Books Published in December 1979

• Dec-1979
• / Science Fiction
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Fame and fortune may await the winners of the life and death game called Jikaida, but for Dray Prescot his triumphs seemed only to bring infamy and misfortune. An Earthman transposed to the distant world that circles the twin suns of Antares, Prescot...

• Dec-1979
• / Science Fiction
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IN A VESSEL THAT SAILS ON A TIMELESS SEA, A GOD SINGS OF HUMAN MORTALITY... Hear then of a time when the Lochlannach first came a viking into Eire, of a time when the gentle Christos was new-come to the land and an elder magic flickered still--and...

• Dec-1979
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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A quest for the source of power threatened to doom the land of XanthAs a ruler of a country steeped in enchantment, King Trent was naturally curious about the source of its magic. It made sense to order Bink, the only one of his subjects immune to su...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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A dream of love or a nightmare of revenge? Una Keith's sudden marriage to Greek artist Zante Diomed seemed like a dream come true... until she learned she was merely a pawn. Una's testimony had caused Zante's young cousin to be conv...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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He deserved to be forgotten, but no matter how hard she tried, Laura could never erase the memory of Sebastian, the dashing adventurer who strode into her life, conquered her heart, and disappeared so long ago and far away, in lush, exotic Thailand. ...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Why wouldn't he leave her alone? After a brief disastrous marriage, Karen Ingalls had managed to keep all men at bay for five years. But then she had never encouraged one like Matt Lucas. He'd made up his mind, it seemed, whether Karen lik...

• Dec-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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PENNILESS AS THE POOREST TINKER Catriona, mistress of Strathlarrig Castle, had seen her family's fortunes squandered by her loving but eccentric father. Then came hope. The wealthy, witty, handsome Lord Carnmore wanted her as his wife. But as...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Literary
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• Dec-1979
• / Action Adventure
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• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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When he remembered, he would hate her! The man who had been washed up on a Natal beach, suffering from amnesia, was dark, very handsome -- and Stacy's husband. And he had changed. In losing his memory, Greg Dubois had lost his harshness, hi...

• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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• Dec-1979
• / Science Fiction
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COUNTDOWN FOR THE WELL WORLD In a desolate sector of space floats the Well World--the ancient Markovian supercomputer that first created and now maintains the Universe. While attempting to repel an insidious intergalactic invasion, Mankind reso...

• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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How could she prove her love for him? Vanessa's marriage to Thad had barely started when a car accident hospitalized Thad for several months. Now Thad was recovering, but their marriage wasn't. Just what had gone wrong with it? Vanessa ...

• Dec-1979
• / Epic Fantasy
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THE WAR THAT WIZARDS DREAD Across the mountains called Dragon's Teeth, beyond the chill reach of the Werewind and the fires of the world's beginning above the walls of the castle Fangdred, stands Windtower. From this lonely keep the Star Rider cal...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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THE UNLIKELY YOUNG LADY Clearly young Lady Katharine Brandon was a beauty, with her rich auburn hair, striking green eyes, flawless face and form. But a beauty was one thing Katharine clearly had no interest in being. She dressed in a young man...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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First in the super-funny classic series The Bagthorpe Saga, starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family â€" from best-loved author Helen Cresswell.Jack’s fed up of living in the shadow of his brilliant siblings. He and his trusty dog Zero a...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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Tamar, the daughter of Cuba's Spanish governor, was a saucy spitfire, a raven-haired beauty. Impulsive and spirited, she escaped one night from her palatial home for a forbidden escapade, only to encounter the English pirate, Sir John Burrow. When ...

• Dec-1979
• / Historical
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TO ROAM THE SUPERSTITION HILLS, A MAN'S GOT TO BE DESPERATE It was a sun-baked model of hell. A wasteland of stiletto peaks, twisty canyons, the sidewinder's lightning strike... But duty called Longarm to the devil hills. In the form of a hijac...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Library of America presents a modern classic, the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning novel about one women's irrepressible spirit in the face of life's hardships.In her breakthrough novel So Big, Edna Ferber follows the life of the unforgettable Selina Peake D...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Romance
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For a beautiful young woman, a handsome new stepbrother opens the way to romance and deadly intrigue… A Family Affair Lovely career woman Lucinda Forsythe was delighted when her mother married Andrew McLaren’s father. Yet Lucinda was not in...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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When their school superintendant is arrested for shooting an anti-gun demonstrator and the State Police and National Guard advance, the boys of a New Jersey military academy take up arms to protect their territory and their honor...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Historical
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An Arizona sheriff takes an impossible job: arresting Wyatt EarpWyatt Earp rides the train to Tucson alongside his brother Morgan, who makes the trip in the comfort of a wooden casket. Earp comes from Tombstone, along with his two surviving brothers ...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Historical
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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One man commanded her body... Another man ruled her heart! From the moment Henry VIII saw the lovely young Corianne, he wanted her-despite the desperate, sensual wiles of his hot-blooded queen, Anne Boleyn, and the satanically skillful seductions of ...

• Dec-1979
• / Suspense
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• Dec-1979
• / Mystery
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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Chatto was an outlaw but he had never killed a man without warning. Now he gave an ultimatum to Lin Ballou. Chatto was playing a high-stake game but Ballou had something more important and risky going for him - something that could save the ranchers ...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Gothic
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Once Amanda Frost had loved Greystoke Manor and called it home. Now, haunted by memories of her mother's tragic death, the journey from London was a desolate one. Not until the carriage arrived at the front steps did Amanda realize why she had accept...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Cold as the snow of her wedding day That's how Lissa seemed toward Jarret, her husband. If only she could let him know how she really felt about him -- but she had a contract and she would stick to it. Five years, they both agreed, then the...

• Dec-1979
• / Mystery
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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In this riveting thriller that recalls Alfred Hitchcock in his prime, an innocent European businessman is inadvertently caught up in a murderous web of international intrigue and forced to run, hide, or die in the English countryside A man of conside...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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ACROSS THE BLUE CARIBBEAN -- A CLASH OF DESIRES She was barely nineteen when her innocence was stolen... Arabella Downing would never forgive, nor forget dashing Captain Wentworth who drove her from well-bred Newport society into a life of high ad...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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Ranging from ancient to modern, this anthology includes aphorisms such as Groucho Marx's infamous remark that he would refuse to join any club that would have him as a member, and traditional logical paradoxes discussed by philosophers from Zeno to B...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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WANTED: ONE WILDLY WICKED WITCH TO WED. Arriman the Awful, the handsome Wizard of the North, has decided to marry. But which witch will it be? Arriman devises a contest: whoever performs the darkest piece of magic will become his bride. Belladonna, ...

• Dec-1979
• / Mystery
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Historical
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• Dec-1979
• / Science Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Historical Mystery
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Caroline Malcolm was the crowning jewel of Regency London's most brilliant social season. But tragedy haunted her. Twenty-one glittering diamonds had arrived at her door, mysteriously, anonymously. Twenty-one diamonds--one for each year of her young ...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Why had Drew shown up in Paris now? Helen had managed to avoid Drew for the past six years, ensuring that if he was in one country she'd be in another. After all, theirs wasn't a real marriage anyway--Drew had wanted the business connec...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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When lovely Valerie Eden agreed to teach the Mottram girls horseback riding and show jumping, she imagined a quiet, lonely life at Longcastle Hall. But the moment she arrived, she felt a thrill of excitement in the air. Before she knew it, dashin...

• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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She was a red-haired, emerald-eyed beauty, an actress on stage and off, prepared to give her life to the theater until runaway aristocrat Gerard Mallory invaded her world and changed it forever. He wouldn't be an ensign to suite his noble father's de...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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THE BLAZING SAGA OF A WOMAN RAVISHED BY A MAN'S RUTHLESS PASSION AND LASHED BY HER OWN DESPERATE DESIRES THE UNSPEAKABLE SIN When beautiful, raven-haired Destiny Regan surrendered her body to Gonal Carmichael, trying to stifle her moans of ecs...

• Dec-1979
• / Historical
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The Inspiring Saga of Two Jewish Families in Search of the American Dream From the glitter of a nouveau-riche society to the disgrace of the sweatshops, from the devastation of World War I to the blood-spilling of Prohibition, this is the courageous...

• Dec-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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When the impetuous and lovely Jynx Lennox suddenly asked her childhood friend, Shannon (now Viscount Roxbury) to marry her, he was shocked. "Don't refuse me," she implored. "At least not before you've given it some thought. You see, I do not expec...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Had Harriet been wise to return? Against her better judgment, Harriet Voyle flew back to Rome when summoned by her former employer, the Contessa de Filippo. Harriet hoped the year in her native England had cured her hopeless love for the contes...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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Tangled in a maze of deadly deceit... The freighter was a floating tinderbox At the foot of the companionway, the air suddenly thickened with the acrid smell of smoke. The ship was on fire! David raced desperately toward the passenger area. ...

• Dec-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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THE STRANGER'S KISS Lady Carolyn was still young and lovely even though she had failed to snare a husband during the previous London season. Her family, however, persuaded her to give London another try. Then a funny thing happened on the way t...

• Dec-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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Kate had had half a dozen proposals but she would give her hand to no man who had not first won her heart. "I fear we should not suit, sir!" said Kate. As the fifth young man to offer for her hand that afternoon revealed his purpose and...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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LOVERS AND STRANGERS Stacy Green looked directly into the eyes of the handsomest man she had ever seen -- and the rest of the world disappeared. On a remote island in the restless Puget Sound, millionaire Avery Hamilton had come to Stacy’s i...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm ...

• Dec-1979
• / Thriller
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It was the final, freezing hours before Christmas day, 1944 - in the last bitter winter of the war. High on a mountain ledge in Belgium, a handful of American GIs, trapped by ice and fear, were alone. They were surrounded by the final horror of the...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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It was Broadway's greatest age! She was Broadway's greatest star! Here is the glittering, glamorous story of the golden age of the Broadway musical, told in a fearless, fascinating memoir by the incomparable First Lady of American show business. I...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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An epic saga of romantic adventure! Intrigue - inside the heart of a savage revolution! Adventure - from palatial splendor to desert battles! Passion - the fiery passions of people fighting for ideals! Love - the intoxicating ecstasies of a wild ...

• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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She had no intention of marrying anyone! Especially the stuffy old Sir Hugh Eavleigh. Rosamund was young and headstrong. The idea of being tied to a man old enough to be her father horrified her. But she need not have worried, for Sir Hugh ha...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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The Halo Solution is Erik Chatha;s baby. He dreamed it up and now he has to carry it through. But, even for a seasoned profesional, parachuting a group of mercenaries into the middle of an African civil war is no picnic. And the fact that Chatham is ...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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Was she possessed by some kind of demon? The tension around the elaborate dinner table was unbearable. No one spoke. The only sound was the intermittent tinkle of a spoon or fork. Isabelle started when her grandmother harshly broke the silence....

• Dec-1979
• / Gothic
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SHE WAS DISGUISED AS A BOY Forced to flee England to escape her lecherous kinsmen, she was a stowaway on a pirate ship, with a secret as dangerous as her life. BUT SHE WAS ALWAYS A WOMAN! She served her Captain, a man cold as ice. But her love c...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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A man awakens to find that his brain has been used as the core of the powerful computer, which runs an enormous space ship....

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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The trip was foolish right from the start Tara Curtiss, traveling to Greece, sincerely regretted that she'd promised her journalist brother Jonathan to help him get a story on pop star Greg Golden. Greg was rumored to be the houseguest of D...

• Dec-1979
• / Fantasy
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GOLDEN GRYPHON In those days the blood of the gods circulated among mortals, and wonderworkers lived side by side with ordinary folk. Chryseis was a princess in whom strange forces and ancient mysteries contended. But she herself had to work out t...

• Dec-1979
• / Gothic
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Original title: Murmuring Willow. A closed door hid the key to the mystery of the man she loved. Was that door now about to open...? Between a man a two sisters, love is an impossible dream, and hatred a inescapable destiny. Young, beautiful, i...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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Set at sea during the final years of the Second World War, a story about the final mission of a battered British cruiser. As the crew prepare to be directed to other duties, the ship's captain is ordered to seek out and destroy a disguised German war...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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She knew he'd be a tough businessman... But Erica wasn't prepared for such determination and arrogance--or such devastating good looks! As a city girl, Erica's first thought was to sell her inherited half share-in a plantation in Pa...

• Dec-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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The fake accident worked perfectly! Rachel couldn't believe her luck. Smashing her car into a tree had gained her access to the isolated mansion of the celebrated novelist Paul Lawrence. Now she would be able to discover the details of his persona...

• Dec-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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"Break as many hearts as possible" These were Mrs. Lorimer's precise instructions when she left her fortune to Caroline Woodstalk. The young heiress was to live in Lorimer House in London and fulfill the terms of the will in the fashi...

• Dec-1979
• / Space Opera
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The writer-producer who created Mr.Spock and all the other Star Trek characters--who invented the Starship Enterprise, who gave the show its look, its ideals--puts it all together again here in his first Star Trek novel! Their historic 5-year mis...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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A real life story of the NY police which takes you on a tour through the underworld of high-level narcotics enforcement. Well-documented and thoughtful study, wrapped around the fast action of moving surveillance through the world's greatest city. In...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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In a book remarkable for its vivid evocation of the sights, sounds, customs and way of life of a bygone age Mrs. Sillar, nw over 90, recalls her childhood and youth in the Edinburgh of the last uarter of the nineteenth century....

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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THREE BEAUTIFUL SISTERS, ALL WANTING THE SAME MAN LOVERS ENTWINED VENETIA --She was the eldest, a copper-haired stunner who lusted after one man --and married another... MELLIE --She feared the embraces of the passionate young lord--but sh...

• Dec-1979
• / Science Fiction
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IN ANOTHER WORLD GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS EXECUTED Congress is in Colorado, everybody carries guns, and there are gorillas in the Senate. Free enterprise is king, and There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch....

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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The year is 1936. FranklinD. Roosevelt is lying on the grass in a secluded grove with his secretary-mistress, Missy LeHand. The two are clasped in a lovers' embrace. Behind the shrubbery, a man is taking photos . . . Four years later in 1940, John Ja...

• Dec-1979
• / Fantasy
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All the beauty and bravery of a world that transcends fantasy and leaps into legend!...

• Dec-1979
• / Fantasy
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A comprehensive collection of creation stories ranging across widely varying times and cultures, including Ancient Egyptian, African, and Native American....

• Dec-1979
• / Fantasy
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• Dec-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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"YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD AND DUTIFUL DAUGHTER TO ME AND THE LEAST' I CAN DO IS PUT YOU INTO POSSESSION OF THE FACTS. "YOU ARE NOT MY DAUGHTER." With those words Mrs. Tracy gave lovely Charmian the shock of her life. The news that s...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Tully Vickery was not a criminal But it was understandable that Yate Meachem had accused her of being a thief. After all, he'd caught her at the company safe. "Please don't call the police," she begged him. "I'll do anyt...

• Dec-1979
• / Historical Romance
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THE FLORIDA OUTLANDS - 1876 A green Eden-ripe for young Ward Hamilton and his dreams of iron railroads, his raging hunger for power and gold. The Outlands...tempting him with Lily, a fragile Southern belle...Julia, a wild child turned sensuous wo...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Andrew's bequest shocked them both Kerry had assumed that her stepfather would leave his large department store to his son, Ross Sinclair. But Andrew must have had something else in mind--he stipulated that both Kerry and Ross were to inherit ...

• Dec-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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She was beautiful, young, and an heiress. Suddenly, she became an orphan - and the ruthless Colonel Fenshawe and his despicable family were offering her sanctuary. The Colonel cared nothing for Charmian, but he intended to force her into a marriage w...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, and SIR ORFEO are masterpieces of a remote and exotic age--the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests. Yet it is only in the unique artistry and imagination of J.R.R. Tolken that the language, rom...

• Dec-1979
• / Gothic
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A prisoner in her own house? As night creeps into the old, timeworn house, Sally huddles in a corner, alone. Without any apparent reason, her husband has strangely disappeared. Outside the window the hovering trees make low, morbid sounds as th...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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In the mold of the sociopath, Grieben bears some of the characters of cold blooded literary characters such as Hannibal Lecter. Yet as one observes the Grieben character evolve, one must question whether the ultimate motive is power or a desire to be...

• Dec-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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Ancient legends, dark forests...and murder The gun was pointed at Natalie's chest "You're lying," the woman's voice menaced, as she motioned her accomplice to release Natalie. Then she lifted the pistol and took careful aim....

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sholto was no knight in shining armor! Sholto Ransome, the millionaire yacht owner, had saved Armorel's life and then taken her under his wing as her trustee. And a very comfortable wing it was--finishing school, life in Paris, Switzerland, It...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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After her mother's death, 13-year-old Clair refuses to speak and her minister father moves them from their comfortable existence to the wilds of northern Michigan to start a small mission and to begin a new life....

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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She was heiress to a mountain of debts and a legacy of independence. Marriage for money was unthinkable! So Philadelphia Prentiss entered the world of commerce: as proprietress of a fashionable London boardinghouse for titled young men only. Too s...

• Dec-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Fear kept her from starting a new life At home, Lisa would never forget the tragic consequences of her accident--a scar and the loss of her fiance. A job on a distant Karoo farm offered a solution. Unfortunately, the job meant working for the d...

• Dec-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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There was no way beautiful and spirited Lacey Burton would marry the fortune-hunting Lord Collymore, who was known to be dallying with her stepmother. Disguised as a man, Lacey took off for Bussingham Towers, determined to keep her identity -- and fo...

• Dec-1979
• / General Fiction
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First paperback edition. Chilling tales full of alien beauty or terror. "Into My Own" is a story which takes please inside the head of an aging playwright in a hospital bed, trying to resign himself to giving up his soul to an organic computer. "Dist...

• Jan-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1980
• / General Fiction
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