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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — SEPTEMBER 1997

Best Reviewed

The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald

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Deja Dead
Kathy Reichs

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Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

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Big League Dreams
Allen Hoffman

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El Paso
Winston Groom

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Tropic of Orange
Karen Tei Yamashita

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  • Diana Palmer

    Tess Meredith and Raven Following shared freedom and friendship on the wild Montana plains. But the brutal hardships that plagued the Sioux forced Raven to abandon his people, his heritage - and Tess. In Chicago, he forged a new life as a new man. Un...



  • Penny Jordan

    The Crightons have everything that money can buy--position, power and elegance... but one fateful weekend destroys it all. Three generations of Crightons have gathered at the family estate for a fiftieth birthday party. But the expected celebratio...



  • Penny Jordan

    A Perfect Family - but shocking revelations and heartache lie just beneath the surface of their charmed lives. Saul Crighton was every woman's dream - head of a thriving law firm, devoted single father to three young children, and the sexiest ...



  • Carole Mortimer

    Divorce vs. Desire Three years ago Adam Carmichael had walked out on Maggi when she needed him most. Now he was back, to pick up their marriage where he'd left off--or so he thought! Maggi's first reaction was to finalize their divorce, bu...



  • Susan Mallery

    SHY VIRGIN BRIDE... Once, Cole Stephenson had loved his young wife with a passion so hot it nearly burned itself out. But Elissa had saved him the trouble. Shaken by his intensity, she'd abandoned their marriage. To proud to pursue her, reluctant to...



  • Hannah Howell
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    introduces an ethereal beauty whose sensual dream of a tall, dark-haired warrior stepping off the battlefield and into her life turns delightfully real....



  • Sharon Kendrick

    Marriage on the run... Marriage Past Alessandra Walker and Cameron Calder had married in haste, with careers in tow and jobs in different cities. But they loved each other with a passion, and of course they'd make it work... Marriage Pres...



  • R.L. Stine

    Tania is having the best year of her life. She has a hot new boyfriend, she landed the starring role in a student film, and she’s just been voted homecoming queen. But someone is jealous of Tania. Someone plans to ruin her perfect year -- even if t...



  • R.L. Stine

    THE FISH ARE BITING Billy Deep and his sister Sheena are spending another summer in the Caribbean on their uncle's totally cool floating lab. The weather is beautiful. And there are lots of neat places to go swimming and snorkeling. Billy and She...



  • R.L. Stine

    The original series from the Master of Fright--now a major motion picture in theaters August 7, 2015!Tommy Frazer's dad just got married. Now Tommy's got a new mom. And he's going to a new school-Bell Valley Middle School. Tommy doesn't hate school. ...



  • Beverly Lewis

    The Dramatic Sequel to the Bestseller The Shunning! Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents' Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal ...



  • Beverly Lewis

    All Her Life She Has Longed For The Forbidden Things, But Will Her Dreams Come At A Price Too Dear To Pay? In the quiet Amish community of Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania, time has stood still while cherished traditions and heartfelt beliefs have flo...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    SOMETHING WAS MISSING.... Eleven years had passed since the shocking murder that forced Serena McKee to flee her child-hood home. Now she was back, seeking more than just the elusive evidence that would clear her father's name. She needed answ...



  • William W. Johnstone

    LIFE IS CHEAP IN ARIZONA TERRITORY Raised by the Shawnee, Jamie Ian MacCallister survived the bloodshed of the Alamo and the Civil War. With each victory, the MacCallister legend grew -- as violent and unpredictable as the land that gave him life. ...



  • Tess Gerritsen

    The overnight ER rotation at Springer Hospital suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine--until its calm is shattered by a man Toby admits one quiet night. Delirious and in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain, he barely responds to ...



  • Beverly Barton

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE... Cleo McNamara desperately needed a husband ...someone to father her child and protect her from a would-be murderer. Security expert Simon Roarke bravely took the job. But Cleo was more than he'd bargained for every tou...



  • Joan Johnston

    Dedicated Texas Ranger Jack Kittrick is hard on the trail of a killer who is preying on the helpless in a large San Antonio hospital--a hunt that leads him to Maggie Wainwright, the beautiful, enigmatic legal eagle who had access to the victims. . .a...



  • Miranda Lee

    Two irresistible men from Down Under -- one Aussie, one Kiwi. The time has come for them to settle old scores and win the women they've always wanted! Dr. Ashleigh O'Neil is marrying James Hargraves. He's kind and reliable -- unlike Ja...



  • M.C. Beaton

    WEDDING BELLS SOUND A DEATH KNELL Moonstruck Agatha Raisin is tying the knot with distinguished but reserved James Lacey before he can have second thoughts. After all, her first husband Jimmy must be long since dead of alcohol poisoning. But Jimmy...



  • Barbara Delinsky

    Here is a tale of courage, community, and the magical consequences of being given a second chance. What if wishes really could come true? It's the question facing waitress Bree Walker when she awakens in the hospital following a blizzard in...



  • Rebecca Winters

    Laura Donetti knows two things: Her marriage to Tony Donetti is over. And she's having his baby. Zach Wilde first meets Laura while Tony is off seducing another woman. Zach is disgusted with Tony Donetti. And protective of Laura. He also fe...



  • Robert B. Parker

    The author of the bestselling Spenser novels introduces a new hero ... Meet Jesse Stone, who has left the LAPD in disgrace and found himself the new chief of police in Paradise, Massachusetts--a town that's a lot less idyllic than it sounds... Jes...



  • Sally Wentworth

    Exposed: millionaire in baby battle! Suddenly, Clare was the latest tabloid gossip: the girl who'd had an affair with Jack Straker, notorious tycoon... Their night of passion, five years ago, should never have happened. Clare had been vulne...



  • Catherine George

    The thrill of the chase! Patrick Hazard had a plan of action that took Hester Conway by surprise. She hadn't intended falling in love with anyone, but Patrick wasn't content just to be friends--he wined and dined Hester, pursued her and wo...



  • Jane Feather
    in

    To thine own wish be true. Do not follow the moth to the star. So says the message in an exquisite green bottle. Is it a wish? A warning? A spell to cast over a lover? In these six charming love stories, a mysterious bottle brings a touch of magi...



  • Jane Feather

    A DARING GAME Genevieve Latour grinned as she planned her revenge on Dominic Delacrox. The handsome, unscrupulous privateer had thought to compromise her older sister's reputation and blackmail their powerful father into helping him run the Brit...



  • Kathy Reichs

    In the year since Tempe left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work had often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. But when an unidentified female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in garbage bags, Tempe det...



  • Suzanne Enoch

    A FROSTY MAIDEN Jack Faraday, the Marquis of Dansbury, is rich, titled, and handsome as sin. A scandalous rake who's charmed a long string of ladies, he finally meets his match in Miss Lilith Benton. When the emerald-eyed, raven-haired beauty...



  • Maggie Shayne

    THE BADDEST BRAND Whipcord lean and as wild as the Badlands he called home, Wes Brand knew what it meant to be an outsider. All his life he hadn't truly belonged. Not to the Comanche, whose proud blood flowed through his veins. Not to the Texas Br...



  • Tracie Peterson
    in

    By moonlight or candlelight...discover the joy of Christmas love. Sigrid Larsson of Lindsborg, Kansas, may be resigned to spinsterhood, but she is not ready to sell the family homestead and move in with well-meaning relatives. When a dashing young...



  • Lisa Scottoline

    Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him. But as the jury begins deliberations, Marta discovers...



  • Bertrice Small

    Jasmine had been forced into marriage twice. Rebelling at King James' decree that she wed Jemmie Leslie, fifth earl of Glenkirk, she fled to France with her children. But her youngest, the illegitimate offspring of Jasmine's hot-blooded lover, Prince...



