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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1997

Best Reviewed

Witches' Rings
Kerstin Ekman

Best Reviewed

Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band
Grove Press

Best Reviewed

Midsummer Night
Uwe Timm

Best Reviewed

Bad News
Edward St. Aubyn

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  • Linda Howard
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    In the midst of an Idaho blizzard, Hope Bradshaw offers shelter to a stranger--and an instant, hungry passion flares between them. When a radio bulletin warns of a dangerous escaped convict, her blood runs cold: has desire blinded her to the risks of...



  • Anne Mather

    He had to protect her from himself! Life was complicated enough for William Quentin without his ex-wife turning up on his doorstep. He'd been crazy about Francesca, and the agony of her betrayal still haunted him. Will knew he should heed his ...



  • Jude Deveraux
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    A spirited Irishwoman comes to a rugged Colorado town to govern a young ruffian and learns a love lesson from the boy's father: there is more to the man than meets the eye....



  • James Patterson

    In Cat & Mouse, things get too close to home. Two killers, one operating in America--one in Europe--believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned. And Alex must contend with something he hasn't known since the los...



  • Betty Neels

    Francesca Bowen has cut short her medical career to look after her elderly aunt, so she jumps at the chance to be assistant to Lady Trumper. But Francesca soon discovers that she's made the wrong decision and is being treated like a dogsbody. Then, s...



  • Betty Neels
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    Emmy was plain and mousy -- why would Ruerd look her way? Ermentrude Foster helped the family by working at St. Lukes Hospital. She spoke her mind to the often impatient Professor Ruerd ter Mennolt, but he did offer practical aid with Emmy's dif...



  • Mary Balogh
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    Hark, the herald angels sing as five of Signet's favorite Regency authors bring you a melodious collection of stories to make the season even brighter. Lush with the magic of the holiday, the stories in this Christmas Regency collection capture the t...



  • Mary Balogh

    The Wrong Lady At six-and-thirty, the very wealthy Edgar Downes had finally decided to take a bride. Although not to the manner born, Edgar had promised his aging father that he would wed a titled lady by Christmas. Edgar came to London to review ...



  • Charlotte Lamb

    "You remember; last night? At the party? When you proposed to me?" "Proposed..." Sam hoarsely repeated, going pale. Natalie gave him a dewy look. "Yes. You went down on your knees, in front of them all...." "On my...



  • Brenda Jackson

    Friends…Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friends…the last two people likely to end up as lovers. Syneda holds all men at arm's length because of the father whose name she never knew. Clayton has always been a p...



  • Michelle Reid

    Instant bridegroom... Shaan had been jilted! She'd been left at the altar by Piers Danvers...but Rafe Danvers was waiting to step right into his half brother's shoes. Older, darker, stronger and head of the Danvers business empire, it was ...



  • Sharon Sala

    FIRST COMES MARRIAGE... Beautiful heiress Casey Ruban needed a husband - fast. So she raced into the nearest honky-tonk and made her offer - full marital privileges in exchange for a wedding ring. It was an offer one man couldn't refuse. THEN ...



  • Lori Foster

    He wanted a baby, not a lover. Tony Austin had no desire for a wife, but he longed for a baby of his own. What he needed was someone to carry the child and then vanish from his life. She wanted a lover, not a baby. The last thing Olivia Ande...



  • Sharon Kendrick

    He'd finally found her... Dr. Maisy Jackson was late -- very late -- on her first day at the infertility clinic, and consultant Matthew Gallagher on an exchange from Australia was less than pleased! But that sticky didn't stop either of th...



  • Sharon Kendrick

    Rediscovering lost loves brings a special comfort, and helping to deliver a precious bundle is a remarkable joy in a quartet of holiday love stories by Lynne Collins, Marion Lennox, Laura MacDonald, and Sharon Kendrick. Original....



  • Emma Darcy
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    A daughter she doesn't know and the lover who doesn't know her! As a pregnant teenager, Meredith Palmer had been devastated to discover from Nick Hamilton's sister that he'd had an accident and had no memory of their golden summer ...



