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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1992

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Pillars of Gold
Alice Thomas Ellis

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Turtle Moon
Alice Hoffman

New Books List: 551 titles

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  • Debbie Macomber

    Tragedy had shattered Paul Manning's whole world--leaving him a widower with three small children. Reeling from shock and grief, he turned in desperation to the one person he knew he could count on--gentle, caring Leah Baker. Slowly, Leah eased hi...



  • Sandra Brown

    UNDERNEATH THE INNOCENCE LAY DESIRE...SECRETS...MYSTERY AND THE SENSUOUS TEMPTATIONS OF FRENCH SILK Claire Laurent was a woman who embodied all of New Orleans' sultry paradoxes: beauty mixed with a mysterious elusiveness, a vibrant zest for living...



  • Carole Mortimer

    A COMPLETE RECOVERY Where did a nurse go to heal a broken heart? The south of France sounded wonderful--until Sarah became less a houseguest and more an unpaid drudge. Dull and frustrating were the day's buzzwords--until a half-naked Griff Mor...



  • Anne Mather

    No escape Was it pure luck that Ben Russell had chosen to buy the old Priory? Certainly it couldn't have had anything to do with Jaime Russell or her teenage son, Tom. It had been fifteen years since she'd seen her ex-husband's brother...



  • Julie Garwood

    Judith Hampton was as beautiful as she was proud, as purposeful as she was loyal. The dear Scottish friend of her childhood was about to give birth, and Judith had promised to be at her side. But there was another, private reason for the journey from...



  • Betty Neels

    When the vicar's daughter met the surgeon... Florence Napier thought Alexander Fitzgibbon a cold, humorless man. The eminent surgeon had hired her as the new nurse for his private practice, but he didn't seem to like her. Nor was Florence at a...



  • Lisa Jackson

    After a dozen years working in the emergency room, Dr. Dallas O'Rourke thought he'd seen it all, thought he'd hardened his heart. Then one night Chandra Hill entered on the heels of paramedics rushing an abandoned newborn to the hospital...



  • Emma Darcy

    Slade had been bored until Rebecca arrived Rebecca Wilder had more than arrived. She'd burst into the Manhattan boardroom of Cordell Enterprises, demanding Slade do something about the situation on his drought-stricken Australian cattle statio...



  • R.L. Stine

    DYING FOR A DATE Chelsea Richards is shy, lonely, and looking for love. She would give anything to finally go on a date. Soon there are two new boys in town, and both ask her out. Too bad one of them is a crazed killer. Poor Chelsea. Will her f...



  • Beverly Barton

    TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Sweet Southern belle Lydia Reid never imagined she'd be the subject of scandal. Yet when her unfaithful husband made her an unforgiving widow, Lydia turned to country boy Wade Cameron for comfort ... and EVERYONE in town bega...



  • Joan Johnston

    NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT The Past: Although Texas in 1864 was no place for a lone lady traveler, feisty Angela Taylor had to get to San Antonio. She could outsmart any outlaw, so she wasn't afraid when a bunch of no-good cowboys surrounded her. Bu...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    His Sworn Enemy Devlin Kyle was bound to serve in Napoleon's army, but the Irish patriot vowed that someday he would make the English pay for their crimes against his family. So when he inadvertently captured Englishwoman Thorne Somerset, the love...



  • Cassie Edwards

    EVERYTHING STOOD BETWEEN THEM BUT NOTHING COULD KEEP THEM APART Beautiful, flame-haired Mariah Temple is the daughter of a tyrannical father who despises all Indians and has given them every reason to hate him. Echohawk is the handsome, daring Chipp...



  • Carla Neggers

    WELCOME TO TYLER. WEDDING BELLS ARE RINGING. Liza and Cliff are getting married. It's a big affair. Share the joys and learn the secrets of America's favorite hometown. WEDDINGS BRING FAMILY TOGETHER Byron Forrester arrives for his brother's ...



  • Catherine George

    The wife is always the last to know .. . Joanna Clifford's marriage was over long before her husband, Paul died in a car accident. Still, she was surprised to find out that he'd had a mistress, Rosa Anstey and a child. But even more shocki...



  • Anne Stuart

    WHO WAS HE? This enigmatic stranger with the sexy smile wasn't what he seemed. The man who called himself Michael Dowd came into Francey Neeley's life under mysterious circumstances and soon had her heart fluttering and her blood pumping. For whe...



  • Sue Grafton

    Since she was fired by California Fidelity Insurance, Kinsey Millhone has lost her usual swagger. And her new case is no confidence builder. Attorney Lonnie Kingman is going to court on a civil suit in three weeks when his P.I. drops dead of a heart ...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    If she only knew... Laura Rhodes had dreamed of striking out on her own. But strange men started following her the minute she arrived in San Francisco. Then, the man she planned to marry hightailed it out of town. Laura was stranded! Until ex bike...



  • Kay Thorpe

    Where there's a will... Sure, it's an offer few men could refuse, but Rachel is astonished at the speed Craig Lindhurst agrees to the terms of her late husband's will. In order to inherit, these two strangers must marry and produce an ...



  • Terry Pratchett

    Internationally acclaimed author Terry Pratchett takes the name of religion humorously in vain in this classic tale of gods, miracles, and monsters. A simple lad who can neither read nor write, Brutha is content growing melons for the Temple monks. B...



  • Connie Mason

    BRAVE, BOLD AND RASH Those were the traits of the men bred in the land down under, and there was none braver than Ben Penrod. Only one thing could turn his sun-bronzed visage pale, and that was a marriage-minded female. Though Ben was heir to the...



  • Rachel Lee

    WHO IS THAT SEXY GUY? NAME: Tim O'Shaughnessy With his seductive grin and rock-hard physique, he was programmed for pure seduction. EXPERIENCE: Top-secret government computer work. OBJECTIVE: Protecting his latest software program and hi...



  • Zane Grey

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...



  • Philippa Carr

    When happy-go-lucky Dorabella Denver marries Dermot Tregarland, a charismatic young Cornishman, her twin sister, Violetta, is haunted by premonitions of disaster. Her worries soon multiply, as rumors of blood feuds and mysterious deaths are linked to...



  • Margaret Mayo

    Savage by name and savage by nature! Caron Lorimer had never met a man quite like him and she wasn't sure if she could cope. But she couldn't help falling in love with him. And that was where her problems began. Lawson Savage didn't in...



  • Jo Goodman

    SHE COULDN'T IGNORE HIM The gang of train robbers swore they could smell a reporter a mile away. Maybe it was her perfume that saved Mary Michael Dennehy from the brutal fate of her newspaper colleagues on the train to Colorado. Instead of being k...



  • Justine Davis

    Trace Dalton had spent three long years searching for the mysterious woman who had changed his life forever. But when the famous film star finally found Christy Reno, nothing could convince her that he wanted her for keeps, nothing could prove to her...



  • Samantha James

    DEVIL'S MISTRESS Seeking protection from her vicious scheming uncle, spirited Kathryn of Ashbury is forced to turn to her despised enemy Guy de Marche, the dashing Earl of Sedgewick, for aid. But the handsome arrogant knight demands more than she ...



  • Joan Smith

    HOW COULD SHE GO SO FAR AS TO FORGET DUTY AND FALL IN LOVE WITH A SPY?! Never did anyone look less like a spy than Heather Hume. But circumstances forced her to act when she discovered that her father's recent death was, in fact, murder--and t...



  • T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    The Iron Curtain has been torn open, setting Poland on the road to democracy. But can true freedom come to those still bound by tragic memories of - Florian's Gate When Jeffrey Sinclair takes on the challenge of assisting in a high-priced London an...



  • Thomas Perry

    He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher&#...



  • Constance O'Banyon

    Forbidden Love -- The Revolutionary War was just a distant rumble when young Royal Bradford was sent away to finishing school in England. Frightened and lonely, she longed to return to her beloved Savannah and to the arms of her handsome guardian Dam...



  • Patricia Potter
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    Enchantment filled the evening - a seductive summer magic that built until it had to explode. Corey was sensible, responsible, wary of priviledge and wealth and charmed, carefree lives. But somehow she found herself dazzled by the fiery opulence of F...



  • Annette Broadrick

    MR. MAY Man: Secret agent Max Moran--silent, stealthy and ready to spring. Current Assignment: Rescue a kidnapped child. Disturbing Factor: Teaming up with ex-agent Marisa Stevens--delicate, determined and dreamy enough to break any stoic secret...



  • Cassie Miles

    Something wild... Mick Penotti trusted no man ... or woman. So when Sarah MacNeil from some big-shot foundation offered him an interest-free loan, he was dead set against it. But Sarah was another matter. Though she presented herself as a cool pro...



  • Arlene James

    A PRINCE OF A GUY Ever since her father had been wounded in a holdup in their convenience store, Racine Edwards had been struggling to single-handedly keep farm and family business together. Then in walked Deeton Spooner--movie-star handsome and t...



  • Carol Finch

    Determined to prove herself as capable as any man, auburn-haired Darcey O'Roarke trekked westward from St. Louis to halt the robberies that were plaguing her father's stagecoach business �" single-handed. She didn't need the protection of silver-eye...



  • Don Pendleton

    PRIVATE EYE JOE FOR MURDER Someone shaved Copp's head with a bullet. When he comes to, he can't remember his own name. The basics come back fast, but the facts aren't pretty. A beautiful woman lies dead in the L.A. County Morgue, killed with Copp'...



  • J.T. Edson

    Captain Jackson Baines Hardin had been given the task of ensuring the safe delivery of a five hundred caplock rifles, on which depended the success of the Texians’ struggle to liberate themselves from the tyrannical rule of the Mexican dictator, Pr...



  • Elizabeth Chadwick

    In 1126, the Welsh Marches are a land darkened by strife, where nothing is safe; not even a young woman's heart .... Adam de Lacey has returned home to Ravenstow after a royal mission, and the newly widowed Heulwen finds that her passion still bur...



  • Edith Layton
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    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...



  • Edith Layton
    in

    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...



  • Edith Layton
    in

    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...



  • Edith Layton
    in

    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...



  • Edith Layton
    in

    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...



  • Joyce Carol Oates

    The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys“Its power of evocation is remarkable.” -- The New Yorker  In the midst of a long summer on Grayling Island, Maine, twenty-six-y...



  • Alice Hoffman

    A “captivating...truly original novel” (Cosmopolitan) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.“Ms. Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives and in the battered, indifferent world.” -- The New York...



  • Sophie Weston

    Bargain with the enemy From the first moment she saw him, Candy Neilson had been attracted to Justin Richmond. But she knew he wasn't the right man for her. He was, after all, her father's business rival. And worse, one of the newspapers he owned ...



  • Matt Christopher

    Last year, Sylvester was the "kid who only hit homers," but this season it seems like he can't do anything right. He's playing so badly that the coach has him warming the bench -- until he meets Cheeko. With Cheeko's help, Sylvester learns how to p...


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