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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1996

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American Heaven
Maxine Chernoff

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Extreme Denial
David Morrell

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Kind Relations
Robert Liddell

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Wings of a Dove
Beverly Smith-Bush

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DAT's Love
Leonora Brito

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  • Debbie Macomber
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    Katie Kern and Jason Ingram were high school sweethearts...until Katie's wealthy parents put an end to their elopment. Now, a decade later, Jason is days away from marrying another woman. But Katie walks back into his life...and the years magically m...



  • Diana Palmer

    MR. MAY Ice Man: Dawson Rutherford, our 100th Silhouette hero! His scheme: Plan a mock engagement to help secure the land he so desperately needed. Only one woman had the power to drive this seemingly heartless cowboy wild, and now he needed...



  • Susan Mallery

    MY THREE SONS Rugged Craig Haynes came from a long line of lady-killers. Lately, though, the single dad was targeting only Jill Bradford, his sons' new nanny. Two parts sweetness, one part sin, the pint-size redhead proved a wizard with his three...



  • Janet Dailey
    in

    They were kids together on Southern California's Castle Sand Pier, a majestic wharf topped by a colorful carousel. Years later, Bridget and Reese met again...and find that time has rekindled a passion too powerful to deny....



  • Linda Lael Miller

    In medieval England, Gloriana, Lady of Kenbrook, awaits her husband, Dane St.Gregory, whom she has not seen since childhood. she is stunned to discover that he has returned with a betrothed; beautiful Gloriana is to be cast into a nunnery. Dane's mys...



  • Stephanie Laurens

    A successful horse breeder and self-proclaimed rake, Harry Lester samples women like wines. But after having his heart trampled by someone he actually loved, he has no intention of falling for a woman again, let alone being ensnared by the trap of ma...



  • Sara Craven

    The prodigal lover.... Lydie had grown up too close to Marius Benedict to remain immune to her step-cousin's fatal charm. But Marius had merely seduced and abandoned her, leaving town under a cloud of scandal. Five long years and, no doubt, a ...



  • John Grisham

    WHEN THEIR JOB IS DONE, JUSTICE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.... They are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women will have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high priced lawyers and consultants...



  • Helen Bianchin

    Bargain with the devil! Kristi's journalist brother was a hostage, and only one man could help: Sheikh Shalef Al-Sayed. He had power and influence at his fingertips -- but how could Kristi win his support? Shalef was way out of her league. His...



  • Emma Darcy

    When Ashley met Harry... Mischief was what Harry Clifton intended when he traveled to Australia in search of an heir. Marriage was the last thing on Ashley Harcourt's mind when she met Harry. But William, Ashley's enterprising young ...



  • Jeffrey Archer

    Lubji Hoch survived World War II on luck, guts, and ruthlessness. At the war's end, renamed Richard Armstrong, he buys a floundering newspaper in Berlin and deviously puts his competitors out of business. But it isn't enough. Meanwhile, on the other ...



  • R.L. Stine

    Five close friends... one murderer.. All Julie's friends hated Al. They all wished Al were dead. But that doesn't mean one of them killed him. Julie knows her friends. She knows they are innocent.... Until one of them confesses. Julie and her frie...



  • R.L. Stine

    EVERY BEAST FOR HIMSELF! Ginger Wald and her identical twin brothers, Nat and Pat, are lost in the woods. No problem. After all, Ginger did go to that stupid nature camp. Still, there's something odd about this part of the woods. The grass is yello...



  • R.L. Stine

    WOODSWORLD? OR WEREWOLFWORLD? Get out your bathing suit! You and your family are off on a summer vacation to a place called WoodsWorld. You can't wait to mess around down at the lake. Then at the Kids Only Campfire you hear the rumor about WoodsWor...




  • Marie Ferrarella

    The marriage scheme... The Mom: runs a matchingmaking service and refuses to find herself a date! Her son wants her to find herself a husband, but Rosemary Gallagher wants to remain happily unmarried. The Kid: has the perfect plan and doesn't ...



  • Louis L'Amour

    WHERE THE REAL FRONTIER BEGINS A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt.... A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge.... From purple sage to gambler's gold, from ...



