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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1988

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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  • Nora Roberts

    Burke Logan was a gambler, and luck had made him owner of Three Aces, one of the finest stables in Maryland. He'd come to Ireland to buy horses, but one look at Erin McKinnon's fiery beauty told him that he'd be leaving with a whole lot more. Erin M...



  • Debbie Macomber

    BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Once upon a time there was a beautiful, rebellious New York socialite who wasn't interested in fortune or fame; Judy Lovin valued friendship, integrity and her job as a preschool teacher. Then her father's business collapsed, ...



  • Penny Jordan

    Confusion and desire. Susannah was a successful writer for Tomorrow magazine, but the new managing director - the dynamic Hazard Maine - made it clear that he thought she was cheating her way to the top. It didn't help their working relationship,...



  • Carole Mortimer

    Would she always be "the kid next door"? Christi was twenty-two to Lucas's thirty-seven. They had lived in adjacent flats for four years now, and though Christi had been in love with her handsome divorced neighbor ever since they'd...



  • R.L. Stine

    A DATE WITH DEATH Jamie and Tom are in love. They've gone steady since junior high, and are planning to graduate from high school and attend college together. Them, of course, they'll marry. Everything is perfect until Tom breaks a date-and al...



  • Dean Koontz

    An ordinary parking lot in southern California. Christine Scavello and her six-year-old son are accosted by a strange old woman. "I know who you are," she snaps at the boy "I know what you are." A scream, a threat - and then a grotesque act of viole...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Innocence Lost Alone in the Kentucky wilderness, beautiful Pamela trembled under the gaze of the strong, silent red-skinned warrior -- and hungered for his touch. Strong Bear was magnificent, a handsome, virile Indian chief. And to Pamela, he was t...



  • Catherine George

    "I wouldn't intentionally hurt any woman." Leo Seymour's words were meant to be reassuring. But Davina Lennox couldn't help remembering that seven years ago, intentionally or otherwise, he had badly hurt her. She'd been ...



  • Jonathan Kellerman

    BRACE YOURSELF FOR SHOCK -- when Alex Delaware gets a phone call from a former patient, a young, troubled genius who suffered a devastating mental collapse... when he drives through the night to save his life and winds up in a morass of murder....



  • Jonathan Kellerman

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher’s theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty. The first to die brutally is a girl. She is drained of blood, ...



  • JoAnn Ross

    She was the woman of his dreams As a deputy district attorney, Justine Lamoreaux dealt in facts, not fantasy. So she had little patience for the claims of one Colin Tiernan. They'd never laid eves on each other, but he kept insisting he'd been dre...



  • Kay Thorpe

    They were alone in the world The night Ross rescued her, Nicola knew that naivete had caused her abduction. Furthermore, it was self-doubt about her acting ability that had made her accept a nanny position in the middle of a Venezualan jungle in t...



  • Rosemary Rogers

    Out of the tempestuous union of Steve Morgan and Ginny Brandon came Laura--daughter of light, woman of desire, the child born of a blistering, incomparable passion. A ravishing temptress at play in a world of fabulous wealth, like her mother before h...



  • Leigh Michaels

    He acted as if he were in charge of everything When Whitney Lattimer arrived in Kansas City, she'd already had it with Max Townsend. It was his fault she was dog tired. And who did he think he was, anyway, demanding the immediate presence of a...



  • Jennifer Blake

    Terrified of her impending marriage, beautiful Elene Larpent scents her body with a Haitian voodoo perfume guaranteed to bewitch the wealthy landowner and ensure his devotion. But just moments into the wedding, a violent slave uprising interrupts the...



  • Marion Chesney

    A MOST CURIOUS CHEMISTRY Certainly the two should never have met. The handsome, wealthy Marquess of Rockingham was the most notorious rake in London, as infamous for his violent temper as he was for his intemperate ways. And Miss Lucinda Wester...



  • Janette Oke

    WINTER IS NOT FOREVER With schooling behind him, josh wonders what else life holds. Should he continue his studies and become a pastor? Is he to help his aging grandpa and uncle on the farm? With his friends moving on, Josh feels like his life has...



