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New Books List: 502 titles
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Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams
- Jan-1983
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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goals of total a...
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The Missing Moon
Harold Adams
- Jan-1983
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Ne'er-do-well part-time detective Carl Wilcox tries to free a prime murder suspect--the best moonshiner in the Depression-era town of Corden, South Dakota--and stumbles into a cesspool of moonshine, madness and murder....
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The Web
Jerry Ahern
- Jan-1983
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John Thomas Rourke, M.D., ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority, has accomplished one of his goals he's helped his young friend Paul Rubinstein locate his parents. Now, Rourke's search for his own family must contin...
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Mortimer's Cross
Joan Aiken
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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Arabel’s Great Aunt Olwen causes trouble by spring cleaning Mortimer and posting him off to a research station by mistake. Soon Mortimer is up a radio tower sending messages to outer space....
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A Dream of Hunger Moss
Mabel Esther Allan
- Jan-1983
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When Alice, a English girl, brought up in Liverpool, visits Hunger Moss just before World War II, she seems to relive the experiences of her mother who visited the same moor just before World War I. ...
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Kiss Daddy Goodbye
Thomas Altman
- Jan-1983
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Emily and Ted Allbright and their two children live in the suburbs of New York City. Because Ted’s job with a chain of resort hotels frequently keeps him away from home, Emily decides to initiate a baby-sitting co-op that will give her time to purs...
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Murder, Maestro, Please
Delano Ames
- Jan-1983
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Vacationing again, this time in the Pyrenees, Jane and Dagobert are shot by a sniper. This serves as the opening for a story filled with the most whimsical characters of the series. - The Mystery Lover's Companion, Art Bourgeau...
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Stolen Promises
Barbara Andrews
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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She had dreamt of burning kisses, of sizzling honeymoon nights in the hot glitter of Las Vegas. Now Gina stood on the edge of an icy mountain stream, miles from civilization, and glared at her new "husband". Many marry in haste to repent at leisur...
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Night Mare
Piers Anthony
- Jan-1983
- / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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"BEWARE THE HORSEMAN!" The Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth from the north, ravaging and destroying as they advanced. But Mare Imbrium had her own problems. Ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mish...
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The Forever Spell
Robyn Anzelon
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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THEIR LOVE WAS A PRECIOUS ISLAND IN A TUMULTUOUS SEA BLAINE COULD NEVER FALL FOR AN OIL MAN She just couldn't risk it. Her father and brother had lived in pursuit of the liquid gold -- and had died in a rig blowout. So when Blaine met Ga...
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The Age of Wonders
Aharon Appelfeld
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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An Israeli returns to Austria, thirty years after the Holocaust, to understand his own father’s fate. “A marvelous and disturbing book . . . an experience both painful and joyous.”—Times Literary SupplementThe secure world of ...
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Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov
- Jan-1983
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A MOST DANGEROUS BALEYWICK A puzzling case of roboticide takes New York Detective Elijah Baley from Earth to the planet Aurora, where humans and robots have, till now, always coexisted in perfect harmony. Only the gifted roboticist Han Fastolfe...
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Love's Fiery Jewel
Elaine Barbieri
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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THE SPARKLE OF PASSION glowed in Amethyst's big violet eyes. She was on the verge of womanhood, ripe for love, and no one knew it better than Captain Damien Straith. He was intoxicated by her rare beauty. Her sensual innocence and fiery temper made h...
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Bitter Finish
Linda Barnes
- Jan-1983
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SOUR GRAPES IN NAPA VALLEY Michael Spraggue is a wealthy private eye turned movie actor. He's in the middle of making a trashy Hollywood movie about--what else?--a private eye, when he gets an emergency phone call from Kate Holloway, His someti...
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Matthew Looney's Invasion of the Earth
Jerome Beatty
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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Avon Camelot 23069 Trade Paperback 6th Printing; First Camelot Printing Oct 1972; original copyright 1965. 160 pp. Size 7.5" by 5" by 0.5". Binding intact; no loose pages. Front cover shows faint folding crease; half title page (being the front f...
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Dark Side of Love
Peggy Bechko
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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HE HAD A DANGEROUS HOLD ON HER... In claiming her inheritance -- a sprawling ranch in a remote part of Mexico -- Sirena knew she'd accepted a challenge. But she was unprepared for the antagonism of the dark, aristocratic Ramon Savedel, the man...
