Books Published in March 1978

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No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the...

• Mar-1978
• / Suspense
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Police specialist John Harbizon receives help from two dedicated investigative reporters in his work on the serial murders of a stock-exchange speculator, a financial manipulator, and the vice president of a Los Angeles brokerage firm...

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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sally Spencer had achieved a reporter's dream when she had been hired to the city desk of The New York Globe, the most prestigious newspaper in Rafe Hawker's vast publishing empire. Already, the beautiful, fiery young journalist had found her...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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James Blish was a science fiction writer who wrote over 27 novels, most notably the Cities in Flight series, and A Case of Conscience, for which he won a Hugo Award. He also was a highly respected critic, and his criticism in collected in the books T...

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• Mar-1978
• / Science Fiction
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They fled from an Earth ravaged by plague and violence, seeking to fulfill their holy mission -- to discover a new home for humanity. But instead of landing in a peace-filled paradise, Earth's Missionaries find themselves caught between two warring c...

• Mar-1978
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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Sweeping from the Irish Rebellion of the early 1920s to the tumultuous Boston of Mayor James Michael Curley and the Kennedys, Mortal Friends is the saga of Irish revolutionary Colman Brady and the choices that shaped his fate. James Carroll is the au...

• Mar-1978
• / Action Adventure
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A LEAGUE OF BLOOD! From a bizarre death camp in the jungles of Java, to the teeming streets of Djakarta; from a Beirut prison cell to the glittering casinos of Europe, Killmaster tracks the leader of the New Alliance -- whose business is death and...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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Because of serious troubles in her parents' marriage, Rachel is sent to Palm Springs to live with her grandparents and, through two children disliked by their stepfather, she comes to understand the importance people have for one another...

• Mar-1978
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"You must beware, mademoiselle...." The fortune-teller's ominously harsh voice had sent shivers down Christina's spine. "Beware of the devil at Archangel." The prediction seemed silly when Christina first arrived at the Bra...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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The members of a talented, eccentric, English family eagerly enter slogan-writing contests and are rewarded with such prizes as a trip to a health farm and the opportunity to appear in a toothpaste commercial...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Tension grew between them, angering Alanna "Hate me if you want." The grooves near Rolt's mouth deepened sardonically. "But you will be mine--in every way!" Alanna gasped with surprise. Rot's boldness was unbelievable. H...

• Mar-1978
• / Romantic Suspense
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THE GIFT. Chris Maguire was young, beautiful -- and special. That was why she had left Brad and gone North to the sleepy New England college town. She was determined to know once and for all the nature of the force that possessed her, desperate t...

• Mar-1978
• / Historical Romance
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On village greens throughout Britain, stone memorials stand witness to the Great War and its terrible cost in human life. The remote Devon village of Shallowford is no exception. Many of its men fail to return, and many of those who do are forced to ...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"One day soon, you're going to be my wife! "Oh, no I'm not," Clemmie muttered under her breath. She felt that Rickaby must be completely mad. She had known him less than a week. He was almost a total stranger. Besides she ...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Call it a whim; but no you then no deal!" Coll Sullivan had been just as self-assured when he was a boy in rags. Now he was a man with power, and he oozed arrogance! He had bought their old family home -- but why did he want her, too? ...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Why hadn't he told her who he was...? Louise was glad that her job as an interior decorator had taken her to the old manor house in Wales. Redecorating it would help take her mind off Barry, whose only interest in her had been financial. Sh...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Space Opera
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STRANDED ON A JUNGLE PLANET, LUKE SKYWALKER AND PRINCESS LEIA FOUND THEMSELVES DESPERATELY RACING IMPERIAL STORMTROOPERS TO CLAIM A GEM THAT HAD MYSTERIOUS POWERS OVER THE FORCE Luke Skywalker expected trouble when he volunteered to follow Princes...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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What is Flashy doing? -in the drawing room of a great English mansion with the redhot-blooded mistress of a violently jealous blue-blood? -in between a pair of Chinese beauties who are willing to do anything and everything to close the gap between Ea...

