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Books Published in June 1977
New Books List: 142 titles
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Last Movement
Joan Aiken
- Jun-1977
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Mike Meiklejohn, an aspiring English stage designer, brings her mother to Greece to recuperate from an accident, there she becomes a hostage as police close in on a murderer. She had to wait a moment or two, then the door was puller open very sudd...
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Another Kind of Magic
Charlotte Vale Allen
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Wynne Shipton and Tony Wakeman found each other in Hidden Meanings, their story had found an almost perfect ending. But it was not a happy ending for Tamara-- the daughter Wynne had been forced to give up. Tamara was a woman who had never really...
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A Growing Moon
Jane Arbor
- Jun-1977
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Cesare Vidal's attitude left Dinah silently fuming. He'd shifted responsibility for the twins to her shoulders and apparently had no interest in them -- even though they were his cousins. Maybe she should have been flattered, but she would...
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The Dark Lady
Louis Auchincloss
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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The offices, penthouses, and suburban chateaux of New York are the setting for Louis Auchincloss's The Dark Lady. Spanning three decades from the 1930s to the McCarthy era, the novel chronicles a powerful woman's rise and the human toll it exacts.In ...
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The Drought
J.G. Ballard
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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An apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose "originality and power [of] vision can be felt" (Times Literary Supplement).Water. Man’s most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused...
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The Texas Rangers
John Benteen
- Jun-1977
- / Historical
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A rogue ranger and a crooked lawyer were using loopholes in the law to buy up ancient Spanish land grants and to throw hundreds of people off their land. But they wanted to grab the de Cordoba's land most of all because there was oil on it. Throug...
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Thou Shell of Death
Nicolas Blake
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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In the second book in the Nigel Strangeways classic crime series, the poet turned private detective is called in to help a World War One fighter pilot who has been receiving death threats.
Fergus O'Brien, a legendary World War One flying ac...
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On the Yard
Malcolm Braly
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex a...
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Survivors
Marc Brandel
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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he world of art,a young woman whose psychic connection to a long-dead painter places her life in danger, and a worldwide search for 8 lost art masterpieces are all woven together into one of the most spellbinding novels of the year. -- Survivor is ...
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The Faithful Heart
Katrina Britt
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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She must forget him But how could she? To Fran, the job on the French Riviera sounded ideal. Perhaps there she'd be happy again. Finding Rick Roman living next door, the matrimonial target of the woman she worked for, was disturbing. For ...
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The Ultimate Weapon
John W. Campbell
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his "peo...
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Thrall of Love
Riva Carles
- Jun-1977
- / Historical Romance
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MAIDA, born and wed of royal blood--kidnapped from her home and carried off to the cruel world of the Viking pirates she swore she would never bend to her pagan masters until she fell prey to her own raging passion. GEIR, the great Viking devil--h...
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Pride's Court
Joy Carroll
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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They Had Everything! The Courts -- an extraordinary family led by an indomitable and charismatic patriarch whose golden touch and daring energy forged an empire. They Wanted More! The Spirit of a wild, restless age was in their blood. Thei...
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Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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This story follows Evelyn, a young Englishman, along a journey through mythology and sexuality. It is a story of how he learns to be a woman, first in the brutal hands of Zero, the ragtime Nietzsche, then through the ancient Tristessa, the beautiful ...
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The Gift of Love
Margaret Chapman
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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An old love gone Can never come back Returning to Old Beams was a mistake. Francesca had been happy while her mother had been housekeeper there, and when Francesca dreamed of marrying Giles. But everything was different now. Far from the peace...
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Mrs. Barthelme's Madness
Susan Claudia
- Jun-1977
- / Gothic
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Monstrous trick of mad Illusion. The flash of a hideously mask…the terrifying thud against the car…the girl’s agonized cry. “He’s dead! You killed my brother!” The memory of the tragic night burned into Rachel’s mind. How, could s...
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The Ivory Cane
Janet Dailey
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Shut up, Sabrina," said Bay with barely controlled anger. "Maybe when I can think clearly I'll be able to offer an apology. Right now all I want to do is wring your neck!" Sabrina would not consider the possibility that Bay h...
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Six White Horses
Janet Dailey
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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Pride had blinded her to the truth! Patty King knew it was foolish to cherish any feelings she'd had for Lije Masters- now married to someone else. She didn't need the arrogant Morgan Kincaid to tell her. It was none of his business anywa...
