Books Published in February 1979

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• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Kerry Mallory could barely contain her excitement as her plane glided to a landing in Barcelona's sundrenched airport. She was on her way to an exclusive interview with Luis Alguinez, the proud, arrogantly handsome young matador, as famous for hi...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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"It's not your problem," Victoria told Sir Peter She knew they couldn't continue to take advantage of his hospitality. When Victoria had suddenly found herself jobless and responsible for a small orphaned boy, Sir Peter had generously provided ...

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• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Holly was lovely at nineteen. But at seventeen, when she first arrived at the Paxtons’, hired as mother’s helper, she was still a somewhat awkward, outspoken girl -- a daydreamer fresh from a country orphanage entering a sophisticated urban world...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Looks at the complicated, demanding profession of air-traffic controllers using on-the-scene narratives and transcripts of tape recordings of cockpit-controller dialogues during the drama of ordinary moments and disasters...

• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Love's fearful fire Disgust flooded through beautiful, tawny-haired young Kathleen Whatley when she was presented to her future bridegroom -- a man as perverse in his lusts as he was imperious in his power. Flight from aristocratic Boston was K...

• Feb-1979
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In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II.Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd ...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Shani's words struck like a mortal blow! "David married you out of chivalry." Shani pointed to the scar marring Sabina's cheek. "Why else would he marry a woman who looks like you?" Her full mouth quivered with distaste. &#...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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"One of the great pulp writers, Fredric Brown (1906-1972) combined a flair for the horrific, a quirky sense of humor, and a wild imagination, and published many classic novels in the mystery and science fiction genres. But he was also a master of the...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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She was living a lie and falling in love Three years of barely existing in New York made Tina desperately homesick for England. So she agreed to impersonate her friend Sonia to collect a small legacy in London. Sonia, marrying a wealthy American, ...

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• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Action Adventure
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VENDETTA IN VIETNAM General Martin is a hero. He proved his courage in Vietnam. And he paid for it in a POW camp. Now General Keith Martin is missing. Maybe he's disappeared to have some privacy. And maybe he's collecting on some old debts ... ...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Her situation could not have been worse After her parents' deaths, Robyne Sloan had to fight to keep her family together. Making a living from the dry African soil was a desperate daily struggle. Then, when she thought that life could get n...

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• / Contemporary Romance
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / Historical
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• / Historical
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• Feb-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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It was a whole new world... Lovely Hester Wyckham was immediately drawn into the whirling social life of Littlecomb when she went to spend the summer with her sister Julie and brother-in-law Geoffrey at their idyllic country estate. There were par...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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The target was Rabaut, and the Japs were ready when the 3rd Bomber Group attacked. After the black clouds of ack-ack smoke cleared, several planes were missing - among them the POWERFUL KATRINA and her crew of five. Witnesses had seen the plane eng...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Suspense
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A series of mysterious burglaries takes place in Goslings House, an ancient manor rumored to be haunted, and eleven-year-old Richard Morgan decides to track down the criminals with the help of Francesca and her younger brother Nolly, a strange boy wh...

• Feb-1979
• / Fantasy
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UNDER THE TRAILINGSWORD Gil MacDonald, soldier and self-chosen exile from Earth, was searching for Yardiff Bey, the master wizard and archvillain. Bey had abducted Gil's friend Dunstan and was now plotting with his Dark Masters to destroy all that...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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An Israeli couple’s emotional struggle in the early days of the Yom Kippur War Amalia and Daniel find their lives thrown into utter chaos when the Yom Kippur War breaks out in October 1973. Amalia volunteers in the burn ward of a military hospital,...

• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Young Fleur's heart leaped at the sight of Maddocks plantation, surrounded by live oaks, its columns white in the sunlight. This would be her home. Its owner, her uncle Leo, would protect her. Jem Hayard, her handsome neighbor, would marry her. And a...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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He was a man without mercy Kaara knew that before the night was over, she would become Juan de Carvallos's possession. Abducted, held prisoner, she would be ravished like some captive woman of old, a victim of the Spaniard's lust for reven...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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His affairs usually lasted six months Peter Craig was a very successful, very ruthless lawyer, but away from the office he had a charm that was irresistible. Janna had been attracted to him instantly -- against her better judgment. Growing up ...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Passionate, beautiful, rebellious Elizabeth Rowntree has fled to China. Except for Chen Li, a handsome and dedicated Chinese physician, she is all alone in the world. Suddenly, Elizabeth finds her maidenly passions aroused by Chen Li. She knows it is...

• Feb-1979
• / Historical
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ONE NATION, UNDER GREED... It was bank robbery and murder that brought Longarm to the wild-spirited borders of Oklahoma, Land of the Redman -- and anyone after a quick, illegal fortune... It was cattle-rustling that kept him there. Gold-grubbin...

• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Reesa Flowers, eighteen years old, with a capacity for life and a blossoming sexuality that would soon betray her. Daughter of the telegrapher for the new railroad that was forging its way west, Reesa was the only woman in the rough and brutal railro...

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• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Science Fiction
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Willie Whitehorse could have been just another boozed-up guitarist, if it hadn't been for his songs. Somehow they were different -- they reached out and grabbed people's souls. Now agent Sam Parker wanted a piece of the action. But when he had it, Sa...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Poetic photographic interpretations of island landscapes complement Fowles's exploration and celebration of the mysteries, silences, mazes, and attractions of Britain's Scilly Islands and all small islands...

• Feb-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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"Edward Will Not Do For Me. It's The Heir Or Nothing." Lucinda had grown up at last. And young Edward Chevening was looking at her with new eyes. She was no longer a schoolgirl to be teased. She was a woman to be cherished and admired....

• Feb-1979
• / Mystery
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• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Foolish, silly girl! He's a good catch!" When Alida was seventeen, her father promised her to a wealthy but brash young Greek who had no idea of how to treat a woman. She rebelled and fled to England -- but before she became his wife....

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR!
A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB SELECTION!

DECADES
a novel by RUTH HARRIS

“Three generations of women are succinctly capsuled in this novel by a writer who has all the intellect of Mary McCarthy, ...

• Feb-1979
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• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Matt Rusk wasn''t a troublemaker and he wore no gun, but he did wear thin gloves which he never took off. Sutter''s bullies couldn''t let well alone. Start running, th ey told Matt, and that was their mistake. Because then Matt took off the gloves. '...

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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Illus. in full color. A parrot with a palette flies through this book, introducing colors and explaining how they can be mixed to form new ones.The flora and fauna are labeled by name as well as color.  ...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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A beautiful woman emerges from the African jungle, not knowing who she is or where she is. Reclusive Dr. Heinrich, in self-imposed exile, tries to help and becomes drawn to the mystery woman. She becomes obsessed with helping a young American escape ...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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A daredevil pilot joins the Berlin Airlift to fight for democracy in this Cold War adventure from “a whale of a writer” (The New York Times). When his plane goes down over Germany, Neil Fraser vows not to die in a POW camp. He tunnels out beneath...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Christian
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• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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She wouldn't live her life in fear Claire knew Nick loved his job as newsman in the world's trouble spots, but did he love it more than he did her? She'd seen her mother suffer from her father's dangerous job and was determined not...

• Feb-1979
• / Space Opera
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• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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SHE WAS THE PRIDE OF THE CAMERONS -- AND THEIR SHAME Clemency Cameron was as wild and untamed as the vast sweep of land her father had made his private kingdom. Proud and self-willed as only the favorite daughter of powerful and feared John Camero...

• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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MY LOVER, MY ENEMY The reckless Lady Isabel Morden, 19, whose noble father is off fighting with the King's Cavaliers in the war against Cromwell's revolutionaries, falls into the hands of the enemy - in the person of Robert Wells, a disenfranchised ...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / Science Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Chloe had given up on ordinary men! Experience had taught Chloe that ordinary men were a sadly selfish bunch. So she conjured up an ideal. He would have to be rich and generous; tall, dark and handsome; kind to children and animals. And he would p...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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They were not free to love each other Sara had sacrificed a brilliant future as an opera singer--using the money for her training to save her brother from prison for embezzling. That was how she met Brian's boss, Philip Stafford, head of the C...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Romance
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A SHAWDOWED LOVE... Anthony Hamilton, the spoiled son of wealthy parents, had been responsible for the accident that killed the son of Claire Grahame, widowed owner of a New England fruit farm. Overwhelmed with remorse, Tony renounced his own ambi...

