Books Published in September 1993

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — SEPTEMBER 1993

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New Books List: 707 titles

  • The Leaves in October

    Karen Ackerman

  • The House of Doctor Dee

    Peter Ackroyd

    By the author of "English Music" and "Hawksmoor", this is a novel about sorcery and the possibilities of human redemption. It is concerned with the prospect of an eternal city. It is about the secrets of love and power, in a world where there can be ...

  • Insiders Price

    George Adams

  • A Perfectly Proper Murder

    Harold Adams

  • Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Knock, knock. Who's there? Cam Jansen, detective! Cam Jansen can find a mystery anywhere -- even at the house next door! When Cam and Eric set out to raise money for the local library by selling fudge door-to-door, they find that someone is hidi...

  • Desert Fire

    David Alexander

  • Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World

    Donald Antrim

    "A dark, suburban fantasy . . . richly funny, even whimsical, and bizarrely familiar." -- The New YorkerIn the seaside community of Donald Antrim's Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, the citizens are restless. The mayor has fired stinger missile...

  • Fireworks // Sweet

    Katherine Applegate

    When the summer ends... CHELSEA loves Conner so deeply that she can't imagine life without him. But will marriage cement their love -- or destroy it? KATE never thought loving Justin could feel this good. But when Justin finishes building his b...

  • The Haunted Palace

    Katherine Applegate

  • King Triton, Beware!

    Katherine Applegate

  • Through the Year with - Prairie Dogs

    Caroline Arnold

  • The Red Virgin

    Fernando Arrabal

    Arrabal, Fernando. The Red Virgin. Translated from the Spanish and French by Andrew Hurley. First edition. New York / London, Penguin Books, 1993. 13 x 20cm. 248 pages. Original softcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Inscribed / Signed b...

  • Reluctant Lover

    Katherine Arthur

    He didn't stand a ghost of a chance! Lyndsay Stuart intended to become just as good a detective as her boss, Quentin Long. But she also had another item on her agenda -- get Quent to admit his feeling for her. Their assignment at the state...

  • Still a Nation of Immigrants

    Brent Ashabranner

    A look at the effects of immigration, past and present, on the United States includes an incisive exploration of questions about the recent wave of immigration, explaining why people come, what problems they cause or solve, and how they become Americ...

  • Isaac Asimov's War

    Isaac Asimov

    A collection of science fiction stories by the top writers in the genre features selections from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine by the likes of Larry Niven, Gregory Benford, Lucius Shepard, Greg Bear, and others. Original....

  • Slow Natives

    Thea Astley

    Torn apart by conflict, the Leversons--music teacher Bernard, bored with his marriage and career; his unfaithful wife, Iris; and their rebellious teenage son, Keith--rediscover new meaning in their lives and relationships through tragedy....

  • Wait for the Sunrise

    Cassandra Austin

    Blind and Useless Cowboy Winn Sutton reckoned his life was over the moment of his accident. Not only was he forced off the cattle drive, now he was waylaid in a town with no friends, no place to stay -- and no guarantee his sight would return. The...

  • A Distant Star

    Anne Avery

    The Runner Pride made her run faster and longer than the others -- traveling swiftly to carry her urgent messages. But hard as she tried, Nareen could never subdue her indomitable spirit -- the passionate zeal all successful runners learned to suppr...

  • City of Light, City of Dark

    Avi

    Avi's ground-breaking graphic novel gets a stunning new cover to celebrate its twentieth anniversary!Two kids fight to save their city from eternal winter in this gripping fantasy by Newbery Medalist Avi, illustrated by three-time Sibert Honoree Bria...

  • Crashcourse

    Wilhelmina Baird

  • Warrior's Lady

    Madeline Baker

    THE WARRIOR He was everything a woman dreams of in a man -- strong, virile, courageous. More at home on the battlefield than in the bedroom, he would give his heart only once and fight to the death to protect his love. THE LADY A creature o...

  • Pie in the Sky

    Bruce Balan

    Skip Plum hopes to give his mother a butterscotch pie for her birthday, but a slight miscalculation sends the pie skyward, as it sails past the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, and other landmarks...

  • The North Tower

    Mary Balogh
    in

    YOU'LL BE MOONSTRUCK This mesmerizing collection of supernatural love stories will leave you breathless as it explores a side of love that comes out only after dark. Here, from some of the most beloved and highly acclaimed authors of romantic ...

  • Sleepy River

    Hanna Bandes

    A mother and child embark on a magical voyage in their canoe, hearing to the splash of the paddle, watching the flicker of fireflies and the dance of the little brown bats, and listening to the symphony of the stars....

  • His Royal Pleasure

    Leanne Banks

    ALEX--A Dashing Prince Who Was an Expert on Sin... He swept into her peaceful life like a swashbuckling pirate, confidently expecting Katherine Kendall to let him spend a month at her island camp-never confessing the secret of his birth to the swe...

  • A Bleeding of Innocents

    Jo Bannister

    Desperate Measures The police force of Castlemere loses one of its own to a hit-and-run. Adding stress to the already understaffed force, a young nurse is brutally murdered in her car with her husband as the only witness. Is there a shotgun killer...