• Mar-1978
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• Mar-1978
• / Science Fiction
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ENDLESS PERIL…ANGUISHED FATE! Rescued by a bold sailor, held in the confines of a lascivious brothel, Cija faces yet another life-and-death ordeal. She escapes but her respite is short-lived. Treachery and betrayal sweep her into the temple o...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"You're a neighbor, I just gave you a lift" Scott explained. But it wasn't quite that simple. By mistaking Scott Redman for the local taxi driver, Fern felt she had put herself in his debt. Fern Sutton had come to the village of...

• Mar-1978
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• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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Renowned spiritual teacher Joel Goldsmith reveals our self-completeness in God in which we dwell in the secret place of the most High and are fed with the bread of life. By learning about our real, mystical selves, we discover a greater meaning in th...

• Mar-1978
• / Romance
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When Isabel Moore's father dies, she finds herself, at the age of thirty, suddenly freed from eleven years of uninterrupted care for a helpless man. With all the patterns of her life suddenly rendered meaningless, she turns to childhood friends for s...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Their marriage was like a business deal Con, hurt and angry when her fiance proved unfaithful, walked right into marriage with Greg Mason. A successful British Columbia rancher, he needed a wife to obtain custody of his nephew. It didn't ta...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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The senior officers of Britain's secret service move to plug a leak by eliminating a junior colleague, unmindful of a veteran intelligence processor whose decency, courage, and capacity for love threaten all security...

• Mar-1978
• / Historical Romance
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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Annie's pony is killed by a neighbor the night before her first horse show and as she seeks revenge, Annie almost destroys her friendship with Carey. ...

• Mar-1978
• / Historical
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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I can't sell it, but I can give it away!" So, because of an old man's enmity, Reyna Chapman became the owner of half a tropical island. She had only briefly known "Patch" Harper, her benefactor, yet she felt honor bound...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / Science Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Historical
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This is the story of two men, best friends, who must ride to a bloody confrontation on a cold and starless night. At Head of Mountain their trails are destined to cross, and for one of them the trail will end there....

• Mar-1978
• / Gothic
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MAKE-BELIEVE BRIDE… was the role Courtney was to assume, wife-in-name-only to fascinating Kirby McClery. And here she was at Clerycastle, a replica of the McClery’s ancestral estate in Ireland, set high on the coast of Oregon. Here where the...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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CLERYCASTLE THE WOLF WAS THE SYMBOL OF THE McCLERYS A wolf's green eyes glinted from Lord McClery's ring. The yelping of penned wolves rose from the garden of Clerycastle. And there were tales, told by the Irish villagers, of a young wo...

• Mar-1978
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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This is the most moving, wet-eyed, sweet, classic romance in the world! It is a story of courage and love and hard work all put together. Clair is such a dedicated, loving, determined, awesome, sweet guy. And Orlean is perfect for him. She's sweet, s...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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LIFE ON LONG ISLAND WAS AN X-RATED FILM, BUT JUDITH NEVER GOT TO STAR... Thirty-tour, bright and bored, Judith Singer knee something intriguing was going on in Shorehaven After ten years, she was sure it wasn't her marriage. What was going on w...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Historical Romance
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Katherine of Valois, raised amidst the madness and lechery of the French court, wed to a conquering English king, Henry V, and now alone and afraid in a world of treachery and violence. Owen Tudor, incredibly handsome and gifted, a poet and singer by...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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Jonathan Yardley called A Family Trust "his longest, his most ambitious and his best a book with serious purposes that manages to entertain at the same timerich in carefully observed details, in quick, sharp perceptions that reveal more than one at f...

• Mar-1978
• / Historical Mystery
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Someone had murdered a Munchkin. The corpse lay bleeding on the yellow brick road that leads to the land of Oz. Young and frightened starlet, Judy Garland summons private detective Toby Peters to the M.G.M sound stage. His assignment: keep the murder...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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An Edwardian murder mystery set on the unforgiving Antarctic tundra . . . Captain Sir Eugene Stewart chose the gentlemen to join his great 1910 expedition to the South Pole with great precision, each man selected for his skills to surv...

• Mar-1978
• / Amateur Sleuth
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"A sophisticated and baffling thriller . . . a real bone-freezer." -- Publishers Weekly"Ingenious, witty, literate -- at once irreverent and compassionate -- an impressive tour indeed for a first-time novelist." -- Los Angeles Times"Well-paced, tig...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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The best short stories of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight, who was best known for his short stories, filled with sardonic wit and unusual adventure--so this is a collection of the best of the best of the best. 'Nuff said. Read & enjoy!...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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After the plane crash, Sharon couldn't remember who she was. Nor why she'd come to England. Why should this man who claimed to be her brother-in-law regard her with such bitter contempt? "Don't stare at me with wounded eyes," h...

