

  • The Sensational She-Hulk

    John Byrne

  • Risks

    Stella Cameron

    WAS SHE READY FOR A NEW BEGINNING? Jennie Andrews was bravely coping with a new business, a house in constant need of repairs, and two teenage sons. Then life suddenly tipped that precarious balance. Peter Kynaston had been the family's best fr...

  • Tigers by Night

    Sandra Canfield

    Everyone was worried about Jake Cameron He'd been ordered to take a break from police work and simply relax. But driven first by guilt, then by desire, Jake had created a situation that was neither simple nor relaxed. He'd volunteered t...

  • Moose in the Garden

    Nancy White Carlstrom

  • Chase

    Alejo Carpentier

    Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of polit...

  • A Perfect Spring

    Lark Carrier

    Although the abandoned egg picked up and hatched by Mr. and Mrs. Seabird yields a turtle unlike the baby bird from their own egg, the lessons they have to impart seem to apply to both young creatures equally....

  • Rescue from Yesterday

    Marisa Carroll

    Simon McKendrick had a mission Fifteen years after the fall of Saigon, his sister Rachel and his brother Micah were being held prisoner in Vietnam by a corrupt government minister. The ransom for their release: a flawless pearl necklace. Simon ...

  • Canadian Kiss

    Christine Carson

    NO MAN COULD TAME HER Sent halfway around the world from London to Vancouver to marry a stranger three times her age, golden-haired Sara Oliver had barely arrived when her husband was murdered -- on her wedding day. Sara vowed to track the killer do...

  • Be-Bop, Re-Bop

    Xam Wilson Cartier

    "Compelling...Ms. Cartier joins the ranks of Afro-American writers-among them Ralph Ellison and Ntozake Shange-whose works demonstrate the deep connections between music and narrative."
    NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    Be-Bop, Re-Bop is the pulse of ...

  • Born to Be Wild

    Kris Cassidy

    TRAVELING MAN They called her the Wild Woman. As guardian of a menagerie of wild animals, veterinarian Jenny Grant was proud of her reputation. It had started years ago when the local parks commissioner had brought a wounded armadillo to her ranch...

  • Mr. Mumble

    Peter Catalanotto

  • The Ghost In The Attic

    Emily Cates

    Dee Forest, 13, has barely recovered from her mother's accidental death when her grief-stricken father sends her to live, temporarily, with Aunt Winnifred. Dee hates leaving her familiar surroundings for the quaint inn her aunt runs on a New Engl...

  • The Lower Deep

    Hugh B. Cave

    Terror Lurks beneath the waves...In Dame Marie, sleeping villagers walk in the dead of night - they return without memory, naked and soaking from the sea...when they return at all...Dr. Stephen Spence is new to the village, but he has seen Evil befor...

  • Sweetwater

    Sandra Chastain

    SHE CAST HER LURE...AND LOST HER HEART AT SWEETWATER LAKE. The simple pleasures of a summer sojourn at Georgia's grand Sweetwater Hotel were lost on Portia MacIntosh traveling Shakespearean acting troupe. Feisty Portia was determined to win it bac...

  • Archie, Follow Me

    Lynne Cherry

  • In the House of Secret Enemies

    George C. Chesbro

    Dr. Robert Frederickson ('Mongo' to his friends), dwarf, private detective, criminology Ph.D., martial arts expert, ex-circus headliner, cult hero of such crime thrillers as Shadow of a Broken Man, Second Horseman Out of Eden and The Language of Cann...

  • This Time Forever

    Margaret Chittenden

    He'd waited a lifetime for her Liz Brooks felt like a swimmer caught in a powerful undertow. One minute she was an ordinary travel rep, her feet planted firmly on the ground. The next she was swept into the past -- the eighteenth century, to b...

