FictionDB

popular books

BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 2001

Best Reviewed

Kit's Law
Donna Morrissey

Best Reviewed

Empire Falls
Richard Russo

Best Reviewed

Glue
Irvine Welsh

Best Reviewed

Georgia Under Water: Stories
Heather Sellers

Best Reviewed

The Prodigy
Alton Gansky

Best Reviewed

All We Know of Heaven
Remy Rougeau

New Books List: 591 titles

Sign in to your account to see the complete listing of new books for MAY 2001

  • Debbie Macomber

    Please join me for my third -- and final -- visit to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota. This town exists only in my imagination, but its spirit and sense of community are definitely real. Buffalo Valley resembles many places in my family's history, and pe...



  • Lisa Kleypas

    London, 1836. She was unmarried, untouched and almost thirty, but novelist Amanda Briars wasn't about to greet her next birthday without making love to a man. When he appeared at her door, she believed he was her gift to herself, hired for one night...



  • Susan Mallery

    The free-spirited owner of a booming chocolate emporium in Santa Magdelana, California, Allison Thomas is out to save the world--one truffle at a time. Everyone adores Ali--who wouldn't love a lady who sneaks midnight chocolate deliveries to the loca...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Have you ever wanted to rewrite your past? Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating this turning point at a summerhouse in Maine. Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of th...



  • Betty Neels

    Julia Gracey has always lived by the rule that women should stand on their own two feet. But every time there's a problem, Professor Gerard van der Maes always seems to be on hand with the perfect solution! Gerard seems determined to sweep Julia o...



  • Jayne Ann Krentz

    Nothing was ever simple between a Madison and a Harte. The feud that had divided their families still simmered. Now, only months after their siblings' wedding, Lillian Harte and Gabe Madison are at each other's throat. Successful CEO Gabe had insi...



  • Charlotte Lamb

    The boss is back! Randal Harding... Though Pippa refused to get involved with him when she worked for him as his secretary, she's never quite been able to forget her ex-boss. Now Randal is back and is turning Pippa's neatly arranged lif...



  • Karen Robards
    in

    Danger and desire ignite when Charlotte Bates drives straight into a DEA agent's hot pursuit of a drug smuggler. But when the lawman takes Charlie hostage, an electrifying adventure begins .......



  • Sherryl Woods

    PREGNANT AND UNMARRIED, SHE LEFT TOWN... Now Cassie Collins had returned to reconnect with her oldest friends, the Calamity Janes, and put her troubles behind her. But trouble found her in the disconcertingly sexy form of Cole Davis -- father of h...



  • R.A. Salvatore

    Much to the seething dismay of his longtime mistress, King Danube has asked Jilseponie Wyndon to become his queen. But she is torn. How can she love any man as completely as she did the Ranger Elbryan, the father of the child she lost? But unknown to...



  • Lori Foster

    SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM TO GET THE WRONG IDEA... Shadow Callahan was simply trying to corral 10 to-die-for men when she propositioned Brent Bramwell. All the specialty shops in the mall agreed that hosting a "sexiest man" contest would bring in female...



  • Sharon Kendrick

    When Rose was whisked away from London to Prince Khalim's desert palace on board his private jet, he treated her more like a princess than an employee. Yet she knew she could never be his wife. An appropriate bride would be chosen and he would ha...



  • Helen Bianchin

    Indecent proposal! There was only one way for Mikayla to clear her father's debt to powerful tycoon Rafael Velez-Aguilera: by offering herself in exchange! She knew it was crazy -- Rafael had his pick of glamorous women, and Mikayla was a virg...



  • Kat Martin

    An innocent woman. An accomplished rogue. Love wasn't part of the bargain... A SHAMELESS BARGAIN To escape her life of poverty as a tenant farmer's daughter, Ariel Summers made a bargain with the devil -- she would become the Earl of Greville...



  • R.L. Stine

    You hold in your hand the key to a shadow world of shivers and screams. Take a step away from the safe, comfortable world you know. Unlock the door to terror. There's always room for one more in . . . The Nightmare Room....




