Books Published in October 1976

• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS... and lovely young Amelia Kane is determined to find out where her home really was. Living with a fun-loving roommate and working for the airlines, Amy had made a nice life for herself since her mother's death. But all sh...

• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Young Mea Marlow met Lucian Becker in Switzerland -- the first man she had met, in fact, since leaving school -- and lost no time falling in love with him. But Lucian, it was clear, had been earmarked by Mea's beautiful mother as her next husband...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Joan Foster is a secret writer of Gothic romances. When her outrageously feminist book, Lady Oracle, becomes a bestseller, everything in her life changes. To escape her deteriorating marriage, her affair with an artist, and the criminal urges of a f...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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In a collection of austere portraits of personalities including Dwight Eisenhower, Truman Capote, Rose Mary Woods, and Andy Warhol, Avedon demonstrates his aim to retain the sitter's identity and solidity of being without using illusionistic effects...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Suspense
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"WATSON--THERE'S NOT A MOMENT TO BE LOST! WE MUST SET OUT FOR NEW YORK THIS VERY DAY!" With this hasty entreaty the world's most dauntless detective is off on adventure once again. Here in the sin capital of the New World--where his beloved Irene ...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Once there was a mighty empire spanning the stars. Once there had been great emperors ruling hundreds of inhabited planets, patrolling the star lanes with fleets of starcruisers, built to the perfection of a technology never before seen by man.And li...

• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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"You're too young to wear the flower of love," Max Thornton told Tina, when she fled from Pierre Lamont and heartbreak. Then two years later, when Pierre wanted her, she recognized the truth in her heart at last: it was Max she had wanted...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Historical Romance
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Ellen Watson was born into servitude. The humiliating life of hard toil was the only one she ever knew. Until Jeremy Porter. The eminently successful New York lawyer saw a ravishingly beautiful woman in the rough and tattered serving girl. He saw the...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. “Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary preci...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel.Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trum...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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The Emerald Buddha, twenty-four inches high and made of purest jade, presides like a fabulous toy over the magnificence of the Grand Palace in Bangkok. The temple in which it sits on its elaborate throne is considered Thailand’s most revered shrin...

• Oct-1976
• / Space Opera
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SHE WAS PRIESTESS-RULER .. . in a world of humanoid aliens. Yet she was as human as he was, though their star-nations had been bitter enemies for two thousand years. "Welcome to my world, Kurt Morgan," she said. "We seem to be humanity's orphans ...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Serena did not see any particular harm in pretending to be the granddaughter of nice old Mrs. Tonetti. But that was before she had crossed swords with the indomitable Jordan Kerr. Deeply suspicious of the whole thing, he was clearly not going to leav...

• Oct-1976
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Action Adventure
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A PRICELESS ORE INSIDE AN UNDERSEA WRECK... A U.S. MISSILE PROJECT LEAKED TO THE SOVIETS... A DESPERATE SALVAGE MISSION--IN A DEADLY HURRICANE! The President's secret task force develops the ultimate defensive weapon. At its core: byzanium, a ra...

• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Working in Corsica, Lexa was warned by Suzanne Moriani to keep away from "her" property, Bryden Frankland. But Bryden was so patently uninterested in her that Lexa wondered ruefully why Suzanne had ever bothered to see her as a possible rival... ....

• Oct-1976
• / Historical Romance
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Financial genius Bill Hitchcock, chosen to manage Saudi Arabia's vast oil profits, learns of the Western world's precarious financial balance and the Shah of Iran's grandiose scheme to control the entire Middle East...

• Oct-1976
• / Thriller
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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When Kipper and Larry set out to explore the ravine on the edge of town, Kipper thought it looked eerie. But there was nothing really mysterious about it until they met a man who said he was digging for Mohawk Indian artifacts… And then they saw a ...

• Oct-1976
• / Gothic
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THE SHADOW OF DOOM seemed to pass before lovely Nurse Gillian Owen's eyes the moment she saw the towers of Brecon Castle. The townspeople had warned her of danger and odd goings-on at the brooding old mansion, but Gillian had given her word to se...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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John Henry Faulk was a popular radio and television personality during the McCarthy era. He was host of his own radio program on WCBS in New York when he publicly challenged AWARE, Inc., an ultrapatriotic group engaged in the systematic blacklisting ...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Suspense
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Forced to crash land because of a faulty electrical system, a young RAF pilot finds salvation on a chilly Christmas Eve. By the author of The Day of the Jackal, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Odessa File, and No Comebacks. ...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Literary
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Marie Calumet is a light hearted, satirical account of rural life in the fictional parish of Saint Ildefonse, Quebec, in 1860. The appearance of Suzon, an alluring adolescent of 17 and cousin to Curé Flavel produces a scandal.The priest is forced to...

