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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JANUARY 1999

Best Reviewed

Walkin' the Dog
Walter Mosley

Best Reviewed

The Silent Duchess
Dacia Maraini

Best Reviewed

The Big Bad City
Ed McBain

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Esperanza's Box of Saints
Maria Amparo Escandon

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Gap Creek
Robert Morgan

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The Pushcart Prize XXIV: Best of the Small Presses
Bill Henderson

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  • Nora Roberts

    Nora Roberts presents the final novel in the captivating trilogy of three brothers who have come together in a time of need. They honored their father's wish to raise young Seth as their own. And with all of the brothers home again the Quinn family h...



  • Diana Palmer

    "No woman will ever be allowed within striking distance of my heart!" --Simon Hart, iron-hearted, insufferably stubborn Long, Tall Texan He'd sworn off romantic entanglements forever. But every man had a weakness, and his was the beautiful, beg...



  • Carole Mortimer

    Jarrett, Jonathan and Jordan are Bachelor Brothers Jordan. The youngest Hunter brother, he's dark and devilishly attractive, and he's been content to play the field...until Stazy Walker takes a lease on the apartment next door. Stazy. ...



  • Susan Mallery

    THE VIRGIN AND THE BROODING BACHELOR... After spinning a tall tale about her life, Cathy Eldridge knew it was no wonder reclusive millionaire Stone Ward enjoyed their nightly conversations. For Cathy treasured the moments when he bared his soul, too...



  • Linda Lael Miller

    Montana Territory, 1870
    Evangeline Keating came west because she had to; after her husband's passing, she needed to build a new life for her young daughter, and marrying a stranger from Montana Territory was her best chance. After a diffic...



  • Charlotte Lamb

    An Undeniable Attraction... Zoe was enraged by Conriel Hillier's arrogance! He'd been direct, demanding and had even invited himself to her home! Well, other women might simper over his brooding good looks, but not Zoe. Who was she tryi...



  • Stephanie Laurens

    “HE WILL FATHER YOUR CHILDREN...” When Catriona Hennessy, honorable Scottish Lady of the Vale, received this prediction, she was exceedingly aghast. How could she unite with a rake like Richard Cynster--a masterful man with a scandalous reputa...



  • Karen Robards

    A TIME TO FEAR Grace Hart seemed to have it all: a bright, beautiful daughter, a successful career as a Judge, and a lovely home in an Ohio suburb. But beneath the placid veneer, darker truths lie waiting. Her fifteen-year-old, Jessica, is teeteri...



  • Lisa Jackson

    FROM NEIGHBOR TO BRIDE-TO-BE? Katie Kinkaid had followed her heart once-and found herself pregnant and unwed. So a sexy, mysterious bachelor living next door wasn't a complication she needed. But that was what she got when handsome Luke Gates move...



  • Hannah Howell

    Nigel Murray saw through her masquerade from the first: a young woman trying to pass herself off as a page. It almost worked - until she was unmasked in battle with the English, at the point of a sword. Recklessly Nigel saved the raven-haired beauty ...



  • Lori Foster

    IT WAS LUST AT FIRST SIGHT... Nick Harris and Josie Jackson weren't supposed to like each other! But instead of being turned off by Josie's sexy siren act, Nick was bowled over. He'd been prepared for a staid, responsible schoolmarm type. As for J...



  • Emma Darcy

    MARRIED TO THE BOSS? For two years Amy Taylor had managed to keep her sexy boss at arm's length. But one emotionally charged morning in the office had irrevocably changed all that. Seeing Jake Carter, determined bachelor, with his sister'...




  • Lorraine Heath

    The moving tale of Austin Leigh, the brother whose shackled heart will finally be set free.... Five years in prison for a crime he didn't commit -- that's how long Austin Leigh has waited to clear his name, and to be reunited with his belo...



  • Beverly Lewis

    Carly Hunter is chosen to take the class guinea pig home for the weekend, just in time for Groundhog Day. Tired of winter, she decides to test Piggy's skill for weather-telling. Can Piggy guess the beginning of spring? Will he see his shadow? When ...



  • V.C. Andrews

    OLIVIA ALWAYS KNEW HER YOUNGER SISTER WOULD GET INTO TROUBLE. BUT SHE NEVER REALIZED THE UNDERCURRENTS OF DISASTER WOULD GROW TO A RAGING FLOOD.... Olivia was always the sensible one. The responsible sister. She took after their father, a man as c...



