Books Published in May 1979

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After discovering that a plastic drinking mug bears a decal with a dangerously high lead content, twelve-year-old Alfred Caro manages to bring about a recall of the product and must deal with his father's advertising agency that promoted the mug...

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• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Gothic
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'The reader is thoroughly entranced and entertained' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today' P. D. JAMES 'There's a speck of surprise on most every page' KIRKUS REVIEWS After an expensive dinner ...

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• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Eric! ...Tyra's pounding heart echoed the crash of the waves below as too suddenly the memory of his touch, of the drowning desire that possessed her each time they met, came back to torment her.... Like the chill Scandinavian wind, she saw again ...

• May-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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When Captain John Dacre is killed fighting in Ireland, Mary Dacre is left a widow at twenty eight with four children. When she becomes the second wife of handsome and distinguished Edward Garnharm she is considered lucky. But Edward's past has lef...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe—both alive and ghostly—ar...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe—both alive and ghostly—ar...

• May-1979
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• May-1979
• / Gothic
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A magnificent, colorful novel of the circus world of the 1940s and 1950s, rich in detail, bursting with power and emotion.
Mario Santelli, a member of the famous flying Santelli family, is a great trapeze artist. Tommy Zane is his protege.
As n...

• May-1979
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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THE PRINCE Edward VII -- Prince of Wales, heir to the throne, lover of race horses and the gaming life, and regal admirer of the Victorian world's most beautiful women. THE LILY Mrs. Lillie Langtry -- one of the most stunningly beautiful...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Action Adventure
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BARTER FOR DEATH Hawk said "Find Jamba." AXE isn't exactly the Missing Persons Bureau, and Jamba's dossier would make your hair stand on end. Nick Carter knew what he had to do. JAMBA had set up a system of barter -- guns for ganja. It's a grea...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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Pandora is a sweet, bright, sixteen-year-old girl when she leaves her parents in London to spend the summer in Wales with her great-great aunt Rachel. Since she knows Rachel Ellis is very old, Pandora is surprised when she meets a youthful woman who ...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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Published in 1979, this is a biography of Maxine Cheshire, a famous reporter who dug out the incredible stories behind the headlines, from Sinatra to the skeletons in the Kennedy closet to Koreagate.....

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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Time was running out for Bob Kinnaird. Without much warning, the Hunter—the green protoplasmic alien that lived inside him and cured all his ills—had suddenly become his destroyer. Day by day Bob grew weaker and weaker, and only specia...

• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Amid the glamour and decadence of Paris, Rome and Cap Ferrat a group of insatiable men and women come together. Their hopes, their fears and their dreams lie in...

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.

To Anne, the timid outsider, it is her chan...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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Focuses on Prester John, Columbus, Paracelsus, seekers after sunken Atlantis and the lost treasure of the Aztecs, and other extraordinary men and women who have gone beyond the familiar and explored the unknown...

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• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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A great romantic storyteller carries you away -- from the wealth and splendor of a modern Texas city, to the rugged majesty of Mexico's High Sierras! All her life Sheila Rogers got what she wanted, then didn't want it anymore -- including ...

• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I don't care why you came back." Maggie's eyes flashed angrily as she added, "You're the father of my son -- but that's all. I divorced you five years ago because I wanted you out of my life. I don't want you no...

• May-1979
• / Gothic
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KATE MORAN KNEW WHAT SHE RISKED WHEN SHE ENTERED THE CASTLE. AND ALL HER FEARS CAME TRUE. Ireland was swept by famine, the villagers were on the brink of death, and lovely young Kate Moran knew there was but one way to save them and herself. Sh...

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• May-1979
• / Gothic
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• May-1979
• / Gothic
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It didn't look like a setting for murder. The mountains, the quaint village, and the lake were like something out of a child's picture book. Yet Ann Cole couldn't shake the feeling that something was dreadfully wrong. Her sister's let...

• May-1979
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The tabernacle in the wilderness, which became the center of all worship of the children of Israel during their journeyings, was designed by God Himself in heaven. It was a perfect replica of something that already existed before; it is a picture...

• May-1979
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• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could the legend possibly come true? Strangely enough, her fiance's assurance that he'd have married her even if she'd gone blind, only increased Anna's prewedding doubts. So she fled to her island cottage in Scotland. But St. M...

• May-1979
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• / General Fiction
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After experiencing marriage, motherhood, and the disintegration of her family, Marguerite Heber becomes an Anglican nun, setting out on a spiritual odyssey in the midst of a crisis of faith and emotion...