  • Brenda Joyce
    in

    DANGEROUS MEN... SPIRITED WOMEN... UNTAMED DESIRES THAT SET THE WILD WEST AFIRE.... Passion begins at "Sundown" as a spinster schoolteacher finds a wounded fugitive in her father's bed and compromises her honor to rescue him from a wai...



  • Susan Napier

    Two irresistible men from Down Under -- one Aussie, one Kiwi. The time has come for them to settle old scores and win the women they've always wanted! Vivian Mitchell goes in place of her sister to face Nicholas Thorne's retribution -- and...



  • Beverly Jenkins

    A Perilous Pursuit Kate Love is an ambitious young newspaper reporter on the trail of a railroad stock swindler who has been preying onelderly Blacks. Her investigation points to Rupert Samuels,one of the wealthiest and most eligible black men in ...



  • Sidney Sheldon

    HE WANTED POWER. SHE WANTED REVENGE. Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry. That declaration sets Leslie Stewart on a destiny she could never have imagined. For she is engaged to Oliver Russell, a man fated to rise to the pinna...



  • Terry Goodkind

    A Plague of Prophecy ON THE RED MOON WILL COME THE FIRESTORM... Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D'Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift...



  • Nancy Thayer

    THEY USED TO BE A HAPPY FAMILY. THEN HER DAUGHTER ACCUSED HIS SON ...OF RAPE. Writers Owen and Linda McFarland have been incredibly happy for seven years. During that time they've worked hard to make his son Bruce and her daughter Emily part of a ...



  • Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150 the Anasazi empire of the Southwest would see no equal in North America for almost eight hundred years. Yet even at this cultural zenith, the Anasazi held the seeds of their own destruction deep within themselves.... O...



  • Diane Mott Davidson

    CHILLY RECEPTION Caterer Goldy Schulz has been hired to host a hockey party. But the proceedings won't be all fun and games. Unfortunately, her client won't be satisfied until Goldy adds a hefty serving of revenge. AN EX-HUSBAND FROM HELL...



  • Lori Copeland

    KOLBY'S COME BACK... Cade Kolby is trouble and Zoe Bradshaw knows it. But she still feels the fire they once shared -- before Cade left her and their one-horse Kansas town to become the most feared bounty hunter in the territory. Now Zoe needs h...



  • Christie Ridgway

    Q: What does a single woman do when all her friends are having babies? A: Get a dog! B: What does a single woman do when that clog comes attached to a sexy stranger and an adorable baby girl? A: Do you have to ask? Molly Michaels would have...



  • Carla Kelly

    Major Disaster It was clear to Lydia Perkins from the first that she was courting scandal when she became involved with Major Samuel Reed. This outrageously impudent officer kept deplorable company in dismal surroundings beyond the boundaries of p...



  • Sara Orwig

    BABY CHASE Pregnant Katherine Manchester was on the run and about to become a mom any minute! She had to find a safe place for her baby to be born, fast -- and what better place than in rugged rancher Colin Whitefeather's welcoming arms? SURR...



  • Justine Davis

    THE MAN BEHIND THE BADGE Kelsey Hall needed someone to trust. But the one man she wanted desperately to trust with her secrets AND her heart, was the one man she KNEW she couldn't.... One week at Kelsey's country inn was the only vacation Detec...



  • Karen Ranney

    Twice widowed Judith Cuthbertson is nothing but another unwanted mouth to feed in her miserly father's home -- until he sells her off to a visiting Scotsman. Now, en route to the Highlands, Judith is forced to bury her fears and ponder her fate i...




  • Leigh Greenwood

    The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky -- they get into a man's blood until he knew there was nothing better than the life of a cowboy...except the love of a good woman. MAR...



  • Leigh Greenwood

    Harper Weddington is the daughter of the richest man in Collins, South Carolina. She's just what Trent's been looking for -- a ticket to power. But against all odds they fall in love, only to be torn apart by an act of violence that will affe...



  • Harry Turtledove

    From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair... 1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of ba...


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