  • Janet Evanovich

    In her fifth high-octane thriller, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum sets out to find her missing uncle - and along the way smacks slam-bang into: a dead body, a nasty bookie, her stun-gun-toting grandmother, two very sexy men, an angry little man who won...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    THE TEN-DAY SENTENCE... When city gal Ginny Marlow stormed into Serendipity, Montana, to bail out her little sister, she didn't expect to be sentenced herself -- to ten days on Sheriff Quint Cutler's ranch! Or that "doing time" with this laid-back l...



  • Lee Child

    Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is in Key West enjoying a sort of lazy anonymity when a stranger shows up looking for him. The man has a lot of questions--too many. Hours later, he's dead. And Reacher is forced to follow the man's cold trail back ...



  • Jill Shalvis

    THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE Single mom Jenna Loggins had come from the wrong side of the tracks, but she'd vowed to give her beloved baby a better life. So ten years ago, desperate Jenna fled, leaving her daughter in the care of Stone Cameron, the chil...



  • Kim Lawrence

    A convenient marriage When Ethan Kemp proposed to Hannah, the whole world was shocked -- including Hannah! She was out of his league, everyone said so. Ethan was a man of the world, and she was his unsophisticated nanny.... But Ethan knew that ...



  • Carla Cassidy

    A BABY ON HIS DOORSTEP After the initial shock wore off, confirmed bachelor Riley Kincaid loved his role of instant daddy. If only he could forget the strange circumstances that had united him and his mystery baby. A WOMAN IN HIS LIFE When Riley...



  • Carla Cassidy

    HER NAME WASN'T REALLY ALICE .... And she couldn't tell Cameron Gallagher the real reason why she and her daughter had come to his isolated ranch. Nor could she reveal that his probing midnight gaze made her tremble ...with desire. Came...



  • Barbara Delinsky

    After an unscrupulous reporter falsely accuses Boston lounge singer Lily Blake of having an affair with a newly appointed Cardinal, she's hounded by the press, fired from her job, and robbed of all public freedom. The humiliation and violation of pri...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    A SOLDIER...AND A FATHER As powerful as the jaguar that was his emblem, Major Mike Houston was a dangerous man to love. But the battle-worn mercenary was the only man Dr. Ann Parsons could trust when her latest mission took her deep into enemy ter...



  • Jessica Steele

    The boss has found his bride... Karrie has been instantly smitten by company executive Farne Maitland. His mesmerizing blue eyes and powerful masculinity have won her over, and she's been the envy of her colleagues since they found out just wh...



  • Dean Koontz

    THERE ARE NO RULES IN THE DARK, NO PLACE TO FEEL SAFE, NO ESCAPE FROM THE SHADOWS. BUT TO SAVE THE DAY, YOU MUST SEIZE THE LIGHT At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than a night. Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little tow...



  • Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, In celebration of true love, here's a Valentine's Day treat--the tale of two star-crossed lovers who can't see that they're perfect for each other.... Lady Emma Beaumont and Lord Alasdair Chase were once inseparable childhood frien...



  • Helen Brooks

    Wedding night baby! It had been a dream wedding--followed by a night of unforgettable passion. Then Victoria discovered that her new husband, the man she adored, had betrayed her--after only one day of marriage! She packed her bags and left .... ...



  • W.E.B. Griffin

    In Griffin's explosive new Corps novel, FDR puts Brigadier General Fleming Pickering in charge of the OSS's Pacific operations. Immediately, he is faced with two urgent missions in the Gobi Desert: rescue a band of former American servicemen and thei...



  • Luanne Rice

    Sarah Talbot surely thought she'd never live to see another birthday. But against all odds, she beat the disease that threatened to take her life and she reopened her bedding shop, Cloud Nine. It is a new beginning for Sarah -- a fresh start at l...



  • Patricia Cornwell

    Richmond, Virginia, is a city rich in Southern history, yet overrun by such modern-day problems as drug trafficking and escalating juvenile crime. Former Charlotte police chief Judy Hammer is brought in to clean up the police force--the most difficul...



  • Rachel Gibson

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL... When pretty hairdresser Delaney Shaw returned home to Truly, Idaho, for the reading of her stepfather's will, she planned on paying her respects and getting out of town. But it seems the will has some unexpected stipulations-...