• Feb-1979
• / Suspense
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Arch rivals, sworn to kill each other, must join forces to fight a common foe. Two top-level secret agents, one CIA and the other KGB, summon all their brutal skills and ice-cold nerves to destroy an international ring of killers -- killers whose acc...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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When young Deirdre Sheridan arrives to begin teaching in the glamorous Alpine resort of Gstaad, she hopes to forget the recent tragic death of her father and brother. And when she meets the beguiling Zora and Zafia and their attractive brother Haroun...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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“There is something bracing about the sincerity of [Maugham's] style . . . a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin, sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well ...

• Feb-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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It was not A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN It was a union decreed in her will by Aunt Sophie. She planned to end the feud between two branches of her family by naming joint heirs. Valentin, Viscount Ardsmore, and Nicole Harcourt, daughter of his disgra...

• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Volume Two of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family A Legacy may be of great value and still bring bad luck... Although Margaret Lorimer has made her own way as a doctor, she does not at all approve of the ambitions of her beautiful young ward A...

• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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When Sharonne Falconer's brother Jonathan was killed in a duel with the notorious rake Gabriel St. Claire, Sharonne took her revenge. She had St. Claire sold to slavers and sent off to sea. Years later when Sharonne fell in love with Gabriel's bro...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Science Fiction
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Journey to Anywhen! Michael Kane had to return to Mars. The siren call of the ancient planet filled his blood with longing...both for a world that was not his own, and for the lovely Queen Shizala, the alien who claimed permanent possession of Kane'...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Detailed descriptions of people and places and observations on Soviet life and Siberia's past and present are provided as the author recounts his memorable seven-day journey by train from Moscow to the Sea of Japan...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Law Enforcement
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Our Family Isn’t Perfect, That’s For Sure! Now that Mom and Dad are divorced, my sister Sara and I have a lot of things to get used to: Dad’s new apartment, seeing him only on weekends, and worst of all, sharing him with his new girlfriend -...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Sherry Mason agrees to pose as her friend Pauls fianc e to protect him from a loveless marriage forced by his arrogant and domineering older brother, Lucien, she has no idea how far Lucien will go to ensure his younger brothers obedience. Then s...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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I WILL PRETEND YOU DON'T EVEN EXIST! Mr. Farrant, her only neighbor, was quite indignant that his solitude had been interrupted by Anna's arrival to stay at her ex-employer's beach cottage. She knew that to stay out of this man...

• Feb-1979
• / Mystery
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• Feb-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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The job was 600 miles away from home and that made it perfect. It didn't even matter that Hank Hunnicutt had a reputation as a kook; he was, D.J. Abbott thought, merely eccentric. After all, didn't he surround himself with every self-proclaimed pract...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of those heady, gol...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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"Send you on such a mission? Never!" The laird's vehement refusal of Elizabeth's request to execute a dangerous journey into England made the girl more determined than ever. Impatiently she snapped, "Only a woman could succeed; a man would be arreste...

• Feb-1979
• / Action Adventure
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Science Fiction
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When Mike Gabrieli's neer'do'well brother Tom disappears shortly after discovering a fabulously valuable Aztec relic, Mike rightly suspects that this time the family's black sheep has got himself into the kind of trouble from which even Mike won't be...

• Feb-1979
• / Suspense
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Bingham Foundation field investigator Samuel Todd discovers a conspiracy of silence surrounding the research being conducted by Telford Gordon Thorndecker, the head of the well-to-do senior care facility, Crittenden Hall. Reissue....

