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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1991

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Pigeons on the Grass
Wolfgang Koeppen

New Books List: 569 titles

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  • Linda Howard
    in

    Anne Sharp had never expected in a million years that she would get an indecent proposal from the man who was also her boss. But when wealthy Saxon Malone has asked her to be either his mistress or secretary, Anne chose the former because she knows t...



  • Janet Dailey

    New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey takes readers to the sultry French Quarter of New Orleans, where a woman must uncover the greatest masquerade of all... Awakening in a hospital room in Nice, Remy Jardin is shocked to discover she's b...



  • Iris Johansen

    Eighteenth-century France, where cunning intellects and glittering ballgowns concealed treacherous hearts...where madness swept a nation, and the last sound many noblemen heard was the terrible song of the guillotine's blade. Brilliant and reputed...



  • Sherryl Woods

    MY DEAREST CAL... That's how the letter that caught Marilou Stockton's eye began. As a postal worker in the dead-letter office, she knew she shouldn't read more of this grandmother's heart-rending missive, yet one glance convinced her she had to s...



  • R.A. Salvatore

    Far above the merciless Underdark, Drizzt Do'Urden fights to survive the elements of Toril's harsh surface. The young drow begins a sojourn through a world entirely unlike his own--even as he evades the dark elves of his past. He begins to understand...



  • Robyn Carr
    in

    News of her "ailing" mother sent Leigh Brackon and her twin toddlers rushing home. But once there, she found her spry mom sipping medicinal wine and old flame John McElroy knee-deep in landscaping the backyard! Coincidence? Leigh suspected maternal m...



  • Kat Martin

    aka The Duchess of Carbon County A PASSIONATE WOMAN When a hired gunman came to her small Pennsylvania town, Elaina McAllister knew with one look at his glinting blue eyes that she could never love this insolent stranger. But against all will, ...



  • Jeffrey Archer

    The Honest Trader... When Charlie Trumper inherits his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow, he inherits as well his enterprising spirit, which gives Charlie the drive to lift himself out of the poverty of Whitechapel, in London's East End. Succe...



  • R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Time to Party Cari Taylor and...



  • Louis L'Amour

    FACEDOWN! "Who are you?" Milt Cogar was asked. "I'm a man ridin' through," Milt said. "Who are you?" Spencer stiffened. "Dan Spencer's the name, and I run this town." Milt lifted his eyes insultingly toward the collection of miserable sha...



  • Louis L'Amour

    HOPALONG CASSIDY RIDES AGAIN! In this first of four classic frontier novels, Louis L'Amour adds his own special brand to the life and adventures of one of America's favorite fictional cowboys, Hopalong Cassidy. In The Rustlers of West Fork, the qu...



  • Kay Hooper

    A MYSTERIOUS MAN WITH A STRANGE TALENT... A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WITH A DARK SECRET... AND A LOVE FATED TO BREAK ALL THE RULES His name was Cyrus Fortune. As enigmatic and elusive as the mysterious forces that had brought him to Richmond, he was secr...



  • Barbara Delinsky

    THEY WERE THE PICTURE PERFECT FAMILY With a twenty-year marriage, two terrific kids, and a successful career, Laura Frye has everything she could ask for... until her husband Jeff mysteriously disappears. Beside herself with worry, Laura mainta...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    U.S. Naval graduate Dana Coulter had one dream: to earn her wings. Yet from the moment she clashed with her handsome new flight instructor, she felt hopelessly grounded. Lieutenant Griff Turcotte bullied, browbeat and awoke a hungry passion in her th...



  • Jessica Steele

    Quin Quintaro opinion of her wasn't flattering! He'd made that quite clear at their first meeting. " It might be a good idea if you restrained your impulse to insnare everyman you meet while you're in Peru, " he said. Not that Bli...



  • Jean Plaidy

    LADY ANNE NEVILLE MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE HAPPIEST WOMAN IN ENGLAND.... But there was one insurmountable obstacle. Her father, the great Earl of Warwick, was not content with having put the handsome Plantagenet prince Edward IV on England's throne; he...



  • Cassie Edwards

    SECRET PLEASURES She was half-Indian and half-white, raised as the adopted daughter of a Pawnee chief. Now on the verge of womanhood, the beautiful Kiriki yearned to know the pleasures, adventures and secrets of life. If only she realized how deeply...