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A Passion in the Blood
Genevieve Davis
- Jun-1977
- / Historical Romance
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SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN IN A POWERFUL DYNASTY OF MEN, WHOSE NAME EVOKED MURKY IMAGES OF UNBRIDLED SEXUAL APPETITES AND DARK, ABOMINABLE DEEDS.... Beautiful, passionate, concerned only with her creature comforts and her sexual needs, Lucrezia was un...
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Eye in the Sky
Philip K. Dick
- Jun-1977
- / Science Fiction
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“I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning.” -- Fantasy and Science FictionWhen a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group fi...
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Time Out of Joint
Philip K. Dick
- Jun-1977
- / Science Fiction
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From the Hugo Award"winning author of The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's twisty and paranoid Time Out of Joint is "marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you’ve ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep...
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Edward Eggleston
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyReadô are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and t...
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Blood on the Snow
John Elliot
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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An aristocratic woman converted into a revolutionary, a priest who leads the 1905 rebellion, and an officer in the czar's army are central figures in a novel capturing the turbulence of early-twentieth-century Russia...
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Show Boat
Edna Ferber
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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Edna Ferber’s classic paean of love to the Mississippi River and the showboats that ran up and down it is once again available in hardcover as a facsimile of the first edition. First published in 1926, this timeless tale of the Cotton Blossom, Cap...
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Dare to Love
Glenna Finley
- Jun-1977
- / Romance
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Unexpected romance and dangerous intrigue await a beautiful American career woman in the charming towns of Scandinavia. Language Of The Heart When lovely young Lynda Garrett arrived in Finland on a buying trip for a chain of American stores, he...
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Mrs. Mike
Benedict Freedman
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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[Read by Kirsten Potter]
Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, after a long, hard journey from Boston, sixteen-year-old Katherine Mary O'Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily or so completely.
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Born to Be King
Constance Gluyas
- Jun-1977
- / Historical Romance
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Liz Drummond was a pale and slender Scottish beauty -- and the proud possessor of an indomitable, fiery spirit. Cunningly, she disguised herself in her brother's clothes to join the adored Bonnie Prince Charlie in his glorious campaign to reclaim...
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Nurse in Residence
Arlene Hale
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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Lovely April Douglas grew up haunted by the disappearance of her father. What kind of man was he? Why had he left his wife and infant daughter? Had he really perished at sea, his body never found? That ghost of the past now came to trouble April a...
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Sweet Is the Web
Anne Hampson
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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"I am not in a temper," Kim declared hotly But she was angry. Ever since their first meeting when Rock had called her a trespasser, they had been antagonists. In every sense of the word. Handsome, hard and contemptuous of her sex, Rock ...
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Moment of True Feeling
Peter Handke
- Jun-1977
- / Literary
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At the beginning of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel A Moment of True Feeling, Gregor Keuschnig awakens from a nightmare in which he has committed murder, and announces, "From today on, I shall be leading a double life." The duplicity, however...
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Balloonist
MacDonald Harris
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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As in the best of Jules Verne or Albert Sanchez Pinol, The Balloonist is a gripping and surreal yarn, chilling and comic by turn, that brilliantly reinvents the Arctic adventure.
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The Long Dark Night
Joseph Hayes
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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Boyd Ritchie had eight years in prison to work out his plan. Eight years of brutal guards and bestial fellow prisoners. Eight years of growing hate. Now Boyd Ritchie was free at last. Free to go back to the peaceful New England town of Tarkington....
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Edith's Diary
Patricia Highsmith
- Jun-1977
- / General Fiction
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As Edith Howland's life becomes harsh, her diary entries only become brighter and brighter. She invents a happy life. As she knits for imaginary grandchildren, the real world recedes. Her descent into madness is subtle, appalling, and entirely believ...
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Bullet for a Star
Stuart M. Kaminsky
- Jun-1977
- / Historical Mystery
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Hard-boiled Hollywood detective Toby Peters finds himself hobnobbing with the luminaries of the silver screen when someone is littering Tinsel Town with corpses and Peters has to put himself between Errol Flynn--and a bullet. First published in 1977,...
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Jungle of Desire
Flora Kidd
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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Nothing had really changed, Diana thought miserably. She'd been foolish to hope that lovemaking would resolve the situation more satisfactorily than talking. Jason, her husband, was a law unto himself. And she knew she wouldn't want him an...