• Feb-1979
• / Science Fiction
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From a Nebula award-winning author, society turns to violence after a  strange celestial body appears in the sky in this dystopian sci-fi thriller.   When what appears to be a star turns its powerful and deadly glare toward earth, the entir...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Science Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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SInger s second collection of stories eleven in all including the title story A Tale of Two Liars and The Destruction of Kreshev BiographyThe great voice of the Yiddish language tradition in modern Jewish literature Isaac Bashevis Singer is best know...

• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Against the background of the British Empire at the height of its power and extent, C.L. Skelton presents the rich and tempestuous story of the intermixed fortunes of two families, the Maclarens and the Bruces. Colonel Andrew Maclaren has relinquishe...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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A classic novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety. Here is the incredible, moving sequel to the bestselling Big Rock Candy Mountain by the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times).Bruce Mason ...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her p...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Had she said yes much too quickly? Corinne had met Gregori on a holiday in Paris. Older than she, he was a lover who swept her to heights she'd never dreamed of. She had vowed to meet him in Greece and marry him there. She had promised to b...

• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Historical
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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An American pimp in Singapore finds his life of pleasure turning against him in this comic novel by the acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar.   Once a small-time American hustler, Jack Flowers found his calling when he jumped into the St...

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• Feb-1979
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Kirth Gersen sets his sights upon the mysterious Viole Falushe. After several false leads, Gersen backtracks the villain to his point of origin - Earth! Then the trail moves outward again, to the starworlds and a place back of beyond where there is a...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Only the cream of the crop get into ultra-prestigious Modern University, and students are virtually guaranteed powerful and high-paid positions upon graduation. Drinking and sex are allowed, and even encouraged, and everything students need - classro...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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From the back of book... In an evocative and panoramic account of urban childhood. Colin Ward brings to life the myriad and subtle ways in which the child has used the street in the past and still does today. Against this background he asks whether...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Loosely based on Waugh's own war-time experiences, The End of the Battle is his last novel in the trilogy of World War II, written with the usual Waugh wit, grace, and polished humor, the story of British officer Guy Crouchback....

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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"The very model of the modern paranoid novel" (New York Times) and an ambitious work of semi-autobiographical fiction from one of England's greatest novelists. Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attem...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Was she really afraid of men? Horrified by her ex-fiance's sudden death, Nicole needed time to heal. When her close friend, Christine, invited her to the family's ranch in the Australian Outback, Nicole accepted gratefully. But her pe...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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To Mrs. Devery, whose whole world is Staten Island, strangers are not people: they are Jews or Catholics or Cubans or whatever is unlike herself, and therefore very strange indeed. All of which is rather ironic, of course, since the children of the n...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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Professor Bullfinch has created a machine for the government which will shrink objects and be used for spying. When Danny sneaks into the lab, he and his friends discover the machine and try to use it for a problem they have been dealing with at scho...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Historical Romance
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“THIS DEFIANT LOVE…” “You will wed him!” the Count swore, and Marina’s heart sank. At 19, in the fullness of her beauty, she was promised to a man she didn’t love. She was a prisoner of her own high birth, even though her tempestuous...

• Feb-1979
• / Gothic
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ISLE OF SHADOWS "I'm in terrible trouble! You have to help me! Please,please...!" Cecily couldn't ignore the plea for help that came from her twin sister. Despite all the difficulties Fabriana had caused in the past, she felt obliged to make the trip...

• Feb-1979
• / Women's Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Kids need play space not office towers! That's what the protest banners proclaimed. And Marcy Campion intended to see that they got it. She was determined to turn Aunt Thomasina's old Victorian house into a community center and playground, even...

• Feb-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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With only a name and address as clues, Victoria Brown went to England seeking the details of her birth. Her mother had somehow been involved with the ancient and distinguished Barrancourt family of Alconleigh Manor - but how - as the wife of the est...

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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The passionate novel of two pirates, wild and free as the devil herself. AS WILD AND FREE AS THE DEVIL HERSELF From the hills of her beloved Ireland to the blood-reddened waters of the Americas, an envious world thrilled to the legend of Anne B...