  • Jo Beverley
    in

    WHEN A QUARTET OF VIVACIOUS YOUNG LADIES VISITS A VILLAGE NAMED FOR ST. VALENTINE, CUPID IS THE UNINVITED GUEST. February 14 is unforgettable at the estate of the widowed Cressida Trent, as five acclaimed Regency authors follow the romantic advent...



  • Sue Grafton

    THE LADY CAN WRITE . . . Any reader who needs a smart and sassy P.I. would do well to hire Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. . . . 'H' is for Homicide continues to show the author in strong storytelling form. . . . [It] finds Kinsey Millhone working on ...



  • Christine Rimmer

    LADY BEWARE Family obligations had brought Maggie Durrant back to Brandy City. The teenager who'd hated her hometown and feared becoming another good-for-nothing "Dreamin' Durrant" had returned a grown woman, armored with money and success. But ev...



  • Lindsay Armstrong

    Philippa mistrusted the male sex -- with reason And nothing Mark Learmonth could say would make any difference. In fact, he was just the kind of arrogant, womanizing man she despised. It was a pity she had to work with him, even temporarily. Wi...



  • JoAnn Ross

    Sultry deceiver La Rubia. The men of La Paz whispered her name in awe. The husky-voiced torch singer with the long blond hair and provocative figure was every man's fantasy. But La Rubia was only interested in seducing one man - General Ramirez. ...



  • Robin Cook

    On the forefront of surrogate parenting and genetic research, this is the explosive tale of a brilliant doctor who sought to create the son of his dreams - and invented a living nightmare......



  • Terry Pratchett

    IT'S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE... But if you can't take it with you, why go at all? That's the kind of query troubling Death these days as he begins to ponder some of the P's and Q's of the RIP business. But the last thing the Discworld needs is a squ...



  • Philippa Carr

    As a way of life vanishes, Lucinda still dreams of love and happiness. Even Madame Rochere's exclusive Belgian finishing school cannot shelter wealthy young ladies from trouble. Lucinda is distressed by her friend Annabelinda's reckless romantic e...



  • Margaret Mayo

    He wanted his pound of flesh .. . Despite the desire generated the instant they met, Leon Alexander believed Georgina Gregory was a gold digger who'd used and discarded his nephew after accepting lavish gifts bought with company money. Dete...



  • Marion Chesney

    SHE HAD BUT ONE THING OF VALUE LEFT TO OFFER...HERSELF! Annabelle Carruthers could only dream of being kissed by such a dashing man as Lord Darkwood. For she herself was locked in misery -- married to a rake who drank and gambled their lives in...



  • Leigh Greenwood

    SHE YEARNED FOR HIS LOVE It was a dream come true. Sara Raymond was actually going to marry Lord Gavin Carlisle, the man she'd adored since childhood. She nearly burst with happiness...until she stood at the altar and looked into the dark, angry...



  • Joan Smith

    A RELAXING HOLIDAY That's what perky policewoman Cathy Auden planned for her visit to Toronto. She certainly had no intention of spending her vacation tracking down an elusive criminal. Yet when handsome investigator Matt Wilson charmed his way in...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    NO SAFE PLACE Years ago, Shanna Cassidy had thought of Rory Hawkes as a bad boy, someone no nice girl would ever admit to knowing, but now she was a desperate woman. Someone had killed her father, and Rory held the only clue. But Rory Hawkes ha...



  • Patricia Potter

    Scottish Border, 1550 Proud clan leader Elsbeth Ker longed for peace, but her stubborn English neighbors would have none of it--especially since the mysterious Alexander had returned to lead the Carey clan. Now the crofters had been burned out, an...



  • Stella Cameron

    JACK IRVING WAS DANGEROUS... ...and cute. He flirted outrageously with Lauren Taylor and made a nuisance of himself until she agreed to date him. But what did Jack really have in mind? Lauren tried her hardest to ignore his romantic overtures.....



  • Lilian Jackson Braun

    All the world's a stage--and now Jim Qwilleran's apple orchard has become the stage for a real-life murder scene. The much-disliked director of the Pickax Theatre Club's Shakespeare production, Hilary VanBrook, is found dead after the closing-night c...