  • Guinea Pigs Don't Read Books

    Colleen Stanley Bare

  • Critter: The Class Cat

    Colleen Stanley Bare

  • World of Flower Fairies

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • A Hovering of Vultures

    Robert Barnard

    Reclusive brother and sister authors Joshua and Susannah Sneddon seemed happy enough to grind out their dreary literary tomes in their cozy Yorkshire cottage -- until Joshua took a fatal ax to his unfortunate sibling before putting a bullet into his ...

  • Quiet-Crazy

    Joyce Durham Barrett

    The sheriff has come to "put away" Elizabeth Miller--to take her to the state mental hospital. "Well, I may be crazy," Elizabeth tells us, "but I know I'm not wild-crazy, just maybe quiet-crazy, and I don't know which one is worse." For someone about...

  • The Brothers

    Frederick Barthelme

    After Del Tribute almost sleeps with his brother's sexually edgy wife, The Brothers sets out to trace and detail the intricate pattern of consequences of this near indiscretion. Del and Bud, two brothers whose middle-aged adolescent antics have a way...

  • The Very Air

    Douglas Bauer

    With a resonant sense of the period and culture, Douglas Bauer evokes the freewheeling feel of the old Southwest in the early part of the twentieth century and delivers an allusive commentary on the charlatans of our own era....

  • Trust Too Much

    Jayne Bauling

    "Love doesn't last." As a shy awkward teenager, Fee had been careful to avoid Simon Rhode's brand of arrogant good looks and cynical charm. Now circumstances had forced her hand and, returning to Hong Kong four years later, she was ap...

  • Critical Mass

    Philip Baxter

    Just when he feels he has put his years in the CIA behind him, Paul Desmond finds himself drawn back in as he teams up with freelance journalist Sarah Parker to track down some stolen plutonium. Original....

  • Range War

    Frederic Bean

  • Blessing

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Her Secret Was Out... Uley Kirkland was in a pickle. Nobody in Tin Cup, Colorado, knew that beneath her cloth cap and mining togs, she was all woman. Nobody except Aaron Brown, the handsome newcomer who, thanks to her, was now locked up in the tow...

  • The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder

    John Bellairs

    Something evil has taken over… Lewis Barnavelt and his uncle are in England, visiting a cousin at Barnavelt Manor. Lewis quickly becomes friends with the housekeeper’s son, and as the two boys explore a garden maze, Lewis accidentally unleas...

  • Chief of Scouts

    Don Bendell

    As a friend to the Lakota Sioux and Chief Crazy Horse, Christopher Columbus Colt of the Seventh Cavalry faces the hardest choice of his life when he must fight alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. Original....

  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Robert Bender

    Robert Bender's colorful telling of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. With simple, direct language and vibrant illustrations, this book tells the story of three wily goats who outsmart and overcome the hungry troll who guards their bridge....

  • A Taste of Heaven

    Barbara Benedict

    A TIMELY PASSION -- A family emergency had called big-city schoolteacher Monica Ryan back home to the sprawling Louisiana plantation where she'd been born and raised. And as she walked up to the majestic, oak-lined drive -- a world away from the s...

  • Restless Wind

    Nikki Benjamin

    JOURNEY INTO FEAR She'd been warned that a ruthless drug trafficker had marked her for death, but Taylor Brannigan hadn't listened, and now it looked as if that mistake might be her last. Drugged, then kidnapped and held prisoner on a small boat s...

  • Sunset Wishes

    Cherie Bennett

    We all got jobs as extras for a new slasher movie! Usually I'm behind the camera, but the director gave me a real part! Between work and rehearsals though I'm not going to have much time for hanging out. Sam and Emma and Billy seem jealous -- I hope ...

  • Windstorm

    Connie Bennett

    IT SEEMED A PERFECT PARTNERSHIP Teddi O'Brien thrived on danger. She'd handled a rattlesnake, been caught in an avalanche and barely escaped a herd of stampeding African elephants. All in a day's work for the documentary filmmaker. Matt Aberna...

  • Transformation

    Marc Berrenson

    The newspapers called him The Ripper. What they didn't know was that he loved all the pretty young things... loved their fear, their wild tortured screams as he showed them how it felt to be truly desired. But most of all he loved the secret parts of...

  • The Wedding

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Emma's small, simple wedding has turned into the event of the season! Things to do before the big day:-Find something, anything, for Mom and Dad to talk about with Taylor's parents-Get a job-Discuss strange underwear found in Taylor's laundry-Keep th...

  • The Demon's Bride: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
    in

    YOU'LL BE MOONSTRUCK This mesmerizing collection of supernatural love stories will leave you breathless as it explores a side of love that comes out only after dark. Here, from some of the most beloved and highly acclaimed authors of romantic fict...

  • School in Murky Wood

    Malcolm Bird

  • Winnie the Pooh and the Little Lost Bird

    Betty G. Birney

  • Pop up My First Book of Dinosaurs

    David Bishop

  • A Love Like Romeo and Juliet

    Natalie Bishop

    The bitter feud between the wealthy, arrogant Montgomerys and the proud, hardworking Capshaws had brought more than enough sorrow to two troubled families. And, like the quarrel that sparked the most immortal of all tales of star-crossed love, the cr...

  • Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf?

    J.R. Black

  • The Ghost of Chicken Liver Hill

    J.R. Black

    Determined to prove that he is not a sissy by sledding down the steepest, most dangerous hill in town, Toby is rescued from his folly by the ghost of a teenager killed on that same hill thirty years earlier. Original....

  • The Beggar's Cup

    Eric Blau

    Hollywood mogul and Holocaust survivor Morris Cohen becomes obsessed with making a film about Theodor Herzl, who spent his life working to create a Jewish state, leading Cohen into a world of heroism, love, struggle, and purpose...

  • Final Justice at Adobe Wells

    Stephen A. Bly

    This time Brannon heads south of the border to buy cattle for his ranch. But he finds the cattle rustled and their owner murdered. Brannon comes up against something a lot bigger than just a band of small-time rustlers. A former Confederate office...

  • The Captive

    Parris Afton Bonds

    THE REIVER Once a powerful Highland clan, the mighty Kincairns had fallen prey to the conquering British army. His brothers murdered, his sister ruined, the new chieftain would see all their wrongs redressed. And in the dark of night, he seized the ...

  • All For Love

    Pat Booth

    Tari Jones, a beautiful medical student with psychic healing powers, tries to balance her life between the spiritual and the physical, especially regarding her relationships with a priest and a movie star. 50,000 first printing. Lit Guild & Doubleday...

  • Fat Chance!

    Lady Borton

  • The Secret of Snake Canyon

    Terrell L. Bowers

    When more than one hundred Chinese laborers disappear, U.S. Deputy Marshall Reese Corbett's investigation is impeded by a serious language barrier, as well as by the isolated, well-guarded hills of Snake Canyon...

  • Pushing Murder

    Eleanor Boylan

    Clara Gamadge's latest adventure finds the white-haired sleuth in the hospital, at Christmas of all times, a victim of a bad hors d'oevre consumed at the opening of a friend's new mystery book shop, Pushing Murder, in Greenwich Village. A poisoning a...

  • Moonstruck

    Rebecca Brandewyne
    in

    A stunning Irish beauty is irresistibly drawn to the noble, tormented leader of a rival clan -- despite a generations-old curse that transforms him into something dark and mysterious when the moon is full....

  • Heaven on Earth

    Michelle Brandon

    ON A STORMY OCEAN CROSSING... Two windswept passengers survive a harrowing journey--with some divine assistance from Tabitha, a guardian angel who mixes in earthly affairs. But once the unlikely couple reach shore, it seems even angels need a help...

  • The Sin of Madame Phloi

    Lilian Jackson Braun
    in

    Cats and crime make an irresistible combination in this second volume of Mystery Cats. Bestselling author Lilian Jackson Braun uses her favorite breed, the Siamese, to chill us with a tale of a sinister violin-playing villain who gets his comeuppance...

  • Walt Disney's The Grasshopper and the Ants

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • The Mask

    Nick Brown

  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm

    Rick Brown

  • Heart Strings

    Lydia Browne

    Out of the blue, love turned their hearts upside down! ANTONIA: She shocked the folks of Culverton with her speeches about a woman's place -- and found herself behind bars. JAKE: the town marshal was handsome enough to tempt a saint -- bu...

  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    Robert Browning

    Robert Browning’s famous verse retelling of the medieval legend of the Pied Piper is renowned for its humor and vivid wordplay. When the selfish townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the piper for spiriting away the hordes of rats that had plagued t...

  • Fox Song

    Joseph Bruchac

    Jamie has a special relationship with her great-grandmother, Grama Bowman, as the elderly woman teaches the young girl about the traditions and customs of her Abenaki people during their walks together in the woods...

  • Muddle Earth

    John Brunner

    ANNOUNCING THE TOURIST EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE TALK OF THE GALAXY! MEET: - The cryogenic resurrectee Rinpoche Gibbs. He's not surprised to awaken in the twenty-fourth century, cured of cancer. He is, however, very surprised by everything else... ...

  • The Winter Fox

    Jennifer Brutschy

  • Beneath a Sapphire Sea

    Jessica Bryan

    Beneath the shimmering, sunlit surface of the ocean there lives a race of rare and wondrous men and women. They have walked upon the land, but their true heritage is as beings of the sea. Now their people face a grave peril. And one woman holds the k...

  • Autumn Trail

    Bonnie Bryant

    It's Thanksgiving time at Pine Hollow Stables, and the three members of the Saddle Club have each decided to do one good deed to celebrate the holiday. Stevie has offered to do some chores around the stable; Carole's invited stuck-up Veronica diAngel...

  • Sparks

    Carole Buck

    RED ALERT! Pretty redhead Phoebe Donovan had just seen all of her things go up in smoke when her house burned down! And fainting in the arms of some brawny firefighter sure hadn't helped matters any. Where was her strength? Her cool-as-a-cucum...