  • The Child's Fairy Tale Book

    Kay Chorao

  • Matt Christopher's Football

    Matt Christopher

  • Five by Ten

    Cathryn Clare

    Flashback. Cory Vandergill used to have the world in her hands. Once featured in the highly acclaimed television series Five By Ten, she'd shone with bright promise. But a decade later, she'd become haunted by tragedy and scandal. There was no way ...

  • X-Men Legends: The Dark Phoenix Saga

    Chris Claremont

  • Bitter Water

    Douglas Clark

  • Bouncing Dinosaur

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Freddy and William invite Boris, a lonely dinosaur, to come home to live in their village, but Boris's bad habit--bouncing--makes life miserable for everyone, until his bouncing proves useful in outwitting a prowling fox...

  • Torment of Mr. Gully

    Judith Clarke

  • Shadowspeer

    Jo Clayton

    Now in ebook for the first time, the second book of Clayton's classic sci-fi trilogyThe price of a world's death was extremely high, but Ginbiryol Seyirshi would give any buyer his money's worth. Creator of Limited Editions, "productions" in which en...

  • Age of Iron

    J.M. Coetzee

    Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron....

  • The Balmoral Nude

    Carolyn Coker

    BURIED TALENT Art expert Andrea Perkins reluctantly agrees to help a former and not fondly remembered lover authenticate and restore some Victorian-era drawings inherited by his wife. The artist is Cecil Fetherston, who hanged for the murder of hi...

  • On Christmas Eve

    Peter Collington

  • Tempter

    Nancy A. Collins

    Smart New Yorker Charlotte Calder thinks she has found herself a great catch when she meets and falls for Adam Rossiter, never suspecting that the man she is sleeping with is controlled by an evil force...

  • Tomorrow, up and Away

    Pat Lowery Collins

  • Photograph

    Jean Colombier

    Paul Pervenche has a single passion: photography. Without it his life would be empty. He shows his old mentor a photograph of which he is proud, but is told that it is missing something - a corpse perhaps? This macabre novel was first published as "L...

  • Spider-Man: Parallel Lives

    Gerry Conway

  • Freshman Lies

    Linda A. Cooney

    KC has never met a guy worth her interest-- before Steven Garth. Wealthy and well-connected, he's got what KC wants. But they're arch-rivals, and KC goes into debt to hide her ordinary background. As their rivalry grows, so do KC's fears: What will s...

  • Under Siege

    Stephen Coonts

    In an explosion of terror, America's worst nightmares come true when Colombian suicide squads hit the streets of Washington. They have gone to war, and will destroy everything and everybody in their path. With its power and communications system b...

  • Postmortem

    Patricia Cornwell

    Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the inner workings of ...

  • Earth Song

    Catherine Coulter

    Philippa de Beauchamp, as impulsive as she is beautiful, flees her father's castle when she hears she'd to be wed to the repellent Baron de Bridgeport. But her daring escape in a wool wagon quickly becomes a misadventure and she winds up in the arms ...

  • By Invitation Only

    Catherine Craco

    TO MAKE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE, ONE BROKE THE RULES. Raised as an aristocrat, Lily Pascal had French sophistication, exceptional artistic talent, and astounding beauty. The creative team she formed with her friends Marcy and Callie raked in profits ...

  • Walls of Fear

    Kathryn D. Cramer

  • Miss Seeton at the Helm

    Hamilton Crane

    Sink or Swim Miss Seeton is off to the Mediterranean on a whirlwind cruise--bound for disaster. The passengers include London's greatest art dealers, whose bitter dispute over a questionable antique leads to scandalous accusations ... and murder! St...

  • Body

    Harry Crews

    Shereel Dupont--who abandoned her former name, Dorothy Turnipseed, when she left Waycross, Georgia, to seek fame and fortune with bodybuilder Russell Morgan--finds her new life threatened by the arrival of her corpulent, redneck family...

  • The Eyes of the Beholders

    A.C. Crispin

    After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and descript...

