Books Published in October 1980

• Oct-1980
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In Good News, Edward Abbey’s acclaimed underground classic, the West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed of settler, whites and Indians together, is creating a new ...

• Oct-1980
• / Mystery
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There's a mystery in the air! When Cam and her friend Eric see strange lights above the trees, they're sure that U.F.O.s have landed. When they investigate, they find that there's more to the alien invasion than meets the eye. Between Eric's camer...

• Oct-1980
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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''You should expect a few changes in him." Rebel refused to let the warning of local cattle rancher Chayne Cavanagh discourage her. She had traveled clear across Australia to find her missing brother, Vandal, and nothing could possi...

• Oct-1980
• / Romantic Suspense
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The facts were utterly bizarre Daylight faded as Helen sat alone in her bedroom. She had never believed in ghosts...until her arrival at Engnacht Castle. She considered recent events. Were they truly psychic disturbances or the result of an o...

• Oct-1980
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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***WITH AUDIO NARRATION***Step into the exquisite, miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book.Wilfred woke early. It was his birthday. He had lots of lovely presents, but the best one was a ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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**WITH AUDIO NARRATION***Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book.It was the middle of winter and very, very cold. The mice of Brambly Hedge forecasted snow.And the...

• Oct-1980
• / Mystery
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MURDER BY THE BOOK Oswaldston was a nasty industrial town in northern England, famous only as the home of the novelist Walter Machin. Machin had died after the war, leaving behind two obscure books and two extraordinary wives. Now all four had been ...

• Oct-1980
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• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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CAPTIVE LOVE At fifteen, Debrah was still a child at heart, when she was taken in innocence to serve the pleasures of a Phoenician soldier--a strong and virile warrior who brought her to the very brink of womanhood. But it was not by virtue alo...

• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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WHO DID THE MYSTERIOUS BEACHCOMBER THINK SHE WAS? Mariette met him on a deserted beach and was unable to forget the passion he had roused in her. But at least her role as "Julie Long" in a local theater production helped to keep her mind o...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Two Indiana farm youngsters decide to joust with their newly arrived grandmother and find that she is more than a match for them in this warm autobiographical portrait of rural life in the early part of the century...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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SHAPESHIFTER! The Changeling could become anyone or anything-man, woman, child, animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction. Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of Alvea for its next mission-to throw an entire world...

• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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Is there a character in literature more charming and compelling than the Frenchman of action, or a period more fascinating than the eighteenth century? On the heels of triumphant service in the American Revolution, Gilles Goëlo, Chevalier de Tour...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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A portrayal of one of the great love stories, the legend of Samson and Delilah, vividly depicts the struggles of the man whose great strength and great secret destined him to deliver Israel, until he was seduced and betrayed by Delilah...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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"Kay Boyle''s Fifty Stories is an eloquent testament to the possibility of living and writing with passion and honor. In Paris in the twenties, in Austria before and after the Anschluss, in New York, in occupied Germany, in California, Boyle has bee...

• Oct-1980
• / Science Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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An extensive collection of imaginative short stories by a National Medal of the Arts�"winning author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and suspense.Fly to Mars and explore the mysteries of the red planet. Journey through time to futures ruled by ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Though the Tokyo-Montana Express moves at a great speed, there are many stops along the way. This book is those brief stations: some confident, others searching for their identities.The "I" in this book is the voice of the stations along the tracks o...

• Oct-1980
• / Horror
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Stay back! The shadow places shelter secrets that are best left undisturbed. Hear me! Or don't. For there are those obsessed with uncovering the witcheries that fester in man's foul heart. There are those who would invoke the awful powers that yet r...

• Oct-1980
• / Amateur Sleuth
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1991, mass market paperback reprint edition, Warner, NY. 199 pages. A Charles Paris mystery novel. Our continuing character is employed this time as a radio actor for the BBC. He comes upon a murder almost immediately and is forced to solve that crim...

• Oct-1980
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• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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LYLE WOULD NEVER TRUST A MAN AGAIN. BUT THEN SHE MET THAD.... After her painful involvement with Stan, Lyle thought she would never dare to love again. When a tragic car accident claims the lives of her parents, an internationally renowned pian...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Frederick Buechner's Godric "retells the life of Godric of Finchale, a twelfth-century English holy man whose projects late in life included that of purifying his moral ambition of pride...Sin, spiritual yearning, rebirth, fierce asceticism--these ha...

• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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Did he murder his ex-wife or was he protecting someone? In any case, his behavior was peculiar. One moment Jim Fuller vehemently denied his guilt. The next moment he just as vehemently demanded that Richard Trenton not do a single thing to prove him ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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JUNGLE SLAUGHTER It was the only way. Colonel Tobin and his hand-picked warriors bought themselves a job that demanded total victory-the enemy had to be wiped out completely...eliminated! Only one complication in the battle plan: There were two enemi...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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A millionaire was very desirous to know the whereabouts of a certain Mercedes and was paying Rex Carver a lot of money to track it down. Then people started coming from everywhere trying to keep him from finding it. The search takes Carver all over E...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Elderly spinster Julia Rainbird, under sessions by medium Blanche Tyler, or "Madame Blanche", promises her a large sum of money to locate her illegitimate nephew Edward Shoebridge. She and her boyfriend George Lumley begin making inquiries around the...

• Oct-1980
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey travels into the enchanting supernatural when he begins the biography of his childhood idol, writer Marshall France, ironically aided by France's daughter Anna, who worshipped Abbey's own movie-star father...

• Oct-1980
• / Action Adventure
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CUBA,SI! Item: A robbery at Chase Manhattan turns up a bizarre clue -- the fingerprint of Warren Graves, CIA, deceased. Item: Margot Kidner has a list of ex-CIA agents with reason for revenge. How does she know that Nick Carter might be interes...

• Oct-1980
• / Action Adventure
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ISLANDS OF DEATH! Nicarxa and Apalca -- idyllic island republics in the Caribbean. Until Don Carlos Italia, monk turned warlord and guerilla leader, chooses one of them for a hideout. In a bizarre struggle for power and influence in the Americ...

• Oct-1980
• / Science Fiction
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THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD WILL END... The rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle. Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to re...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Romantic Suspense
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Was there anyone she could trust? Vania was warned of danger when she arrived in South Africa to search for her missing brother, Alan, a reporter investigating a drug ring. She met Guy Bertrand, another journalist, who said he would help her. B...

• Oct-1980
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Who's the smartest person in the first grade? When the teacher hands out a test, everybody can't wait to find out. But only lucky Anna Maria does well enough to move to a special class. Is getting the best grade all that matters?...

• Oct-1980
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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The masterful Argentinian writer includes nineteen stories penned during the last seven years, tales about a couple's adventurous vacation in Africa, a disturbed man's erotic subway games, and other intriguing activities and situations...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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Marianne was a most unwilling bride... And the Earl of Tarrisbroke was an equally unwilling husband. But neither of them had any choice. Marianne Johnson, rich young widow of a merchant, could not destroy her family's one chance to be...

• Oct-1980
• / Thriller
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Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, at the Houston-based Earth Re...

• Oct-1980
• / Romantic Suspense
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Diana froze in terror as the gunman took aim Slowly, deliberately, he leveled the revolver at Paul. The blood drained from Diana's face, but she was powerless to help the man she loved. "Once I'm rid of you, Paul, I have nothing to ...

• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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THE MARRIAGE GAME All of London was wagering on who would warm the cold heart, cool the hot temper, and win the precious hand of young, wealthy, and beautiful Miss Amelia Clerville. But Amelia faced a gamble of her own as she came ever closer t...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Marcy's thrilled when her former teacher, Ms. Finney, asks her to be a junior counselor at a new creative-arts camp. This is Marcy's big chance to have a summer away from her family, at a new place where only Ms. Finney knows that she was once a fat ...

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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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After her babysitting charge, ten-year-old Annie, is attacked by a child molester, Sabrina Russell decides, in spite of her shyness, to act as a police decoy to lure the man who has been accosting children in the streets of Pittsburgh. Brina wasn&...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Unavailable for almost 20 years, a little-known Dr. Seuss book about careers gets a fresh new look! Wildly imaginative and told in rollicking rhyme, this beginning reader about careers could ONLY have been written by Dr. Seuss! Featuring a mix of ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of winning the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through Amer...

• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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HER ONLY LOVE SPRUNG FROM HER ONLY HATE! Beautiful young Robyn Wentworth was shocked to discover, upon the death of her father, that she was a ward of handsome Sir Francis Derringham, the darling of London's Beau Monde. His suave manners and d...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Historical
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CATTLE RAID ON THE CAMINO REAL... The cattle drive is a five-hundred-mile trek -- and a jackpot for rustlers with a hankering for Government beef. So Longarm's in the saddle again, secret troubleshooter for the run to California. It's a long, ...

• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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To recover a lost treasure, an American and a Russian face off against a killerBerlin is lost, but the Nazis have not given up hope. As their soldiers battle the Red Army, a detachment of Russians search the bunker where Hitler's army stored the Reic...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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"DON'T YOU REMEMBER ME? IT'S MISS CECILY HAWTHORNE. I'VE COME TO STAY." Cecily Hawthorne never dreamed she looked like an artist's vision of Pandora. But to dashing society painter Devin Sheridan, Cecily, with her cascading...

• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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They lived the legends! On the bloody coast of Carolina, a new people struggle for survival as pirate ships choke their lifeline to the old worlds. As stirring as Raleigh's Eden and Men of Albermarle. The continuing story of the giants of the giants ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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"My Brilliant Career" is the story of Sybylla, a headstrong young girl growing up in early 20th century Australia. Sybylla rejects the opportunity to marry a wealthy young man in order to maintain her independence. As a consequence she must t...

• Oct-1980
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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The noted economist discusses some of the intrinsic problems of corporate power, questions of individual freedom and collective responsibility, the proper role of multinational corporations, and other topics of concern to both the marketplace and the...

• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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A PASSION BORN IN REBELLION...A LOVE THAT FLAMED UP FROM THE ASHES OF WAR... LEONIE DE CONYERS - beautiful, aristocratic, her life shattered by a black night of bestiality, she lived in the shadow of the guillotine, stripped of everything she held...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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A TRIO THAT CHALLENGED THE IMPOSSIBLE -- AND DARED THE UNFORGIVABLE... MAGUIRE -- He was a drinker, a lover -- and deadly enough to keep alive... CORINNE -- She was rich, beautiful -- and another man's wife. Now she needed Maguire's help to fin...

• Oct-1980
• / Space Opera
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FROM THE LOG OF CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER LEONARD McCOY The young woman brought back aboard the Enterprise by Lieutenant Reilly's contact team is responding well to treatment: physically, there's no question she's going to be fine. I'm more worried ab...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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C.U.T.E? Why, anybody in the class could spell cute. Anyone, that is, except Sam Mott. Now everybody knows how dumb he really is. It doesn't matter that he can add like a whiz and has a nearly perfect memory. He can't even spell "cute." And no amount...

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• Oct-1980
• / Fantasy
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From the ruins of empire, a great king arises Enslaved for centuries, used and then abandoned by the Roman conquerors, Britain is a shattered land -- with petty warlords and tribal leaders fighting over its pieces like mongrel dogs. The time is ripe...

• Oct-1980
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Plagued by the ratings war and his daughter's affair with Rudy Liebowicz, an executive in the news division, top network news anchorman Jeremy Heron suddenly finds himself involved in the murder of his old friend Simon Kinzie...

• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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LOVE COULD BE SO TERRIBLY RIGHT--OR SO TEMPTINGLY WRONG When impetuous young Fenella Morland was banished from fashionable London to her family's country estate for thoughtlessly risking scandal with a masked stranger, her elders thought she would...

• Oct-1980
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• / Science Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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“A shorthand epic of extraordinary power . . . A novel of brilliant particulars and dizzying juxtapositions” from the acclaimed southern author of Geronimo Rex (Newsweek).   Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bi...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Ignoring her parents' wishes, Janey, a teenager struggling for her independence, is determined to tame a wild, dangerous colt and her painstaking efforts are rewarded when the colt's life is threatened...

• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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It was as if Marieth had entered another world -- Tallagera, a country estate in Ireland -- a world surrounded by hills of heather, far from her little apartment in New York. An old friend had invited her to Wicklow Castle, where titled nobility r...

• Oct-1980
• / Fantasy
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QUEST OF THE FAIR LADY Alodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five arts of magic. As such, he had no right to aspire to the hand of the fair lady, Queen Vendora, not even when he saved her during the demon-inspired sie...

• Oct-1980
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• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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Was the provocative Hope Bottomsly, the ingenious Betsy Hatfield -- or Miss Katherine Tarkington from the Blue Hills of Devon? That was for Lord Milford to discover! Kate had taken loving care of her sister and brothers since her parents' death. Now ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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“A sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life.” -- Richard Brautigan   In Farmer, Jim Harrison tells the story of Joseph, a forty-three-year-old farmer-schoolteacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Fo...

• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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Burke and Shawn Flannery emigrated from Ireland to Texas. Texas was still part of Mexico in 1840's and a feud broke out between the farmers, who sided with the Mexicans, and the Texas ranchers who wanted freedom. The brothers soon found themselves ...

• Oct-1980
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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Abandoned at the altar! Yes, Wendy Devin knew the thrill of being a bride... and the bitter disappointment of waiting in vain for the groom. But now the impish girl from California was in Thailand, with the past behind her, swept up in her new car...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
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It was the children who, innocently, started the train of events that was to have such a devastating climax. Every day, in a newly opened primary school next door to the Marchington home, the pupils would create a minor uproar under the elder Miss Ma...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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A Ridge Parkman Western Ridge Parkman was in Dewitt’s Strike to do a job: get the little mining town’s gold to the railhead at Adobe City. With almost as many robbers as rocks along the trail to Adobe, he knew the job was going to be tough. But t...

• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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Three beautiful sisters. Like lovely young buds waiting to flower. There was Faith, Hope, and Chastity. (Yes, Chastity.) Two of them had already found suitors, but Chastity wanted more than an arranged marriage. Already she felt the touch of passion ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to ov...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Gary Jennings's Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths o...

• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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HER HEART WAS BEYOND MENDING. For Lynn Forster, the restoration of fine paintings had always been a peaceful living -- until she went to La Casa Española, home of aristocratic wine-importer Brett Sackville. Lynn couldn't keep from falling ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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AFRAID OF ECSTASY Tamara Warde was eleven when she saw her father killed and her mother ravished again and again by interlopers on their Caribbean plantation. From that moment, the act of love stirred terror in Tamara, even when she grew to exqui...

• Oct-1980
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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Survivor of unspeakable scandal, Prisoner in a loveless marriage Her lover had been kidnapped. Her father had sold her into marriage, with a money-gouging French scoundrel. Now, Jillian Wortley had received glorious news. Her beloved, Leslie Heref...

• Oct-1980
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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Knowing the truth deeply shook Teri Marriage to Damian Nikerios was the only solution to Teri's desperate situation. Her father's debt to him would be canceled, her family saved from ruin. Damian was the attractive son of a Greek millio...

• Oct-1980
• / Horror
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You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known-8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want -- and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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In an outlying suburb of New York, Mike Hunt, successful and popular, is found dead with a bullet in his head. Detective Al Flint took the case and he and the small town of Smith's Corners would never be the same again. The town was secretive, the cl...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level -- political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." -- Newsweek"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary cr...

• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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Africa was no place for a woman alone Especially a woman who had never been in rougher terrain than the English countryside! But Cassandra Hudson was determined to be united with the man she loved-Martin Coleman, a missionary dedicated to conve...

• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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Should she believe a stranger's words? Lissa had never heard of Luc Ferrier before. But he was well-known as Lucifer at the hotel casino where she worked. All her instincts cried out that he was dangerous--not only as a gambler, but as a ma...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
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The House in The Woods would provide Cecil Lynton with everything she had to have: a home for her orphaned niece and a job for herself, which she desperately needed for their support. All she would have to do was accept the position of nurse-governes...

• Oct-1980
• / Mystery
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• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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13 original stories, including: The Ballad of Bowsprit Bear's Stead, by Damien Broderick; Omens, by Carol Emshwiller; Touch the Earth, by Scott Sanders; The Other Magus, by Avram Davidson; Peek-a-Boom, by Sonya Dorman; Suzanne Delage, by Gene Wolfe; ...

• Oct-1980
• / Science Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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Oh, he was intolerable! Anastasia's green eyes flashed when she thought of her new guardian, the dashing Duke of Essler. Mischievous, teasing ... why, Nigel would say anything just to make her blush. Just returned from the wars, the duke was deter...

• Oct-1980
• / Mystery
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A Jody and Jake mystery. A race to the finish! Jody and Jake are excited about their new jobs helping out at the stables of Mr. Barrett, a famous racehorse trainer and his jockey son, Peter. Jody is looking forward to a wonderful summer until a se...

• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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When her husband is murdered using a method from one of her books, a screenwriter becomes the main suspectA successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood hills, and with him working to produce her novel for an ...

• Oct-1980
• / Fantasy
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Away at school, Sally Copeland has always dreamed of going home, but now that she’s there, she feels frightened and unsure of herself.Will her brother and sister accept her? Will she be able to do things for herself? And what will it be like to go ...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
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The Bull, a wayside tavern, weathers sixteen centuries of British history and its hardy Gilderson family proprietors serve every colorful wayfarer along the way and survive every misfortune, from palgues to Nazis...

• Oct-1980
• / Action Adventure
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• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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?DISASTER AND SUSPENSE... A STUNNING PAGE TURNER... THE BIGGEST AND BEST YET BY THE AUTHOR OF LAZARUS MAN!??Macon Telegraph News ?IMAGINE IT AS BAD AS YOU CAN, SIR? AND THEN IMAGINE IT WORSE!?What was once New York's proudest skyscraper is now a heap...

• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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"GUY WESTCOTT? WHY, HE HAS HAD MORE HANDKERCHIEFS THROWN AT HIM THAN CAN BE COUNTED. HE MUST BE THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER MAN IN LONDON!" Elizabeth Dasey, whose aristocratic bearing and loveliness belied her humble position as governess to Guy...

• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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BETWEEN SCANDAL, ROMANCE AND DANGER, CLARISSE DELICATELY DANCED. Clarisse Fosbert had no wish to go to London for her debut. But there was no crossing her mother's whim of iron, nor the logic that the family resources needed a bit of an infusion. ...

• Oct-1980
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Money problems are making pretty Sarah Kelling anything but a merry widow. Renting out rooms to Boston's upper crust seems the very proper way to survive genteel poverty on Beacon Hill--until the curmudgeonly old gentleman in the withdrawing room sui...

• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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After the American withdrawal from Vietnam, Michael Hudson is put in charge of an operation to appease Triad, an Asian group threatening the pro-Western Thai government, by retrieving a large cache of opium for them...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Mystery
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Kenlahar, the scorned and outcast apprentice healer of the House of Lahar, was the reluctant heir to the ancient and powerful Star Axe. His possession of the Axe brought the black forces of Toraq, the evil sorcerer King, down upon himself and his hom...

• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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BITTERSWEET MARRIAGE It had begun as a harmless deception, a white lie to ease the last days of Trevor Barrone's grandmother. Finally, Trevor was going to grant her dying wish and marry Robyn Christopher. And now Robyn found herself exchanging wed...

• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Romantic Suspense
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A penniless yet strikingly beautiful orphan, Marianne Ransom's indomitable spirit has enabled her to survive a cruel life on the backstreets of Victorian London. But it is her gift of second sight that carries her into the world of money and privileg...

• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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IN THE SMALL TOWN OF HAYDEN HE'S THE MAN'S MAN THAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS! Cade Harris always could drive a female to distraction. In high school, he was the sweetest sugar stick around, the guy the girls would scratch and bite to be with. Now, years ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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A marriage of convenience and a dashing Army major for a husband, the year is 1808 and when sixteen-year-old Dorinda Fane sails with her handsome aide-de-camp for French-held Portugal her dreams of happiness with this cousin whom she has loved since ...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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FROM ENGLAND'S CLOISTERED COURTS... Kidnapped on the night of her betrothal to an infamous Englishman, her senses inflamed by the hypnotic ardor of a black-bearded pirate, Diane de Clovis sailed to her tempestuous fate in the New World. Her blond be...

• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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There was no escape--no escape at all. He had walked into their trap. Now he was gazing helplessly down the barrel of a pistol. The question wasn't would they shoot, but when. "I'm not working alone, " he managed to say. "You can kill me, but the st...

• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Peggy Wheaton first met Bill Tappan she thought he was an old woman. Later when she met him again, he had a child with him. He kept her off balance in other ways as well, and she didn't really like him, until one day she awakened and was in ...

• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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Jarrod was not a man to toy with Brooke Faulkner unleashed a storm when she set out to teach Jarrod Stone a lesson. A storm with more fury than she'd ever expected. But she was tired of hearing about all the women her boss had affairs with,...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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He was running for the United States Senate. He had wealth, connections, a dazzling smile … everything but a wife. That's where Tildy came in. She'd pose as Stephen Talbot's fiancée. She'd get the money her family so desperately ne...

• Oct-1980
• / Christian
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The award-winning author of Children in the Night tells of the first woman as she is caught between truth and death and between the radiant Shia and the being of abominations. Ultimately, it is the story of the decision that every one of us makes eve...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited a...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Young soldier Honus Gant and beautiful Cresta Lee are the only survivors of a wagon train, and Gant must protect Cresta, a former Native American captive, from the legendary Cheyenne chieftain, Spotted Wolf, once Cresta's husband. Original.

• Oct-1980
• / Mystery
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• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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It was all like a horrible dream! Julie had received a proposal--but it wasn't the one she'd been hoping for. Brad's intentions were clear. "I want you so much, Julie. Come and live with me in London, be my mistress." Jul...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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My twin sister was adored by everyone but me -- the one who should have loved her best. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated...." With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Carol...

• Oct-1980
• / Historical
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Frank Healy, and Indian scout, had made plen ty of enemies. But no one hated him more than the vicious Ap ache Kid. When the Kid escaped from prison and kidnapped Hea ly''s wife, Healy knew he was the intended victim. '...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Details the incredible predawn escape to freedom aboard a homemade hot-air balloon undertaken by two East German families who, after cautiously obtaining the necessary materials, managed to sail over the heavily mined East German border...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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From the Seminole uprisings to the Civil War, they fought for their bleoved plantation, their family, and their faith. . .Margaret Seton had loved the handsome young widower long before she become Lewis Fle...

• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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It was highly improper for a young heiress to flirt openly with a complete stranger. Beautiful Emily Penthorne was certainly at fault, but he was so handsome, so compelling, how could she resist? It was the height of the season, and she was en rou...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel, her her...

• Oct-1980
• / Historical Romance
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Anne Bonny escaped into the arms of the ruthless pirate James Bonny. Totally commited to her love she even went so far as to take cutlass in hand and fight by his side.Bonny's viciousness became unbearable and anne turned her attentions to captain Ja...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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The search for a lost boy becomes a bizarre encounter with biological horror! Christopher was, what doctors called, a freak of nature. Born with unusual deformities, he nevertheless possessed a fantastic strength. When his mother abandoned him, Chris...

• Oct-1980
• / Suspense
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SPIDERAMA HALF AN OAF--If you're buying a time machine, don't go to a discount house! SATAN'S CHILDREN--One way to save the world is to blow its mind. THE MAGNIFICENT CONSPIRACY-- A free lunch is always the most expensive kind. TIN EAR --...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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Selections from nine novels following Goodbye Columbus, Roth's first book, including Letting Go, Portnoy's Complaint, and The Ghost Writer, chronicle Roth's satiric and sensitive examination of art, life, and personal crisis...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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The perceptive, controversial, and idiosyncratic basketball star recounts the decisive events of his life and career, offers an inside look at professional basketball, and sounds off about freedom, race, marriage, religion, and American culture...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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She was alone, jobless, and beached, thousands of miles from Montana, victim of the cruelest hoax of all. Perhaps it was Nancy Abbott's fault for falling in love with a picture of Henri Dutrec and offering to catalog his entire collection of pric...

• Oct-1980
• / Mystery
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Adam Anderson is no ordinary sixth-grader--that's why everyone calls him Einstein. Einstein is such a whiz at science that he can solve any mystery or unravel any puzzle. Watch as he investigates a flying saucer, foils the school bully, and discov...

• Oct-1980
• / Mystery
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Adam Anderson is no ordinary sixth-grader -- that's why everyone calls him Einstein. Einstein is such a whiz at science that he can solve any mystery or unravel any puzzle. Watch as he shocks the school bully, stops the Halloween horror, and meets...

• Oct-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE! Robin O'Neil had known only the sheltered life of an orphanage until she became a governess en route by luxury liner to Hawaii. But the time aboard ship was even more exciting because of a mysterious sailor who cavali...

• Oct-1980
• / General Fiction
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