Books Published in December 1978

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  • Francesca

    Angelica Aimes

    LONDON Jilted when her fiance married her own cousin, Francesca Fairchild flees to Egypt as governess to the Bey Mamalouk's children. EGYPT Raw, unbridled passions wreak havoc on Francesca's life as, alone, she faces barbaric men wh...

  • Golden Scorpio

    Alan Burt Akers

    When you're down there's no place to go but up. That's the way the brave think and if there is anyone on two worlds braver than Dray Prescot, he has yet to appear. Prescot, who had been a seaman and soldier on distant Earth, and now, on Golden Scorpi...

  • The Polreath Women

    Annabella

    NOTHING COULD STOP THE POLREATH WOMEN IN THEIR DRIVE FOR THE ULTIMATE REWARD... ELIZABETH, the matriarch - her love for Lord John Polreath is surpassed only by her fierce determination to build a mighty shipping empire and make the Polreath clan t...

  • Late Rapture

    Jane Arbor

    It had seemed the perfect job for her And Cleo had thanked the kind fate that had brought her to this glamorous holiday resort on sunny Corsica. But she soon discovered that there was a thorn among the flowers. The thorn was Luc Vidame, handsom...

  • The Crystal Star

    Ellen Argo

    After sailing with her husband, Stephen, aboard the trading ship Crystal Star, Julia Howard Logan returns home to find that her separation from her husband is more difficult to endure than the hardships of life at sea...

  • Prisoners of the Stars

    Isaac Asimov

  • The Far Ends of Time and Earth

    Isaac Asimov

    Three classics that heralded the advent of a master of science fiction PEBBLE IN THE SKY Joseph Schwartz is hurled into the future by some mysterious effect of fissioning uranium. He emerges into a strange and eerie world -- a radioactive Earth in t...

  • Asya

    Allison Baker

    ISLAND OF DESIRE... Haiti - a land of seething contrasts, of imperious landowners and restless slaves, of hot untamed passions and secret chilling intrigues. Into this exotic troubled paradise Asya had come. Asya - who stood poised on the br...

  • The Shannonese Hustle

    Franklin Bandy

  • Gunblaze

    Lee Bishop

    Heading West after the Civil War, John Ashton, an ex-Confederate officer, attracts trouble by shooting, in self-defense, the son of a local outlaw, and courting the daughter of the region's most influential rancher...

  • The Rules of Marriage

    Sheila Bishop

    Lady Charlotte Rivers was young and inexperienced when Kit, Lord Brancaster, asked for her hand in marriage. However, his fierce good looks and strong mind quickly won her over. And once they were married, the passion that flowed between them was dee...

  • Death by Hoax

    Lionel Black

    Dial "B" for Bomb. A prankster calls out the fire brigade, empties a theater, and stops a train with his phony phone calls. Then comes a bomb scare that proves to be in very dead earnest... Unflappable London reporter Kate Theobald and her...

  • Family Business

    Anthony Blond

  • Felicia

    Leonora Blythe

    "But You Do Not Seem to Understand. I Cannot Remember Who I Am." When dashing Lord Umber rescued Felicia from the coach accident, he automatically assumed she was merely a wench for fun and games. He knew nothing about her aristocratic heritage...

  • Where Were You Adam

    Heinrich Boll

    Paperback. Text contains underlining/marking THROUGHOUT. Corner bumps/bends. Covers show edge wear with rubbing, creases, sicker scuff and corner tear on front. Crease on spine. Heavily worn but pages still quite legible/readable....

  • Fantastic Imagination Ii

    Robert H. Boyer

  • Encounter Three

    Martin Caidin

  • As the Earth Turns

    Gladys Hasty Carroll

  • Bush Doctor

    Rosemary Carter

    His sudden appearance gave Stacy a shock! "Andre!" The name was torn from Stacy in an anguished whisper She had never expected to see him again, least of all here, at a South African bush hospital. But it was Andre, the man she'd tr...

  • Summer Masquerade

    Blanche Chenier

    For some time now, lovely, innocent Isabella Makepeace has fancied herself in love with Lord Orgrave. She is distressed when she discovers the object of her affections has allowed his attentions to wander elsewhere. Which is probably why the dark and...

  • Mork & Mindy

    Ralph Church

  • Talon

    James Coltrane

  • Island of Escape

    Dorothy Cork

    "Do you believe in love?" she asked. Steve's eyes narrowed. "I believe in love about as much as I believe in Santa Claus. It's a lot of make-believe and so is marriage. It's all a game." "Then it's a game I d...

  • The Island Bride

    Jane Corrie

    He was the last man she'd wanted to meet Cara Vernon's joyous return to French Polynesia had been spoiled: Pierre had come back too. Life would be very awkward if he, now the island's most influential man, revealed that they'd a...

  • End of the Game

    Julio Cortazar

  • London Deal

    N.J. Crisp

    Attractive, ambitious and, occasionally, rather unorthodox in his methods, Sidney Kenyon is as much at ease in the diverting, mercenary glitter of London's gambling and night club scene as he is among his colleagues in the Criminal Investigation Depa...

  • Summer Mahogany

    Janet Dailey

    Gina's face grew pale with shock It couldn't be Rhyder. Not after all these years. But there was no mistaking the tall, darkly tanned figure moving menacingly nearer. Like a child, a young, naive Gina had once worshipped Rhyder Owens. B...

  • Portrait of Love

    Jean De Secary

    Love can destroy a man's heart! Francisco s statement was a paradox to Lucile. She had not known the power of love until he taught her. More than anything else in the world she wanted to see him again--wanted to be near him and try to cure his ...

  • Spearmen of Arn

    Del Dowdell

  • The Dark Labyrinth

    Lawrence Durrell

  • King of the Jews

    Leslie Epstein

    New in Paperback This 1979 classic tells the darkly humorous story of I.C. Trumpelman, a man whose fancy determines the fate of others. Chosen as the head of a Judenrat, Trumpelman thrives on the power granted him and creates an authoritarian regim...

  • The First New Testament

    David Estrada

  • Just Me

    Marie Hall Ets

  • Longarm and the Avenging Angels

    Tabor Evans

    SHE WAS IN HIS DREAMS -- AND THEN SHE WAS IN HIS POWER... The Avenging Angels Cult had stolen her away. A young Mormon beauty who'd spurned their leader's offer of "divine" -- and multiple -- marriage. Now she was hidden somewhere in the Gre...

  • The Brotherhood of the Grape

    John Fante

    LUSTY OLD NICK MOLISEAS ZESTY AS ZORBA, AS RUTHLESS IN HIS WAYS AS DON CORLEONE. Stonemason, Italian patriarch, at 77 his fiendish antics still outrage his family and rock San Joaquin Valley with raging, womanizing, wine-guzzling glee. After a li...

  • Disco

    Chelsea Farraday

  • Last Will and Testament

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

    A wealthy woman’s last will and testament draws together friends, family, a master felon, and a charming conman in this delightful mystery series debut.Mrs. Arliss was witty. Mrs. Arliss was delightful. But mostly, Mrs. Arliss was rich. And now, Mr...

  • The Marriage Merger

    Glenna Finley

    On a romantic cruise to the exotic Far East, a beautiful bride stumbles into deadly intrigue… The Business Bride Mrs. Julie Holdridge …. It should have been the happiest day of her life. But the marriage ceremony had been a mockery, just he...

  • Death Throught the Looking Glass

    Richard Forrest

    Lyon sailing his hot air balloon, Wobbly II, over Long Island Sound when he sees a small plane go down in the water, he recognizes the plane as belonging to his best friend - its down in seconds, and can't be located by the coast guard. That night he...

  • Herman Hesse Biography

    Ralph Freedman

    Freedman explores Hesse's life to discover what led to his absorption in certain themes and traces the author's impassioned quest for meaning in a fragmented era filled with crises that posed philosophical contradictions for the artist...

  • Search Ghost Flt 401

    Elizabeth Fuller

  • Rendezvous in Tripoli

    Caroline Gayet

    "Your fiance has gone. No one knows where..." It was impossible. There had to be some mistake. Dina had talked to Philippe only two days before flying to Tripoli. And now he was missing. Something was seriously wrong. Dina was filled with risin...

  • Blond Brother

    James Geibel

    Destined to be the white star of a basketball team almost wholly black in a racially divided school, Rich Gaskins makes enemies as he tries to win the respect of his teammates and becomes attracted to a black girl named Glen...

  • The Plum Thicket

    Janice Holt Giles

    Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she plann...

  • My Needs Your Needs

    Jerry Gillies

  • Evidence of Love

    Shirley Ann Grau

  • The Wicked Guardian

    Vanessa Gray

    A Not So Proper Young Lady. "I wish I were dead!" was Clare Penryck's impassioned reaction upon hearing that Sir Benedict Choate was to be her guardian. She had know this elegant aristocrat for but one London season -- but that time had...

  • Untamed Heart

    Julia Greene

  • The Curly Wolf

    Frank Gruber

  • Banners of Desire

    Lorinda Hagen

    BATTLEFIELD OF PASSION The War Between the States was just beginning, but beautiful Caroline Meredith found her life shaken to its very foundations by private battles more violent and tempestuous than those fought by North and South. Accused of...

  • Overload

    Arthur Hailey

    Wild population growth and increasing industrial need drive the Golden State Power and Light Company past the critical point, but expansion is thwarted by conservation organizations, terrorist violence, and intracompany power struggles...

  • Vector Analysis

    Jack C. Haldeman

    FIRST COMES THE FEVER, THEN THE DREAMS OF A PLANET OF SKY THEN THE TERRIFYING HUNGER TO KILL! The strangest and deadliest creatures in the universe are quarantined together on the alien biology station Delta III--and exobiologist Rob McGregor is t...

  • Fluke

    James Herbert

    Fluke is the moving story of a dog with the memories of a human, with the signature twisting plot Master of Horror James Herbert is famed for.A dog wanders the streets, compelled by a ravenous hunger. Hunting a prey he cannot not define, driven by a ...

  • Solomon Kane

    Robert E. Howard

    A late 16th - early 17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms...Robert E. Howard weaves quite possibly his greatest weird fiction creation ever,...

  • The Chevalier's Lady

    Betty Hale Hyatt

    Beautiful, orphaned Tamar Columb was delighted to be reunited with her brother on the Cornish coast. She reluctantly prepared to announce her engagement to Cameron Pennland and to accept the security of the Pennland family. But when she awoke from th...

  • Part 35

    John Nicholas Iannuzzi

    Sandro Luca is a crusading young attorney with a family past that links him with the mob. Now the state wants him to defend two junkies who probably killed a cop. They're as good as convicted already. The papers have seen to that. If Sandro is going ...

  • A Night for Treason

    John Jakes

  • Never Call It Love

    Veronica Jason

    A BLAZING LOVE THAT WAS BORN IN SMOLDERING HATE! When beautiful young Elizabeth Montlow lost her innocence, it was not on a night of romantic dreams. It was in an act of savage violence by a man seeking vengeance. Yet from this brutal beginnin...

  • Code Name Sebastian

    James L. Johnson

    Slight creases in cover. Personalization sticker on inside front cover. We are new to Amazon selling, however, in other auction companies, we are a top rated seller. Feel assured you are purchasing from seasoned experts. Thank you for looking at ou...

  • Dawn Command

    Roland K. Jordon

  • The Politics of American Cities

    Dennis R. Judd

  • A Love So Bold

    Annelise Kamada

    A tale of passion so deep and true it could not be denied. They were two halves of a whole destined to be joined together. They knew it deep within themselves from the day James held Gillian's small hand to comfort the bewildered child in mour...

  • Judith

    Albert Kantof

  • Grab

    Maria katzenbach

  • Marriage in Mexico

    Flora Kidd

    Nothing in life, or love, is free Dawn Aylwin's search for her missing sister, Judy, had landed her deeply in trouble. Robbed of all her possessions and left to drown off the coast of Mexico, she was miraculously rescued by Sebastian Suarez. ...

  • That's What Friends Are For

    Ronald Kidd

  • A Voice Out of Ramah

    Lee Killough

    The women served, bred, and obeyed-never questioning the dark Divine Will that yearly claimed the lives of their sons. The men ruled, meditated, and sired-if they survived. That was the way it had always been on Marah, where a deadly virus attacked y...

  • The Neighbor

    Laird Koenig

  • An Ancient Rage

    Jacqueline La Tourrette

  • Pagan Encounter

    Charlotte Lamb

    Leigh thought she could handle any man. Then she met Mattieson Hume. From their first stirring encounter, she was powerless to keep him at bay. Although she hated him, his caresses flamed her with desire. How could she pursue her planned future...

  • 1 by 1

    Linda Lee

  • Garnet

    Petra Leigh

    For the love of a man... she sheared her long, flowing hair and bound her curving body into the brass-buttoned uniform of a British ensign. No war could keep the headstrong Garnet Mallory from Edmund Challoner, Captain of the Dragoons. Disguised, sh...

  • The Yemenite Girl

    Curt Leviant

  • Loveswept

    Lynn Lowery

    TASHA: Ravishing dark-eyed, her face framed in swirl of rich black hair, she pulsed with anger and desire. Innocent of the secret of her birth, she cursed her wealthy father for sending her to the barbarous Alaska coast. She was alone. She was afraid...

  • Golden Land

    Giles A. Lutz

    Ryan Sage was a man born for trouble -- it pursued him as a hawk does its prey Three times he had been forced into a killorbekilled situation and each time he had had to flee to save himself Now in California in the small town of Los Angeles Ryan is ...

  • Bitter Homecoming

    Jan MacLean

    What had changed him so drastically? The bitter, withdrawn Adam Deerfield who returned to Sevenoaks was not the man Kate had known. Whatever had happened to him in these past four years? Kate knew his going away had to do with his wife's de...

  • The Moment of Truth

    Magali

    The news stunned her. How could it be? The idea of returning to eastern France and the place of her birth appalled and terrified Catherine. Thirty years earlier, a lover's betrayal had caused the slaughter of her beloved brother and shattered her ...

  • The Tangled Trail

    Roy Manning

  • Devils of D-Day

    Graham Masterton

    Unsealing the hatch of a rusty old WWII tank will unleash a demonic nightmare in this novel by “the master of modern horror” (Library Journal).   Thirty-five years have passed since the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day turned the tide of...

  • Afraid to Love

    Margaret Mayo

    She would never trust him again Ruth had been shocked by her widowed father Patrick's hasty remarriage, but when she arrived on the Isles of Sicily to meet her new stepmother, she was even more shocked to discover she had a stepbrother -- Matt...

  • The War on Villa Street

    Harry Mazer

  • The Shotgunner

    Ed McBain

  • Kaywana Blood

    Edgar Mittelholzer

  • The Passionate Winter

    Carole Mortimer

    Love has nothing to do with age limits Leigh knew that Piers Sinclair was old enough to be her father. In fact, he was her boyfriend Gavin's father. But that didn't stop her from falling in love with him. No woman could resist his power...

  • Evil Streak

    Andrea newman

    ‘The sense of power made my head swim long before I tasted the champagne.’Gemma Kyle is her uncle’s only source of delight. She is everything that he is not: beautiful and affectionate, innocent and carefree. From childhood, she has turned to h...

  • Marriage Impossible

    Margaret Pargeter

    Could she cope with her new way of life? Tanya's life on the beautiful South Pacific island had been idyllic until her father had died. Then, her neighbor, Luke Harrison, had high-handedly taken charge of her. Luke saw al I women as cast fr...

  • The Making of Superman

    David M. Petrou

  • Bed of Strangers

    Lee Raintree

    In Temple County, if you weren't a Coffield you weren't ANYBODY . . . Avery Coffield, indomitable patriarch of The Shadows, whose precious time was running out. Elliot, his son, whose forbidden tastes gave him a lust for power ungoverned by ...

  • Deep Silence

    Douglas Reeman

    March 1967: HMS Temeraire is Britain’s latest and most advanced nuclear submarine. But when the Temeraire’s trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the British fleet against a threat from Red China, Captain David Jerm...

  • Cruise of the Sphinx

    Liliane Robin

    Her pain ... would it never be dulled? Gaelle tried desperately to forget Frank when he deserted her for Elsa. But even Claude s warmth and tenderness failed to erase the lingering influence of the man she had once loved so desperately. So when...

  • Operation Thunderbolt

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • First Look at Series

    Millicent Selsam

  • The Throwback

    Tom Sharpe

    First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing - in fact, the everyday tale of a wild child of nature plunged into the genteel mock-Tudor world of surburban...

  • Stage of Love

    Cecily Shelbourne

  • Shelley, The Poems of Percy Bysshe

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • Damaris

    Jane Sheridan

    In the luxurious splendor of London Regency society, English aristocrats and French emigres await the outcome of Napoleon's campaigns while passing their time in decadent dalliance. The reckless beauty, Damaris, Countess of Malfrey, is the toast of t...

  • Winter Kisses, Summer Love

    Anne Shore

    To Joy Langtry it seemed as though all the love in the world had vanished in one blazing moment when a ghastly accident took her family. Now she was left alone to rebuild a shattered life. Then Tony Shannon had entered her world, with his warm, laugh...

  • Gimpel the Fool: and Other Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Singer's first colleciotn of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark of world literature and attracted international attention when it was first published in 1957. The title story, beautifully translated by Saul Bellow, follows the exploits of gimpel...

  • Love Wild and Fair

    Bertrice Small

    THE EPIC CONSUMMATION OF A GRAND AND GLORIOUS LOVE! IN AN AGE OF CHIVALRY AND SAVAGERY... A story of unbounded love that sweeps from the snowy Scottish Highlands to the exotic pleasure domes of Constantinople to sultry, intrigue-ridden Naples.....

  • The Fox Trap

    Robert Arthur Smith

  • S Shapiro in Miami

    Robert Kimmel Smith

  • Right on Time Andy Capp

    Reggie Smythe

  • Lost Heritage

    Rebecca Stratton

    The gold bracelet was her only clue Happy as she had been with her adoptive parents, Charlotte couldn't resist an opportunity after their death to find out about her real mother and father. And so she found herself in France working for the...

  • Destiny's Bride

    Diane Stuart

  • Great Male Dancers of the Ballet

    Walter Terry

  • Bitter Alliance

    Kay Thorpe

    "You can't have one," Liam said savagely. "So you'll try for the other. Is that it?" He went on without waiting for her reply. "Well, it won't work! I've met your kind before." Jaime felt sick at his accusation. It was true that it had only tak...

  • Slave of Passion

    Katherine Tobias

    She was a beautiful African slave. He was the plantation owner's son. They were childhood playmates, friends, and lovers. But no matter how fierce their passion, how deep their love -- She was black and he was white. He was master; she was slave. And...

  • The Abramsky Variations

    Morley Torgov

  • Dress Gray

    Lucian K. Truscott IV

    A best-selling novel by the author of Heart of War features a rebellious West Point cadet who, while entangled in a scandalous sexual liason, fights the academy to unearth the truth behind the death of a fellow cadet. Reprint. PW. NYT. "...

  • Spitfire

    John Vader

    An illustrated guide to the Supermarine Spitfire, used by the Royal Air Force and Allies in World War II, with an introduction by Air Vice Marshal and flying ace James Edgar Johnson."Men came from every corner of the free world to fly and fight ...

  • The Asutra

    Jack Vance

    Gastel Etzwane and his army of Brave Free Men have driven the Roguskhoi from Durdane, only to discover that Durdane is but one tiny front- a testing ground- for an implacable enemy intent on subjugating all the worlds of man. Gastel and his people ar...

  • Outcasts of Heaven Belt

    Joan D. Vinge

    Paradise Lost They came from the distant plant called Morningside on a desperate quest for aid from Heaven Belt. Heaven Belt -- the fabulous asteroid system that was, so legend said, as rich as old Earth. But before the starship Ranger could even ex...

  • Boomer's Gold

    Jack Walker

  • Wake the Sleeping Tiger

    Margaret Way

    HE WAS A MAN WHO TOOK WHAT HE WANTED... Brooke knew that either she or her sister, Louise, would have to marry money to avoid selling the family estate. But not for anything would she marry Paul Corelli, the human dynamo who had fought his way out...

  • Birdy

    William Wharton

    Hailed upon its publication as "a classic for readers not yet born" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Birdy is an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, dreaming and surviving, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness." It t...

  • Rampage

    Harry Whittington

  • Killer See, Killer Do

    Jonathan Wolfe

  • In the Flesh

    Hilma Wolitzer

    Paulette and Howard settle into a marriage intended to last for life, but an anonymous note informing Paulette of another woman in Howard's life sets her on the course of losing and winning back her husband...

  • Touch the Sun

    Cynthia Wright

    A BRAZEN SOUTHERN BELLE. A DASHING NORTHERN LIBERTINE. THEIR LOVE BLAZED AT THE BIRTH OF A NEW NATION! SWEPT UP IN A SOARING NEW SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE Meagan Sayers, rebellious Southern beauty, was a runaway. The newly-orphaned daughter of Vir...

  • The Song of Salome

    Ursula Bloom

  • Bogwoppit

    Ursula Moray Williams