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Night Music
Kathryn Belmont
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Carla Santucci tried to remind herself that Harrington Bates was her boss, but the special evening they had shared refused to leave her memory. She had seen a side of him that no one else knew, a Harrington Bates whose music welled in her heart wh...
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The Rouseabout Girl
Gloria Bevan
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Could she ever prove her trustworthiness? Lanie Petersen's first experience of Jard Sanderson was when she overheard him arguing -- about her! The situation never improved; he mistrusted her so much he could barely be civil toward her. But ...
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London Transports
Maeve Binchy
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Whether it's the sudden snapping of bonds between lovers or shopping on Oxford Street, Maeve Binchy finds the unexpected truth in experiences so real that every woman will recognize them. Filled with her delicious humor and warmth, the twenty-two sto...
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Beyond Courage
Clay Blair
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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A Glorious Passion
Stephanie Blake
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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m the moment Moira Callahan arrives at her father's frontier army base, every young cavalry officer is enthralled by her. When her father is killed in battle, Moira tastes life's bitterness for the first time, and, even after her marriage to Lieutena...
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A Loving Arrangement
Diana Blayne
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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There was no use pretending. His eagle eye had penetrated her disguise. Abby pulled the pins. Her platinum hair cascaded down her shoulders. She no longer blended with the woodwork -- the perfect executive secretary to the irascible trial lawyer ...
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Orbit
Thomas H. Block
- Jan-1983
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Thomas Block has extensively updated and edited his bestseller "Orbit". It is the story of the Star Streak Hypersonic airliner - the successor to the supersonic Concorde - and during a routine flight an unexplainable engine malfunction hurls Consoli...
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Double Dealing
M. Arthur Bogen
- Jan-1983
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Innocent of the charge of possessing marijuana for which he has been apprehended by the police, sixteen-year-old Grant Decker, unsatisfied with the police detective work, and his girlfriend start their own investigation....
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Sing to Me of Love
Joanna Brandon
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Their marriage had left her singing the blues. Six years ago Mitch Archer had walked out on her, leaving Michelle with a budding singing career and a broken heart. Now she was a success and he was back, ready for Round Two-- arrogant, irresistible...
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Heritage of Shadows
Madeleine Brent
- Jan-1983
- / Gothic
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Hannah McLeod is eighteen, lovely, and alone in Paris. She earns her modest wages working as a waitress in a small cafe, and hides from everyone the horrifying truth about her past. Only Toby Kent, the painter who occupies the garret next to Hannah's...
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Times Without Number
John Brunner
- Jan-1983
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If the past is tampered with, the present might be totally transformed. So the whole fabric of reality depends on the watchful efforts of the Society of Time. Don Miguel Navarro is a junior officer in this force dedicated to defending the Spanish Emp...
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Where the River Bends
Jo Calloway
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Free at last! Amanda Phillips had left her nine-to-five job and opted for adventure. As pianist on a Mississippi riverboat, she was sure to find it. From the moment she stepped aboard the Cotton Queen, Amanda was surrounded by real rogues and sout...
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Money Creek Mare
Patricia Calvert
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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Ella Rae Carmody, whose mother seeks fame in Hollywood and whose father seeks fame in horseracing, becomes housemaid at Fairfield Farms and attempts to breed her father's crippled mare with a champion stallion...
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Night of the Claw
Ramsey Campbell
- Jan-1983
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Unknowingly, he brought the claw home. Beautiful, hypnotic, ancient, it was the sacred -- and deadly -- talisman of the fabled Leopard Men of Africa. Unsuspected, it would insinuate its way into his mind, bringing horrifying destruction into his h...
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Universe 11
Terry Carr
- Jan-1983
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This is an outstanding collection of 9 science fiction stories by Michael Bishop, Josephine Saxton, Carter Scholtz, Ian Watson, Carol Emshwiller, William Gibson, Nancy Kress, Michael Swanwick, and Kim Stanley Robinson....
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Heart's Desire
Deborah Chester
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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WOULD LOVE COME TO HER RESCUE? With a trembling sense of foreboding, Anna Templeton was in no position to question the "suitable" marriage Grandmama had arranged for her. The prospective groom, her cousin Oliver, turned out to be a cold and schemi...
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Traces of Dreams
Jane Clare
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Art historian Pia Martell and photographer Jules d'Arcachon seemed made for each. other. They met in Cannes and again in Cambridge, but it seemed that love would not be enough to conquer the jealousy and mistrust that had come between them. Only b...