  • Anne Weale

    Blonds definitely have more fun! Encouraged by her best friend, Sarah Anderson had set off for an adventure, armed with a new image and new hair color -- blonde! Neal Kennedy wasn't quite what she had in mind. The man was gorgeous -- a perfect ...



  • Rosemary Rogers

    Angela Lindsay enjoyed a pampered existence among French society, but she has had to trade it all and agree to live on her father's New Mexico ranch in order to collect her inheritance. While the wide-open land may boast a rugged je ne sais quoi, it'...



  • Jackie Collins

    The seductively beautiful, street-smart, and powerful Lucky Santangelo, star of four of Jackie Collins’s previous international bestsellers returns in this “winning sequel” (People).In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family; in Lucky, she...



  • Carolyne Aarsen

    CLINT FLETCHER WAS BACK... Still handsome and headstrong. He moved into his uncle's old house and took over the local newspaper. Yet nobody knew the true reason he'd returned--to finally claim the woman he loved.... Long ago, Clint had ...



  • Christie Ridgway

    NEW YEAR's BABY! When the clock struck twelve, instead of partying hard, wealthy playboy Michael Wentworth was making soft, gooey eyes at a beautiful stranger's newborn. Worse, everyone seemed to think he was the proud papa of Beth Masterson's bou...



  • Caroline Anderson

    It was Sarah's good deed, offering to put up Dr. Matt Jordon and his little girl, Emily during their stay in England. Not that it was all selfless - Sarah loved having Matt about the place and Emily was a dream. Well most of the time! But she...



  • Sara Orwig

    HE MADE "MARRY ME" SOUND LIKE A DARE.... In one blazing moment, rugged rodeo man Jared Whitewolf had tempted straitlaced Faith Kolanko to do something reckless. With a nod of her head, she could have it all -- a home, a baby and a long-legged hear...



  • David Weber

    USN vs UFOS There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was a Navy guy himself, so he didn't mind. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in fro...



  • David Weber

    It's A Party--and You're Invited In just a few short years, David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction! The core of his work is Honor Harrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. Now Weber invites you to join hi...



  • Judy Christenberry

    Kate O'Connor is desperately trying to revive her late father's luck at The Lucky Charm diner by converting it into a catering business. Only one problem stands in the way of her dreams: money. Desperate, she appeals to wealthy socialite businessman ...



  • Judy Christenberry
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    New York computer whiz Alison Carter has no intention of repeatingher mother's mistakes. Mom's failed marriages to men with whom she had nothin in common had convinced Alison to search for a man who;s her astrological match. So what's she doing in ve...



  • Leigh Greenwood

    THE DOCTOR'S SYMPTOMS Dr. Matt Dennis never considered himself a family man until he was mistakenly assigned to a rural clinic and forced to live Liz Rawlin's home. The attractive single mom welcomed him into her family, making him feel like he actu...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    A WOMAN BETRAYED She'd loved him with a reckless hunger she'd never felt for anyone else, and he'd hurt her as no one else ever could. And now the man who had all but destroyed Evie DesJardiens was back in her life - and he wanted her to help him ta...



  • Janelle Taylor

    THE PAST HELD THE KEY TO THEIR PASSION. AND THEIR FUTURE. Cammie Miller's career hangs on convincing Oscar-winning actor Tyler Stovall to play the lead in the movie that would make her a star. But she would rather die unknown than succumb to beg...



  • Catherine Spencer

    THE BABY DECEPTION Soon after rebel Joe Donnelly's sizzling night with debutante Imogen Palmer, she had fled. Now, ten years later, she was back, and Joe wanted answers. For he had stumbled upon the secret behind her hasty departure. In his...



  • Lilian Jackson Braun

    UFOs in Mooseville? Rumors abound that a missing backpacker has been abducted and it looks like Jim Qwilleran's sedate summer may be interrupted by an investigation--with the help of his own little aliens, Koko and Yum Yum. And when the backpacker's ...



  • Alison Roberts

    Daniel was sure he'd lose his dad.... Dr Sarah Kendall's first meeting with hospital manager Paul Henderson was not auspicious, but the result of their fracas was a happy one for Sarah's small patient, and in her relief she was willin...


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