FICTION SELECTIONS

January 1997 September August
  • Wind From a Foreign Sky
    By Katya Reimann
    Katya Reimann makes her remarkable fantasy debut in Wind From a Foreign Sky, a gripping tale of magic and adventure. Three hundred years ago, Prince Clarin freed his nation from an evil empire, but now his nemesis has conceived a vicious plot to restore the nation to iron-fisted rule.
    TOR Books $23.95 0312860072

  • Catch Your Breath
    By Jessica Auerbach
    In Catch Your Breath, Jessica Auerbach plumbs the terror that grips a devoted mother falsely accused of abusing her child. As the accusations mount, Rosie Sloan must struggle to find the truth‹and protect her son from increasing danger.
    G.P. Putnam's Sons $23.95 0399141669

  • Pepper in the Blood
    By Brian Dyson
    Just in time for the Summer games, Pepper in the Blood runs at an Olympic speed through the trials and trauma of modern-day international competition. Suspense, courage, and the pursuit of a dream contribute to an energizing look at a runner's world in this heart-pounding novel of ambition.
    R. Bemis Publishing $12.95 0965295834

  • Whispers of Moonlight
    By Lori Wick
    In their mutual love for her father, Rebecca and Travis marry to fulfill the last wish of a dying man in Whispers of Moonlight. But when rumors spread that Travis married only to gain her dad's ranch, Rebecca runs away to begin a new life. Can Travis show Rebecca his love for her is the real thing?
    Harvest House $9.99 1565074831

  • The Vulture Fund
    By Stephen W. Frey
    Alerted to irregularities in the buying patterns of a risky new investment fund, Wall Street investment banker Mace McLain uses all his cunning to uncover a huge conspiracy--a plot with roots in Washington politics and international terrorism . . . The Vulture Fund.
    Dutton $23.95 0525939865

  • Two or Three Things I Know For Sure
    By Dorothy Allison
    Two or Three Things I Know For Sure is National Book Award finalist Dorothy Allison's vivid narrative work on beauty and terror, and the intricate web of family love and hatred. Adapted from a performance piece that has sparked a nationwide response, this book is steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience.
    Plume $8.95 0452273404

  • Vegas Rich
    By Fern Michaels
    At the top of her reader's wish list: another knockout trilogy from the best-selling author of the Texas Trilogy. Beginning in 1922, Vegas Rich introduces the Thornton family who carve out a dynasty in a desert town of dust and dreams.
    Kensington $25 1575660571

July
  • Murder on Broadway
    By Edward I. Koch
    A cold-blooded murder during the death scene of the hottest musical running in New York puts Mayor-sleuth Ed Koch back to work in Murder on Broadway. The mystery takes him to Gracie Mansion, from backstage backstabbing to Times Square intrigue. As the amateur sleuth soon discovers, when it comes suspects, it's standing room only.
    Kensington $19.95 0-8144-7900-6

  • Abandoned Heart
    By Richard Parrish
    A tour de force of domestic drama and legal suspense, Abandoned Heart takes readers on a wild ride through a justice system twisted by privilege and influence that leaves a defenseless woman with only one way out: revenge. The victim turns to retribution to stop a criminal from a powerful family from using loopholes that set him free time and time again.
    Dutton $23.95 0-525-94161-4

  • Whispers of Moonlight
    By Lori Wick
    In their mutual love for her father, Rebecca and Travis marry to fulfill the last wish of a dying man in Whispers of Moonlight. But when rumors spread that Travis married only to gain her father's ranch, Rebecca runs away to begin a new life. Can Travis show Rebecca his love for her is the real thing?
    Harvest House $9.99 1-56507-4831

  • Touched
    By Carolyn Haines
    A mail-order bride arrives in a small Mississippi town, forcing secrets and hidden desires to burst to the surface in Touched. Life in Jexville will never be the same as JoHanna unravels the tightly woven threads of the community. The future holds dark surprises, including murder, and a stunningly executed revenge.
    Dutton $23.95 0-525-94160-6

  • 1812 - audio
    By David Nevin
    1812. It was an age that would decide whether America would grow into a global power or be broken. In the lives of historical and fictional figures alike, David Nevin enables us to relive the erea that shaped American destiny. The superb blend of history and fiction makes the best kind of summer listening. Read by Dick Hill.
    Brilliance $27.95 1-56100-716-1

  • Passager
    By Jane Yolen
    In the first of a bold new trilogy, Jane Yolen reimagines the origins of the greatest wizard of all time, creating a Merlin at once more human and more magical than any we've known before in Passager. The youth spends a year alone in the woods before being caught and trained by a falconer who teaches him all he had lost.
    Harcourt Brace $15 0-15-200391-6

  • Before Night Falls
    By Mary Ann Minatra
    Set in the dark days of World War II Europe, Before Night Falls begins with the birth of the Third Reich in Germany. American photojournalist Emilie Morgan goes to Berlin to cover the Olympic Games. But what she sees forces her to stay after she meets the mysterious German businessman Max Farber.
    Harvest House $10.99 1-56507-432-7

  • Death Stalks a Holiday
    By Gary E. Parker
    The sequel to Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, this fast-paced mystery is a story of twisted evil and God's reconciliation in a broken world. A woman was murdered on the first Sunday in Advent, and Burke Anderson is forced to become involved . . . Death Stalks a Holiday.
    Thomas Nelson $10.99 0-7852-7784-6

  • Conquered Heart
    By Lisa Samson
    Born on the day the foundation stone of Westminster Abbey was laid, Griffin Eadricson possesses a secure future as the king's royal stonemason. But in his heart he yearns to become a warrior. Lilla, a woman who nurses his battle wounds, is drawn to him, but can she give her Conquered Heart to an outlaw and a rebel?
    Harvest House $9.99 1-56507-448-3

  • The Broken Promise Land - audio
    By Marcia Muller
    P.J. Sharon McCone's brother-in-law is the hottest country singer in the business, but someone is threatening him. It's a tough case for McCone because her own family is at risk-even tougher when she discovers that the stalker is very close at hand in The Broken Promise Land. Read by Jean Reed-Bahle.
    Brilliance $23.95 1-56100-718-8

  • Return to Harmony
    By Janette Oke & T. Davis Bunn
    The story of two girls growing up in a Southern town before World War I, Return to Harmony showcases the combined talents of Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn. In this inspirational story Oke connects with her readers in details of the characters' lives while Davis adds humor.
    Bethany House $8.99 1-55661-878-6

  • Under the Southern Moon
    By Virginia Gaffney
    Raised on an affluent Virginia plantation, Carrie Cromwell finds her world turned upside down when Fort Sumter falls and the Civil War begins in Under the Southern Moon. Caught between loyalty to her family, the man she loves and compassion for her friend, a slave named Rose, Carrie searches her heart on the slavery issue.
    Harvest House $9.99 1-56507-507-2

June
  • Impending Peril
    By Bill Frash
    One man can turn the balance of power in the Pacific and greatly influence a world careening toward war. Impending Peril takes place in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese war. China is unstable and President Roosevelt sends a lone operative, Marine Captain Matt Hunter into the field. His secrecy is compromised, and the future is uncertain.
    Northwest Publishing $8.95 1-56901-769-7

  • The Statement
    By Brian Moore
    An aging former military officer who murdered Jews in the war is running out of time. As the world shrinks, French government officials and the Catholic Church no longer can or want to hide him. The Statement is about retribution and ultimate justice--a riveting, morally complex suspense novel about a Nazi collaborator who knows no guilt.
    Dutton $22.95 0-525-94128-2

  • The Halls of Justice
    By Lee Gruenfeld
    Two sisters, one of them a prominent attourney, are brutally attacked, and then traumatized by the legal system when justice fails them. The Halls of Justice is a legal thriller in which the victims concoct a remarkable scheme to exact revenge and set off a chain of events that leave no one unscathed.
    Dutton $24.95 0-525-94130-4

May
  • Impending Peril
    By Bill Frash
    One man can turn the balance of power in the Pacific and greatly influence a world careening toward war. Impending Peril takes place in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese war. China is unstable and President Roosevelt sends a lone operative, Marine Captain Matt Hunter into the field. His secrecy is compromised, and the future is uncertain.
    Northwest Publishing $8.95 1-56901-769-7

  • The Rosewood Casket
    By Sharyn McCrumb
    Four brothers come together to build a casket for their dying father and make a decision on selling the family farm. An aggressive developer wants to spoil the mountain in The Rosewood Casket, and a longtime secret involving a baby's bones threatens the family's stability even more.
    Dutton $23.95 0-525-94011-1

  • Defiant Heart
    By Janelle Taylor
    As the Civil War rages, a man and a woman--enemies and lovers who can neither trust nor resist each other--seek to fulfill their destiny in the shadow of passion, treachery, and betrayal. Defiant Heart follows Vixen, a Union spy, as she uses her feminine wiles to charm her way through blockades and danger.
    Kensington $21.95 1-57566-029-6

April
  • Infernal Affairs
    By Jane Heller
    Bizarre things start happening to real estate agent Barbara Chessner when she cries out to heaven for help, not realizing someone diabolical may be listening. Infernal Affairs twists and turns with humor as a sexy, new Barbara tries to find out what the devil is going on, but when she finally discovers it, all hell is going to break loose.
    Kensington $21.95 1-57566-021-0

  • Harm's Way
    By Stephen White
    A psychiatrist travels deep into a friend's provocative past to solve the mystery of his violent death. Harm's Way is a fast-paced thriller that enlightens with harrowing truths about the human heart--about the struggle for survival and the quest for forgiveness. When the smoke clears, the truth is a surprise.
    Viking $22.95 0-670-85861-7

  • The World on Blood
    By Jonathan Nasaw
    The vampire myth evolves into a modern-day circle of sex, blood, passion, and horror in The World on Blood. The intense high, increased physical powers, and sensory perceptions are no longer enough to keep one of the group's addicts in line. As he attempts to break away, a trap is set to ensnare him and bring him back into the fold.
    Dutton $22.95 0-525-94066-9

February
  • A Man to Slay Dragons
    By Meagan McKinney
    Clarie's identical twin, Zoe, was killed by an unknown assailant. In her memory, a support group was formed. Now the group has taken a startling turn: plotting to avenge the victims by executing their attackers. When Claire discovers that Zoe's death is to be avenged, she wants no part of it. But the contract has already gone out-in Clarie's name . . . A Man to Slay Dragons.
    Kensington $21.95 1-57566-009-1

  • What the Deaf Mute Heard
    By G.D. Gearino
    Ten-year-old Sammy Ayers was abandoned, a lost child in a small Georgia town of the 1940s. On the morning that his mother left him in the bus depot, he became deaf and mute. But Sammy creates a place for himself. He learns all of the town's secrets . . . while keeping his own . . . What the Deaf Mute Heard.
    Simon & Schuster $21 0-684-81337-8

  • The Veracruz Blues
    By Mark Winegardner
    The wealthy Pasquel brothers pay unheard-of salaries to lure big-league ballplayers to Mexico. They find that the league has major-league-caliber players banned because of racism. What follows is the first fully integrated season in baseball. The Veracruz Blues evokes an era of dramatic changes and possibilities.
    Viking $22 0-670-86636-9

January
  • Trial by Fire
    By Nancy Taylor Rosenburg
    Tough-as-nails, high profile attorney Stella Cataloni is haunted by the one case she has never cracked. In Trial by Fire, Cataloni persuades the DA to re-open the case on the arson fire that killed her parents 15 years earlier. She appears to be a woman bent on revenge; yet she turns out to be the prime suspect.
    Dutton $22.95 0-525-93767-6

  • The Final Judgment
    By Richard North Patterson
    From the author who brought you Degree of Guilt and Eyes of a Child, Richard North Patterson's latest novel, The Final Judgment, begins in a nightmare of murder. It opens in the formal arena of the courtroom and progresses into the maze of one family's past. The truth Caroline Masters ultimately uncovers-shocking beyond the deepest fears that have haunted her adult life-is the explosive core of Patterson's most powerful novel to date.
    Alfred A. Knopf, $25 0-679-42989-1

  • Intensity
    By Dean Koontz
    Chyna Shepherd-a young woman struggling to rise above a troubled, difficult past-finds herself suddenly caught in the black shadow of a sociopath. intensity unfolds over the course of just 24 hours, but within that brief time frame, Dean Koontz gives you what is perhaps his most inventive, emotionally intricate, and terrifyingly suspenseful novel yet.
    Alfred A. Knopf, $25 0-679-42525-X

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