  • Leigh Greenwood

    BITTER FATE Summer Ashton almost welcomed the news of the pirates boarding the Sea Otter. Anything would be better than joining the old man she'd been forced to wed by proxy -- even death at the point of a sword. But as the handsome pirate capta...



  • Joan Smith

    'TIS THE SEASON Christmas was supposed to be a happy time. But for Robin Halton, returning home for the holidays--and her brother's wedding--would only conjure up dreams of what might have been. When she'd broken her engagement to Sean Blake three...



  • Annette Broadrick

    FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE Agent Jordan Trent didn't want to take Lauren Mackenzie along on this risky assignment. What was worse, they had to pretend they were married! Not one to mix business with pleasure, he was surprised to find that the rea...



  • Sandra Field

    "Cut loose! Have an affair." A disastrous marriage had made Sally reclusive and fearful of men. She knew the advice was right, though -- it was more than time for her to make a new start. So, setting off for a holiday to the island of St. ...



  • Dick Francis

    With his five ex-wives and the nine children between them, it's no great surprise that spectacularly wealthy gold trader Malcolm Pembroke should preside over a motley clan in constant conflict with one another. But when violent death strikes the l...



  • Lilian Jackson Braun

    A courageous Siamese bags a cunning cat burglar...a country kitty proves a stumbling block in a violent murder...and an intuitive feline's premonition helps solve the case of the missing antique dealer....



  • Don Pendleton

    Private investigator Ashton Ford is hired by the husband of an aging--but still beautiful--movie star to help with his wife's obsessions with UFOs and the occult by disproving her convictions that someone, somewhere in space is calling her...



  • Deborah Smith

    When Wyoming cowboy Jed Powers came to claim Sancia Island, he was prepared to evict a squatter--but instead found himself bewitched by a water nymph more beautiful than any wildflower. Thena Sainte-Colbet was an enchanting wildcat, an earth mother w...



  • Elizabeth Thornton

    HARDENED RAKE Briony Langland knew she was expected to take her place in England's polite society. But the straight-laced Quaker miss had no patience for London's constant social whirl of halls, soirees, and the dashing young blades who f...



  • Betina Krahn

    SHE FOUGHT TEMPTATION Eden Marlow was dismayed by her fascination with the audacious Ramsay MacLean. Apparently that line English finishing school had done little to smooth the unladylike edges from her colonial soul. Why else would she be drawn to ...



  • Mary Lyons

    What else could she do but take the man home? Surely when a handsome stranger manipulates you into giving him a lift and promptly faints with fever in the front seat of your car, the term "mannapping" hardly applies. Not knowing where he b...



  • Joan Hohl

    Now was the winter of discontent for Paul Vanzant. His children were grown, the wife he'd once loved -- but who'd bitterly betrayed him -- was gone. He felt rudderless on a chillingly cold sea... Then he met Karen Mitchell -- a woman in th...



  • Barbara Boswell

    Wealthy and beautiful Vanessa Ramsey was used to men chasing her, throwing themselves at her feet -- and she'd earned her reputation as a vixen no man could tame. But when her father made Lincoln Scott an offer he couldn't refuse, she was the prize ...



  • Michael Crichton

    Fueled by a powerful curiosity--and by a need to see and feel and hear, firsthand and close-up--Michael Crichton's travels have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling. This is a record of those travels--an exhilarating quest across the famili...



  • Mercer Mayer

    Uh-oh, there might be something creeping around in the attic. Could it be a monster?

    After a little girl hears something snooping around in the attic when she’s sleeping, she decides to investigate. How can she sleep when something is makin...



  • Emma Goldrick

    He excited her...and he scared her Robert Carlton had dropped into Laura Lackland's world -- an island backwater in the West Indies -- by helicopter. He'd charmed her minx of a daughter with bedtime stories. And he'd sent Laura's p...



