Best of
Action

1990

Hajime no Ippo, Vol. 1


Joji Morikawa - 1990
    Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning.

Wizard's Castle


Diana Wynne Jones - 1990
    This book is a rollicking ride filled with puzzles and prophecies and contains the book Howl's Moving Castle, and the book Castle In the Air.

The Lesser Evil


Andrzej Sapkowski - 1990
    (also contained in "The Last With" collection). It is notable for being the only edition of Sapkowski's Witcher stories to have all expletive words censored.

The Tick: The Naked City


Ben Edlund - 1990
    A thoroughly enjoyable parody of superhero comics, this book offers a complete re-telling of all The Tick's adventures in The City. Color illustrations throughout.

Final Approach


John J. Nance - 1990
    Nance In the control tower at Kansas City International Airport, all the radar displays are red. But for the experienced pilots of North America Airlines, the thunderstorms aren’t the problem: NAA has been cutting costs to stave off bankruptcy, and will do anything to keep their planes in the air. Unfortunately, no matter what they do, one is on its way down.   After the aircraft collides with another plane on the Kansas City runway, in one of the worst aviation disasters of the decade, National Transportation Safety Board investigator Joe Wallingford arrives on the scene. As he studies the wreckage and pieces together the events that led to the tragedy, he realizes there’s far more at play than pilot error or equipment malfunction. Wallingford will have to risk his career—and perhaps even his life—to solve the puzzle of the crash.

And All The King's Men


Gordon Stevens - 1990
    Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Britain is brutal – and successful. With England under Nazi rule, Winston Churchill’s secret plant of resistance is put into operation.As America hesitates, then acts and the decisive events of Pearl Harbor approach, the ordinary men, women and children of Britain live out the knife edge of Nazi occupation.But in a nightmare world of collaborators, traitors and tyrants… Who will have the courage to become the King’s men?

The Young Astronauts


Rick North - 1990
    

Garfield on the Farm


Jim Kraft - 1990
    

Mistress of the Eagles


Elona Malterre - 1990
    Bold chieftains, valiant warriors, mighty magicians, and indomitable women, they inhabited a land rich with promise and rife with treachery.From stormy Eagle Island beautiful Arrah O'Donnel fled the horrors of an arranged marriage to seek her fortune on the high seas. There, Seaghan MacNamara, cast out from his own clan, would pursue her, determined to possess the woman who had inflamed his very soul.Fate entwined them in a powerful web of lust and betrayal, sorcery and seduction. Their love would defy all the laws of Ireland, Christendom, and reason. Their story would become legend—the spellbinding tale of a bold woman who dared to become the mistress of her own destiny and a passion that defied man and God.

Eden's Angel


Katherine Compton - 1990
    But the other half belonged to archeologist Zachariah Sunnnerfield — a maddening, irresistible rogue whose burning gaze stripped Alena of her every defense… and whose scorching kisses betrayed a hunger impossible to deny. Venturing together into the steaming jungles of the Amazon, the rugged adventurer and the emerald-eyed beauty were consumed by a passion that went far beyond their most fevered fantasies. But Alena and Zach would soon be fighting for their lives and love in a savage, perilous Eden — where danger mingled with desire... and each blissful moment of rapture could well be their last.