  • Beverly Lewis

    Melissa James has a picture-perfect existence--or so it seems. In reality, she has been looking over her shoulder her entire life. Just as her secrets are about to catch up with her, she seeks a haven in Pennsylvania Amish Country. Will her stay brin...



  • William W. Johnstone

    Leading an elite strike force of law enforcement and intelligence professionals, ex-CIA agent John Barron is hired by billionaire Marist J. Quinncannon to find out who killed his teenage granddaughter, and John and his team are plunged into a world o...



  • Margaret Way

    HUSBANDS OF THE OUTBACK -- They're tough, passionate -- and about to be tamed! GENNI'S DILEMMA by Margaret Way Genevieve Courtland has loved cattleman Blaine Courtland since childhood, but he's only ever seen her as a pretty socia...



  • Louis L'Amour

    Spirited American stories gathered together for the first time From the coasts of Brazil to the borders of Tibet to the very heartland of America, May There Be a Road gathers ten previously uncollected stories that capture the magnificent scope an...



  • Beverly Barton

    WAITING FOR WHITELAW He was the man she had once offered her innocence to. The man who had heartlessly turned her away, claiming she was too young for him. Now Hunter Whitelaw, world-weary security agent with a body built for sin, was the man Mand...



  • Carol Marinelli

    A job in the bush! Sister Olivia Morrell started her new job in the Outback with some trepidation. She’d wanted to get away from it all but, in isolated Kimjong, there was only one doctor. And by all accounts, Dr. Clemson made a moody and diffic...



  • Carla Cassidy

    WHO DO YOU TRUST? No one would meet Mark Delaney's eyes. After a devastating brush with death, he had changed dramatically -- and done so with one purpose in mind. He had a killer to catch and could no longer trust his own family. But one woman da...



  • John Sandford

    Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet -- the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession... Art history professor James Qatar's hobby was taking secret photographs of women. At night when he ...



  • Brenda Novak

    What Maggie does... Maggie Russell, a police reporter in Sacramento, works the night shift. She's divorced and the mother of a very active three-year-old son. Maggie may not have much time for a social life, but she's recently begun an email ...



  • Colleen Coble
    in

    A family heirloom hope chest has been passed down the generations from 1858 to modern times. Authors Cathy Marie Hake, Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, and Gina Fields collaborated to make a unified collection that will tug at your heartstrings....



  • Jacqueline Baird

    The ideal husband -- if only it were for real Amber's multimillionaire Greek boyfriend, Lucas Karadines, informed her that he was getting married -- to someone else.... Five years later, Amber has put Lucas behind her -- until she inherits ...



  • Wilbur Smith

    A PHARAOH'S VISION OF A BRILLIANT NEW EMPIRE The mission of Prince Nefer, rightful heir to the throne, is to rebuild a magnificent kingdom in the stark and tumbled ruins of the embattled city of Gallala. The desire of Lord Naja is to destroy his riv...



  • Charlaine Harris

    Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She' s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. Its just that, well, Sookie has this sort of "disability". She can read minds...



  • Maureen Child

    If someone had told her only yesterday that a perfect -- in every way! -- stranger would be delivering her baby, Annie Foster would never have believed it. But here she was, stranded on top of a mountain, with gorgeous Gunnery Sergeant John Paretti h...



  • Jo Beverley

    THE EARL Con Somerford, the new Earl of Wyvern, arrives at his fortress on the cliffs of Dover to find a woman from his past waiting for him -- pistol in hand.... THE HOUSEKEEPER Susan Kerslake, the new housekeeper at Crag Wyvern, was drawn back...



  • Helen Brooks

    The tycoon -- and the temp! When Matt de Capistrano took over Georgina's family's business, there were fireworks! Although her family badly needed his support, Georgie longed to refuse point-blank to work with Matt. The man was arrogant, i...



