Books Published in December 1977

• Dec-1977
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The brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio is the brilliant double sun Antares, around which orbits the inhabited planet called Kregen. Kregen is an Earthlike world, but strange, far stranger, than ours. For it is the scene of a conflict between...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Mark wasn't a man you could bluff! Shannon realized that during their first confrontation! With the help of her friend Guy Crawford, Shannon had concocted a story to get the job as jillaroo on the Seymour station. But pretending on paper wa...

• Dec-1977
• / Science Fiction
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A star explodes. And a billion years later, a galaxy explodes in war. When the heavy metal ruin of Mirkheim is discovered at the edge of Known Space, the gigantic planet becomes the center of a war that is fought in all the far reaches of Earth's daz...

• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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David--He was a stranger among Vidina's people, driven by the madness of his modern world, obsessed with the need to find peace. Hae had used many women, but only Vidina made him love. Vidina--A simple Indian girl, she dreamed only to leave San Vi...

• Dec-1977
• / Historical Romance
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On a stormy night of political intrigue in 1830 Paris, the dashing Baron Jean de Brussac took and tamed his headstrong bride, Anne de Grenville. From that smoldering union, a proud and ambitious dynasty was born destined to forge a wine-growing empir...

• Dec-1977
• / Historical Romance
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Sweden, 1432. A wolf-winter ... Fires burn in the mine pits and in the great hall of the manor... Lord Ivar sits at table with his lovely wife Donna and Kurt, his neighbor and cousin... He does not see the fires dance in the meeting of eyes as they l...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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The story of Ruth Simmons, who while under hypnosis recants the story of the life of Bridey Murphy under the care of one of the leading hypnotherapist of the day....

• Dec-1977
• / Historical Romance
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Everyone in the village of Kingston Lovelace loved Lucasta...She sparkled with a vibrant enthusiasm for living. Her best friend, Nell, idolized her. In fact, most of her journal was filled with revelations of Lucasta's romance with Captain Freder...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Jacquie, recklessly defying her parents, had left home. Now she was stranded in Tombstone, Arizona, without a car or money. Choya Barnett was unmoved by her feminine wiles; Jacquie had no other choice than to let him settle her accounts. But could...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Science Fiction
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ONE CAN LIVE AS DANGEROUSLY AS TWO IN THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS AND SPACED-OUT NOVEL IN YEARS! WHO'S WHO? Fred, the unstoppable undercover narc in a scramble suit that gave him virtual anonymity, was out to bust doper, pusher Robert Arctor. A snap for ...

• Dec-1977
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Space Opera
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The tenth and final volume in a series of Star Trek: The Animated Series adaptations published by Ballantine Books. Includes one story: - The Slaver Weapon (A group of Kzinti divert the shuttle Copernicus and retrieve a newly discovered Slaver weapo...

• Dec-1977
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• / Historical
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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A tour of duty through the worst that the world has to offer Before his time as a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before penning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award–winning novels and stories, Joe Haldeman was a so...

• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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One shattering night turned Lisa Larsen's life from a song of love into heartbreaking blues. Without warning, handsome Ross Hunter told Lisa that theirs had only been a "fun romance" and now it was over. Long ago, Lisa had seen her fat...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Irma will be very happy when you go!" Carl's words made her angry, but in truth, Sara would have been equally happy to leave. Coming to Africa to care for her invalid sister, Irma, had brought problems. Irma had married Ray Barton,...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Gothic
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THE SPECTER OF DOOM… When beautiful young Kimberly Clayton’s parents died, the only heritage they left her was a crown-shaped diamond brooch and a name -- Marshwood! Marshwood, the old plantation in the Louisiana bayou country where twin mansi...

• Dec-1977
• / Historical Romance
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Young Sonia von Hugel was forced to witness the destruction of her family and home during Napoleon's retreat. Disguising herself as a boy, she fled from the marauders who were looting the countryside. Between the French and the Cossacks she was in de...

• Dec-1977
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• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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The officers on an American Ballistic Missile Submarine turn out to be rogues - belonging to a right-wing conspiracy aimed at triggering a nuclear war they are convinced that America can win. With their Polaris missiles they will stage attacks on bot...

• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"You didn't really want a wife," she accused Edmund. "I've often wondered why you bothered to marry me." Delia had followed her husband into the depths of the Brazilian jungle. Oh, why had she come? What had she expected? A...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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I'll do the work, he'll get the credit Kit firmly believed that's what would happen when she had to team up with the great Adam Rothbury in making a TV documentary. Adam was brilliant, attractive, sarcastic--and Kit had never liked...

• Dec-1977
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• Dec-1977
• / Gothic
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• Dec-1977
• / Gothic
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Marie was missing! The glamorous jetsetter who had invited Tania to stay at her lush Hong Kong apartment had vanished. Two fascinating men promised Tania their love and protection as she worried and waited. One would lead her into danger; the oth...

• Dec-1977
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Traditional Regency
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Lovely young Elizabeth Cordell had been well warned about the notorious Lord Nicholas Dearborne. She vowed that never would her handsome guardian add her to his long list of romantic conquests. When shadowy danger on his country estate threatened ...

• Dec-1977
• / Historical Romance
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A LUSH VILLA HOLDS DARK TERROR Laura Howard, a pretty English nurse on holiday, stopped suddenly her tour of Italy in Florence, and she had fallen under the spell of the beautiful city. She interrupts her vacation to help the Contessa dell'Al...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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The whimsy and gentle wit of Joan Walsh Anglund illuminate every page of this charming gathering of original stories and verses. With tales of friendly trees, aspiring ballerinas, and companionable cows, this beautifully illustrated collection is per...

• Dec-1977
• / Gothic
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Rosalie was a stranger to the house...a stranger to the troubled people who lived in the decaying mansion called Moontide. Why should anyone in that big ugly place want her out of the way? What had she done that she should be marked for death? She wa...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Historical Romance
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Young Serena Foster daydreamed of love and wondered when it would happen to her. Suddenly tragedy struck and her parents were killed leaving her totally alone... with young Rory Clendenning. He, too, was alone and searching for something. Their one n...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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Fergus is 39, a moderately successful novelist, just over a bad marriage, living now in a Southern California’s oceanside house with 22-year-old Dani Sinclair. Beset by the movie producer he's writing for, by fear of losing his beautiful young mist...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Historical Romance
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Lady Katherine Perrott, Maid of Honor to the Queen... The illegitimate granddaughter of Henry VIII, Katherine was a beautiful woman, with a lovely, piquant face, and dark eyes and hair. But such loveliness was dangerous in Queen Elizabeth's court.......

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"It's a conspiracy of silence, Sue!" Nick was right. Sue too had noticed the unwillingness of the locals to talk of their uncle Dryden. Sue and her younger brother, Nick, had journeyed from England to make a new life in Australia, only to disco...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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The story of a man called upon by his country to take the gravest risk of all. The story that boldly probes behind the international intriques, deadly fears, and heroic exploits of the dramatic race to conquer outer space. The story of the men and ...

• Dec-1977
• / Traditional Regency
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CAMPAIGN OF CONQUEST Miss Margette Milbank clearly had a long way to go to satisfy her mother's hopes for a dazzling match for Margette, and Margette's own mischievous desire to deflate the pomp and pomposity of London society. After all, who was M...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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Basilus, a foolish old duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom he withdraws into pastoral retreat w...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three noteb...

• Dec-1977
• / Mystery
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THINK YOU’RE SMARTER THAN ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN? THINK AGAIN! THERE ARE TEN MYSTERIES INSIDE -- CAN YOU SOLVE THEM ALL? • An unexpected midnight guest… • A holdup at the First City Bank… • A stolen tennis racket… • Gerbils that paint i...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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First published in 1971, this collection of stories includes a foreword by the author and these stories: To Here and the Easel (1954); Slow Sculpture (1970); It's You! (1970); Take Care of Joey (1971); Crate (1970); The Girl Who Knew What They Meant ...

• Dec-1977
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lian Trevor was forced to make a hurried decision. Stranded in Buenos Aires, she must choose between remaining in her very dangerous predicament, or marrying a stranger. It was like something out of a dream...or a nightmare. Lian didn't want t...

• Dec-1977
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1977
• / Science Fiction
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DUMAREST Urgent message from Central Intelligence to local Cyber agent: "You will proceed to the planet Zakym with the utmost dispatch. Dumarest is not to be killed or his intelligence placed in danger. This is of utmost priority. Once found he is t...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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Based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join them.The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised re...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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Based in part on the author’s schooldays at Lancing and then Hertford College in England and subsequently as a teacher in North Wales, “Decline and Fall” is Evelyn Waugh’s debut novel, first published in 1928. In the socially satirical style ...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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"A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England" (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist. "We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way." When Oxford-educa...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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In a 1978 New York Times book review, Kenneth Baker described Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka as: ..".the most powerful New American fiction I have encountered in years. A demanding, exhilarating work." Nearly 25 years later, FC2 is proud to reiss...

• Dec-1977
• / Historical Romance
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A MAN NO WOMAN COULD KEEP. A WOMAN NO MAN COULD CLAIM. THEIR LOVE SOWED THE SEEDS OF SWEET SURRENDER A HONEY-HAIRED HELLION... A mere girl, he had found her unconscious in the Connecticut woods. She could recall nothing--not even her name. Alec...

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction
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9th century Iberian Peninsula - an age of brutal battles to the death and dungeons equipped with thumbscrews and spiked boots. An age of perfumed harems where acts of love were spiced with the erotic mysteries of the Orient. a time when merchants, pr...

• Jan-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1978
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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SWORDS, SORCERY, SPECTACULAR ADVENTURES -- as Tiana of Reme, illegitimate daughter of a murdered Duke and foster-child of Caranga, the greatest of the pirate captains, embarks on a bizarre quest when a captured Narokan merchantman. . . and a sev...

• Jan-1978
• / Literary
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• Jan-1978
• / General Fiction
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Tired of being "bugged" by his father, a sixteen-year-old runs away from home. His adventures working and living alone and in a commune bring him to some unpleasant realizations about his own maturity....

• Jan-1978
• / General Fiction
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