• May-1979
• / Historical
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ON THE SIZZLING KANSAS PRAIRIE In 1880, the Old West was changing. The farmers were settling in. The fences were going up. The cowmen saw their wild, open world shrinking -- and they blamed it on the "foreign" nesters. Suddenly, at Jayhawk Junc...

• May-1979
• / Science Fiction
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Escaping the religious tyranny of a 31st-century Earth by a fluke assignment to the planet Ozagen, linguist Hal Yarrow found that the worst of Earth had followed him - Pornsen, his personal Guardian Angel, vigilant for any evidence of sin or wrong th...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Historical Romance
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In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the ...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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If you ask children in Ireland who really discovered America, you may get this surprising answer: St. Brendan, of course. He left Ireland 1,500 years ago in a leather boat to find paradise. Tales of the wonders he and his crew saw and the Monster Ter...

• May-1979
• / Suspense
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Herbie Kruger, a European intelligence expert, must uncover the connections between Hildegarde Fenderman, an aging German beauty who suddenly enters his life, and bloodcurdling plots in wartime Germany and France...

• May-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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Echoing footsteps threatened behind her. Julie froze. The underground garage was as silent as a tomb -- silent except for the frightening sound of her blood pounding through her veins. Suddenly a man leapt from the shadows. A gun was pointed at her b...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Her pride was like steel -- her passion like molten fire Gorgeous, flame-haired Desiree Grayson was raised on a plantation where slaves were imprisoned in breeding huts and the cruelest punishments were part of a savage system. Ashamed of these in...

• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could she possibly make Luke forget? Debra Seton hadn't expected to find the man of her dreams in the interior of British Columbia. But Luke Watson -- a handsome, widowed rancher and son of her mother's best friend -- presented a challenge...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Law Enforcement
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FATAL RECALL When her husband begins acting strangely, the wife of a famous consumer advocate hires San Francisco P.I. John Marshall Tanner to find out why. Tanner is convinced the case is a simple matter of blackmail. Certainly a man like Roland ...

• May-1979
• / Historical Romance
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He seemed to see right through her...and a little chill crept over Betsy. 'Tell me,' he said, eyes narrowing. 'what's the real reason you came to Yorkshire.' Her blood froze. Had Jeremy discovered her ruse. She'd taken a position as a paid companion ...

• May-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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EMERALD EYES... ... a lovely face and a lively intelligence were all young Catharine Marlow brought when her gambling father deposited her with her wealthy and selfish aunt, Lady Harriet. Lady Harriet cared only for her frivolous daughter and m...

• May-1979
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• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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• May-1979
• / Historical Romance
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While the world teeters on the brink of World War I, innocent Sabrina St. Claire is brutally uprooted from her life as the golden girl of Washington society, and thrust by fate into the midst of morally decadent France. Performing as an exotic cab...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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The restless rats return in James Herbert's Lair, the second horror novel in the Rats trilogy.The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and bro...

• May-1979
• / Mystery
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• May-1979
• / Science Fiction
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By the mid-21st Century, technology had become much too complicated for humans to handle -- and the computer network that had grown up to keep civilization from tripping over its own shoelaces was also beginning to be overwhelmed. Something Had To Be...

• May-1979
• / Historical
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• May-1979
• / Historical Romance
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"I'll never manage to hit a target!" Princess Anya was reluctant to take Zaro's pistol. She was a poor shot, and besides, even the murderous brigands surrounding their carriage were not enough to induce her to kill another person. But this was not wh...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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A chessboard of violence  On one side was the most powerful Sicilian family in New York, with an interest in every form of illegal moneymaking in the metropolis. On the other side was a ruthless and determined black organization intent on c...

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• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Joanne was a shadow of her lovely mother Everywhere she went, Clea Thorpe was the center of attention. And Joanne had been content enough living in her shadows--until Ben Norris arrived at their villa in Nice. He seemed drawn to Clea, even offe...

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• May-1979
• / Suspense
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Stone is the head of an elite arm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- and a master of the psychologically sophisticated art of debriefing. When Oleg Kulakov defects from Russia, handcuffed to a sealed diplomatic pouch, it’s Stone’s job to find out if...

• May-1979
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• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Erin wanted a man she could trust Despite her new teaching position at the Nova Scotia college, a heartbroken Erin McCourt found it difficult to get over her ex-fiance's deception. Professor Simon Grayson, however, practically bullied her o...