  • Victoria Alexander

    Lady Marianne has found romance only between book covers. But the dashing marquess is about to give her a lesson in love she'll never forget... LESSON #1: NEVER TEMPT A LADY Become a bride? Never! Lady Marianne Shelton has come to London ...



  • Jeffery Deaver

    When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and -- with chilling precision -- lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murde...



  • Luanne Rice

    Under the summer sky, anything is possible.... Author of the acclaimed novels Cloud Nine and Follow the Stars Home, Luanne Rice returns with another moving portrait of a family in crisis -- as three sisters come face-to-face with the past and find...



  • Kasey Michaels
    in

    Legend has it that the famous Colton family sapphires shine brilliantly on only the women who are meant to be Colton brides.... Meet three powerful and sexy Colton men who face the challenge of finding the right women -- the brides of their hearts! ...



  • Terry Pratchett

    Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it--the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, w...



  • Connie Mason

    BOSS LADY Down and out, his face on wanted posters across the West, Sam Gentry needed a job. And the foreman of the B &G ranch was hiring cowhands. But who was the behind-the-scenes owner the ramrod mentioned? Surely this Lacey wasn't the same...



  • Mariah Stewart
    in

    Coming home to Montana after a stalker's attack, a model finds an old love rekindled and a safe place for healing. Until her attacker finds her .......



  • Randy Wayne White

    It's never a good idea to mix business with pleasure. But for marine biologist Doc Ford, who loves his job almost as much as he loves the Florida coast, the line between the two often smudges. On a working vacation in Guava Key, Doc hopes to catc...



  • Jennifer Crusie

    When A Down-On-Her-Luck Divorcee Nell Dysart's in trouble. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a job for her with a shabby little detective...



  • Katherine Garbera

    First, stranded beauty Lydia Kerr came rapping on his ranch house door. An unbidden sensuality clung to the mysterious damsel, and lawman Evan Powell couldn't resist getting closer.... Though he was rocked by the man-woman union he experienced with L...



  • Linda Goodnight
    in

    Time, tides, and the hand of God draw the hearts of four couples together in these delightful tales. Authors Kim Comeaux, Linda Goodnight, JoAnn A. Grote, and Diann Hunt weave four engaging stories of romance on the water. The Matchmakers won't leave...



  • Karen Harper

    Kate Marburn thought her recovery from her former husband's betrayal was a new beginning. A quiet and controlled life as the rose gardener on the estate of Sarah Denbigh, a wealthy widow, seemed the perfect escape. But when Sarah dies under myste...



  • Lori Copeland

    After years of hiding behind a successful career, E. J. finds her comfortable world threatened by a tragic event. Facing one of the hardest decisions of her life, E.J. heads home to Cullen's Corner to sort things out. As the warm arms of the town rea...



  • Anna Jacobs

    She will keep her head held high, no matter what…When Helen Merling, a happy girl with a loving heart, is seduced by a travelling actor, her life is turned upside down. The two are forced to marry by her strict clergyman father �" but this isn’t...



  • Leigh Michaels

    When Morganna Ashworth's father died, leaving her his debts, Sloan Montgomery realized he could finally achieve his two lifelong ambitions: the acquisition of a socially acceptable wife, and revenge on the Ashworth family! In return for him pa...



  • Sara Orwig

    Rodeo champion and rancher Jeb Stuart was determined to claim the son his ex-wife had given away, but he hadn't counted on the little boy's love for his charming adoptive mother, Amanda Crockett. Jeb proposed a marriage of convenience for his son...



  • Judy Christenberry

    He promised to watch over her �" day and night Jake Maitland, FBI agent and black sheep of the Maitland clan, had finally come home. And he had a whole lot of trouble on his tail... Camille Eckart was Jake's latest assignment. He'd been chose...



  • Dale Brown

    Pilot hero, Patrick McLanahan, takes on an individual mission with international consequences... The country of Russia is collapsing--and oil magnate Pavel Kazakov seizes the opportunity to take control, using the Russian army to back him up with ...


What's New?

Join the FictionDB email list to get access to the latest news and exclusive content.

No ads, please...
$25 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe