Books Published in February 1978

• Feb-1978
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A lyrical, engrossing tale, by the author of WATERSHIP DOWN, Richard Adams creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the horrors of an animal research ...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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From back of book: Not since ANTHONY ADVERSE has a hero so captured the American imagination! Salathiel Albine rode out of Bedford Village with only his woman, his wagon and his double-barreled shotgun to keep him warm. Half a lifetime was packed int...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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Haunted by a recurring nightmare in which she is imprisoned behind a fence and kills her mother, Sarah seeks the help of her friend Josie and is changed by what she learns about her early years and real mother...

• Feb-1978
• / Science Fiction
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Ace, 1978. Mass market paperback. Cover: Michael Whelan, 2nd Ace printing (follows 1967 printing). New introduction by the author. Originally published in 1966, in Analog, as 'The Ancient Gods.' A spaceship crashes on an Earth-like planet in the thro...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"All I want from you is that gold medal!" Adrian Belmont, the great running coach, had never trained a woman before. So, when he told Rosamund that he wanted to coach her to win an Olympic gold medal, she was pleased and flattered. She ...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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Tangier, a sweeping novel of romance and intrigue set in a fabled North African resort, may remind readers of the Alexandria Quartet. In this book Tangier is more than just a place; it is a city of unholy loves. Titled Europeans, Moroccan hustlers,...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Hired for a small part in a London musical, actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris tries to determine the connections between the accidents and other suspicious occurrences that befall cast members and the musical director...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Historical Romance
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Named for the bird of night, she vowed to fly free and soar on the wings of passion Once, she had been Marie Celeste Ravenne, a shy and lovely free spirit plucked from her Caribbean island home to become the ward of a cruel, scheming English noble...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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John Casey pens a passionate and charming love story about the ups and downs of a couple living together in rural Iowa.An American Romance follows the relationship of Anya, the director of a theater commune, and Mac, a Canadian engineer who builds se...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Science Fiction
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NOBODY BEATS BAR HOLLIDAY He was paid to find Terraformable worlds, new planets for his corporation to plunder. Up until the day he came upon the Peace Victory, an abandoned generation ship hovering ominously above a definitely habitable planet, he ...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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Despite the disapproval of her mother and three sisters, Katie Thorne persists in her search for a husband, approaching her goal along an open road of initially promising but ultimately unsuitable candidates...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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QUEST FOR ROMANCE Jim Manners was handsome, charming--and a perfect stranger to lovely Betsy Macon, Yet here she was, on her first trip to England, becoming Jim's wife because of an old man's whim. It had long been Jason Tilden's dream to see th...

• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Feb-1978
• / Historical Romance
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Lady Harriet Cavendish has always had everything she desired -- except the handsome Lord Granville, whose string of conquests at one time included her aunt, the lady Bessborough, a woman still renowned for her beauty. When Granville professes his...

• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Stacy wondered: why wasn't love enough? Cord was still confined to a wheelchair a year after the crash--bitter, lashing out at everyone especially his wife. There seemed to be no way to convince him that her love was not pity. "It would...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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The year is 1797 and in Bristol a slave called Midnight works as a bare-knuckle boxer. Midnight can't see any way in which he will ever be able to shake off the chains of slavery. However, he feels some hope when he meets the orphan Jess, whose exist...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Science Fiction
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What is a Borrible? Borribles are runaways who dwell in the shadows of London. Apart from their pointed ears, they look just like ordinary children. They live by their wits and a few Borrible laws--the chief one being, Don't Get Caught! The Borribles...

• Feb-1978
• / Action Adventure
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• Feb-1978
• / Romantic Suspense
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JADE WAS EXQUISITE... Half Japanese, half American, she had the kind of looks that intoxicated men. But the only man she wanted was her cousin, Captain Nichlaus Rokeby. Dashing Nichlaus, master of the sea, had hypnotized Jade since she was a ch...

• Feb-1978
• / Science Fiction
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THE REALITY OF PHILIP K. DICK HERE -- IN THE DEFINITIVE PHILIP K. DICK COLLECTION--ARE 19 OF HIS MOST FAMOUS STORIES... STORIES THAT LOOK BEHIND WHAT IS APPARENTLY REAL TO WHAT IS REALLY REAL! IF THERE WERE NO BENNY CEMOLI Then it would have b...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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"All rising to great place is by a winding stair," wrote Sir Francis Bacon. It wasn't until he was 45 that Bacon's feet found the first step on that staircase, when King James I made him Solicitor-General, from where he rose through the ranks to beco...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Gothic
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In the thickening twilight the train rumbled along the edge of a heath. The farther the train progressed, the more desolate its surroundings became. They were traveling into a desert, deep inland yet as sandy as the seashore, along untilled wastes li...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Gothic
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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Beautiful Faustina Kennet and dashingly handsome Hugh Crale had grown up on adjoining Devon estates. Faustina had fairly worshipped the older Hugh, Hugh had barely noted Faustina's existence - but now all that was drastically changed. Hugh was ba...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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THE LADY OR THE FOX... Sutters Hamlet, North Carolina - an ideal place for Joanna Crawford, a harried New Yorker, to recharge her energies and do some serious painting in the old backwoods cabin she had rented. But wasn't it strange that the villa...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Science Fiction
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When the Stone twins made up their minds to leave Lunar City in a secondhand spaceship, they hadn't planned on having their whole family accompany them. But the Stones were not your ordinary Lunar family -- no way! -- and their voyage through the sol...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Beautiful Roma Kendal came to the great estate of Mullins to be near the man she adored--a man about to wed another. With the loss of her family legacy, Roma had lost all chance of marrying handsome, aristocratic Trevor St. Coryn. Her cousin Lucretia...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Mystery
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• Feb-1978
• / Fantasy
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He called himself by the name of the father he had never known, Vazkor, king of a forgotten land. In his veins were mingled the blood of that regal warrior and that of his witch mother, the silver-masked, snowy-haired survivor of the hated Old Race. ...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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HIGH-SPIRITED, SHARP-WITTED, SHE PLAYED A GIRL'S DEFIANT GAME TO HIDE A WOMAN'S LOVING HEART. SHE COULDN'T LET MARRIAGE SPELL THE END OF LOVE! The ambitious Turvilles remembered little cousin Eugenia as a plump, vulgar, provincial girl--but she...

• Feb-1978
• / Gothic
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To Mr. Cornwall, it seemed as though he’d been through the first part before. The battle to live as a gentleman…the tiresome wife…the unsympathetic children. To be sure, he sometimes thought he’d detected flashes of wit and charm in Charlotte...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau -- an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies.For more than seventy years, Pengui...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lovely professional ice skater Vanessa Richmond always felt at home in the rink, even thousands of miles away from her native California. When she was chosen to teach skating in England under the great and glamorous Scott Farrell, it seemed that she ...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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Headstrong And Beautiful, Lady Philippa Sent The Countryside Into A Dangerous Uproar. LADY PHILIPPA HARTE... Her friends called her Pippin, and she was a striking creature with fair flawless skin, slanting emerald eyes, and a curling mass of re...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Fantasy
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Richard Matheson's What Dreams May Come, a powerful tale of life--and love--after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams. The New York Times bestsellerA LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELLWhat happens to us after we ...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Action Adventure
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Harker uncovers a cult whose members believe in peace, love, understanding, and torture

Rudolph Franklin thinks his biggest problem is reelection. A battle with a fellow senator about military spending is getting ugly, and if he can’t...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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If she'd only known how it would end.... Unhappily, Maxine agreed to her stepfather's plan. Only her sense of debt to him had persuaded her. With a fatalistic sense of disaster, she set out to charm Nick Reming out of his interest in th...

• Feb-1978
• / Fantasy
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The Parkers candidly recount the events, pains, and fears attendant upon the discovery of her breast cancer and her subsequent mastectomy and the relief, good humor, and elation that accompanied her recovery...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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Against the thundering background of 18th century England and the West Indies, Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage takes command of the Triton Brig to capture privateers who are raiding British shipping.His mission is urgent, his crew mutinous, and the s...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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A GIRL CRAZED BY TORMENT The man who was her lover and the man who was her doctor watched the girl they thought they knew so well, and listened to unimaginably shocking words pouring from her mouth. How could a girl this lovely be so familiar w...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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IMMORTALITY OR SOMETHING LIKE IT IN THE SAFE TECHNOLIGISED WORLD OF THE FUTURE WHERE NICE PEOPLE TAKE THEIR ANTI DEATH SERUM AND BELIEVE WHAT THEY SEE ON TELEVISION-A PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE STILL UNCONQUERED-AND SECRETS THAT COULD DESTROY A CIVILIZATI...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Suspense
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A crime novel in which four members of one family are shot dead one Valentine's Day by their housekeeper, who is arrested for the crime two weeks later, but the tragedy neither begins nor ends there. From the author of THE REASON WHY, SIMISOLA and TH...

• Feb-1978
• / Gothic
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THE SPIRIT FROM THE PAST From the moment Daphne Chora started working on the archaelogical site on the Isle of the Dolphins, strange things began happening to her. On her first day at the digs, Daphne went into a deep trance, her body possessed by...

• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation for a hard-working lawyer and his wife, but one slip and what begins as an adventure quickly becomes terrifying. When Mitch Gordon opens his eyes to find his wife missing in the middle of the ocean, he panics...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Historical Romance
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Abducted from a life of privilege, she was sold into slavery in a distant land. For Lady Janet Leslie, there would be no escaping the harem of the wealthy and powerful Sultan Selim. But from the moment the handsome ruler spied his breathtaking "Cyra,...

• Feb-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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She scandalized every lady -- and delighted every gentleman... She Was Gorgeous, Flirtatious, Scandalous -- And Perhaps A Spy. La Comtesse was the talk of London. The gossips delighted in her every exploit. And in many she had no part. There...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Something about Don Jaime disturbed her Visiting Spain again, Roseanne found she wasn't allowed to forget Pablo Ostera, her holiday friend who had died tragically the year before. Don Jaime in particular seemed intent on reminding Roseanne...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Feb-1978
• / Historical Romance
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"A little nobody from the other side of the world with not a penny to her name. And you think you can contract a respectable marriage for her. Ridiculous!" -- Mrs. Courtenay threw the words at Tristram. A wicked glint came into his eyes. "Ridiculou...

• Feb-1978
• / Science Fiction
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Ballantine Del Rey, 1977. Science fiction adventure novel, based on Vance's earlier novella "The Kragen", which appeared in the July 1964 edition of Fantastic Stories of Imagination. This novel version was first published in 1966....

• Feb-1978
• / Historical Romance
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THE INNER MOUNTING FLAMES OF LOVE From the heart of a timeless, exotic land, the breathtaking romance of the lovely Nefrytaten and the awesome King Ameni is kindled anew! Rich with the grandeur and pageantry of ancient Egypt, and the mysterious sp...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Historical Romance
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Her mother had told her that she would never know real freedom - 'It's a man's world; you were born a woman. It is God's way.' But Desmond Duval was not satisfied with what was to be her lot in life. Taking her fate into her own hands, disguised as a...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1978
• / Gothic
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PROUD PASSION! Loria Baylor had watched her husband drink and gamble himself to ruin. Now she was a young and beautiful widow, bound to find a new life in Annapolis. What she found, on election night, was tempestuous Jeffrey Warden, sprawled on ...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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Anthony has two dollars and three quarters and one dime and seven nickels and eighteen pennies. Nicholas has one dollar and two quarters and five dimes and five nickels and thirteen pennies.Alexander has...bus tokens.And even when he's rich, pretty s...