Books Published in January 1981

• Jan-1981
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MURDER AT THE PRIORY Two terrible injustices occurred at the annual Horticultural Society Flower Show in the village of Almstone: Ken Walls' splendid tomatoes were overlooked in the competition and Nurse Cooper was murdered. Her body lay under a...

• Jan-1981
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• Jan-1981
• / Science Fiction
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'Everyone's touched! Don't be taken in by appearances here. Believe me, the old world has gone, but its shell remains in place. One day soon, there will come a breath of wind, a new messiah, the shell will crumple, and the kids will run, screaming, b...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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K-Gr 2 This very slight story has a baby's wish come true. Tired of lying powerless in her crib, the frustrated baby chooses one of those magic nights when the moon is out and the tide is full to make her escape. Her toy lion becomes enormous and fie...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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She wasn’t herself. Anna Zimmerman Hart had always been different from other people. She was considered practically a genius -- even for the 1990’s; she never seemed to have much in common with her family; and she didn’t have any friends. An...

• Jan-1981
• / Romantic Suspense
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His death radically changed her life... Patricia was assailed by doubts after her father died. He'd been concerned for her welfare and had made her promise to marry Frederick, whom she'd been dating for a short while. Yet she couldn't ...

• Jan-1981
• / Romantic Suspense
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She defied an ancient curse -- and risked death. Olivia was drawn to her grandmother's ancestral home, despite her cousin Robin's warning about the curse of Pengellen. The legend demanded the violent death of a family member every other generation --...

• Jan-1981
• / Fantasy
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The pig Plantagenet cannot decide whether he likes the free but frightening life of his cousin, the boar Grondin, better than his own simple farmyard existence until a plan emerges to destroy the forest and its inhabitants...

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• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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HE-WALKS THE-MOUNTAIN saw more in his lifetime than the change of seasons. He saw the arrival of the gun, the horse, the buffalo. He watched his tribe change from peace-loving farmers to savage hunters. And he remembered how Sweet Medicine, the be...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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The accidental discovery of a secret document dated 1910--a document blackmailing the then Russian ambassador into spying for England--leads a young student to his death and involves his girlfriend in a relentless chase involving agents from three co...

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• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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HE WAS HER FIRST LOVE. Susanne L'Anjeau had been fourteen, and Bart Stone, twenty-four. Back then Susanne's Louisiana family had been wealthy, and Bart, a rough Creole lad, was the son of a servant and had courted her sophisticated older s...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Ed Bannon has a secret. No one in the town of Mitchell knew about it when they pushed him into being marshal. Not even the rancher who took an immediate dislike to this stranger in town. But the man with the scarred face knows. He knows because he...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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She risked her life on a stranger's promise Lee went to Samoa as companion to Mrs. Cartwright, but the cantankerous old lady falsely accused her of neglect and left Lee stranded. She had no option but to work on the isolated sheep station i...

• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Stacey jumped to her sister's defense Stacey Armitage's sister, Trisha, was a handful -- no doubt about that! For years Stacey had acted as both mother and father to the headstrong girl, but most of her efforts to curb Trisha's willful...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Thriller
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• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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"UNHOLY DESIRES COVERS THE LIVES OF THREE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN: ANNIE, CANDICE AND SUSAN. ALL POSSESS GREAT BEAUTY -- AND EVEN GREATER PASSION. AND NOW THEY WILL BE SWEPT ACROSS CONTINENTS, OCEANS AND TIME ITSELF." For their lives are to be s...

• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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THEY ARE NOT ORDINARY RIVALS FOR THEY HAVE DUELED BEFORE -- ONLY THIS TIME IT IS BECAUSE OF A WOMAN.... Humphrey Freen, the Earl of Begbroke, and Major Guy Hipsley. This time they meet, not at dawn, but in the evening; not in the dewy forest, but ...

• Jan-1981
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• / Historical
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• Jan-1981
• / Gothic
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THE BATTERED INNOCENT Emma Delaney, who knows nothing of life's shams, is forced into an arranged marriage with Oliver Foy, a wealthy Jamaican planter, only to discover he is a sadist and a beast. She can tell no one. She is trapped. THE ...

• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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Teresa Marne lives partly in the past-in a gracious world represented by stately Oakmere Manor. From this serene, pampered life with old friends and her first love, Randal Melbrais, circumstances thrust her into a grimly practical new world in which ...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Strange Deadfellows! Wally Hamer was found murdered inside a Rolls Royce with a wad of money and ten ounces of pure heroin. Detective Al Wheeler took the case and it led him straight to gorgeous Minerva Trent. Minerva was a young widow who reputedly ...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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HER WORLD WAS FALLING APART After her father's death, Leah Deerfield is nearly destitute. Her last hope is with her stepmother in Australia; but it isn't long before Leah realizes she is an unwelcome visitor. Seeking to escape the confi...

• Jan-1981
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• / Contemporary Romance
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Nine-year-old Burt experiences the ups and downs of growing up, becoming good friends with a gentle third-grade girl and then--because of one irrational act--finding himself incarcerated in The Children's Trust Residence Center...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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This book in excellent reading condition. Looks like it may have never been read. Very first page shows some wrinkles and back top corner creased. Otherwise normal book wear with lightly worn edges. We ship fast from Texas and guarantee all our p...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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"Wealthy eccentric Charles Barron is convinced that aliens are planning to fly to earth and take him away. The detective trio resolves to prove that Barron is being taken for a ride--but not by hostile aliens."...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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This is an anthology of American social history for college history courses--or for anyone wanting to learn more about American history. The readings are selected from some of the most interesting writing on the American past. Each reading is preface...

• Jan-1981
• / Amateur Sleuth
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DEATH IN VENICE For young barrister Julia Larwood, it was to be a vacation in pursuit of eros, in flight from the tax man.... An Art Lover's Holiday to Italy. Reduced to near penury by the Inland Revenue, Julia could hardly afford such a luxury, but...

• Jan-1981
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• Jan-1981
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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A maverick attorney, Burton Z. Hammond plays off to his advantage the conflicting interests of California agribusiness and the Hollywood studios, takes on the FBI, and patiently plots revenge on the man who destroyed his father...

• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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Simon Templar is the Saint—daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

In this collection of short stories, the Saint i...

• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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The Saint is a traditionalist. He knows what a good pirate story needs: gold, hidden treasure, smugglers, dastardly villains, and damsels in distress. From Bimini to Nassau, via Jamaica and Haiti, the Saint travels the Caribbean, interrupting his ...

• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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IMPERSONATION, EVEN FOR THE NOBLEST OF MOTIVES, LEADS TO LIES... Joanna is a pretty, young, and quite innocent nursemaid. For the sake of her charge -- a boy she has raised with love -- she plays along with his wealthy relatives who have mistaken ...

• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Oh, she was mean-minded, possessive, Katie told herself ashamedly. And scared. When four-year-old Kim learned that Sasha Kimberly was his real father and threw his arms around Sasha's neck, she felt a knife-thrust of jealousy and fear. It wasn...

• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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After counteracting a Third Reich command, a German pilot ironically finds refuge in England, camouflaged as a British friend of the unwitting Marsh family, to evade the deadly pursuit of both Himmler and British Intelligence...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell -- a talk with his young daughter just home from school -- that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, "The Children's Story came ...

• Jan-1981
• / Thriller
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ISLAND MASSACRE!When Sergeant James Hawk's Marine battalion gets wiped out by Japanese submarines off the war-torn province of New Guinea, he-cut off from all hope-boldly takes command, knowing that survival means locating and destroying the deadly b...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Four-year-old Damon Daniels, in the care of psychiatrist Kyle Burnette, displays a genius IQ, telepathic powers, precocious sexuality, and increasingly menacing behavior, in a drama of multiple personality and psychological possession...

• Jan-1981
• / Historical
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• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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The headlines numb the entire world: Lisa Wilde is dead. The singer known as the Canary, whose music excited a generation, is killed in a crash. Now her ex-lover, the man who helped merchandise the idol and make her a star, receives the horrifying me...

• Jan-1981
• / Romantic Suspense
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A London ballroom at the height of the season, brilliant with candlelight and sparkling with jewels, seemed an unlikely setting for an encounter with an amorous ghost. But the young and lovely Mimi Danvers was eerily convinced that the dark, mysterio...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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A poignantly authentic story occurring twenty-five years ago depicts a ten-year-old British girl's summer awakening to some difficult facts of life, including her mother's competitive love for an enigmatic young man...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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In the 21st century, 13-year-old Stefan is sent to a scientific research station where his movements are closely monitored. He discovers he is a clone, destined to be part of a fanatical scheme to control the government....

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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FOLEY, THE RED-FACED, uniformed deputy on duty in the hall, peeked through one of the glass ovals inset in the leather-covered courtroom doors and said:      "Hey, the jury's comin, out!"     A concentrate...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Historical
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• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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TWINS. ONE GIRL. ONE BOY. AGE TWENTY. Madcap twins who were fond of dressing up as each other and fooling everyone. Well, almost everyone. This time the masquerade is not so simple. Jennifer, disguised as her brother (who preferred poetry to horses...

• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lanna Marshall, a woman of quiet beauty and tender passions, was not prepared to be bound up in the greed and treachery of someone else's family. She would be forced to choose between two warring sons--and two kinds of life. It was Chad, "the w...

• Jan-1981
• / Gothic
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Exciting romance and ever-present danger combine in the gilded age of 1880's Saratoga. With its magnificent racetrack, glittering hotel-casinos, and sprawling greenery, Saratoga was a posh watering hole for the super-rich. And lovely Paula Whalen, ba...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their origins in Plutarch, Montaigne, The Acts of the Apostles, Theokritos, and the daily newspaper. Eclogues is a delight, and Guy Davenport proves a companionable and witty guide.

• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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This is a story about marriage: the trials and tribulations, the love and tenderness, the intimacy and sharing--and what happens when it's no longer there. When does desire become resentment? At what moment does happiness become discontent? This is a...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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How dourly resolute it was, commanding the fields below it, two stories of the finest red brick, with a tower flanking it at each end. It was from these towers in Normandy that he once pretended to see the ocean and the masts of great Viking ships, o...

• Jan-1981
• / Literary
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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WAS SHE ONE WOMAN…OR TWO? When Madeleine Delaney turned her life over to novelist Lucien Cornell and became his pseudomamma, Penelope Marsh, a whole new world opened for her -- a world of luxury and wealth and fashionable affairs. Madeleine bec...

• Jan-1981
• / Science Fiction
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IS GOD... a child, hurtled to earth in a starship, only to find Himself ruled by laws He Himself created? Is He an angry God emerging from a millennium of silence to take fiery vengeance on an Earth now ruled by the Christian-Islamic Church, the ...

• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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"A lovely smooth read." -- The Washington Post"A witty, affectionately nostalgic masterpiece." -- The Columbus Dispatch"As absorbingly readable, as well-written as anything Peter Dickinson has written." -- The Times Literary SupplementPraise for Pete...

• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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THIS WAS THE WORLD OF THE BRIENS, THE WORLD OF THE WILD GEESE Of the matriarch who vowed that her descendants, unlike herself, would marry only for love - and so sent sent her beloved grandchildren, Robert and Louise, off to Paris, to spare them t...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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SOMEWHERE A CHILD IS KILLING It begins quietly enough with the “accidental” death of a social worker and the mysterious disappearance of a thirteen-year-old girl. No one could have suspected that both these events were far from accidental, or ...

• Jan-1981
• / Literary
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A collection of essays explores the richness and variety of the English language and some unusual words and examines the two opposing schools of modern literary criticism, the Graphireader and Epireader....

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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ANGELA'S QUEST NEARS ITS END... Angela had traveled to the far corners of the earth in search of the man she loved. The path to her heart's desire was strewn with the wreckage of broken promises and shattered lives, yet her hope never dimmed. Even...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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The decorative dust jacket adds much to this vintage first edition, first printing hardcover. The jacket shows wear along the edges from shelving and blemishes on the endpapers where the DJ was glued to the inner boards. Book is like new inside, brig...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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"Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein. The desire to get ahead no longer evokes the same admiration it once did�"indeed, modern novelists seem hardly able to deal with ambition without a sneer. But is ambition necessarily sy...

• Jan-1981
• / Historical
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IN THE DESERT, WATER WAS HARD TO FIND. DANGER WASN'T. The Humboldt. It meanders through the killing wastelands of Nevada...a river so dry a man can cross it without getting his boots wet. But trouble runs deep enough, when Longarm brings the la...

• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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She was the Major's Lady! And how gallantly Major Quentin had offered for Kitty. He was a British Army officer and she a red-haired Southern belle when they met during the war in Washington. He saved her from certain dishonor and brought her here ...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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It’s August in New York, and the only thing that’s hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper’s professional and personal life. Just as she’s claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the body of...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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The meanest and the most powerful gossip columnist in the country is found strangled with his own typewriter ribbon in a screening room at the New York Film Festival. Whodunnit? The whole film community hated Nigel Whitty, and any one of the eleven p...

• Jan-1981
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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Nothing's more ruthless than a big man in a small town... He'll do anything to get what he wants. Anything. And no one in town will stop him. He owns the police and he owns the coroner. He can get a murder turned into an "accidental death" with no...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Designed for the lover of fine literature as well as the intermediate language student, this dual-language book contains 13 great, representative Spanish short stories. Chronologically arranged to illustrate the development of the story form in Spani...

• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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FROM THE SHELTERED CONVENT INTO THE TEMPESTUOUS ROAR OF BATTLE… Rufenna Lyall -- a hot-tempered, fiery-haired Highland lass, she was cloistered behind the cold stone walls of St. Whitby’s Abbey, longing for the day she would be released to mar...

• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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HER HIDDEN LOVE Katherine Marshall, following the devastating deaths of her mother and two sisters, went to work in the home of the wealthy Camerons. She was extremely happy with the kind family, until Captain Cameron was killed in the Civil War....

• Jan-1981
• / Amateur Sleuth
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With the ringing of the phone, the terror began.... Jemima Shore couldn't be sure the mysterious phone call was meant for her. After all, no one knew that Britain s most popular newswoman was staying at Chloe Fontaine's flat or-- that the tempestu...

• Jan-1981
• / Law Enforcement
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Since setting up shop in Strasbourg with her new husband, Arlette, widow to the notorious Van der Valk, has garnered something of a name for herself. Getting shot at, kidnapped and blackmailed seem to have simply become a part of daily life. Being ta...

• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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In 1915, when the girls of Madame Pennington's finishing school, near London, return from their annual Easter egg hunt, they discover that their beautiful, seventeen-year-old prefect, Madeleine, has disappeared...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Discusses the Atlantic puffin, a hardy colorful bird found in Greenland, Canada, Iceland, and on islands near Scotland. Also describes a special project sponsored by the National Audubon Society to reestablish these birds in Maine....

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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SHE DESPISED HIM. HE DID NOT TRUST HER. And so it began. This roguish tale of a pretty, unmarried girl of good breeding and superior intellect. Olivia. She decided that she would not be an ordinary governess. She would charge a great deal of m...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Fantasy
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“A fast, light and entertaining read which sets up the Gandalara Cycle very well . . . an escapist adventure in the classic mold” (SFF Chronicles).The last thing terminally ill language professor Ricardo Carillo remembers is standi...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Historical
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• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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Whey-faced, dumpy, and timid - a tiresome chit fresh from a French convent... So she appeared to Sylvester Vinton, Earl of Melcourt, the handsome bounder who came to claim her and take her to wife. Sent to France when her widowed father married a ...

• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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"I SHALL NEVER MARRY NOW. I SHALL NEVER TRUST A MAN AGAIN!" When Dinah's father died suddenly, leaving her penniless, the fortune-hunting Clive Morrell found that his love for her had disappeared along with her dowry. Cruelly spurned by the man...

• Jan-1981
• / Mystery
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With a memo book full of notes, junior detective Abby Jones and her pal Potsie piece together confusing clues and soon they are trying to unravel more than one mystery. Squeezing through windows, sneaking onto subways, and slithering into an empty...

• Jan-1981
• / Historical
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WARNING! This book is NOT for the faint-hearted reader!It wasn’t the way he was born or brought up. Something happened. Something that turned him, mind and soul, into a case-hardened man. His was a life shaped by death. He was a man alone, liv...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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She had never been in love--not even once. Did she know enough about it to protect a wealthy girl from a handsome, ruthless fortune hunter? Carrie Belding was a young art teacher. She needed money to spend the summer painting in Europe. And so she...

• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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Golden-haired Seranne first learned the joys of love from the roguish nobleman Fenn Cornwallis...until he abandoned her to his step dark brother Dervil. His touch brought new desires to life in hot-blooded Seranne, yet from jealousy he held her at ar...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Why was he so eager to keep her away? Dani Benson's car was stranded in the British Columbian spring floods. The fact that she was on her way to claim an inheritance added to her irritation. Rescue came in the form of a mysterious, attracti...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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FOR FIVE HUNDRED YEARS THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A RACHEL... For after each Rachel's death, the first daughter born to the family is given the name of Rachel and a heritage of faith and courage as precious as the family diamond... FOR FIVE HUNDRE...

• Jan-1981
• / Fantasy
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Thirty years of the shows you waited all week to watch. An informal history of programs for children from the beginning of television to the present discusses cartoons, live-action shows, and commercials....

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Is it true folks are friendlier in the Southwest? our researchers set out to tour the Southwest conference universities to find out. Their report: there's a lot of smiling going on, but it just might be graffiti-itis, an irresistible upturning of the...

• Jan-1981
• / Literary
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Looking for the Northeast universities' secrets of success, our researchers probed past the ivy-covered walls. They selected from the genius graffiti the significant, the symbolic, the succinct and the smutty. Now, it's up to you to crack the codes o...

• Jan-1981
• / Science Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Suspense
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“Hallahan graduates to the Ludlum-Follett class of writers with this crackling good thriller” (Publishers Weekly).   In this brilliant thriller set against the chilling background of the international arms trade, a former American intelligen...

• Jan-1981
• / Mystery
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• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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HE HAD NO LOVE TO GIVE. Jill had married Adamandios Doxaros only to ease his ailing mother's heart; theirs was a marriage only of convenience. Or so she thought, until, by imperceptible degrees, she fell in love with her husband. But she h...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors: the local squire's nephew Festus and the miller's two sons, Robert and John. While Festus' aggressive pursuit deters the young woman from considerin...

• Jan-1981
• / Gothic
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Feeling sorry for handsome Douglas MacPherson, Laura agreed to go to Corey’s Landing to be a servant in order to spy on his wife, Myra Corey MacPherson, daughter of the locomotive magnate. Why had the woman been acting so strangely lately? Not o...

• Jan-1981
• / Science Fiction
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CONTROL RULES, CONTROL RULES, CONTROL RULES! From the distant dipoles of the universe, two telepathic computers, Largo and Czandra, known as Control, rule over life on all civilized planets. And now, with Project Cancelar, Control has formulate...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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This popular text has been thoroughly updated and revised to sharpen the focus on its 'bias and change' theme, include the latest data/studies informing the field, and cover important new topics (e.g., flood disaster in New Orleans).

Polit...

• Jan-1981
• / Mystery
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Detective Parrish and Sergeant Recks are at it again. They move from the swampy backwoods of A COUNTRY KILLING and into the spot-lit stage when a showbiz booking agent is murdered in a swanky hotel. All the suspects come from the victim's lurid past,...

• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jan-1981
• / Science Fiction
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WORLD-SAVING IS HARD WORK. Brion Brandd learned that in Planet of the Damned. Now, in this stunning sequel, he's going to learn that even when it comes to world-saving some jobs are easier than others--because the Planet of the Damned was a piece of ...

• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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SHE DEFIED THE WORLD TO SHARE THE PASSION OF HER ADVENTUROUS PRIVATEER. Selena Haktead challenged society and followed her daring privateer, Brian McCord, though it was forbidden for a beautiful young woman to voyage aboard a Confederate gunship...

• Jan-1981
• / Literary
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Set in an imaginary European city, "The Passion Artist" takes us into the dream-like interior world of Konrad Vost, a middle-aged widower grieving for his dead wife, devoted to his schoolgirl daughter, and obsessed with the memory and the fate of ...

• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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In a desperate search to find her only brother, Chad, who has been kidnapped by gangsters, innocent Kristen Fleming is forced to take on a secret identity. Disguised as a moll, she soon becomes entangled in a web of raw power and rampant desires as v...

• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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The eligible but aloof Lord Marchmont seems as determined to remain single as his sister, Lady Emilia, is to see him wed. They are surrounded by a glimmering cast of characters, from the unreliable but dashing rake Jeffery de Guere to the lovely and ...

• Jan-1981
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Historical
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Historical Romance
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He was her knight in shining armor Darkly handsome, daring and romantic, Sir Roger de Boveney embodied everything the lovely Alyce Beaumont wanted in a man. And he, too, seemed equally besotted by her. So when King William hinted that a marriag...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Gothic
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The splendor and pomp of the Bavarian kingdom had seemed like a fairy tale to the recently arrived young Englishwoman. Pippa Ewell had left behind dark and forbidding Greystone Manor, and the memories of Conrad, the handsome stranger who had swept he...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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As they listened to the death throes of their sister ship Mako sinking in the Pacific where the waters were six miles deep, the crew of USS Eelfish suddenly came of age. They were a new breed: a brand-new fleet submarine crewed by draftees and res...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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When the Bobbseys' favorite pony, Cupcake, is stolen, the twins join forces to rescue him. A diamond-tread tire print near the stable is the first clue. They find others, which eventually lead them into the den of dangerous horse thieves. A sa...

• Jan-1981
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Science Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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Chastity hated to be called sensible. But now, with three suitors clamoring after her, she found love more elusive than ever. There was Mr. Brockton. Nice. But boring. Then there was Count Orlanov. He certainly had dash. He was handsome, wildly passi...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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Crafty Dr. Bickleigh coolly murders his detestable wife. Murder becomes a mania with the good doctor, until he is brought to trail---a magnificent trial, full of wit and drama--and the climax of his story provides a superb piece of ironic and clever ...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jan-1981
• / Police Procedural
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE WOULD SOONER TRUST THE DEVIL! So Robina told herself as she flew to Madeira to meet with the husband she had left two years ago -- Carlos da Milaveira. Carlos had finally decided to give her the freedom that was her only wish, if she agreed to...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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""This is the turtle that slid into the pond and ate the snake that dropped from a branch and swallowed the fish that swam after the frog -- JUMP, FROG, JUMP!"" This infectious cumulative tale will soon have the young frogs you know jumping and c...

• Jan-1981
• / Police Procedural
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THE VICTIMS
An unscrupulous cab driver. The killer's own frightened wife. Most troublesome of all, an outspoken dissident, watched closely by the KGB, whose trial had been set for the very next day.
THE WEAPONS
A heavy iron-headed hammer. A ...

• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1981
• / Fantasy
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