  • Marsha Canham

    THEY WERE TORN BETWEEN PRIDE AND PASSION ... It was a boastful wager, a bold flirtation meant to win a proposal from the most eligible officer in His Majesty's Royal Dragoons. How was the spoiled and pampered Catherine Augustine Ashbrooke to know ...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    Sometimes dreams do come true... But with unexpected results. When Mary Ellen Spencer was finally able to fulfill all her hopes and dreams and transform herself and her life, she found that it was not so easy to leave the old self behind. Going fr...



  • Judith Arnold

    Was it love or a bad case of nerves? The way she'd been feeling lately, Susan Duvall couldn't tell. Since the discovery of her boss's unethical business practices, Susan's fast-track career had hit a roadblock and her emotions had been riding a ro...



  • Joan Elliott Pickart

    It had to be jet lag, or some crazy dream; Samuel Garter decided when he discovered adorable Austin Tyler hanging upside down from a huge hole in the ceiling over his bed! But she was deliciously real, an unlikely construction worker with silky aubur...



  • Mary Anne Wilson

    A DEBT TO PAY Nick Dantry's life had been saved, but in the process another man's had been lost. First, though, the man had told Nick about a vast treasure hidden deep in the Brazilian rain forest. Nick vowed to find it and use it to help the old ...



  • Fayrene Preston

    She was his cousin's beautiful widow, an enchantress with topaz eyes -- and Linc Sinclair knew instantly she was all he ever wanted. Heat and desire had come up as suddenly as a summer storm, and his turbulent soul demanded he possess Toni Sinclair -...



  • Marcia Muller

    Private eye Sharon McCone is lured away from San Francisco to what she thinks will be a weekend "busman's holiday." Her sister Patsy has invited her to Appleby Island, once the home of an agricultural tycoon. With his heirs long gone, the rich man's ...



  • Ed McBain

    A cautious New York burglar risks his neck for the score of a lifetime in this rollicking thriller by the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.   Alex Hardy is the finest thief in New York City. A crib burglar, he robs apar...



  • Jake Logan

    SLOCUM WOULDN'T SAY YES TO A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. Not when all she offered was a job. Even a job as pleasant as guarding the shapely Claudette Durant on the road to Fargo couldn't match what Slocum already had -- money in his pockets and all the whiskey ...



  • Francine Pascal

    Too much mystery ... Cara Walker feels that her boyfriend, Steven Wakefield, isn’t paying enough attention to her. Suddenly he’s acting aloof and withdrawn. Cara’s good friend Jessica, Stevens sister, suggests that Cara add some mystery to the...



  • John Lutz

    Helen Crane, a beauty ''men build dreams around,'' hires private eye Alo Nudger to find out what's troubling her lover Jake Dancer. Middle-aging, old-shoe Nudger tails Dancer and manages to save him from a couple of strong-arm men. Dancer handsome, f...



  • Patricia Rosemoor

    ALASKA'S GLACIERS LEFT HER COLD Dagny Havland had come a long way from the harsh rural conditions of her childhood. Her success in business was hard won and she wasn't about to give it up--especially for Thor Lindquist. Thor had tossed aside mo...



  • Sandra Heath

    A proud beauty weds a handsome lord who promises her everything but love ALTAR-BOUND Handsome and wealthy Lord Christopher Highclare made it painfully clear why he was asking a virtual nobody like Miss Louisa Cherington to be his wife. He had m...



  • Carolyn Keene

    NANCY FLIES INTO THE CITY OF THE GOLDEN GATE--AND LANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN UNDERWORLD MOB! When award-winning photojournalist Emily Foxworth invites Nancy, George, and Hannah to visit San Francisco, they look forward to a picture-perfect holiday ...



  • Carolyn Keene

    Murder is brewing at a world-famous cooking school in Chicago where two chefs turn up dead shortly after Nancy Drew and Ned enroll for a course on a bet....



  • Lass Small

    FIRST IMPRESSIONS Kimberly Miller and Logan Pederson would each get a sizable legacy - but only if they spent two weeks together, with no less than two hours per day alone. There was one small problem: they were perfect strangers. Logan wasn't...


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