• Oct-1976
• / Historical Romance
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THE INNER FLAME OF LOVE - THE DARKEST FIRES OF DESIRE Beautiful Caroline Fane thought she had known the ultimate in degradation and danger when she was unjustly accused of adultery and murder and flogged naked in public. She just barely escaped ...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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“A novel of extraordinary richness and power. Sensual, witty, vividly evocative in every sentence. A fine book which achieves the real texture of life so often absent from fiction, and as such is not only entirely satisfying but resonantly memor...

• Oct-1976
• / Historical Romance
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Successful screenwriter Kate Alexander, turning forty and losing her selfconfidence, engages in a succession of erotic fantasies and adventures which culminates in an overwhelming French excursion and a painful decision...

• Oct-1976
• / Literary
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A collection of six plays by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, spanning the early years of the Austrian playwright's careerThe first full-length play The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of H...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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A wave of terror sweeps through high places on both sides of the law when a young undercover investigator and a small-time drug dealer are brutally ambushed and killed, months apart, by bullets from the same gun....

• Oct-1976
• / Thriller
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• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Emily Thorne considered herself the steady, quiet one of her family; she carried on with her job, saved for the future, hardly gave a thought to love and marriage. But was it true, or was she simply unawakened? Perhaps her stormy relationship with th...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Sebastian Holme was a painter who, as the exhibition catalogue recorded, had met a tragic death during a foreign revolution. Art dealer Braunkopf has made a small fortune from the exhibition. Unfortunately, Holme turns up at the private view in th...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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The Simney family, of Hazlewood Hall, have a dubious history. Sir George Simney, who was travelling in Australia before the baronetcy fell to him, sleeps with a shotgun by his side. When he is found dead in the library, the Reverend Adrian Deamer wil...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Historical Romance
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A full rich romance of an American girl, Faith Marlowe, in the swirl of royal and diplomatic life in the capitals of Europe, and in the New England and Washington homes of her tradition. The breathtaking thrills and anguish of great love and loyalty ...

• Oct-1976
• / Gothic
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Lovely young Marcia Wing felt as if she had been rescued from infernal darkness to emerge into heavenly light when she was adopted by the Phenwicks. The splendor of Merrihew Manor, the glowing kindness and dazzling beauty of her foster mother, Susann...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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TV director Phil Post couldn't believe his eyes when he caught the shot on camera. There on the roof, above the scoreboard, sitting with his back to the wall, was a man in a long-sleeved shirt. There were papers on the ground in front of him, but at ...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Women's Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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DAW Books, 1976 [not stated]; 3rd printing per number line. Nice collection of some of Leiber's stories and essays, most originally published in the 1950's and 60's. Also includes two original tales, "Cat's Cradle" and "Beauty and the Beasts" [Fafhrd...

• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Don't lose your temper," her mother warned Andrea when she set out to tell top TV interviewer, Maxwell Lane, just what she thought of him. Andrea was sure his ruthless interview with her beloved uncle had contributed to his death. ...

• Oct-1976
• / Traditional Regency
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FLIRTATIOUS, MISCHIEVOUS, SHE USED HER BEAUTY IN A RECKLESS WAGER...TO WIN A GAME OF LOVE AND REVENGE. The Whims of Passion Beautiful and coltish Georgiana Eversley was well aware of her intoxicating powers. She took it for granted that she could...

• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Kate Gibson knew that when she took over the job of factory doctor it would be difficult to persuade the men to accept a woman. She certainly hadn't expected to have the same trouble with Joshua Howard, the forceful head of the company. "Y...

• Oct-1976
• / Private Investigator
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Hired to return a kidnapped child to her father, Alo Nudger discovers that he's been set up for fraud--and possibly murder. "One of the best and most unusual novels in the history of private eye fiction....

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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The Conquerors describes the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communists in the Cantonese revolution of the 1920s. It is both an exciting war story and a gallery of intellectual portraits: a ruthless Bolshevik revolutionary, a disillusione...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear ...

• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Six years ago Catherine Fulton and Jared Royal had met and clashed embarassingly. Now, when her father's will stipulated Jared as her guardian for the six months prior to her twenty-first birthday, Catherine was no more enthusiastic about the arr...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Action Adventure
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FADE IN/FADE OUT An eccentric professor invents the world's greatest entertainment device -- a gadget that will let you watch your own most secret fantasies on your television set, in glorious full color, with stereophonic sound an optional extra. ...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Jim Lynne is idly playing darts in Liverpool when his brother, Ted, calls him over to a table to ask a question about the ship that he is working on. It seems the ship, strangely named the 290, is not the cargo ship that people are saying it is. What...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Traditional Regency
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When lovely Jeanne-Anne de St. Martin wed the dashing Marquis de Valerian, it was a marriage of necessity for her, and an amusing game for him. Despite her French name, Jeanne-Anne was British through and through, and in the hostile nation of Napoleo...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Miranda was enjoying her job at Drumdarrow Castle, looking after the priceless collection of works of art. She even managed to get on. reasonably well with her employer, the unpredictable Graham Lairdlaw. But Graham's pretty, possessive girlfrien...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Stranded in Madeira, Samantha found herself under the protection -- and, far more annoyingly, under the thumb-- of the lordly Joao Goncalves Zarco, the local lord of all he surveyed. The situation came to a head when he announced that she must marry ...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women's college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is a protégée of a po...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Alabama, 1956: While Elvis Presley was singing about love, one young woman was learning about life.

Everyone loves Maggie Deloach, one of the most popular girls on campus with everything going for her. An impeccable lineage. Picture-perfect looks...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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In the cool, historic sanctuary of Nemi rests the spirit of Diana, the Benevolent-Malign Goddess whose priests once stalked the sacred grove. Now Hubert Mallindaine, self-styled descendent of the Italian huntress, has claimed spiritual rights to a vi...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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They call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost space colonies. Alex Alexander, ship...

• Oct-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Michelle was 22 years old before she learned that she had a twin brother. Apparently he was living in Greece where he had been brought up. She traveled post-haste to meet him there, and Georgi welcomed her with delight. The same, unfortunately, could...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Steve York, 18, must write a 100-page paper to make up the credit for a failed English class. He chooses to document his sophomore and junior years, revealing how the gifted National Merit Scholar son of an over-achieving father has become an alienat...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Great American humorist James Thurber’s beloved, madcap, and eerily timely fairy tale about an island society robbed of the wonders of the letter O -- in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckle-edged paper, and the original, full-color il...

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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Marry Me is subtitled “A Romance” because, in the author’s words, “people don’t act like that anymore.” The time is 1962, and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood, Connecticut. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and ...

• Oct-1976
• / Science Fiction
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Waylock had been granted eternal life-but now he was killing on borrowed time.

Gavin Waylock had waited seven years for the scandal surrounding his former immortal self to be forgotten and had kept his identity concealed so that he could onc...

• Oct-1976
• / Science Fiction
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Jubal Droid seeks his fortune as a Thariot spy. Beautiful women and betrayal surround him when he risks his life to expose the respectable citizen who would devastate the planet Maske....

• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1976
• / General Fiction
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“[Wodehouse’s] entire genius was for being funny.” -- Douglas Adams Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, is back “to spread sweetness and light” wherever he goes. At the request of L...

• Nov-1976
• / General Fiction
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Three minutes before the collision, the second mate caught a glimpse of a foam-shrouded shape lurking half a mile ahead. Fourteen minutes afterwards, the ship plunged beneath the icy waters of the North Sea. Into this brief space of time is packed a ...

• Nov-1976
• / General Fiction
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Written by Baldasar Castiglione, count of Novilara and an Italian courtier himself, "The Book of the Courtier" remains as one of the most important and definitive accounts of Renaissance court life. Organized as a series of fictional conversa...

• Nov-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-1976
• / General Fiction
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Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk.The comic genius ...

• Nov-1976
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-1976
• / General Fiction
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The ''Prisoner of Mao,'' is a harrowing account of life in China's vast apparatus of prisons and labor camps, describing how Chinese authorities used psychological techniques to coerce the innocent and the guilty into submission. It also revealed how...

• Nov-1976
• / General Fiction
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