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The Marriage Bed
Jean Clark
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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MARGRETTA'S BEAUTY AND SPIRIT WERE AS BRILLIANT AS THE MORNING SUN With her husband Stephen, Margretta shared all the hope, all the joy, all the sorrow, and all the love of their union. Their life was an early paradise and all she had ever crave...
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Breathless Dawn
Susanna Collins
- Jan-1983
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Juliana Blair lived a rational, well-ordered life dedicated to medicine. Then she returned to her family's ranch -- and experienced a mad passion for Scott Austen. Just a chemical reaction, she tells herself. Just the shock of seeing the impul...
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Our spoons came from Woolworths
Barbara Comyns
- Jan-1983
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“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and naïve wh...
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Prizzi's Honor
Richard Condon
- Jan-1983
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A darkly funny novel of mobsters, murder, and marriage: “The surprise ending will knock your reading glasses off.” -- The New York Times Charley Partanna works as a hitman for the Prizzis, New York’s most dangerous crime family. When he...
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Love So Fearful
Nina Coombs
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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LOVE SO FEARFUL Never have an affair with your boss! That was the first rule of business Megan Cyan had learned. Yet right from the start, rodeo star Bart Dutton made it clear he wanted her -- and not because his ranch desperately needed a veterin...
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He Loves Me Not
Caroline B. Cooney
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Alison has never had a boyfriend - or even a date! But Alison's friends think she leads a glamorous life. She plays piano with a band and spends her weekends performing at parties and dances, staying out late, wearing fancy clothes. But Alison's ...
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Black Fire
Sonni Cooper
- Jan-1983
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SPOCK A TRAITOR? There is sabotage aboard the Enter go, and Spock's investigation leads him into defiance of the Federation and a bizarre alliance with the Romulan and Klingon Empires against the bloodthirsty Tomarii--a savage race for whom war an...
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Trouble in the Big Tusk
Lawrence Cortesi
- Jan-1983
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TWO ON THE OUTLAW TRAIL Paul Ward had given up the outlaw life in favor of respectability as a hard-working ranch hand. But now he was sick of grubbing a living. He had his eye on the Wells Fargo stage and its payload of gold dust, and he'd found ...
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Pacific Vortex!
Clive Cussler
- Jan-1983
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Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is put to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex--a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the a...
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A Tapestry of Magics
Brian Daley
- Jan-1983
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Sir Crassmore had a talent for getting himself into the center of any trouble that came along. There could be big trouble in the Beyonds where anyone or anything might wander in from the innumerable realities of time and spce....
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Sorrel Sunset
Gena Dalton
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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For Dynah Renfro, writing about horse training was no longer enough once she saw Dandy. But Reed Harlan, long her professional nemesis, wanted the beautiful filly, too. Together they struck a bargain, sharing ownership until Dandy could prove hers...
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For Love and Valcour
Dorothy Daniels
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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In the aftermath of Civil War Virginia Hammond made a vow... She would drive the Yankee settlers from her father's plantation and restore Valcour Island to its old glory. Beautiful strong-willed, Virginia Hammond would let no man or woman stand in...
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There's a Hand in the Sky
Oscar De Mejo
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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The ghost of a Pomona, California, millionaire invites two children to be his guests at a splendid masked ball, first giving them the secret of his hidden wealth to pass on to his recently impoverished heirs....
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A Lady of Letters
Jacqueline Diamond
- Jan-1983
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Poetess in Disguise At first Marianne was thunderstruck; then a thundering rage overtook her senses. A certain Lord Whitestone was threatening to use her family's infamous past to keep the lovely young girl away from the upcoming London Season -- ...
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Song for a Lady
Jacqueline Diamond
- Jan-1983
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Lady Deborah Martin's father has never forgiven her for a sin of which she was totally innocent. Her wild and beautiful mother took the tiny girl along when she eloped to Italy with her stepson's tutor. Then the lovers died a few years later,...
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We Can Build You
Philip K. Dick
- Jan-1983
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A man enters the android-making business and falls in love with a mysterious woman in this novel from the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick intertwines the story of a toxic love affair...
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Brother Wolf
Joyce Dingwell
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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His eyes were cold -- just like his heart Smitten by wanderlust and a thirst for adventure, Maggie had come to work at Phineas Acres in the heart of Australia's harsh western badlands. She soon came to realize that something very strange was ha...
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Call Up the Storm
Jane Donnelly
- Jan-1983
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"There's a wild streak in you." Felicity had reason to remember her grandfather's words when David Holle entered her life. She knew all about his womanizing and, being the descendant of a legendary sea witch, she vowed to repay ...
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Bid Me to Live: A Madrigal
Hilda Doolittle
- Jan-1983
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“Scholars and students alike will turn to Caroline Zilboorg’s edition of H.D.’s Bid Me to Live for an introduction that provides heretofore unavailable insights and annotations that elucidate the book’s countless literary and biblical al...
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Sweet Serenity
Billie Douglass
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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HE SHATTERED HER WORLD -- NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE. When Serena had been just a child, Tom Reynolds had destroyed her happy life. She had rebuilt her life since then but had never been able to erase the pain of her past. With Tom's reappearance...
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Lynette
Lorena Dureau
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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The Regent's Darling... Pawned off by her guardians to the rich and rakish Viscount Roger Pelton, newlywed Lynette longs for the tender embrace of romantic love. Upon Pelton's death, young Lynette, widowed, still a ravishing beauty, is at last free, ...
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Margaret Normanby
Josephine Edgar
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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Going against Victorian society, Margaret Normanby begins work as an apprentice in a dress-shop to help support herself and her mother after her father abandons them. She works her way to the top of her profession, but her personal life remains unful...
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Savage Obsession
Cassie Edwards
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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POSSESSED BY HIS STRENGTH Orphaned when Indians slayed her parents, kidnapped by a lustful lumberjack, stunning Lorinda Odell was sure nothing worse could ever happen in life... until she saw the broad- shouldered, copper-skinned brave towering over...
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Little Boy Lost
Lesley Egan
- Jan-1983
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Was it a miracle-or a murderous masquerade? Los Angeles attorney Jesse Falkenstein has some chilling, all-too-true-to-life bedside reading; a case from "Unsolved Mysteries of the Twentieth Century". Twenty years ago, on a sweltering September night, ...
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Lover's Lair
Jeanette Ernest
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Golden-haired Adrian Anders knew she'd be the center of masculine admiration at an American Army base in Turkey. But she was hardly ready for the tantalizing attentions of audacious Sergeant Adam Wade, who pushed aside all competitors to claim her as...
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Longarm and the Snake Dancers
Tabor Evans
- Jan-1983
- / Historical
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A SNAKE IN HUMAN CLOTHING... A series of mysterious deaths had almost touched off a war on the parched desert land inhabited by the Navajo and Hopi Indians. The fang marks on the victims pointed to rattlers... But when U.S. Marshal Long begins ...
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Guarded Moments
Lynn Fairfax
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Ken Rexford is a former senator with a notorious reputation. Sandy O'Hara is the feisty young widow hired to protect him on an around-the-world luxury cruise. In the ship's posh ballrooms and on sun-kissed beaches, they encounter scandal, intrigue......
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Passion's Promise
Paula Fairman
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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Alicia Marshall, the new owner of a Laramie, Wyoming hotel, is torn between Boyd Parker, a handsome army scout, and Will Tate, the lawyer helping her run the hotel...
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The Other Woman
Joy Fielding
- Jan-1983
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HELLO. I'M NICOLE CLARK. I'M GOING TO MARRY YOUR HUSBAND." The young woman was stunning-and her message was stunningly clear when she told it to Jill Plumley on Jill's fourth wedding anniversary. What wasn't clear was what Jill could do to save h...
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Shadow Trade
Alan Furst
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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Guyer, a former intelligence officer dismissed by the Central Intelligence Agency, sets up his own business in clandestine operations and becomes caught up in the intrigue, ruthless politics, duplicity, and power games of private intelligence compani...
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Operation Valkyrie
Pierre Galante
- Jan-1983
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The bomb that exploded in the "Wolf's Lair" -- Hitler's command headquarters -- on July 20th, 1944 was the closest any assassination attempt ever came to ridding the world of the Nazis' Führer. Pierre Galante's account of the years that led up to th...
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Echoes and Embers
Patricia Gallagher
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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HE HAD KILLED HER HAPPINESS ...YET DARED TO WANT HER LOVE He watched her pale golden softness shimmer in the moonlight as she stood by the riverboat railing, alone with her memories of the young husband who didn't come back after Appomattox. Even ...