  • Carla Cassidy

    THE HARD NOSED DETECTIVE The Minute she walked in, he sensed trouble. Said her name was Colleen and that she was looking for someone named Sam Baker. Who was he? Her husband? Her Lover? Private eye Gideon Graves could smell a scandal a mile a way,...



  • Rebecca Winters

    Bad Man Wanted! Xan Harrington wanted a man who'd love her for herself rather than her fortune. Fate had brought her to the Bad River. Or, more accurately, she had thrown a dart at her map of the U.S.A. and where it had landed she had followed...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    Kissed by a phantom at midnight, she had no choice but to surrender.... When Dr. Marshall Devlin spotted Leila Hunt alone on the dance floor, he yearned to charm the violet-eyed Cinderella into his arms, but how could he court the lady when they f...



  • John Sandford

    It begins with a death and ends with one. For months, Lucas Davenport's men have been tracking a vicious woman bank robber named Candy, and when they finally catch up with her, she does not go quietly. In the ensuing shoot-out, she dies -- and Davenp...



  • Cathy Williams

    Compromising Positions Oliver Kemp had always followed his instincts-until he agreed to hire a business associate's daughter as a favor! Francesca Wade vowed to be nothing but professional toward her new boss-but just one lapse with Oliver Ke...



  • Cassie Edwards

    SHE TAMED THE PANTHER Beautiful Kaylene Shelton's home had always been her father's carnival, traveling across the frontier. Filled with loneliness and unspoken longings, she had no one to talk to except Midnight, the black panther she had raised fr...



  • Jane Feather

    From the incomparable Jane Feather, author of national bestsellers Vanity, Violet, and Valentine, comes this enthralling new romance of daring deception and forbidden passion. Juliana drew the line at becoming a harlot. She had already begun the w...



  • Stephen King

    A NOVEL IN SIX PARTS: COFFEY’S HANDS Welcome back to E Block, the deadliest place this side of the electric chair, where assaults are a daily grind and miracles are about to happen. Paul Edgecombe has become increasingly curious about John Coffey, ...



  • Jo Beverley
    in

    Regency debutante Anna Featherstone's rented London townhouse is filled with intriguing Gothic details...and scandalous secrets. When the notorious Earl of Carne moves into the mansion next door, a secret connecting door becomes a passageway to dange...



  • Jo Beverley

    A magnificent tale that sweeps from a besieged medieval castle to the dazzling English court...as two knights vie for the heart of one woman -- and a love that can conquer all... She is the incomparable Jehanne, alone in a castle with a child wh...



  • Helen Brooks

    A child that's born on a Sunday is bonny and blithe... Reece Vance has fought hard for his wealth and success -- and he's learned to be tough, cynical and ruthless. Miriam Bennett is a natural optimist, but her good nature is put to the te...



  • Victoria Alexander

    Once upon a time...they lived happily ever after. FEEL THE PEA THROUGH THIS BED AND WIN THE HEART OF THE MAN YOU'LL WED. A true American princess, Cecily White stood to inherit her father's business empire. And with the twentieth century right ...



  • Maggie Shayne

    A CHANCE TO BELIEVE As a boy, Adam Reid stumbled into an enchanted forest-and met a magical lady who showed him his destiny. Now he is a sober and serious adult. And memories have faded of a childhood event that could not possibly have occurred......



  • Brenda Joyce

    The haunting song of a distant era calls the beautiful graduate student to her subject, the enigmatic Captain Blackwell, Across the centuries, she is drawn by an inexplicable passion into a realm of mystery and danger -- to be imprisoned in an opu...



  • JoAnn Ross

    HALF-BREED Wolfe Longwalker: Proud of his heritage, he used words--as a writer--to battle the white man. His enemies used a more basic method: they were about to hang Wolfe for a crime he didn't commit. So when Noel Giraudeau, a modern-day prin...



  • Susan Napier

    Behaving badly... Harriet Smith attended the company's New Year's Eve party in all innocence. It wasn't her fault that the punch she'd been drinking was stronger than expected-so that she'd ended up confiding in a gorgeous stranger about her broken ...