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• / Action Adventure
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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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The island was a paradise of golden sands and blue skies - of burning desires...but not for Beth. Beth had come to marry Willard Petrie, a widower twice her age; a gentle man who would replace desire with respect. Or so she thought. The island ha...

• Mar-1978
• / Science Fiction
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The Hugo and Nebula Award�"winning novel from the New York Times�"bestselling author of The King’s Daughter.   On an Earth scarred by nuclear war, Snake harnesses the power of venom to cure illnesses and vaccinate against disease. The healer...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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A black-and-white sheep dog and two red mules journey from Arizona to Colorado to rejoin their master, enduring exhaustion, hunger, thirst, and other dangers of travel through the untamed West of the 1880s...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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From African tribal war to the American Civil War, from a proud Ashanti village to the slave ship Jubilation, to the powerful Ackerly Plantation of South Carolina, to a fugitive's freedom in Hellbottom Swamp, and to the lawless Indian territory of th...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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“Narayan makes this treasury of Indian folklore and mythology readily accessible to the general reader . . . he captures the spirit of the narrative.” -- Library JournalThe Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy tha...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Mar-1978
• / Science Fiction
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On Gor, the other world in Earth's orbit, the term beast can mean any of three things: First, there are the Kuril, the monsters from space who are about to invade that world. Second, there are the Gofean warriors, men whose fighting ferocity is i...

• Mar-1978
• / Gothic
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There was the promise of wedding bells, orange blossoms and endless joy…and then there was tragedy. Lila Bruce, accompanied by her elderly maiden aunt, journeys to California to marry the handsome Giles Castle. But when she finally arrives after a ...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could she say goodbye again Logan Tate had walked out of Marianne's life eight years before, breaking her heart as cru as he had broken their engagement. Now he was back--a widower, with a little girl who desperately needed a mother. "I...

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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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FROM SHTETL TO MANSION--THE WONDERFULLY RICH EPIC OF A WOMAN'S LOVES, A FAMILY'S FORTUNES, AND A CENTURY'S HOPES AND TRAGEDIES Anna, born in hopeless poverty, survived the terrible tenements with one passionate conviction: she would never suffer ...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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THE GALACTIC MEDAL OF HONOR was the most important, the most coveted award of all time. It was given only to a handful of the bravest and most self-sacrificing of those defending Earth from the mysterious alien invaders that had appeared fifty years...

• Mar-1978
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• Mar-1978
• / Historical
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Joyce Rockwood has written vividly and beautifully about the Cherokees before. This warm, amusing novel, which takes place in 1750, shows the same brilliance, but with a lighter touch. It is about Groundhog, a young Cherokee boy, and his horse, Mid...

• Mar-1978
• / Action Adventure
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• Mar-1978
• / Mystery
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• Mar-1978
• / Historical Romance
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The story of the beautiful Dane women of Land's End -- and the man tormented by their love. The man in their life was Philip Alexander. The first time he knew fulfillment, it was in the arms of Vivienne Dane. He was Romeo to her Juliet, slave to her...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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Near plush Eaton Square a house is under police siege. Inside, a child is being held for ransom by two kidnappers. Outside, conducting the police operation, is Detective Chief Superintendent William Bulloch. However, the siege is overlaid by somethin...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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They met in Israel: Meri, a cool, lovely blonde from Philadelphia's Maine Line, and Arik, a brash, young Israeli commando with tanned skin, tawny hair, and dazzling blue-green eyes. She had money, prestige, the best of everything; he cared only for h...

• Mar-1978
• / Historical Romance
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A THRILLING TAPESTRY OF DANGER AND ROMANCE A chance meeting propelled her into the opulence of Parisian society and all it held in store.... A rendezvous, by destiny decreed, changed the course of her life.... Used, betrayed, at the mercy of...