• May-1979
• / Historical Romance
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She was a wild, dazzling woman-child when he met her -- a passionate hellion who would never surrender to ...THE TAMING AS WILD AS THE WHIPPING SEA WIND... was Cameron --- beautiful. innocent, shameless: a spark of Scotland's blazing past. Wi...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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The classic novel of suspense set in New York's Little Italy of the 1970's and featuring the resourceful amateur detective and home cook who wowed readers in the debut novel, Minnie Santangelo's Mortal Sin. To this tasty literary dish add a dash of t...

• May-1979
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• May-1979
• / Space Opera
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KIRK: IN DANGER OMNE: REBORN Never mourn Black Omne was the warning. Now through the Phoenix miracle of rebirth, the dread enemy lives again. Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise crew must grapple hand to hand with the most dangerous arch villain in t...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Kathy Miller was thrilled at the prospect of a summer in exotic Haiti, island of mystery and magic. Even more exiting, she'd be secretary to the best-selling author, Scott Blackburn. However, Kathy soon discovered that the handsome writer was m...

• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Jade refused to be his latest conquest Laurent Sevigny, dark, handsome, appeared to be a reincarnation of a French corsair--a man who would steal a girl's heart while he plundered the seven seas. Jade was not going to be seduced by his magn...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize�"winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee ...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Literary
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In this "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V. S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man -- an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly ...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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"John Nichols has remarkable insight into life's crazy blend of comedy and tragedy. . . . Pure pleasure to read." -- New York Times Book Review It's World War II, and young Wendall Oler has been sent to stay will his father's family in rural Stebbin...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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“A hilarious, sad . . . all too true novel about the rough underside of a college love affair.” -- John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace When eighteen-year-old Jerry Payne first meets Pookie Adams at the Friarsburg, Oklahoma, bus depot, he is ...

• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sara vowed she would not be hurt again Sara had been horrified when she learned that her new boss was to be Mark Fenwick. Now she listened to him anxiously. "I thought every trace of the old Sara was gone," he said enigmatically, "u...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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It's not easy to be fifteen and in love -- especially if the boy you love is seventeen, gorgeous, and doesn't even know you exist! Victoria is determined to be a mother's helper on Fire Island, where Jim will be spending the summer. So what if he's g...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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A SEARING MEGATON OF DOUBLE-EDGED DISASTER Monstrous, unstoppable, the meteorite hurtled toward a major American City. Within hours its journey would end in a flaming inferno of terror and death. As Foreman, veteran satellite tracker, raced against...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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Leonard Neeble, a short and portly kid with glasses, is an outcast at Bat Masterson Junior High, but then Mendelsohn turns up and introduces him to the Klugarsh Mind Control Course, hyperstellar archaeology, the Bermuda Triangle Chili-Parlor, and a n...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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The ability to see other-dimensional rings that float in Earth's atmosphere was a late mutation of a few space-age humans. Daryl was under the care of the institution for muters, and she had discovered that if you jumped through the right ring at the...

• May-1979
• / Fantasy
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TOO MANY LEGENDS Brian Duffy, aging soldier of fortune, had been hired in Venice by a strange old man who called himself Aurelianus Ambrosius. He was supposed to go to Vienna and act as bouncer at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer was brew...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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Fulfilling her dying father's wish, Rebecca Stratford married Robert, Marquess of Burlingame, assured that theirs would be a marriage in name only. But she was disturbed by the arrogant, brooding stranger who was now her husband. How could she preten...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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This book describes the origins of the communal household, explores the significance of this growing phenomenon, and offers the reader a comprehensive guide to joining or setting up a shared household....

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• May-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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"You're too late -- your sister is dead!" Yvonne flew to Guadeloupe for a visit--and found herself trying to solve the mystery of her sister's sudden death. The wealthy Saint-Clair family insisted it was suicide, but Yvonne suspected that the t...

• May-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Ferel McCauley was an impulsive, fiery beauty who yearned for passion and freedom - until she met the handsome, magnetic Matt Savage. However, the colonies were fighting a brutal battle for survival, and there was little time for promises of forever....