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The White Rose
Alanna Knight
- Jun-1977
- / Gothic
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A Hidden Secret When Candida decided to visit her great uncle, who lived in a crumbling castle high in the mountains of Scotland, she was unprepared for the bizarre happenings that followed. But her first night in the mountains brought an eerie en...
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Pilot Error
Bill Knox
- Jun-1977
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The pilot was still alive when they pulled him out, but his passenger was dead. Pieces of the single-engined four-seater Beagle Pup were scattered in and around Fortrose, yet, in spite ofall the mess, Chief Inspector Colin Thane expected it to be a ...
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The Pit
Alexander Kuprin
- Jun-1977
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The Pit (Yama, ) is a novel by Alexander Kuprin published in installments between 1909 and 1915, in Zemlya almanacs (1909 - Vol.3, 1914 - Vol.15, 1915 - Vol.16). The book, centering on middle class brothel, owned by a shrewd woman named Anna Markovna...
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Summer Station
Maud Lang
- Jun-1977
- / Historical Romance
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NOT UNTIL SHE BECAME A WILLING SLAVE TO PASSION--WOULD SHE BE MISTRESS OF THIS GREAT PLANTATION.... Isobel Sinclair was young, lovely, newly widowed, and totally unprepared for what she found when she came to the great plantation. Here was a pl...
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The Jewelled Snuff Box
Alice Chetwynd Ley
- Jun-1977
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England, 1802: The lives of five people depended on the hidden mystery of The Jewelled Snuff Box Jane Spencer fell in love with a man who had no name. She found him lying half-dead in the snow, the victim of highwaymen. But when he awoke he kne...
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Prescription for Love
Rachel Lindsay
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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It was definitely the strangest marriage proposal Vanessa had ever received. Where were the words of love, the fond endearments? The answer was all too obvious: Georgina. "I don't want to be used," Vanessa protested, as she wrenched th...
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Lovers All Untrue
Norah Lofts
- Jun-1977
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To the outside world the Drapers seemed to be a perfectly normal small-town family. But they were not. Not at all. Especially one of them! LOVERS ALL UNTRUE -- a macabre tale of vengeance...of love, hate, and silent terror. Once again Norah Lofts pro...
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The Chancellor Manuscript
Robert Ludlum
- Jun-1977
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Did J. Edgar Hoover die a natural death? Or was he murdered? When a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals known as Inver Brass detect a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover’s unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files, they...
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Green Kingdom
Rachel Maddux
- Jun-1977
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The dream of a green kingdom, a new world, a place to start over - this is the vision that compels the five central characters in this novel to seek a hidden land. The story is at once the age-old tale of utopia and dystopia and the saga of Americans...
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Book of Enchantments
Ruth Manning-Sanders
- Jun-1977
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Enchantments are not always evil; sometimes they are good and even help someone out of a tight situation. Curses, on the other hand, are always bad, and the person who has been cursed is in for a very hard time. Whether about enchantments or curses...
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Songs of Stars and Shadows
George R.R. Martin
- Jun-1977
- / Science Fiction
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A FEAST OF LEGENDS TO SAVOR-- SOME WITH A SHUDDER, SOME WITH A SMILE Deadly spiders big as pumpkins consume victims who scream with joy ... The saga of a man who lives alone on his own planet ... Adrian Colmer, Master Probe, takes on a client w...
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The Narrow Corner
W. Somerset Maugham
- Jun-1977
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Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers. Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichol...
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The Year-Long Day: One Man's Arctic
A.E. Maxwell
- Jun-1977
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Four hundred miles to the North Pole, a hundred to the nearest town. Intense wind and cold, the mountains swept clean of everything but moss, lichen, snow, and ice, the largest tree an 8-inch-high birch. Why would a young man choose to live totally a...
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Sea Gypsy
Margaret Mayo
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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Jay listened in amazement to August's offer. "Why have you changed your mind?", she demanded. "You made it perfectly clear a short while ago that I was a nuisance." Besides, she'd envisaged only a short trip. This would be...
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Captive Passions
Fern Michaels
- Jun-1977
- / Historical Romance
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Sirena Cordez: Proud, beautiful, once humiliated by a band of ruthless pirates who used her brutally at will, she escapes and commands an elusive vessel as the Sea Siren to satisfy her hunger for sweet revenge. STORMY LOVE Regan van der Rhys: T...