  • A Job for Wittilda

    Caralyn Buehner

  • Yo! It's Captain Yo-Yo

    Jon Buller

  • Flesh and Blood

    Caroline Burnes

    Betrayed! The word pealed in Emma Devlin's head like a death knell. Her murdered husband's ghost had appeared to her, claiming he'd been betrayed by those he loved. As much to preserve her sanity as to quell his restless spirit, she sought answers at...

  • The President's Angel

    Sophy Burnham

    The angel appeared in the White House without warning, no blowing of trumpets or rushing of wings. It stood by the President’s bed, radiant, white. Its eyes were pools of love. Its light flooded the bedroom, surrounding and engulfing the President....

  • Witch's Fore

    Beverly Butler

    Kirsty, recently confined to a wheelchair, and her sister become convinced that their old house had once been owned by a witch and that the witch wants her house back, as a snowstorm isolates them, testing their courage and strength. When fireligh...

  • Trouble with Jenny's Ear

    Oliver Butterworth

  • My Enemy, My Love

    Julia Byrne

    IN LOVE WITH THE ENEMY A feud between King Stephen and Empress Matilda brought chaos to Isabel de Tracy's life, so much so that she found herself hostage in exchange for her brother Edmund's safety. But through it all, she held fast to the memory ...

  • Cookie McCorkle and the Case of the Mystery Map

    Sharon Cadwallader

  • Growing up Female: Short Stories by Women Writers from the American Mosaic

    Susan Cahill

    A collection of short fiction and autobiographical narrative features the work of writers representing geographical, cultural, and class diversity, including Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Gish Jen, Amy Tan, J. California Cooper, and others. Origina...

  • DEATHPORT

    Ramsey Campbell

    Horror writers such as Ron Dee, Matthew J. Costello, Chet Williamson, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro have contributed to a story collection about the terrifying world of Dry Plains International Airport. Original....

  • The Edge

    David Jack Cannon

    Major Daniel "Edge" Harrows, test-jockey for the newest birds of the post-Stealth era, faces his ultimate test: a search for a rogue enemy pilot who is at the controls of America's most sophisticated air weapon. Original....

  • Eleanora's Ghost

    Suzanne Carey

    GHOST OF A CHANCE He'd seen her from afar. Beautiful, beguiling and wearing old-fashioned clothes. But when handsome Daniel Brant finally met Elly Raftree up close, he realized the woman he'd first met wasn't really her at all! Could it have been ...

  • Two Very Little Sisters

    Carol Carrick

    Descendants of John Quincy Adams, sisters Lucy and Sarah Adams didn't allow their diminutive physical stature to keep them from a satisfying life as entertainers and businesswomen in the late nineteenth century....

  • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: 2nd Annual Edition

    Carroll & Graf Publishers

  • Hawk's Lair

    Marisa Carroll

    SHE'D PUT AN END TO THIS NONSENSE! Sara Riley couldn't believe her normally sane brother was planning to invest in a search for buried treasure in Costa Rica. Just who was this J. C. Hawk who claimed his great-great-great-grandmother had been a pi...

  • Think Big

    Ben Carson

  • Merry Christmas, Little Mouse

    Noelle Carter

    Little Mouse invites small children to share the joys and wonders of Christmas by scratching and smelling each of his presents to his family--from peppermint for Birdie to a bottle of perfume for Skunk....

  • Pixie Dust

    Carla Cassidy

    Daddy magic? Divorce lawyer Nick Elliot had thought the quaint Victorian house was the perfect spot for a vacation, but he'd apparently landed in a loony bin. First he woke to find a little girl dumping glitter over his head and calling it pix...

  • A Candle in the Dark

    Megan Chance

    "I NEED A MAN ... ANY MAN." She had blood on her dress and trouble in her eyes when she walked into Cavey Davey's tavern and roused Dr. Cain D'Alessandro from his drunken stupor. The sight of Ana, "The Duchess" -- beautiful, icy, desperate -- almo...

  • Balloons

    Chandra

  • The Morning After

    Sandra Chastain

    RAZOR -- Dangerous, Powerful, an Unlikely Hero Who Refused to Believe in Dreams... He'd come to Savannah seeking revenge on the man who'd destroyed his business, but instead Razor Cody found a fairy-tale princess whose violet eyes and spun...

  • Shadow of a Doubt

    Margaret Chittenden

    Could he be trusted? Jamie Maxwell's life was turned upside down when her best friend drowned in the azure waters of Bermuda. And when she demanded answers about the accident, Bermuda's friendly police gave her the cold shoulder. Was it foul ...

  • The Ice Horse

    Candace Christiansen

  • Hat Trick of Hockey Favorites by America's Most Popular Sportswriter for Kids

    Matt Christopher

    Tells the stories of the Byrd twins' toy hockey game that seems to be magic as it plays out real games before they even happen, of thirteen-year-old Steve Crandall, abducted and forced to join a professional junior hockey team, who must play not only...

  • Flame on the Horizon

    Daphne Clair

    Rocking the boat Meeting her ex-husband, Reid, aboard the same adventure cruise is not Annys's idea of vacation fun. But hardly surprising, considering that the holiday suits both their personalities -- it's physical and competitive. It re...

