Frank Bose, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-399-13659-7
Detective Bose and Sergeant Barchiesi of the New York City police department became partners in 1985, a time when both were concerned about activity in and around 507 E. 11th Street. The building, owned by the city, had been taken over by drug...
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Charles Reasoner, Author, Chuck Reasoner, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author Price Stern Sloan $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8431-3659-3
``Busy'' doesn't begin to describe the multitudinous characters and scenarios in this upbeat tour of the eponymous edifice. With its appropriately tall, narrow shape (and kid-proof, board-book stock), this wordless book teems with fun on each of its
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Brenda Jackson, Author . St. Martin's $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-98997-2
With this taut, over-the-top romantic thriller, Jackson revisits her popular Madaris Family and Friends series (Surrender
, etc.). For five years, ex-Marine turned CIA agent Sir Drake Warren has been haunted by recollections of his former fiancé
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Brenda Jackson. HQN, $7.99 mass market (480p) ISBN 978-1-335-00564-9
Jackson (the Protector series) opens the Catalina Cove contemporary series with a dramatic but messily constructed tale of love, social ostracism, and motherhood. After Vashti Alcindor loses both her beloved Aunt Shelby and her dream job working at...
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Brenda Jackson. Harlequin Desire, $5.25 mass market (224p) ISBN 978-0-373-83884-4
At the start of this tepid addition to Jackson’s Westmoreland series (after The Rancher Returns), American artist Bristol Lockett learns that the father of her unborn child, with whom she’d had a three-day affair while visiting Paris months earlier,
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Brenda Jackson. Harlequin, , $7.99 ISBN 978-0-373-79000-5
Jackson (A Man’s Promise) continues her contemporary Grangers series with the sizzling, fast-paced tale of a driven bodyguard and the wealthy heiress he’s hired to protect. After Margo Connelly serves on a Virginia jury that convicts a powerful...
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Brenda Jackson. Mira, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1625-1
Jackson’s rambling second Grangers contemporary (after A Brother’s Honor) fails to deliver. Caden Granger and Shiloh Timmons planned to elope to escape her controlling father, Samuel, but then Samuel sent Caden photos of Shiloh cavorting with...
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Brenda Jackson, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $13.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-312-31512-2
Three Orlando, Fla., women form a friendship club for spiritual inspiration and professional support in this earnest, plodding novel by Jackson (Ties That Bind
, etc.). Amber Stuart, Brandy Bennett and Carla Osborne, otherwise known as the ABCs,...
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Brenda Jackson, Author . Griffin $13.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-33178-8
Jackson (The Savvy Sistahs
) probes the "playa" mind in this spicy, engaging tale of Chicago singles. Lance Montgomery, an arrogant womanizer and "renowned divorce and relationship expert," has just published his philanderer's...
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Brenda Jackson, Author . St. Martin's/Griffin $13.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-312-33182-5
After realizing the error of his philandering ways, reformed badboy and bestselling author Dr. Lance Montgomery returns to win back the love of scorned beauty Asia Fowler in Jackson's zesty, steamy sequel to The Playa's Handbook
. Everyone...
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Brenda Jackson, Author St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-30611-3
A sordid betrayal lies at the heart of Ties That Bind, a novel by Brenda Jackson (Family Reunion) spanning 35 years in the lives of two couples who become friends at Howard University in the 1960s. Randolph Fuller's wife, Angela, had to drug him...
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Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author, Unknown, Author Price Stern Sloan $3.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8431-2223-7
Because no one remembers Og's 65 millionth birthday at the museum where heas dinosaur boneslives, he decides to go ""outside.'' Everything has changed from what he remembered of that world: streets, buildings, people, noise and speed. When nighttime
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Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author, Unknown, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-399-13298-8
Although the writing is somewhat dry, this useful sourcebook from the Institute of Human Nutrition of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons provides an authoritative compendium of information relating to a wide variety of topics.
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Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author, Unknown, Author Reader's Digest Association $50 (640p) ISBN 978-0-89577-973-1
""If you want to create a garden for a year, then fill the borders with flowers. If you want to create a garden for a lifetime, then plant it with trees and shrubs."" Thus begins this revised version of the comprehensive 1991 edition, which provides
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Brenda Jackson, Author, Kensington, Producer Arabesque $4.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-58314-024-6
An oil research summit in Rio de Janeiro leads to romantic adventure for renowned geologist Corinthians Avery and Trevor Grant, the head foreman of Madaris Explorations. A tense relationship, which began at a business meeting two years before, is...
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Brenda Jackson, Author, Kensington, Producer Arabesque $5.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-58314-073-4
Handsome cattle baron Jacob Madaris reluctantly fulfills a poker pal's request to host beautiful actress Diamond Swain for a three-week respite at his sprawling Texas ranch, Whispering Pines. Worried that the star's arrival will disrupt the smooth...
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Brenda Jackson, Author, Kensington, Producer Arabesque $5.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-58314-144-1
A Harvard MBA, fluency in four languages and stunning beauty make landing a job at Chicago's Chenault Electronics a cinch for 26-year-old Shayla Kirkland. But her underhanded intention--to destroy the company for falsely accusing her unwed, pregnant
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Brenda Jackson, Author, Benda Jackson, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $24 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57566-921-2
Centering around the Tiananmen Square massacre and its aftermath, this remarkably structured and textured debut epic seeks to attach a face to the mysterious man who, by stepping in front of the rolling army tanks, became the most recognizable ...
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Eloise Greenfield, Author, Floyd Cooper, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author Philomel Books $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22106-4
Tamika misbehaves to test the limits of her grandfather's patience. PW said, ``With eloquence and a penetrating glimpse of the fears of children, Greenfield has written a moving story about the reliability of love. Cooper . . . creates family scenes
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John Winsor, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author HP Books $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89586-397-3
People who want to stick to an exercise regimen while traveling should welcome this easy-to-use directory of hotels with fitness centers in North America's largest cities. Each listing includes graphic symbols showing at a glance the available...
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James Marshall, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0542-5
``Once there was a little girl named Goldilocks. `What a sweet child,' said someone new in town. `That's what you think,' said a neighbor.'' From the very first sentence this book takes off in typical Marshall style. Goldilocks is a self-satisfied...
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Satomi Ichikawa, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Philomel Books $5.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-21887-3
Intricate, delicately drawn and colored illustrations flavor this tale of a child's dreamy adventures during a visit to her grandmother's. Ages 4-up. (Sept.)
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Reader's Digest, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Reader's Digest Association $30 (382p) ISBN 978-0-89577-646-4
Nostalgia not nouvelle is the rule in this handsome, comprehensive assemblage of recipes for traditional American family fare. Most of the 450 recipes are updated with reduced-fat ingredients: the dressing for Waldorf Salad uses reduced-fat versions
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Reader's Digest, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Reader's Digest Association $40 (400p) ISBN 978-0-89577-819-2
Seldom have Native American culture and history been recreated with the immediacy and panoramic scope given by this breathtakingly illustrated volume. Beginning with the waves of Asian migrants to North America at the end of the last ice age, and...
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Aidon Chambers, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Putnam Publishing Group $6.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-399-21369-4
A list of the distinguished contributors whose work appears in this volume, is, quite simply, a ""who's who'' of children's books. By purchasing this book, readers can claim ownership of works by Tomie dePaola, Leo and Diane Dillon, Katherine...
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Margo Lundell, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Grosset & Dunlap $4.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-448-19254-3
Each of these board books is attached to a cardboard box, and inside each box is a device that ""baas,'' ``waas,'' ``moos'' or ``quacks. '' Unfortunately, the boxes are unwieldly and badly balanced for small hands. The lamb and cow do sound like...
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Ai Ling Louie, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Philomel Books $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21594-0
Misty, jewel-like illustrations evoke the mythic past in this Chinese Cinderella story. Ages 4-8. (September)
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Ellen Brown, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author HP Books $19.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-89586-578-6
This stylish companion volume to an upcoming PBS-TV series is a masterful, comprehensive treatment of Southwestern cuisine. Cooking techniques peculiar to the region are competently demonstrated and illustrated by accompanying photos. Trailblazing...
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Allison Blyler, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Philomel Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22264-1
In spite of Blake's striking gouache paintings of foxes in the countryside, this picture book lacks coherence and is bound to confuse young readers. After seven short descriptions of the fox as it moves from a ``circle of sunlight'' to being ``cruell
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Maxine Tobias, Author, Mary Stewart, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author HP Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89586-416-1
A highlight of HP's new Body Press line, this attractive large-format exercise guide offers a refreshingly sensible exercise alternative for men and women alike. Tobias and Stewart, students and teachers of yoga, integrate the principles of that...
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Ian Bradshaw, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author HP Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89586-380-5
""Keep it simple,'' top British photojournalist Bradshaw recommends in this appealing guide to taking pictures. Concentrating on mental approach rather than mechanics, the author aims to convert the indifferent amateur into ``a thinking photographer.
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Cherie Currie, Author, Neal Schusterman, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author Price Stern Sloan $4.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8431-2348-7
Currie powerfully recounts her teenage years in this candid autobiography, chronicling the experiences that destroyed her self-confidence and led her to drug and alcohol abuse. At 15 she became the lead singer for the Runaways, a female rock group....
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Leslie Thomas, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author HP Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89586-844-2
At 43, George Goodnight, lawyer for a London newspaper, is sick of his boring, structured life, so when his wife files for divorce he jettisons orderly routine for aimless travel. In Thomas's hands, Goodnight's round-the-world romp is delightful,...
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Debra Meryl, Author, Brenda Jackson, Author, Ronald L. McDonald, Author Grosset & Dunlap $12.95 (20p) ISBN 978-0-448-15375-9
In yet another twist on the perennially popular lift-the-flap concept, this winsome book provides space under each flap for snapshots of a favorite baby or toddler. Young readers will have fun hunting for the baby hidden in each of the familiar,...
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Brenda Jackson. HQN, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-335-50500-2
A second chance is hard to come by in the sizzling but unevenly paced third romance in Jackson’s Catalina Cove series (after Forget Me Not). Ten years ago, Keagan Chambray accused his girlfriend, Bryce Witherspoon, of cheating, and their...
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Brenda Jackson. Harlequin Desire, $5.25 mass market (224p) ISBN 978-1-335-20949-8
Jackson (Never Too Late) opens her Westmoreland Legacy: The Outlaws series with a high-flying romance. Ten years have passed since the death of Garth Outlaw’s first love, and though he wants a wife to be the mother of his children, he believes...
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Brenda Jackson. Harlequin Desire, $5.25 mass market (224p) ISBN 978-1-335-23282-3
Jackson pairs a businessman and a small-town rancher in her steamy but predictable second Westmoreland Legacy: The Outlaws romance (after The Wife He Needs). After Cash Outlaw’s mother dies, he inherits the portion of her Black Crow, Wyo., land...
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Brenda Jackson. HQN, $9.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-1-335-20198-0
A woman wary of love can’t resist her attraction to a handsome ex-con in Jackson’s sensual fifth Catalina Cove romance (after Follow Your Heart). Sierra Crane is focused on running the Green Fig, her booming soup café in Catalina Cove, La., and...
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Brenda Jackson. Canary Street, $18.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-335-47497-1
Bestseller Jackson’s underwhelming seventh Catalina Cove contemporary (after The House on Blueberry Lane) sees recently heartbroken Zara meet alluring stranger Saint at a hotel bar. Saint, for his part, has been avoiding romantic entanglements since
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Brenda Jackson. Harlequin Desire, $5.25 mass market (224p) ISBN 978-1-335-60403-3
Simplistic characters and an overstuffed plot drag down the tepid fifth romance in Jackson’s Westmoreland Legacy series (after His to Claim). Denver Sheriff Peterson Higgins, a bachelor following the death of his fiancée, recently assumed...
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