  • Terri Blackstock

    A violent criminal with a knack for evading justice. A beautiful victim with a secret to hide. Between them stands one good cop, torn between justice and the law. This rape case is an exception: The victim is more than willing to testify. And there'...



  • Leanne Banks

    BABY ON THE WAY! In one shocking night, Glory Danson and Caleb Masters made a baby! Now Glory was in real trouble. Caleb was a brilliant -- and brooding -- scientist bent on saving the world -- certainly not father material! Could ten tiny fin...



  • Zane Grey

    Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his bes selling ...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    WITH ONLY FORTY-EIGHT HOURS TO LASSO THEIR MATES �" IT'S A STAMPEDE...TO THE ALTAR! Patience McKendrick wanted a baby more than anything. Only the witty advice columnist was plumb stumped when she heard that her crazy uncle Max had bequeathed a s...



  • Lori Copeland

    DEARLY BELOVED When Beth Baylor announces her engagement to gorgeous rancher Adam Baldwin, seamstress Vonnie Taylor would rather choke than make the wedding dress -- because Adam is her husband. True, they were young and crazy, sharing a forbid...



  • Caroline Anderson

    Taking up a staff-nurse post on General Surgery at the Audley Memorial Hospital was a new start for Laura Bailey. She had put the past behind her, and her aim now was a good career. Considering that she'd also sworn off men on any personal level, s...



  • Carla Kelly
    in

    A widow is surprised by two unexpected visitors at her sister's wedding - one breaks her heart and the other captures it forever....



  • Christopher Pike

    Are there fairies and gnomes? Leprechauns and elves? Most people, including Adam, would have said no. But one day a whole herd of magical creatures invades Spooksville. At first they play childish pranks, and Adam and his friends are happy to welcome...



  • Shirlee Busbee

    Under the cloak of darkness, Lady Tess escapes, a lone rider fleeing from her diabolical cousin -- only to fall into the hands of ruffians who rob her of her jewels...and her memory. Then in the shelter of a wayside inn, she meets the man the cen...



  • Liz Fielding

    "I have no intention of marrying you!" Lizzie was astounded when her widowed father decided to marry Noah Jordan's beautiful sister. It made her all the more aware that it was time she found a husband of her own! But that didn't me...



  • Annette Broadrick
    in

    A confirmed bachelor becomes the father of twins in "What's a Dad to Do?," an unprepared couple gets a surprise in "Soul Mates," and a single man inherits an orphaned baby in "Wife Wanted..." Original....



  • Gilbert Morris

    In order to earn money to help their sick younger brother and in hopes of locating their missing father, twins Danny and Dixie Fortune agree to further test their uncles' Chrono-Shuttle by traveling back to the time of the French and Indian War and m...



  • Robin Lee Hatcher

    Wyoming, 1886 Her young daughter's illness forces traveling actress Faith Butler to take a job at the Jagged R Ranch working for Drake Rutledge. Passions rise when the beautiful thespian is drawn to her rugged employer and the forbidden pleasure ...



  • Christina Skye

    AT ROSE-COVERED DRAYCOTT ABBEY... In a savage age of chivalry, a war-weary knight defends a mysterious lady from danger and swears himself her champion -- for all time... Centuries later, a startling psychic vision draws a gifted bridal writer to...



  • Catherine Spencer

    He's trouble with a capital T! Mike Callahan is sexy, handsome, magnetic--and out to win at all costs! Isobel Whitelaw is cool, calm, professional--and determined to keep Mike Callahan at arm's length! "From the moment he marched...



  • Sara Wood

    The Hon. Leo and his Scarlet Lady! Ginny Mckenzie loved her modeling career, just as she had always loved Leo Brandon. But a lost libel case bringing the Brandon name into disrepute meant the last straw for her marriage. Leo wanted a divorce. T...



  • Bobbi Smith

    THE LADY Cody Jameson -- the name sent chills down the spines of every sidewinder west of the Pecos. A master of disguise, a genius of deceit, the infamous bounty hunter always had the advantage over any prey: No desperado knew Cody's real identity...


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