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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JANUARY 1994

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Impossible Things
Connie Willis

New Books List: 622 titles

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  • Debbie Macomber

    Three women, each with a special wish...Three angels make their dreams come true Wishes for love bring hope from above. Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy -- three willing and sometimes wayward angels -- are each given someone's prayer to answer... ...



  • Diana Palmer

    The Man: Lang Patton, former secret agent, scarred-body and soul. His Mission: Adjust to everyday life and avoid romance at all cost. The Obstacle In His Way: Ex-fiancee Kirry Campbell, currently being stalked by one very angry admirer. L...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement - of traveling ar...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement -- of traveling a...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement -- of traveling a...



  • Betty Neels
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    True love is never ordinary… Two mischievous dogs led Francesca Haley to a chance meeting with Dr. Renier Pitt-Colwyn, and a ragtag kitten won her his goddaughter’s heart. But the handsome Dutchman could hardly be interested in an ordinary gi...



  • Charlotte Lamb

    Nowhere to run Linzi York loved her husband -- but Barty had changed. His rage and growing despair since the accident had taken a brutal toll. Linzi was trapped in a nightmare. And Ritchie Calhoun knew it. Linzi and Ritchie's relationship ...



  • Catherine Coulter

    Marcus Wyndham never asked to become the Earl of Chase. The Duchess never asked to be illegitimate. And neither of these two asked that their fates become so entwined. Marcus is passionate, quick to rage, just as quick to laughter. He's tough,...



  • Stuart Woods

    BLIND OBSESSION First there were roses and the notes in her mailbox signed simply, "Admirer." Then, the accident. One minute Chris Callaway was one of Hollywood's brightest rising stars, starting a new picture that could send her career skyrocketi...



  • Karen Robards

    She was Mrs. Lyle Forrest now, the coolly elegant wife of Louisville's most prominent publisher, the slum girl whose dreams -- and nightmares -- came true the night she married the multimillionaire old enough to be her father. For twelve years Maggy ...



  • Sherryl Woods

    MURDER ON THE RUN Amanda Roberts figured jogging was hard enough...the last thing she needed was to obsess about possible dangers lurking in the shadows of Atlanta's parks. How was she to know that on the night she braved the jogging paths alone, ...



  • Kat Martin

    A WOMAN OF COURAGE AND HONOR She sold everything she owned to go west and marry a powerful land baron she'd never seen. But Priscilla Wills hadn't counted on the gunfight -- or the gunfighter -- who would change her life: the tall, broad-shouldere...



  • Jack Higgins

    An explosive and timely thriller about the uncertain future of Hong Kong, China, and the world.... 1944. Mao Tse-tung signs a secret document that could delay the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong for an additional one hundred years. But all copies of...



  • R.L. Stine

    He was a hunk of trouble... He stole their hearts... Does he want their lives, too? What a hunk! When handsome, mysterious Ross Gabriel comes to Shadyside High, all the girls want to date him... even the ones who already have boyfriends! Janie, Ev...



  • R.L. Stine

    IT'S GONNA BE A SCREAM! Courtney is a total show-off. She thinks she's so brave and she's always making Eddie and his friends look like wimps. But now Eddie's decided he's had enough. He's going to scare Courtney once and for all. And he's just come...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    Always a bridesmaid... As a teenager, Carole Anne Wellsley had felt suffocated by her sleepy hometown -- and by the boy next door. She cared about Jeff...maybe too much. But she couldn't stay in Belle's Grove, Missouri, and become a countr...



  • Robyn Donald

    Dancing with the devil... "You're certainly not in love with Paul. Because you want to go to bed with me." Devilish words indeed. But what made Flint Jansen so arrogantly assume that Aura would choose him over Paul -- his friend and Au...



  • Margaret Way

    That summer, everything changed. To begin with, Shelley Stuart found her father. For the first time in sixteen years, they were together again. And for the first time, Shelley learned the truth about why he'd left. Then there was Raf Conw...



  • LaVyrle Spencer

    Out of the deepest grief comes the greatest love ... Lee Reston, a widow in her mid-forties, had a full and rewarding life with her three incredible children and a thriving florist business. And like most of us, Lee never imagined how she would cope ...



  • Beverly Barton

    BLACK SHEEP Spencer Rand may have been a member of the premier family of Marshallton, Tennessee, but he'd also been a classic teenage rebel. Not only had he dared to become passionately entangled with the housekeeper's daughter--he'd gone and fall...



  • Jodi Thomas

    Jennie Munday left her sleepy Iowa home to become a Harvey Girl. On a train bound for Kansas and her exciting new life, she met Austin McCormick, a gruff, abrasive Texas marshal who seemed to be everything she disliked in a man. But when their train ...



  • Barbara Delinsky

    A COMPELLING NOVEL OF LOSS, LOVE, AND CHOICE An emotionally charged novel that reflects upon the consequences of one irrevocable act. In the idyllic small town of Tucker, Vermont, life flows at a rhythmic pace for pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer. ...



  • Jacqueline Baird

    A gentleman of fortune...? "The first man to walk through this door will be the one I date for a month." Jacy's bet with her friend Liz was reckless -- especially when that first man turned out to be Leo Kozakis. Jacy had gambled on...



  • Catherine George

    When Naomi's journalist sister asked her to infiltrate the Lair of the Dragon, Bran Llewellyn's private Welsh retreat, she couldn't refuse. But she hated the deception of posing as Bran's secretary, especially once she discovered that...



  • Jane Feather

    Chloe Gresham wasn't expecting a warm welcome -- after all, her new guardian was a total stranger. But when Sir Hugo Lattimer strode into Denholm Manor after a night of carousing and discovered he'd been saddled with an irrepressible and beau...



  • W.E.B. Griffin

    October 1942. At a secret rendezvous point off the coast of neutral Argentina, a small merchant ship delivers supplies to Nazi submarines and raiders. The OSS is determined to sabotage the operation by any means necessary. But one of the key saboteur...



  • Kasey Michaels

    IN A SOCIETY FILLED WITH PERILOUS SECRETS, THEIR LOVE WAS THE MOST DANGEROUS--AND GLORIOUS--OF ALL MARGUERITE BALFOUR: A nineteen-year-old beauty notorious for her penchant for older beaux, she had an admiring coterie of gentlemen who never suspe...



  • Virginia Henley

    Shorn of her glorious raven tresses and dressed as a man, Lady Antonia Lamb became Lord Anthony Lamb, desperate to keep the property entailed to her twin brother, who is missing at sea. Trapped -- and liberated -- by her masquerade, Tony meets her ne...



  • Laurell K. Hamilton

    “THE OLDER THE ZOMBIE, THE BIGGER THE DEATH NEEDED TO RAISE IT.” After a few centuries, the only death "big enough" is a human sacrifice. I know, because I'm an animator. My name is Anita Blake. Working for Animators, Inc., is just a job--l...



  • Robin Cook

    Public health care is one of the most important issues in America today. Now Robin Cook, the bestselling master of medical suspense, confronts this controversial subject with an all-to-possible scenario as powerful - and terrifying - as his groundbre...



  • Diana Hamilton

    Husband and wife...in name only! Ben Claremont made it quite clear that he was the only man in the world who didn't lust after Honeys body...but he asked her to marry him anyway! Honey wasn't in love with him, but accepted his offer in ord...



  • Justine Davis

    KYLIE THIS, KYLIE THAT Riding instructor Kylie Rainwood had been getting on Tyler West's nerves. His teenage daughter chattered about Kylie morning, noon and night, so why shouldn't Ty resent the woman who'd stolen his child's aff...



  • Christopher Pike

    They were all going to die. Rotterham Home was a hospice for young people, a place where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die. Nobody who checked in ever checked out. It was a place of pain and sorrow, but also, remarkably, a place of humor...



  • Orson Scott Card

    As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above t...



  • Cindy Gerard

    LOGAN -- A Master of Seduction Whose Disguise Meant a Chance for Love... Saved by a stranger from a near fatal mugging, business mogul Logan Prince woke up in a strange bed -- and found a reluctant angel with a siren's body bandaging his woun...



  • Laura Lee Guhrke

    FLIGHT TO FREEDOM While life with her volatile husband had always been nearly unbearable for Tess Ridgeway, it was not until the well-being of her unborn child was at stake that she found the courage to fight back. Terrified, Tess fled to the s...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    HE HAD A DAUGHTER And he had to know. But it had been ten long years since the night Quin Ellis had, with a little help from Mac McEwen, started on the road to motherhood. Ten years of single parenthood, guilt at what she'd done -- and memories of a...



  • Bernard Cornwell

    It is the summer of 1862 and the northern army is threatening to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital. Captain Nathaniel Starbuck, born in Boston but a Confederate hero at Manassas, is again in the thick of Civil War action. Bloodied but vict...



  • Jose Saramago

    A fictional account of the life of Christ "illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion, and poetry" -- from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Skylight (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   For José Saramago, the life of Jesus Christ...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Joe was a solitary man--always had been, always would be. A dangerous profession, and a lifetime's worth of hard lessons, had taught him not to get tangled up with other people--and that definitely included the brothers and sisters he'd never really ...



  • Rosanne Bittner

    Orphaned at a tender age, sassy, street-wise Ally Mills fought her way to the dusty plains of Oklahoma. No one was going to keep her from her dreams of independence, not even tall, rugged Ethan Temple. The Cheyenne half-breed stirred feelings deep in...



  • Rita Mae Brown

    At thirty-five, Mary Frazier Armstrong, called "Frazier" by friends and enemies alike, is a sophisticated woman with a thriving art gallery, a healthy bank balance, and an enviable social position.  In fact, she has everything to live for, ...



  • Piers Anthony

    The third chapter in the Mode saga reunites some old friends...Colene, the young woman from Earth grappling with terrible suicidal depressions... Darius, the king from another planet who won her love... and Seqiro, the telepathic horse who shares the...



  • Don Pendleton

    LEAGUE OF KILLERS War has come back to the Old World, carried out by a former Romanian Securitate chief and his army of professional killers. Konrad Lorenz's underground railroad for ex-East Bloc secret policemen had amassed a lethal force to back...



  • Don Pendleton

    UNFRIENDLY PERSUASION Driven by revenge, an ex-Soviet major is staging a strike against Afghanistan. His weapon of choice is a deadly nerve gas, concocted at the jungle base of a Laotian drug lord. Local CIA agents don't want any interference, ...



  • Don Pendleton

    RISKY BUSINESS If Rosey Tosca can steal it, sell it or push it, he'll get a piece of it in Talville, Michigan. The small-time hood has turned major player in the flood of crime and corruption sweeping the nation. He's selling top-secret chemica...



  • Amanda Stevens

    The eternal woman... She was everything a woman could hope to be - and everything a man could hope to possess. And Zach Christopher wanted her timeless beauty as the symbol of his family's cosmetics firm. But the legendary model lived in seclusion, ...



  • Elizabeth Thornton

    With her flowing raven hair swept up in a cap, Caitlin rode out with the rebels to attack the English laird who dared to call himself chief of her beloved clan. But the bronzed, golden-haired hero of Waterloo was more of a man than the tempestuous Sc...



  • Kathleen Eagle

    Priscilla came to the Dakota territories to help her missionary father "civilize" the Indians. But the Minnesota-bred beauty was enchanged by the ways of the Lakota Sioux ... and by a proud warrior called Whirlwind Rider, who awakened a magnificent p...



  • Mary Lyons

    Louisa Thomas had come to Corsica on a business deal -- and to do a small favor on behalf of her wayward brother. She most certainly hadn't come to fall in love! But her meeting with Count Xavier d'Erlanger Cinarehesi hadn't left her wit...


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