• Mar-1978
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Science Fiction
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Jules and Yvette d'Alembert had faced challenges before - but rarely one as daunting as this. To them fell the perilous task of infiltrating a vicious conspiracy which threatened to destroy the Stanley dynasty and throw the whole of interstellar civi...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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The most dazzling beauties of London would have given all to trade places with Miss Annette Redding yet this spirited young lady fought with fury against her fate as unwilling bride of the wealthy, the handsome, the insufferably arrogant Earl of Ardl...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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After all, he was related to her... So why all the fuss, wondered Bryony. True, they were not blood relatives, but Bryony had always thought of Dominic, her stepbrother, as just that -- a brother. Now her friend Marion was implying that things ...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Contempt flashed from Morgan's eyes And his attitude puzzled Susannah. Was it jealousy that made him so sarcastic whenever she went to see John Forrester? If it was, she could see no reason for it. Morgan had made it plain that his heart&#...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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Sun Horse, Moon Horse is the story of Lubrin Dhu, third son of the Chieftain of the Iceni - the Early Iron Age horse people, who live by their skill in breeding and driving their great horse herds on the high chalk downs. As a child, Lubrin sees t...

• Mar-1978
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• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Mystery
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The scene: Southern California The beach at Malibu, the sleazier sides of Venice and the city of Pelican Bay. The motivation: power and money. The characters: a missing woman, a dead congressman, a multimillionaire, a Mafia boss and, his old colle...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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You can't force me to stay on here!" But Ty Frazer could and did. What Greer regarded as a simple business transaction was fast turning into a war of wills. Ty stubbornly refused to buy her half of the Nova Scotia lumber business she ha...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / Historical Romance
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There had been two beautiful women in Gilles de Severgny's life; was there room for a third? Emma Davenport asked herself soon after her marriage to the man who was rumored to be the wealthiest--and certainly the handsomest--man in France. The first,...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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It Happened In Spain Return to Spain? It was impossible! For Spain, to Catherine Garcia, held too many bitter memories. She had been brought up on the story of that fearful night during the Civil War when her father had been brutally murdered and ...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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Turning torture and brainwashing inside out, Ruxton combated his cruel oriental captors with their own subtle techniques. The Violent Man is the startling novel of a man who pitted himself against the brains of a nation, the might of an army, and the...

• Mar-1978
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Who is Kalki, and why is he planning to destroy the world -- and everything in it? And if Kalki is a mystical legend, then why does his ultimate world include only a select few chosen to breed a new human race?...

• Mar-1978
• / Fantasy
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• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"You're going to get what you deserve!" Ryan Langton's smooth taunt set Kylie's teeth on edge. She hated Ryan with a passion. She would hate him forever. After all, hadn't Ryan been responsible for her father's death? ...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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You're no match for Max, they warned her But Lee couldn't quite believe all they said about Max von Reistoven. Then she discovered he'd stop at nothing to restore her inherited chalet to his own castle estate. She wanted simple just...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"You won't get away from me this time." Rudolph's voice was arrogant. "Because if you try running away, I'll come after you. You're going to marry me, Janey, and give our son a name!" Janey had to agree for the c...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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On the last day of December 1921, three enigmatic men - Cairo Martyr, a blue-eyed African who controls the Middle East's supply of aphrodisiac mummy dust; O'Sullivan Beare, a former Irish patriot and gunrunner who has made a fortune selling spurio...

• Mar-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"See the island of dreams," they urged And Sally Herrick, recently arrived on another Indian Ocean island, was intrigued enough to go. It was a turning point in her life. Spoiled, rich and used to having her own way, she came face to fa...

• Mar-1978
• / Historical Romance
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From a lush subtropical island to the shores of England -- the lusty novel of a young woman's sensual awakening Kate had never been stirred by a man -- until now. Kate's first glimpse of the man who was to turn her life upside down wa...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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The sinner and the savior, His name was Nathan-bar-Yehudah. He was born to wealth, power, worldliness. Yet strangely enough, his features closely resembled a youth who was his total opposite-a poverty-stricken carpenter's son from Galilee. and th...

• Mar-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Literary
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Reflections on a Marine Venus explores life on a magical and enchanting island (Rhodes) right after World War II. It is about Greece when it was a demi-paradise. But it is also about the distillation of life and experience, the savoring of all the ex...

• Apr-1978
• / Mystery
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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NOBODY GETS THE BETTER OF THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS Eleven-year-old Gilly Hopkins is famous for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. None of her foster homes has been able to tame her yet. So when Gilly is sent to live with the Tr...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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