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The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature
Emir R. Monegal
- Jun-1977
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Softcover Vol. 1 , 1977 Copyright Knopf, Inc., Published June 21, 1977, Reprinted twice, Fourth Printing, June 1987. 493 pages. Selected and edited with Introduction by Emir Rodriguez Monegal with the Assistance of Thomas Colchie. Worn and creased vo...
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The Emperor of Ice Cream
Brian Moore
- Jun-1977
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It is November 1939, and Gavin Burke has no doubts about his future - set to fail his exams, he insists on leaving school to join the ARP. Not really expecting the war to reach Ireland, he is catapulted into the adult world as the Blitz suddenly hits...
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Mafia Wife
Robin Moore
- Jun-1977
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Barbara Fuca was born in Brooklyn in 1942. Her Polish-Jewish mother, Rose, and her small-time gangster father were not married, & she grew up on the streets. At 15, she quit Brooklyn for Manhattan where she worked as a barmaid in an after-hours club ...
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The Wishing Tree
Sandra Paretti
- Jun-1977
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Camilla had always wished for grand things. It didn't take long for her to learn that it took more than a wish to win one's desire. She had seen her father's mansion built and paid for by dreams - not cash. And then she watched her family's resour...
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Ms. Pinchpenny's
Dorothy Parker
- Jun-1977
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PARKER, Dorothy: Ms. Pinchpenny's Book of Kitchen Management. New York, Penguin, 1977. First Edition. Paperback, 374 pp. Subject: Non-Fiction / Cookbooks / Home Economics. Condition: Very Good. Light wear to the covers with a small light damp stain a...
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Passionate Involvement
Lilian Peake
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Cling to the Italian in me," Sarne Brand said, and he meant it. "Steer clear of my English side." That was the side of him Tamsin didn't know; that Sarne never revealed. Inexplicably she felt snubbed, as if somehow she'd b...
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Command Strike
Don Pendleton
- Jun-1977
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MISSION UNTHINKABLE... Long live the king, the king is dead. Angie Marinello, Boss of All the Bosses, has paid the final tab to the Executioner. But from the ashes of Augie's defeat is rising a new and stronger syndicate -- better than ever. The b...
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A Will to Survive
John Phillips
- Jun-1977
- / Historical
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Used, over-sized hardcover book in very good condition overall. Pub. 1977. DJ has a rip at the top of spine (see photos provided by this seller), cover fine, spine tight, pages clean /unmarked. Proceed benefit AISH-Beachwood, OH. Ships USPS media mai...
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Dark Encounter
Florence Stevenson
- Jun-1977
- / Gothic
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She was young, beautiful and pursued by a nightmare of horror . . . ! Spell Of Evil. Megan “Stormy” Wetherel, was young, lovely and a witch. And as a witch, she thought she knew all about the forces of darkness and was sure she could prote...
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The Velvet Glove
Rebecca Stratton
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Marry? But I don't want a husband!" Laurette made the declaration firmly--as if trying to convince herself, as well as Nuri, that it was true. In fact, ever since Ian, the handsome British diplomat, had offered her love and a retur...
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The Ivankiad
Vladimir Voinovich
- Jun-1977
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Voinovich, Vladimir. The Ivankiad. Or the Tale of the Writer Voinovich's Installation in his new apartment. Translated by David Lapeza. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977. Octavo. 131 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective...
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Black Ingo
Margaret Way
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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They were friends but was that enough? Tandarro-- the name had always spelled magic for Giannina Mora. But this time her encounter with Ingo Faulkner would be different. Ingo ruled the cattle kingdom and the lives of those dependent on him. It ...
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Patriotic Gore
Edmund Wilson
- Jun-1977
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Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.
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The Passionate Sinner
Violet Winspear
- Jun-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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What, Merlin Lakeside wondered, could she do with the love building inside her? There seemed no way to release it except by just being here... hoping that Paul van Setan wouldn't realize she was the person he had cause to hate. What would she...
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Flight of a Fallen Angel
Daoma Winston
- Jun-1977
- / Gothic
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Love Betrayed! An irresistible impulse had drawn her back to Davis Hall after her mother's death. So many questions begged to be answered. What had made her once-beautiful mother lock herself away from the world, at the same time sending Felicia,...
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