  • R.L. Stine

    Hoping to put her past with the crazed Honey behind her, Becka thinks she has become paranoid when she still sees Honey everywhere she goes, until she realizes that the troubled girl is still out to get her. Original....



  • R.L. Stine

    "Don't do this! Watch out for that!" Marco's mom thinks the whole world is a danger zone. She won't even let Marco play softball.But Marco just wants to have fun. So he sneaks off to a game. And that's when it happens. He gets hit in the head with a ...



  • R.L. Stine

    Highlighting a newly designed front-cover look for the Goosebumps series, the newest installment takes the reader on a visit to a virtual reality theme park where the scares are all too real. Original....



  • V.C. Andrews

    Melody Logan had only just found a safe harbor when a new storm set her adrift all over again...Melody had always believed her mother, Haille, and dear stepdaddy had died in tragic accidents -- that's why she'd come to stay with her secretive Logan r...



  • Margaret Way

    Camille Guildford is the daughter -- and heiress -- of a powerful Australian financier. But she hasn't inherited the fortune everyone thinks she has. Instead, her father's mysterious death has left her with an unexpected legacy of bitterness....



  • LaVyrle Spencer

    Can love survive a shattering loss? Browerville, Minnesota, 1950: Life is just about perfect for Eddie Olczak. A man of unshakable faith, he derives intense pleasure from the life he's built. He cherishes his wife, Krystyna, their daughters, Anne ...



  • Beverly Barton

    REBEL HOMECOMING Morgan Kane was the baddest boy Birmingham society had ever bred. But years as a Navy SEAL had sculpted the hard muscles of his body and reinforced the wall around his heart. A heart that had once loved Bethany Wyndham. And a body...



  • Jill Shalvis

    "Run away from me while you still can...." Ryan Scott was shocked to find Dr. Kayla Davies outside the mountain cabin where his wife had died a year earlier. At first Kayla recoiled in fear of the man she believed had hurt her sister, but only a few...



  • Carla Cassidy

    TRAVIS AND FRANNIE SITTIN' IN A TREE... K-I-S-S-I-N-G.... Well, maybe not a tree, but there'd been plenty of times they'd snuck out their bedroom windows to share kisses in the cornfields. That was five years ago. Before Frannie left f...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    Could a love deeper than time be enough to erase the past? The sinfully handsome stranger kept calling out her name, but how could Maggie Winthrop believe the wild things he told her -- especially when he stood naked outside her back door? Chuck D...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    SHE WAS CALLED "WALKS WITH WOLVES" Ruthless corporate cowboy Dain Phillips had kicked off the traces of his impoverished past, burying his scars under wealth and power. But money couldn't help him buck the illness now fatally riding him. Only a...



  • Sandra Marton

    Three Brides, three grooms and they all meet at THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR Annie and Chase Cooper were reunited, reluctantly, for their daughter's wedding. They even danced together, as the mother and father of the bride should. But, when Dawn go...



  • Jacqueline Baird

    Second-time seduction! Bea has been reunited with Leon Gregoris, her ex-fiance. But this time Leon won't mesmerize her with his dark Greek-Cypriot good looks. Bea is older and in charge of herself now; she won't be captive to sexual chemis...



  • Mary Jo Putney
    in

    A poignant romance where an impoverished gentleman discovers a woman to be treasured... Emma Stone, a lonely governess, inherits an unexpected fortune, and realizes that she can now have the husband and family she craves. Anthony Vaughn, the dashi...



  • Mary Higgins Clark
    in

    Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today's top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a tale that ingeniously fe...



  • Candace Camp

    THEIR NEED FOR EACH OTHER HAD BECOME LESS THAN DISCREET... Benedict Wincross appears in Camilla Ferrand's life as quickly as the gunfire pursuing him. Is he a kidnapper? A thief? Or worse? What had Camilla so innocently become part of? Though ...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Valerie Ross, a beautiful young woman, rides off into the wilderness alone, where she unexpectedly comes face to face with Flaming Arrow -- an Indian warrior who has every reason to hate her. Her kind has driven his people from their home, and the la...



  • Anne Stuart

    The man had secrets... Blindsided by a hurricane, Katie Flynn was seeking shelter from the storm -- but all she found was a moody, broody recluse named O'Neal. Trapped with him in his house on a windswept cliff overlooking the wildly tossed sea, K...



  • Victoria Alexander
    in

    After inheriting three unbearable dogs from his great aunt, Oliver Stanhope was relieved she'd made arrangements for a trainer. But when D.K. Lawrence appeared at his door, enormous Great Dane in tow, Oliver was in for the Christmas surprise -- a...



  • Lindsay Armstrong

    The Australians: He's big, he's brash, he's brazen... he's Australian! Sultry, sensual and ruthless... SAFFRON SHAW, a successful designer in Queensland, was able to pick and choose her clients, and she thought nothing of turn...



  • Lindsay Armstrong
    in

    To a relationship in which Brendan has always treated Merryn like a kid sister, add a Christmas celebration the two are forced to share. Garnish with all the trimmings!...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    A Cruise on the Titanic, anyone? A holiday on a houseboat. To Andi Lombard, it sounded like the perfect way to spend some time with her pregnant little sister Nicole, before the big day. She hadn't counted on getting stuck on the Moby Dock of houseb...



  • Terry Pratchett

    Something, new has come up between the ancient rival cities of Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali. Literally. An island, rising out of Discworld's circular sea. Since it's uninhabited and claimed by both cities, Commander Vimes and his faithful trolls and ...



  • Mariah Stewart
    in

    A lively family reunion on a Montana ranch brings on a flurry of memories for a beautiful young writer -- and a winter storm that rekindles an old flame....



  • Rachel Lee

    Caught in a web of danger... Someone is stalking and killing women, someone with a twisted mind and a warped obsession. Kate Devane is the stalker's next prey, and he's been following her with loving devotion. He has plans for her ...but he has...



  • Diana Hamilton
    in

    Husband and wife reunited? Coming home to his wife on Christmas Eve to celebrate their third wedding anniversary, Jake Fox found Bella with her boss. Assuming she'd been having an affair while he'd been working out of the country, Jake did...



  • Kate Walker

    The wedding revenge Everything had been perfect. India Marchant had planned her fairy-tale wedding and all that had remained was for the groom, Aidan Wolfe, to say "I do." But he hadn't! Instead, he'd accused India of being a gold ...



  • Rosemary Rogers

    Kyla Van Vleet has journeyed from India with proof of her right to share in the late Duke of Wolverton's estate and repay the many kindnesses of the stepfather who raised her. But this ravishing young woman hasn't counted on the cold cunning of the D...



  • P.D. James

    "Venetia Aldridge is a criminal lawyer of large talents and small personal charm, working at a venerable London firm...As she tries to save a young lower-class tough who is accused of murdering his prostitute aunt, we learn that she is in a position ...



  • Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    A brutal murder, a power struggle, and a bitter old shaman threaten to ignite a war that could destroy the Algonquin NationIn People of the Mist, bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear transport readers to the Chesapeake Bay of ...



  • Day Leclaire
    in

    Mix one aspiring chef, Maddie, with Joe, an expert at producing romantic dinners for two. Ensure student is more interested in learning about gorgeous teacher than about dinner. Simmer!...



  • Daphne Clair

    While he was sleeping... She knew it was reckless; she shouldn't have gone to see him in the hospital. But since meeting Zachary Ballantine at the charity dinner Katrien had been unable to get him out of her mind...or out of her dreams. It was...



  • Eric Jerome Dickey

    When Debra meets Leonard, she has just gotten off the sex-before-marriage merry-go-round. Leonard, a successful comedian, isn't laughing when he confronts that crucial moment in every man's life when he has to decide whether he's ready for the love o...



  • Susan Johnson

    Married against her will to the brutal Russian general who conquered her people, Countess Teo Korsakova has never known what it means to want a man ... until now. Trapped behind enemy lines, held captive by her husband's most formidable foe, she shou...


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