  • Long Time Gone

    David Crosby

  • Baby Dot

    Margery Cuyler

    After failing to adjust well to the routines of the learning cave and refusing to go back, spoiled girl dinosaur Baby Dot finally returns and encounters another young dinosaur even meaner than she was....

  • King's Ransom

    Mary Daheim

    The Man Behind the Mask... Disguised in a black cloak, hat and mask, daring highwayman Captain Hood galloped into Honor Dale's quiet life. To restore England's King Charles to his rightful throne, Hood stole from the hapless rich who traveled the ...

  • Gwenda and the animals

    Tessa Dahl

  • One More Chance

    Ruth Jean Dale

    She was a hard woman to love Juliana Robinson was ambitious. A cutthroat real-estate agent, her motto was Nice Guys Finish Last. Nice guy Ben Ware was an ex-cop whose determination to grow avocados was standing between Juliana and a fat commission...

  • Code Name Peregrine

    Sean Dalton

    Among the few things Salukans and Earthers have in common is a disgust for traitors. One thing Salukans don't share, however, is mercy for them. So when the Salukan agent "Sparrow" is desperate to defect to the Alliance, only the Space Hawks can hope...

  • A Voice from the Attic

    Robertson Davies

    Outlining the delights of reading, the author tells of what mass education has done to readers, to taste, to books and to culture. The book covers writers from various countries and old and recently-published books, both well-known and obscure. From ...

  • Heart of the Falcon

    Diane Wicker Davis

    THE SAINT AND THE SINNER Nothing in her Quaker upbringing had prepared Tabitha Fell for the shock of being kidnapped, her dangerous rescue or the man who saved her. No man could match Viscount Langley's pursuit of perilous adventure. No wom...

  • Wade's Haunted Halloween

    Jim Davis

  • Greenfire

    Saranne Dawson

    As leader of her people, it was time for beautiful, flame-haired Nazleen to choose a mate, time to produce a daughter and heir. For generations, the women of her race had kept an uneasy truce with the warlike men around them, submitting to male desir...

  • Scary Scary Huckleberry

    Judy Delton

  • Granny Is a Darling

    Kady MacDonald Denton

  • Christmas Boot

    Kady MacDonald Denton

  • School for Laughter

    Terry Denton

  • Baumgartner's Bombay

    Anita Desai

    A beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he f...

  • California Countdown

    Joe Dever

  • Eclipse of the Kai

    Joe Dever

  • Bad Desire

    Gary Devon

    An innocent teenage girl sparks a psychopath’s obsessive desire in this chilling tale of suspense and serial murder. Beautiful high school cheerleader Sheila Bonner has a new dress for the prom and a football-player boyfriend who’s wild about her...

  • Dear Mr. Right

    Eileen Dewhurst

  • Disney Classics: A Treasury of Best-Loved Tales

    Walt Disney

  • Strategic Moves

    Franklin W. Dixon

    While studying at Oxford University for the summer, Frank and Joe Hardy discover the perils of international relations when their new friends, Soviet twins Pyotr and Petra Zigonev, are kidnapped to force their father, a Soviet peace negotiator, to sa...

  • The Serpent Amongst the Lilies

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    An investigation into the mysterious woman known as Jeanne of Arc...The turbulent times of the 15th century are perfectly captured in Paul Doherty's gripping mystery, The Serpent Amongst the Lilies. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Susanna Gregor...

  • Ride with Me, Mariah Montana

    Ivan Doig

    This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's passionate and authentic trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies.Jick McCaskill, the illustrious narrator of English Creek, ...

  • The Queen of Sheba

    Roberta Kells Dorr

    This stirring account of the Queen of Sheba's search for truth and love paints a captivating portrait of a woman struggling with her passions and responsibilities in the ancient Middle East.. Dorr tells of a beautiful, intelligent, and in...

  • Wild Virginia Nights

    Christine Dorsey

    UPPITY FEMALE BOSS A lady boss! Mining engineer Nicholas Colton would never have sunk so low if the loyal Englishman hadn't been doing an old friend a favor Now he was stuck playing nursemaid to an American wench who had a bad habit of reminding him...

  • By the Book

    Christine Dorsey

    STARTING OVER When Charlotte Handley left the luxurious Richmond mansion of her ex-husband and moved to a small house in colonial Williamsburg, she vowed to establish her newfound independence. Her daughter Elizabeth, however, had other things in ...

  • Half a Moon and One Whole Star

    Crescent Dragonwagon

    Up above the earth so far Hang half a moon and one whole star Hang one whole star and half a moon; Nighttime will be coming soon. And while a young girl sleeps, nighttime deepens all around her -- in the woods and garden, on the ocean, in the city, a...

  • Good Morning - Good Night

    Emma Dryden

  • Fair Trial

    Elizabeth Duke

    They came from two different worlds Although she'd grown up with a privileged background, Australian lawyer Tanya Barrington had worked hard to gain her qualifications and establish a successful career. It was unfortunate that she and arro...

  • Pious Deception

    Susan Dunlap

    THE CASE OF THE PASSIONATE PRIEST Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, M.D., former California medical examiner, now detective for hire, is choosy about her cases. But finding out if the hanging of a handsome young priest in a Phoenix, Arizona, church is sui...

  • Fifth Law of Hawkins

    Charles Durden

    He downs tequila as if it were water, smokes dope when he can get it, mouths off with no provocation, and beds any female who catches his fancy. This is Durden's hero Jamie Hawkins, writer and self-described commentator on life's absurdities. In fact...

  • The Big Book for Peace

    Ann Durell

    The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz, Milton Meltzer, and Nancy Willard, illustrated by famous illustrators such as Paul Zelinsky, the Dil...

  • The Ruby Knight

    David Eddings

    THE MAGIC BHELLIOM Ehlana, Queen of Elenia, had been poisoned. A deep enchantment sustained her life, but only while the Knights aiding it still lived -- and already they were dying, one each month. Then Sparhawk, Knight and Queen's Champion, l...

  • The Inn at the Edge of the World

    Alice Thomas Ellis

  • This and That Bread

    Joan Ellis

  • Heart of the West

    Suzanne Ellison

    Joe Henderson He'd found the ideal way to combine his love of the old west with modern life. The "Slow Joe" steam locomotive was a major tourist attraction in Redpoint, Colorado, and townspeople barely remembered what a hellion little Joey had onc...

  • Masques

    Ru Emerson

    A hunted ballerina escaping underground after years spent Above--A courageous peace activist doomed on the one night when beasts roam free--A madman: jealous, obsessed ... and deadly. All bring danger into the secret world of Vincent and Catherine .....

  • Return to Gone-Away

    Elizabeth Enright

    In this sequel to "Gone-Away Lake," eleven-year-old Portia and family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures an...

  • Brother Lowdown

    S.K. Epperson

    Homicide detective Simon Brith, a misogynist with a long-standing grudge against women, matches wits with the charismatic Brother Lowdown, another misogynist who brings wisdom to the homeless and death to the women of Wichita...

  • The Witch Family

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    Loren D. Estleman

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    Janet Evanovich

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    Marie Ferrarella

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    Glenna Finley

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    Rebecca Flanders

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    Paul Fleischman

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    Tod Foley

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    Pamela K. Forrest

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    Dick Francis

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    Josette Frank

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    Leo Frankowski

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    Margaret Frisky

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    Elizabeth Gage

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    M.L. Gamble

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    Joseph R. Garber

  • Just My Size

    May Garelick

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    Jonathan Gash

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    Georgina Gentry

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    Merrill Joan Gerber

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    Bartholomew Gill

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    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

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    Tom Glazer

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    Golden Books

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    Emma Goldrick

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    John S. Goodall

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    Diane Goode

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    Sheila Gordon

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    Victoria Gordon

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    S.S. Gorman

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    Lynne Graham

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    Simon R. Green

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    Irving A. Greenfield

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