• May-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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How had she dared to love this man? The two men stood motionless on the deserted beach. A threatening gun was aimed and ready. High up on the sand dunes, Simone watched in horror. Suddenly a shot cracked through the silence. Simone screamed and...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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Walnut Grove, the first of Jane Gilmore Rushing's six West Texas novels, is the story of John Carlile's passage into manhood when the twentieth century was young. His story is intimately connected to the growth of the town of Walnut Grove and to the ...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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This Nebula Award�"nominated “work of awesome originality” (Robert Silverberg) is a mind-blowing exploration of telepathy and power on an Earth-like planet.   Earthman Jai Vedh was on a star voyage when his ship blew up, leaving him strande...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell explores the unique predicament of one's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body rebels at activity but the mind becomes more passiona...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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What the hell is happening on Fire Island? John Spencer has come to Fire Island with his lovely wife Kathy and their baby in the hopes of ministering to a new congregation. His friend has come up to visit and to help get the ministry up and runnin...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF CATS CRAZED WITH BLOODLUST A giant Doberman Pinscher -- the most vicious and deadly of killer dogs -- lay in a bloody heap, its unseeing eyes still glazed with astonished terror. A young dropout of an acid trip smile...

• May-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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Invitation to a game of death Angela happily accepted a job as secretary to tycoon Dimitri Yakoel. But as soon as she joined her wealthy employer at Twin Oaks, the old mansion in the Adirondack Mountains, she felt strange chills of foreboding. ...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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Explains the occurrence of biological clocks, which, for example, tell birds when and where to migrate, plants when to unfurl their leaves, and which affect human beings in various physical and emotional ways....

• May-1979
• / Science Fiction
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THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF MANKIND COMPLETES THE PUBLICATION OF THE SCIENCE FICTION OF CORDWAINER SMITH with fourteen stories set in his star-spanning future universe of scanners, planoforming ships that whisper among the stars, the animal-derived Und...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. And this new, young race who came now to take their place -- could they hope to defeat the ancient Enemy of All?...

• May-1979
• / Science Fiction
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It came from nowhere to strike the Earth a maddening blow! The only symptom is sudden psychosis, and no one is immune. Once again intrepid investigator Elias Kane and his giant, alien sidekick Pendrake are called upon to do the impossible: find the c...

• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Why should she agree to this crazy scheme? Lucy thought it would be a simple matter. Somehow, Jud Hemming was in possession of her mother's antique ring that her brother had lost. Lucy would explain--and Jud would give it back. Only it didn...

• May-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Love, Loss, and Love Again...Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of her work at a travel bookshop. But when her younger sister unceremoniously bursts into her quiet life one afternoon, Charl...

• May-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Caroline opened the door and saw Mr. Shepperton standing on the step. “Oh, it’s you!” she exclaimed in surprise.“Did you -- were you expecting someone else?” he asked.“Only the Queen,” replied Caroline, chuckling. “Don’t mind me,”...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Her retreat led her back to square one! Priscilla loved her boss, P.B. Lockhart. Since he was engaged to someone else, running away seemed a good idea. She didn't run far enough. She stopped unexpectedly to come to the aid of the elderly ...

• May-1979
• / Mystery
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• May-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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The delightful dilemma of a lady divided: her hand promised to one man and her heart lost to another.... "I shall marry the Earl of Carlington," Philippa Winslow declared. If she had to marry for money, and Philippa knew she must, then it was fortuna...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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New York in the early 1850s. The young, handsome and charming Thomas Westfield has come to the city with no particular ambition. Soon he is swept into the world of politics by day and bordellos by night. Playing his connections into wealth and respec...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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18712 - America is at war and while the battles rage on the Chesapeake and up and down the Eastern Shore, another set of battle lines is drawn at the Worth plantation. Driven by a lust for power that knows no bounds, Anthony Worth will sacrifice any...

• May-1979
• / Horror
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• May-1979
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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When someone sent distress signals to outer space from the planet Tschai, it was Adam Reith''s misfortune to be sent from Earth to investigate. Because when his ship came close to Tschai, it was torpedoed-and Adam escaped to the surface with his l...

• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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The situation called for drastic measures Laura had to get away from her South Sea island home -- away from the kindly but misguided couple who had tried to run her life since her guardian's death. When Yves Cunningham's boat sailed int...

• May-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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The Caretaker Wife is Barbara Whitehead's best selling novel, charming and fascinating, the novel represents a romantic and exciting period in history with all the descriptive presence that characterises Whitehead's novels. The novel also has all the...

• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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"There is one way -- you must marry me." Melanie could hardly believe she'd heard Jason Kerr correctly. Her father's death had left Melanie and her grandmother without much money, but they had hoped to manage. Then Melanie learn...

• May-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Maybe he'd change after the wedding But Jan didn't really think so, and she dreaded her approaching wedding. She and Jeremy were growing further apart, while her mother kept pushing her into this fashionable, expedient marriage. Despera...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-1979
• / Fantasy
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HE WALKS THE PERILOUS PATH FROM DISGRACE TO LEGEND Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad"--radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh......