Books Published in August 1978

• Aug-1978
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Dray Prescot, Earthman of Kregen, that wonderful world circling the twin suns of Antares, had risen high in the empire of Vallia, but luck could not always sustain him. When, at last, all the forces opposed to his lands, his princess, his emperor, an...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.   Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashi...

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Karl was a challenge she couldn't ignore! Reluctantly, Juliet prepared to leave Silbersee, and the Bavarian wood-carving school that had been her second home. Then Karl Adler came storming into the place and Juliet changed her mind. In Karl...

• Aug-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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STRANGE REARRANGEMENT From their first disastrous encounter, lovely Claudia Ledyard and the impudently handsome Earl of Dysart openly disliked each other. He, as far as she was concerned, was rude, arrogant, and thoroughly odious. She, as far as h...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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What her father called her "missionary streak" had once again led her into trouble! Responding to a young lady's plea for help, Nicola Prenn found herself in a most compromising situation. It earned her the deep contempt of Barak Soren...

• Aug-1978
• / Historical Romance
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"...IF YOU WANT HIM TO LOVE YOU, YOU WILL HAVE TO GIVE UP EVERYTHING..." Tempestuous Catherine, driven by destiny to follow the only man she will ever love, escapes a jealous husband and a possessive Duke to travel the uncertain roads of France an...

• Aug-1978
• / Historical Romance
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SHE LIVED A NEVER-ENDING QUEST FOR FAME AND WEALTH... It wasn't easy for Betsy Bowen to leave her past behind. The daughter of a whore, she had taken to the streets herself to earn money in Providence. Abandoning her own illegitimate son, she ...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana, a Sanskrit verse epic written some 2,000 years ago. William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama - with ...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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Paul Abbott had been a brilliant young American medical student in Edinburgh - until he found himself and outlaw running from the police for a crime he had not committed. Mow he was a fugitive, deprived not only of this freedom but his precious certi...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Space Opera
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Experience an epic science fiction series offered in one omnibus edition. C.J. Cherryh's The Faded Sun Trilogy tells the story of the mri-tall, a secretive society bound by honour and strict discipline. This golden race for eons offered the unive...

• Aug-1978
• / Action Adventure
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Pamela Roth, like her brilliant father, German emigrant Russell Roth, exhibits from childhood a cool composure and rare intellect. Although only a teenager, she is increasingly absorbed with the history of the Hitler period, the Holocaust, and the tr...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Aspiring actress Toni Aldridge has come to Rome hoping for the break that would lead her to stardom. With her money nearly gone, she meets Bob Sanders, an American producer, looking for his big break. And he needs a wife, at least temporarily, since ...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I do still love you and want you back again." Jonas's gaze roamed possessively over Bridget upturned face. "So don't think I've given up, because I haven't." She gasped at his audacity. How dared he come back as...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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"Sometime in the future the head librarian at a great center of learning suddenly disappears, leaving behind a journal that describes his weariness with a world ""where people teach but know nothing, where the sentences flow on endlessly but lead now...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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DeLillo's Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, w...

• Aug-1978
• / Science Fiction
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ALIEN SATELLITES CIRCLE THE EARTH - AND MAN'S ONLY HOPE IS A MAD CARTOONIST!

The terrifying arms race roared on. Daily, East and West produced more dreadful weaponry. And, daily, yesterday's weapons were turned into toys, souvenirs, egg beaters, f...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Suspense
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This “classically plotted British mystery” by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blue Flower is “leavened by a wicked sense of rapier-like humor” (The New York Times Book Review).  In The Golden Child, Penelope FitzGerald combines a ...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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As one of the dazzling Lacebridge belles, Sara Lacebridge was expected to marry a man of wealth and position. Instead she scandalized all polite society by running away to pursue her dream of stardom on the London stage. She seemed a defenseless inno...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Roberta Somers had already heard that her new boss, Justin Martin, was engaged to a fantastically beautiful woman, so she knew it was wrong to feel the attraction that was stirring between them. Try as she might to enjoy the attentions of Bill Coffer...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Historical
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Cowhand Adam Gann had accidentally killed the friend of circuit judge and then found himself sentenced to Yuma prison. On the way to Yuma, Apaches attack and Gann escaped,joining a wagon train heading out of Arizona territory. Trouble has followed h...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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Shortly after the Sioux Nation's victory at Little Bighorn, they are a vanquished people living on reservations. Yet the old ways die hard, and when the Ghost Dance spreads across the West, calling the Sioux to the mystic dance of rebellion, many ans...

• Aug-1978
• / Amateur Sleuth
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If the murder victim had not been a notorious anti-Semite, Rabbi Small might never have become involved. When several members of his congregation became suspects, Rabbi Small was forced to match wits with the killer. Here is another lively and eng...

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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She was afraid of his love now It had taken Aline five years to get over the pain and humiliation caused by Dominic Lietch's harsh rejection of her teenage love. The foolish young girl had become a sensible young woman, so when Dominic retu...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Should she accept this second chance? Three years before, Selina's brief and disastrous marriage to Ashley Dent had ended in divorce. Now he had turned up and was pressuring her to marry him again. "If you thought I'd gone out of yo...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Science Fiction
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COSMIC DIPLOMACY AND MACHIAVELLIAN INTRIGUE The official accounts of Terra's efforts in the field of interstellar diplomacy during the 29th century are available for the dialing to anyone willing to pore through the records of the Corps Diplomatiq...

• Aug-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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SHELTERED, SHY, SHE PROVED MORE THAN A MATCH FOR THE MOST DARING, DANGEROUS MEN IN ALL ENGLAND. A BOLD, BLIND BARGAIN... It had changed her life overnight. From her drab, unpromising post as governess, lovely Emma Harcourt was catapulted into a...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Science Fiction
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Jimson had twenty years to live. Or one. Twenty years if he stayed in space-normal, where his disease could be treated. One year if he followed the Starcaptain into the Hype -- the "not-space" that trip was the only way to the stars, where jeweled v...

• Aug-1978
• / Thriller
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Richie Walters, all-American boy. Elaine Murray, cheerleader. They made the perfect couple. And that evening out at Lookout Point - Richie fumbling at the buttons of her blouse, Elaine thrilled and terrified - they were about to take the final step. ...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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A gripping, fact-based novel of the military Wehrmacht plot to assassinate Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime, complicated by the American/British and Russian interest and involvement in the outcome. 352 pages....

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportun...

• Aug-1978
• / Romantic Suspense
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Also published as: Bella Figura...

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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ROBBED OF HER WEDDED BLISS! Ellen McCann was ecstatic when the handsome Lord of Invercoe Castle took her in - saving her from certain death in the poorfarm - asking her to marry him secretly for a period of exactly one year. At first, she did n...

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Emma had to admit that she was curious Jordan had said the matter was one of life and death, but since she wouldn't agree to meet him she would never know. Emma's hands trembled as she hung up the receiver, the familiar resentment she ...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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"I DO NOT WISH TO BE LIKE OTHER WOMEN OF MY CLASS: A VIRGIN BEFORE MARRIAGE, AND A WHORE AFTERWARDS!" In her reckless abandon to be free to live and love as she chose, young, rebellious Alicia Tierney surrendered herself to one night of passion wi...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Mystery
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• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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Ireland was too small for Ginger Coffey. No matter how hard he tried to get on, he just ended up as a glorified errand boy. That was why he emigrated to Canada with his wife and daughter - certain that there, his manifold talents would be recognized....

• Aug-1978
• / Historical Romance
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• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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Originally published in 1978, Sweet Adversity is two novels in one. Author Donald Newlove edited his critically acclaimed novels of jazz-playing alcoholic Siamese twins, Leo & Theodore (1972) and The Drunks (1974), into a single volume for the re...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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It has many names: Bigfoot . . . Yeti . . . Sasquatch.

But whatever it is, it’s out there in the woods and leaving a trail of blood and severed heads behind it.

For John Moon, a half-mad Indian, it is a spirit that holds the key ...

• Aug-1978
• / Private Investigator
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Spenser had gone to London-and not to look at the Queen. He'd gone to track down a bunch of bombers who'd blown his client's wife and kids away. His job was to catch them. Or kill them. His client wasn't choosy. But there were nine killers to one Sp...

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Ilona only wished she could forget him Drake Warrick was an attractive, dynamic man. He was also a perfectionist--and Ilona s' boss. So when her work did not measure up to his high standards, he fired her. But he was still present in her ...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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When a series of strikes and labor disputes immobilize the Australian city where they live, a young boy and his sister join their cleaning lady and her crippled husband and try to make their way out of an increasingly hostile environment....

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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They are flawless faces on giant screens, and Anne Hyatt escaped a loveless marriage to be one of them. Anne is no innocent lost in the Hollywood jungle. And starving for the passion her heart craves, she is ready to take on the world's most ruth...

• Aug-1978
• / Suspense
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Mark Farrow series #11: Mark is coerced by the Section into accepting the sort of assignment from which he has always shied away: the cold-blooded assassination of another human being. The contract is to be executed in Burgos, Ancient City of Spain, ...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Historical Romance
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In a romantic saga of the flaming American frontier, she was thrust from innocence into a world of danger and desire. HER BEAUTY GAVE RISE TO FLAMING PASSIONS AND INSATIABLE LUSTS Lord Kendall Varrick was the swaggering, brutally commanding Eng...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / Historical Romance
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• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1978
• / Gothic
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She had come to the mansion as a student of art, but remained as a prisoner of terror... THE MANY FACETS OF FEAR Nov -- a magnificent mansion in the heart of America, where exiled Russian aristocrats lived out their days dreaming of a bygone er...

• Aug-1978
• / Historical Romance
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A time of terror, a time of death!! Atrocities were committed that made one's blood run cold. Men, women and children were massacred because they had been born into the aristocracy. 'Thus France was a death trap for the beautiful Catherine and ...

• Aug-1978
• / Historical Romance
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• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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A classic masterwork newly updatedThe electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York's notorious Bonanno crime familyOn New York's Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped...

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I will give you your freedom." Sara turned painfully away from the cold finality of Steve's words. Yet wasn't this why she had returned to Florida after five years of separation? Wasn't it she who had demanded a divorce in ...

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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SISTERS Frances. Alice. Barbara. Three sisters who were raised together yet took such different paths. One into the glittering world of international society and sophisticated passion. One into a nightmare marriage that was destroying her body and so...

• Aug-1978
• / Literary
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Kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion Heart, it is said, was found by his faithful troubadour Blondel de Neel. But how? And what trials did the faithful and long-suffering lyricist have to o...

• Aug-1978
• / Romantic Suspense
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Laure Beaudine is the daughter of Jules Beaudine, a famous Shakespearean actor of the 90's. Her mother died when she was small, and she has been raised by her mother's sister, Aunt Judith, an extremely strict person who hates everything to do with th...

• Aug-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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