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Fortune's Bride
Joy Gardner
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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She was torn by her love for one man and her debt to another. "BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR," Maura's father had warned his lovely blond-haired daughter. But in 1890, Maura found a way to escape from the slums of New York to the ...
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Twice Burned
Ronald E. Gettel
- Jan-1983
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A morally twisted arsonist, bent on destroying much--if not all--of modern Chicago by fire, is sought by a tough policeman and an intellectual arson detective who must first overcome their antagonism toward each other...
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The Stallion Man
Judith Glover
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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Frank Morgan: hot-blooded, part gypsy and as renowned for his virility as the great shire horses he owns. Rachael: the beautiful and unfulfilled woman who arrests his wandering eye. Seduced by his charms, she is torn between duty to her husband and a...
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Brandy Kane
Constance Gluyas
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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A POWERFUL FATHER, A WANTON DAUGHTER -- THE FLAMING SAGE OF A TEXAS DYNASTY BRANDED BY FORBIDDEN PASSION. Dynasty of Desire... Jim Kane, the strong and ruthless man who built a vast Texas empire and who now reveled in his overwhelming wealth and ...
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Paper Gold
Michael Goodkin
- Jan-1983
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To revenge his father's death at the hands of a Libyan-inspired terrorist, David Faris, a brilliant investment advisor, devises a plan to drain the gold--legally--from Quadhafi's treasury and threatens to undermine the world economy...
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Vision of Love
Elizabeth Graham (1)
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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He had invaded her island sanctuary! Her aunt's Gulf island retreat had been Kelly's source of sanity during her lonely, hungry years as a struggling artist. Now that she was a success, she looked forward to making Eagle Ridge her permanen...
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Love in Vain
Alan Greenberg
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the mos...
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes ; Early Detective Stories
Hugh Greene
- Jan-1983
- / Mystery
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Thirteen tales chosen by the editor from the golden age of late-Victorian and Edwardian detective fiction; each one proves that Sherlock Holmes stood by no means alone as the master detective of the the day....
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The Majors
W.E.B. Griffin
- Jan-1983
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Dien Bien Phu. Saigon. Hanoi. In 1954, they were only exotic names from a French campaign halfway around the world. But now American fighting men--proven on the bloody beaches of Normandy and in the minefields of Korea--are summoned to help beat back...
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Death Stalk
Richard Grindal
- Jan-1983
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The small Hebridean island of Alsaig is facing a crisis. It is famous for its only export, a particularly fine malt whisky, upon which most of the islanders depend for their livelihood. But the distillery is threatened with a takeover by an American ...
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From Gunk to Glow
George Grotz
- Jan-1983
- / Literary
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The classic manual on how to refinish furniture, written by that Yankee sage, the Furniture Doctor. This book provides all the basics, from stripping to sanding to staining and varnishing. The Doctor shares his own secret tips for saving time and mon...
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Heartland
David Hagberg
- Jan-1983
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One Country--One Crop--Feeds The World.American grain.The Soviet Union means to change that.The Russians understand,as America does not,that control of the world's grain meanscontrol of the world.Only young, fast-rising tycoon,Kenneth Newman,stands b...
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Prelude to Paradise
Daphne Hamilton
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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HIS PASSION AWAKENED WHAT HER DARK PAST DENIED Dissatisfied with the shallow world of fashion modeling, Daye jumped at the chance to visit her friend Charles on his Tahitian isle. Soon the peaceful enchantment of sun and silver sands was disrup...
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When Love Comes
Anne Hampson
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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A ROMANTIC CARIBBEAN CRUISE It was the perfect holiday from Janis Morton's demanding career as a fashion buyer, especially when she met Clive Trent, handsome heir of a famous French designer. Before she knew it, Janis found herself hoping for ...
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The Wind's Embrace
Melinda Harris
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Phillipa O'Keefe's fiery temperament and fierce dedication served her well as trainer on the El Marees horse farm. But Derek Remmington, the tall, elegant heir to the ranch, had new plans for it, and a sharp-tongued equestrienne didn't fi...
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Brand of Passion
Shirley Hart
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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Long, lean, and mean; he stepped out of the windy Chicago night, reappearing as suddenly as he'd vanished months before. Cat Morgan was stunned, torn between loathing and love. Only, Logan Blake had the kind of money she so desperately needed ...
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Margaret & Taylor
Kevin Henkes
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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This gentle chapter book from Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes will appeal to fans of the Frog and Toad and Ivy + Bean books.Join Margaret and her brother Taylor as they get ready for Grandpa's surprise birthday party.From the invitation to the pres...
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Queen of the Lightning
Kathleen Herbert
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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Days of war, days of passion...legendary times when Riemmelth of the raven hair felt love's fire burn as laughing, handsome Prince Elidir claimed her body and heart. But she was the only heir to a mighty Celtic dynasty, and to protect her kingdom she...
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Blue Rise
Rebecca Hill
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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With a failing marriage and her own identity wavering between contemporary womanhood and her traditional southern-family upbringing, Jeannine Lewis returns to her home in Blue Rise, Mississippi, to sort out her life...
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Almost Family
Roy Hoffman
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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The complex friendship between a black housekeeper and her Jewish employer is at the heart of Hoffman’s prize-winning novel about life in the civil rights era SouthNebraska Waters is black. Vivian Gold is Jewish. In an Alabama kitchen where, for ne...
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Secrets
Sheila Holland
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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A captivating saga of power, love and betrayed passion. A world of wealth, elegance and scandalous secrets. Here are all the clashing passions, towering ambitions and secret sensuality of England's golden Victorian era. The thrilling story of a gr...
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Rogue Justice
Geoffrey Household
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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After years on the run, an assassin seeks vengeance against the Nazis It’s been four years since Raymond Ingelram failed to kill Hitler. All it took was a slight change in wind to force his bullet wide and put the entire German secret service on hi...
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Cloak of Fate
Eleanor Howard
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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"DAMN IT ALL LASS, BUT I SWEAR YOU'VE BEWITCHED ME." Lord Drayton held Lisa Manning close to him. She hardly knew the Cavalier but already they shared many secrets and passions. Within the walls of Stavely Mansion, Lisa Manning, dau...
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A Night Without Stars
James Howe
- Jan-1983
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"ARE YOU SCARED?" Donald didn't say anything right away. When he did, he answered simply, "Yes." "Are you really? I'm scared too." "It's okay to be scared, Maria." With just a few words they understood each other, and it was the beginning ...
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Love Note
Jessica Howell
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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When stardust gets in your eyes you can’t see the real person. Barbara was so entranced by the image of Tim, the popular and handsome basketball star and class president, that she couldn’t see beyond the glitter. Luckily for her, Sandy “th...
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London Pride
Elizabeth Hunter (1)
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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TRIAL BY LOVE There was little question that Joanne Rodgers had met her match when playboy barrister William Oliver decided to enlist her to help him advance his career. Amused by Will's arrogant demands, at first Joanne willingly acquiesced, ...
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Pulling Through
Dean Ing
- Jan-1983
- / Science Fiction
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DOOMSDAY. ARE YOU READY? HARVE RACKHAM, bounty hunter, race-car driver. His best friend is a hunting cheetah. Harve has turned his California home into a survival shelter. He intends to pull through. SHAR McKAY, Harve's little sister. Shar s la...
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The Black Tide
Hammond Innes
- Jan-1983
- / General Fiction
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The Petros Jupiter lies on the rocks, her tanks ripped open and the seas all around her heavy and dark with the pollution leaking out of her. Living in their tiny cottage on the cliffs by Land's End, Trevor Rodin and his wife Karen have seen it all b...
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Price of Surrender
Stephanie James
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER Holt Sinclaire thought everything had its price--until he met a woman who couldn't be bought. Adena West had come to him on a matter of business, but suddenly it was a different affair. With reckless courage she entered his ...
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The Devil's Advocate
Vanessa James
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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The past stood between them Ten years ago marriage to Julius Morrell would have promised Luisa a golden, sunlit future, she loved him so much. Now it only guaranteed her sister's freedom and a future filled with uncertainty for Luisa. For s...
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This Traitor Moon
Amanda Jean Jarrett
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Romance
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A paroled Confederate officer seeks life, love and vengeance in the ruins of a Georgia plantation--and on a Mississippi riverboat heading full-steam into trouble. UNDER A TRAITOR MOON... Captain Zach Slate, recently of the Confederate army, sta...
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Border Fever
William Jeffrey
- Jan-1983
- / Historical
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MINOR SCUFFING/EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. TOP OUTER EDGE OF BACK COVER HAS A SMALL CHUNK MISSING AT TOP. INSIDE COVERS AND PAGES HAVE AGE RELATED TANNING AND SOME DISCOLORATION. 3 SMALL BLACK-OUTS ON FIRST PAGE....