  • Hearts Against the Wind

    Kathy Clark

    STRIKE IT RICH--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. FOLLOW THE DREAM Old Hank Travis could see a lot of ...

  • Dancer's Rise

    Jo Clayton

    SERROI-- first a warrior woman, later a pawn of the lost evil wizard her people had ever known, and finally a powerful worker of earth magic. For centuries spell-imprisoned, Serroi has at last escaped her bonds to find herself in a changed land, a p...

  • Petey's Bedtime Story

    Beverly Cleary

  • Hounded to Death

    Melissa Cleary

    CITIZEN CANINE It's the dog days of summer--but the contest for the Palmer election is already heating up. Jackie Walsh is intrigued when she discovers that one of the candidates has a mistress... especially when the curvy blonde is strangled to dea...

  • Free Enterprise

    Michelle Cliff

    In 1858, two black women meet and later join John Brown's doomed raid on Harper's Ferry, barely escaping with their lives. Acclaimed author Michelle Cliff places an actual historical figure at the center of her powerful new novel, which brings to lif...

  • Flatfoot Fox and the Case of the Nosy Otter

    Eth Clifford

  • Halloween Echo

    Susan Clymer

    The arrival of an unusual new neighbor causes conflict between best friends in a warm and funny look at peer pressure, friendship, and growing up. By the author of Scrawny, the Classroom Duck. Original....

  • Ghost in the House

    Daniel Cohen

    An investigation into nine of the world's most famous haunted houses includes the house built by ghost-obsessed Sarah Winchester with blind alleys to confuse spooks and the Weir House, supposedly haunted by a man hanged for witchcraft....

  • Beheaded Freshman and Other Nasty Rumors

    Daniel Cohen

    The author of Southern Fried Rat and Other Gruesome Tales presents yet another collection of horrifying true stories, including the tale of the maniac who axed a sleeping camper to death. Original....

  • Railway Ghosts and Railway Horrors

    Daniel Cohen

  • The Christmas Revolution

    Miriam Cohen

  • Comancheros

    Judd Cole

  • Sister of the Sun

    Clare Coleman

    A Woman's Lifelong Journey Of Discovery A chieftain's daughter, Tepua learned to endure adversity when she was carried off to a strange island, where she found peril and passion. Returning home years later to comfort her dying father, the challeng...

  • Payback

    Dale Colter

  • A Big Storm Knocked It over

    Laurie Colwin

    “Laurie Colwin’s beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness -- a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world.” ...

  • Granny Greenteeth and the Noise in the Night

    Joanne Compton

    When Granny Greenteeth, an old woman who lives alone with her cat, hears a scary noise one night, she tries to persuade her cat, a broomstick, a troll, a ghost, a goblin, and other creatures to discover the origin of the noise....

  • Growing Light

    Martha Conley

    Growing Light, a New Age software company, seems like the perfect place for Anne Munro, a young widow and single mother, to work, until the firm's president is stabbed and someone tries to frame Anne for the crime...

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Susan Connell

    REILLY -- He Kissed Like a Wild Man, With Lips and Body and Heart... Just lying in a hammock, Reilly Anderson awakened desire potent enough to take her breath away, but Allison Richards fought her attraction to the bare-chested hunk who looked li...

  • The Rising of the Moon

    Flynn Connolly

    PRODIGAL DAUGHTER When Nuala Dennehy returned to Ireland after fifteen years away, a male relative was designated responsible for her actions. She was assigned a church to report to, denied any birth control devices, issued a compulsory ID chip, a...

  • Freshman Breakup

    Linda A. Cooney

    Will Faith's parents' divorce make her run from commitment? Her marriage on the rocks, Winnie moves out on Josh. Will anyone take her in? KC's phone bills balloon--until a stolen phone card puts her in caller heaven. Sexy high-schooler Steph...

  • Revenant

    Louise Cooper

  • Promise Me Tomorrow // My Heart Stood Still

    Lori Copeland

    When the wagon that hauled the swindling McDougal sisters to jail came under attack, Anne-Marie watched Abigail and Amelia ride off safely with dashing rescuers, and cursed her own luck. She was abducted by a Crow warrior. No doubt Creed Walker re...

  • Pride's Folly

    Christina Cordaire

    Determined to devote her heart to her small country school instead of to a man, teacher Johanna Austen finds her determination shaken when a tumultuous coach ride introduces her to London's star bachelor. Original....

  • Losing Eddie

    Deborah Joy Corey

    Deborah Joy Corey's disturbing portrait of a dysfunctional family in rural New Brunswick won the prestigious SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. This popular dramatization of the best-selling first novel was dramatized by the author and ...

  • The Mask of Zeus

    Desmond Cory

    Sent into exile by those of his friends and colleagues still reeling from his exploits in The Catalyst, Professor John Dobie arrives on the Isle of Aphrodite (better known as Cyprus) prepared to induct his new students into the Mysteries of Higher Ma...