  • Don Pendleton

    STONY MAN Nestled in the hills of Virginia, equipped wit-state-of-the-art intelligence hardware, tracking devices and weapons, sits Stony Man Farm. Sanctioned by the President, it's run by a dedicated SOG man -- with a computer genius and a brilliant...



  • Don Pendleton

    JUNGLE HEAT Thailand's border explodes with violent conflict. Ruthless Khmer Rouge guerrillas are herding hundreds of refugees to be marched to Kampuchea and used as slaves... or worse. Now, however, the guerrillas have gone too far. A State Depar...



  • Don Pendleton

    PI Joe Copp takes on the world of corruption within a police force gone bad. Copp finds himself on an icy, downhill trail of murder, sex, drugs, and dirty politics and the badge he wears offers little protection against evil forces of corrupt lawmake...



  • Ginna Gray

    SHE LONGED FOR HIM. HE LONGED FOR HER. BUT NEITHER KNEW THE OTHER'S HEART. No one could understand why Elizabeth Stanton, with her pale gold hair, rose-ivory skin and dove gray eyes, was an old maid. No one knew that, ever since they were children...



  • Deborah Smith

    The wickedly handsome hero who appeared without warning on a sultry Florida night had to be a figment of Agnes Hamilton's imagination--or the answer to her dreams! The gallant rider swept her onto his horse and carried her through the storm, behaving...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    Two asteroid miners find a dead, drifting ship--but its pilot, Paul Dekker, is alive, insane from shock, and screaming... screaming dues to a mystery that no one wants solved ... WHAT IS MAMA HIDING? Paul Dekker, a kid with a dream, wakes to a ...



  • Joy Fielding

    Waking up in a pool of blood with ten thousand dollars in her pocket and no memory of her past, Jane Whittaker finds her only link to the truth in an unsettling stranger who claims to be her husband. Reissue....



  • Dixie Browning

    BE MINE Daisy Valentine had taken her newly attained look-but-don't-touch attitude south of the border for some sun, surf and solitude. Four years as a not-so-gay divorcee had left her wary of any and all relationships -- especially those that...



  • T. Jefferson Parker

    Two things you never do: Kill a cop's wife or killa cop's sister. Someone's done both...and Newport Beach is about to explode!...



  • Matt Christopher

    As soon as Brett Thyson steps on "The Lizard," the mysterious skateboard he unearthed in his backyard, he can feel its power. The board glides smoothly, almost effortlessly, and Brett finds he can do more tricks on it than he ever could with his old ...



  • Dana Fuller Ross

    Desperate workers strike on railways and at coal mines as a nation shudders with the passions of men and women who demand a share of the American dream. Violence and tears touch every heart when the cities of America rock with the shouts of police an...



  • Ian Rankin

    From #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin, an unlucky spy gets one last chance at redemption. Miles Flint is a spy who has been making some serious mistakes. His last assignment led to the death of a foreign official in London, and after getting to...



  • Catherine Hart

    Her love was stolen from her in an outlaw ambush on the night road to Dodge City-leaving, young Charity Prindle widowed and alone, with the fires of vengeance burning in her breast. The winds of desire swept across the Kansas plains carrying Chari...



  • Muriel Jensen

    WHO WAS BERNIE EMERSON? She was a woman who had few material possessions, yet carried herself with an air of elegance and breeding. She savored the taste of macadamia-nut ice cream every time she had it. She knew little about fashion, and was a b...



  • Susan Kyle

    A HOMECOMING OF REVENGE...OR ENDLESS LOVE. Meredith Ashe returned to Billings, Montana, a great deal wiser and much richer than the scared, pregnant teenager she had been six years before. She was now ‘Kip' Tennison, the sophisticated savvy wido...



  • Judith Arnold

    "I crave your body." Seeing this message on her computer screen, Lucy Beckwith wondered if she'd finally gone mad. It had to be a mistake; at the very least, someone's idea of a bad joke. "I want you, Lucy Beckwith." Her ad...



  • Rexanne Becnel

    SHE WAS NO PRIM AND PROPER SCHOOLMARM From the columned veranda of Sparrow Hill, the dark silhouette of a stranger could he seen approaching astride a huge black stallion. Lovely Lacie Montgomery felt a warning chill. Her secret must be kept if sh...


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