  • Silent Descent

    Dick Couch

  • My Sweet Baby

    Patricia Coughlin

    It had been eleven years since Leah Devane and Zach Blackmore had seen each other -- over a decade since the young lovers had touched. Yet the sweet memories they shared were still strong, as were the ties that bound them to a baby they had never kn...

  • Friendly Persuasion

    Bruce Coville
    in

    COME BACK TO US… WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU… Just couldn’t get enough, could you? We knew you’d be crawling back for more of the scariest, funniest, most thrilling monster tales you’ll ever read! If you loved the creepy fun of Bruce Co...

  • Nicholas Cooke

    Stephanie Cowell

    Into the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe, Elizabeth and Essex, the horrific plagues of London and the brutal war in Ireland, strides one Nicholas Cooke, the hero of one of the most engagingly brilliant historical novels to appear in years. A memorable...

  • Time Remembered

    Elizabeth Crane

    THE MAN OF HER DREAMS Fed up with the boring wimps she dated, Jody Farnell put all her energy into restoring a decaying antebellum mansion. And among the ruins of Whitefriars, the young architect discovered the diary of a man from another century...

  • Bike

    Ron Crawford

  • To Catch the Wind

    Jasmine Cresswell

    BETWEEN TOW WORLDS, AND ACROSS TIME, WAS A LOVE THAT COULD ONLY MEAN DANGER... Was she Catalina of Portugal, lost and alone in a foreign land and in the arms of the man who had made her his queen -- Charles II of England, a husband and lover as ir...

  • Dangerous

    Caroline Cross

    FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN Logan Bradshaw was a hard man, as hard as the life he led -- running a high-country horse ranch and raising two boys alone. The last thing he needed was some damn woman turning his life upside down. No woman alive could be tru...

  • Wait for the Dark

    Ann Crowleigh

    Miranda and Clare Clively, two sleuthing twin sisters living in Victorian London's Mayfair district, stumble across the corpse of an young Chinese man, and they use their aristocratic wits to solve the crime. Original....

  • The Mexican Tree Duck

    James Crumley

    For the crime of executing a jukebox on a lonesome Montana railbed, C. W. Sughrue ("Shoog as in sugar. And rue as in rue the goddamned day.") has been sentenced to do business with the hardest hard cases in the new American West--and to locate a miss...

  • Risks

    Barbara Cummings; Jo-Ann Power

  • Cut and Branded

    Jack Curtis

    On the trail of three thousand stolen longhorns, stock detective Sam Benbow stops in Dodge City where he tries to solve the brutal murders of several tribeless squaws camped on the city's riverbank. Original....

  • Sleeping Bread

    Stefan Czernecki

  • Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics

    Les Daniels

    A celebration of fifty years of Marvel comics features seven hundred illustrations and a text that traces the history of Marvel, from its first publication in 1939, describing the birth and popularity of The Human Torch, Daredevil, and other superher...

  • One Last Chance

    Justine Davis

    SIREN's SONG Chance Buckner: A tough-as-nails undercover cop dangerously close to the edge. Shea Austin: A sultry nightclub singer with a big heart and shady connections. Undercover narcotics cop Chance Buckner had paid the ultimate price fo...

  • Twilight Magic

    Saranne Dawson

    SHE'D INHERITED A MAN... Ben Walters knew everything about Jennifer Stansfield. He knew the consummate wanderer left nothing but burning bridges behind her, and that she now meant to settle down in an old, haunted Victorian. His Victorian. Wha...

  • Nocturne

    Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

  • The Kruton Interface

    John DeChancie

    Meet the crew of the lowest-rated ship around: the U.S.S. Repulse. Captain David Wanker is a fool, his engineer is incompetent, and the ship's doctor is on heavy medication. But when an army of alien lawyers sue the entire human race, only Wanker and...

  • Blood

    Ron Dee

    They embrace us with the darkness of their souls and their promise of life...of wanton lust fulfilled! Former FBI agent Fred Langston and Dr. Trish Blaine, government researchers at the Life Center in Atlanta, are investigating the horrifying repo...

  • Wordwright

    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 the...

  • Inside Your Busy Body

    Patricia Brennan Demuth

  • The Cerulean Storm

    Troy Denning

    The Thirst for Immortality.... Rajaat: The First Sorcerer, betrayed by his champions at the moment of his paramount victory, imprisoned beyond space and time. Only Rajaat can return Athas to its verdant splendor. When Tithian of Tyr leads his forme...

  • Sealed With a Kiss

    Stacey Dennis

    For twenty-eight years, Patricia Melbourne had been a perfect wife, helpmate and mother. Now, recently widowed from her wealthy, philandering husband, Pat was free to do exactly as she pleased. First, she'd sell the big house, give away the desig...

  • No Objections

    Kate Denton

    "You're married!" The news of her father's elopement stunned Zana Zachary -- she'd never even met the woman! -- and she had to wonder if this was another mess she'd have to rescue him from. Her fears were confirmed when ...

  • A Heart's Treasure

    Teresa DesJardien

    TREASURE SOUGHT Genevieve had been more than happy to escape the dreadful summer heat of London, and what better way than a journey north to Cumberland on a treasure hunt, along a path strewn with various clever clues designed to befuddle and bemuse...

  • Black Swan

    Farrukh Dhondy

    The author of Bombay Duck tells the intricate story of Rose, following her from present-day London to Shakespearean England in a tale of mystery that poses a startling theory about Shakespeare's plays....

  • Them Bones

    Ian Dicks

  • Henry's Christmas

    Jeffrey Dinardo

  • Disney's Tiny Theater

    Walt Disney

    A sturdy, reusable box that comes complete with a miniature Mickey Mouse figurine features ten favorite Little Golden Books, including Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, 101 Dalmatians, and Pinocchio. ...

  • The Three Wishes

    Walt Disney

  • Danger Unlimited

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Joe and Frank investigate charges that someone is trying to sabotage the flight of daredevil pilot Brett Cooper, and the boys enter a world filled with death-defying stunts, blackmail, and murder. Original....

  • I Love Fishing

    Bonnie Dobkin

  • Island Enchantment

    Robyn Donald

    Just for thought She'd fallen into his plans like the naive fool she was--allowing him to charm her totally and to use the bewildering response of her body against her. Behind his devastating facade was a ruthless businessman--a man determi...

  • Lovers and Demons

    Shannon Drake
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    Fleeing the unholy attentions of a creature of the night, a ravishing Confederate smuggler joins forces with a brave Yankee officer -- and discovers ecstasy in the arms of her handsome, virile enemy....

  • Gun Play at Cross Creek

    Bill Dugan

    THE PAST COMES CALLING ... WITH A GUN The good people of Cross Creek, Wyoming, hired gunslinger Brett Kinkaid to keep the peace. But the only peace Kinkaid recognizes is the serenity of the grave -- and at least one of his bullets has Morgan Atwater'...

  • Bogus Bride

    Elizabeth Duke

    His smile made her melt And his kisses rocked the world. It had always been like that between them, but Skye Haywood had learned the hard way that she couldn't trust Rafe Baldwin. He'd shattered any illusions of happy-ever-after, and since...

  • Game Plan

    Thomas J. Dygard

    Beano's always watched the game from the sidelines. Does he have what it takes to run the show? As the Barton High Tigers' student manager, Beano Hatton has watched Coach Pritchard call the plays, strategize, and shape the Tigers into a winning te...

  • Kiss Them Good-Bye

    Joseph Eastburn

    Sitting atop a hill overlooking the surrounding countryside, the Ravenhill School is a bastion of exclusivity, offering the children of the nation’s first families a magnificent education and a refuge from the harsh realities beyond its ancient clo...

  • A Nabob's Daughter

    Janet Edmonds

    A PROPER DISTANCE WAS NECESSARY... Miss India Leigh and her young brother Richard settled in the Fen country in order to live a quiet life. But they soon found that life was anything but quiet -- especially with the handsome Edward Chelworth, Visc...

  • Get Urrea! // Texas Fury

    J.T. Edson

    On March 27, 1836, General José Urrea ordered the cold-blooded killing of almost four hundred Texian prisoners of war. When news of the massacre reached General Samuel Houston, commander of the newly formed Army of the Republic of Texas, he was ...

  • The Escape

    Gene Edwards

    This title is no longer available from Tyndale, but it can be ordered from SeedSowers / 4003 N. Liberty Street / Jacksonville, FL 32206
    This biblical narrative depicts God's calling of Abram, the account of the patriarchs, and the Exodus as seen...

  • Fan the Flame

    Suzanne Elizabeth

    FOR THE LOVE OF A LAWMAN For once, Samantha James was determined to follow her head instead of her heart, which had been broken twice already. Leaving home to teach school in Utah sounded like a sensible plan. Until her father insisted that she tr...

  • That Soccer Season

    Scott Eller

    In the sequel to The Football War and First Base, First Place, the superjocks from Johnson learn more than they ever wanted to know about winning, losing, and playing the game. Original....

  • Rescued

    Rachel Elliot (1)

    After the harrowing experience of her last TV assignment in Sudan, Clancy had welcomed the chance of escape to the peaceful English Lake District to research her next program. But tranquility was the last thing she had found since meeting local hero ...

  • Lone Star and the Bellwether Kid

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki are in danger when they dig up the facts behind a newsman's fatal plot in the one hundred and thirty-third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on...

  • Calendar Girl

    Nancy Ellison

  • I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire

    P.N. Elrod
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    ... Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were n...

  • Circle of Deception

    Roger Elwood

    Heather Tazelaar's husband has just been killed in the line of CIA duty. A tragic event, indeed, but, as everyone tells her, it's the nature of the job. Except for one thing. Heather can't quite believe the official explanation for Nick's death. ...

  • Wildfire

    Lynn Erickson

    PLAYING WITH FIRE Piper Hilyard had no reason to trust Dan Bourne. He had married her best friend, Diana, and now Diana was dead. When Dan inherited Diana's $3-million Elk River spread and put it up for sale, Piper decided to investigate. H...

  • A Man's Place

    Annie Ernaux

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookAnnie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his ...

  • Sponges Are Skeletons

    Barbara Juster Esbensen

  • Troll-Taken

    Rose Estes

    WHAT IF THE LEGENDS ARE REAL? Who knows what secrets lie beneath our city streets? Who knows what childhood fears are as real as the shadows that creep across the cellar floor? Katherine Sinclair knows... Because the baby she now holds in her a...

  • Iron Dragons: Mountains & Madness

    Rose Estes

    Working together to devise a vehicle in which they can travel across a menacing continent, an elven engineer and a human magic user invent an Iron Dragon and set out on a harrowing adventure. Original....

  • Longarm in the Cross Fire

    Tabor Evans

    Rescued from a crowded courtroom hours before he is to hang, French Lemond is whisked to safety by two gun-toting sisters, and it is up to Longarm to track down the accused man and bring him to justice...

  • Frida the Wondercat

    Betsy Everitt

  • My Christmas: A Photolog Book

    Kathy Faggella

  • More Than Fire

    Philip Jose Farmer

    Kickaha, a freedom-seeking wanderer from the planet Earth, meets his arch enemy, the most powerful of the decadent interstellar lords, Lord Red Orc, in a final battle that will determine the fate of the universes...

  • Heartless Lord Harry

    Marjorie Farrell

    Her Sister's Keeper Miss Kate Richmond was the sensible one in her family. Her father was too buried in books and her mother was too immersed in running their estate to see the danger that Lord Harry Lifton posed. Lord Harry was the most irres...

  • Dracula

    Keith Faulkner

    Inventive illustrations and lively verse highlight a visit to Count Dracula to help the Count and his friends celebrate his birthday, as readers lift the flaps to meet each monstrous guest, with a big surprise at the end....

  • Her Man Friday

    Marie Ferrarella

    Stranded Mary Therese Crusoe couldn't believe it. She was stuck on an isolated island with a man her relatives believed to be Mr. Perfect. But who was, in fact, perfectly impossible. Counting seashells with the handsome but arrogant Scott diMarco ...

  • Travelling Light

    Sandra Field

    Destination: Unknown Kristine Kleiven had one suitcase and no room for excess baggage as she traveled through Norway -- especially not for a modern-day Viking like Lars Bronstad. But even a genuine Viking with pillage on his mind would have been e...

  • The Wrong Man

    David Fisher

    Agent David Melnik is sent to the U.S. to prevent the assassination of Gottfried Waldner, the German chancellor, by Dachau survivor and Nazi hunter Walter Naman. By the author of Hostage One. 50,000 first printing....

  • Cyclops

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • Rebellious Bride

    Donna Fletcher

    SHERIFF'S DAUGHTER With her wild streak of independence -- and no interest in romance-- Lillian shocked the town when she woke up in bed with a man. PERFECT GENTLEMAN Rolfe was the town's most eligible bachelor; a handsome English lord w...

  • Fatal Identity

    Joanne Fluke

    A woman steps into the shoes of her murdered twin sister, and her glamorous new life brings more than she bargained for, from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author.   Except for their gorgeous faces, identical twins Mercedes and Marcie Calder ...

  • Dark Tide

    Elizabeth Forrest

    Pacific Crest, California, 1968 - A seemingly impossible accident with the Diving Bell ride at the pier amusement park sees three boys drowned. The only survivor is pulled from the ocean in a terror-fueled, near catatonic state... Pacific Crest, C...

  • Phoenix Fire

    Elizabeth Forrest

  • Joy to the World!

    Maureen Forrester

    A renowned contralto offers twelve of her favorite Christmas carols, including "Deck the Halls," "In Dulci Jubilo," and "The Friendly Beasts" in a joyful and cross-cultural collection that merrily captures the holiday season....

  • Rocheworld

    Robert L. Forward

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    Barnes Foundation

    The Barnes Foundation, established by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes in 1922, is home to a legendary art collection. Barnes assembled one of the world’s largest and finest groups of post-impressionist and early modern pa...

  • Bad Blood

    Debra Fowler

  • The King's Fool: A Book about Medieval and Renaissance Fools

    Dana Fradon

    A popular series offering a lively, educational look at medieval life continues with an exploration of the role of the fool during the Middle Ages, explaining how both men and women could be fools and showing the fool's relationship to modern comedy....

  • Odds 'n Ends Alvy

    Joihn Frank

  • The Heart of Sparrill

    Steven Frankos

    With the Jewel of Equilibrant in his possession, Matthew Logan must flee from those who are determined to hunt him down before he can find the great Bloodstone that will give him even greater power. Original....

  • The Flanders Sky

    Nicolas Freeling

    The Berlin Wall is falling. Eastern Europe is in turmoil. Amid the tumult, Inspector Henri Castang has been exiled to a bureaucratic post in Bruxelles, a city in the eye of the storm. But the forces of violence are at work even here. When a colleague...

  • Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola

    Kinky Friedman

    Kinky Friedman is a Jewish Texan country-and-western singer turned Greenwich Village amateur detective, with a collection of smelly cigars, a cat, and two former but simultaneous-girlfriends named Judy. Shortly after the possibly suspicious death of ...