Books Published in October 1977

• Oct-1977
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Across the stormy sea, destiny awaits.... Felix Brooke, the orphaned son of an English soldier and an aristocratic Spanish mother, has been raised in his grandfather's strict, loveless household in Villaverde, Spain. When Felix gains possession of a ...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Arranges in interlocking series twenty-six stories by Clarke, Asimov, Anderson, Simak, and others which together chronicle man's conquest of the galaxy, the wars of empire, and the dissolution of the great endeavor...

• Oct-1977
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1977
• / Historical Romance
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Original title: The Ghost of Archie Gilroy. A tempestuous historical romance of love's revenge. Barbara fears she's fallen in love with the elegant Englishman who ordered the Scottish rebel she had loved to be hanged. Shadowed Love T...

• Oct-1977
• / Fantasy
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"The CLUSTER series of SF adventures is set in a future focused on colonization of distant planets. Every living thing has a Kirlian aura that can be measured. Through transfer, a refinement of mattermission technology, the mind and personality of in...

• Oct-1977
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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She was unwelcome in her own home Nicky's father had left her his share of a plantation on the Pacific island of Malos and she was looking forward eagerly to her new life. But her father had left her more than the plantation. He had left he...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I misjudged you," he said. "Forgive me." Diane had looked forward to meeting her pen pal, Maria, for the first time. She had not expected to have her whole world turned upside down. Unfortunately, from the moment she met Maria&...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Mystery
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The Animal Factory goes deep into San Quentin, a world of violence and paranoia, where territory and status are ever-changing and possibly fatal commodities. Ron Decker is a newbie, a drug dealer whose shot at a short two-year stint in the can is t...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Spanish Bit Ranch is the insular domain of Senator Jackson McCanles; a kingdom carved from the Texas soil in the 1880's and containing thousands of acres of “steers and wire, mesa and windmills and horses, cap rock and barren trail and pleasant riv...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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A young girl growing up in a small Missouri town at the turn of the century tries to resolve the increasing conflict between her own predilection for fairies and magic and her father's strict Methodism....

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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CLASHES OF SPIRIT AND OF SWORD! Welcome to five incredible dreamworlds, where the noblest of heroes go forth to battle nightmares and phantasmagoria. Here, in realms of deepest enchantment, the true masters of Sword and Sorcery work their most ama...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"You're an extremely attractive female!" Rex declared as he kissed her. Yet Davina felt heartsick because he appeared not to love her. Though she had accepted Rex's offer to be housekeeper on his remote sheep farm, she suspected he'd offered th...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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It seemed to be only a light vapour, but it was evil incarnate, strong enough to knock a tough man down. Dr. Palfrey is up against an enemy greater than any he has faced before, who moves in a white, insidious mist that brings death to all but one. T...

• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Lucky at cards, unlucky in love." Tells word as they left the casino brought the haunted look back into Andrea Grant's eyes. The skiing holiday in Squaw Valley was all she'd hoped for. And she had totally ignored the warning voice...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Science Fiction
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RIDERS ON THE TIME STORM The time storm had devastated the Earth, and all but a small fraction of humankind has vanished. In the rubble of the world, three survivors had formed an unlikely trio: Marc Despard, determined to find a way to stop the t...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Semi-orphaned, semi-legitimate heir to crumbling Andromeda Park in the lush beauty of the Irish country-side, Darcy Dancer is raised by aging servants, tutored in basic skills by lovelorn Mr. Arlan, in hell-raising by incorrigible Foxy Slattery, and ...

• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Do you know just what you're doing?" Leon's cool question brought Fran abruptly back to her senses. It was true that for her uncle's sake she had tried to be friendly with Leon Aldridge. But falling in love with him was another matter entirely...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Laura Marching's pride and quick temper drove her to defy lawyer Mark Ross when this man she had always loved told her it was folly to invest her new inheritance in starting a fashionable restaurant. Soon, however she realized the fearful risks s...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Science Fiction
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ALASPIN "MY WORLD...AND WELCOME TO IT!" Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra --Ab, for short -- Flinx Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeplanet of his flying snake. ...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Historical Romance
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• Oct-1977
• / Espionage
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CHARLIE M was a total embarrassment. His scruffy clothes were deplorable, his accent was all wrong. Charlie was an outmoded oddity in a new and sophisticated world. Charlie had once been the leading British operative -- now the Department abhors h...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered - gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks - to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who...

• Oct-1977
• / Gothic
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Passionate romance and rich historical drama weave an irresistible spell in this magnificent new novel by the author of The Lynmara Legacy. -- Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Drummond had lost her family's ancient Irish estate to a dashing, handsome y...

• Oct-1977
• / Romantic Suspense
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"The curse of Blackfont was waiting for me..." "What plans do you have for Blackfont, now that it's legally yours?" my father asked jovially. "Why, I want you to look after it, of course," I assured him, "just as you always have." Then, shortly after...

• Oct-1977
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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A sensitive, mildly alcoholic, solitary former advertising executive and a street-wise, lonely eleven-year-old ragamuffin from the Atlanta slums are drawn together and experience heartbreaking tribulations and the joys of loving and being loved...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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William Godwin (1756-1836), the seventh of thirteen children, was raised by a dissenting minister, which accounts for his studies and work as a dissenting minister early in life. By 1782, Godwin had exposed himself to the optimism of Enlightenment ph...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Strange Glory Edited by Gerry Goldberg (1997, Paperback)- It's been 25 years since its debut, but this extraordinary compilation of stories, poems, and illustrations spanned some of the best in short fantastic literature of the 20th Century up unti...

• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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She had loved Jerry Now she wasn't sure "You have a lot-to learn about men, Ice Maiden," Matt said. ''Maybe I can teach you a few things. I might be doing Jerry a favor!" His words echoed in Lara's mind as she fled...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Historical Romance
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IRELAND Afraid for her life, Brenna fled the lush emerald hills of Ireland to seek the safety of the New World. THE CARIBBEAN Ahead lay torment and untold adventure --- among rogues and pirates, and on a slaveship bound for danger. NEW ORLEAN...

• Oct-1977
• / Mystery
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Mystery: “Eerie . . . A book you will gulp down” (The New York Times).   Lyons, Basche, and Tyler -- three ordinary guys -- find their fourth poker night partner, Reece, fatally beaten on the flo...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Dee Bowden had worked hard to build up a spread, but now he found himself accused of bushwhacking his girl's father and stealing forty thousand dollars. The town wanted to lynch him, but he escaped and fought to clear his name. Every man's hand was...

• Oct-1977
• / Historical Romance
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She heard the waves roll in, roll in.... "Jeffrey! Jeffrey!" she sobbed, urging her pony down the steep cliffs to the sea. Gorse caught cruelly at her cloak and skirts, her petticoats flashed white. But Amy thought only of her desperate race again...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Herndon asks, What is really going on in school? How does the conventional school structure actually affect teaching and learning? Why does something I try not work? Why do some kids just not learn here?...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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In ANVIL OF PASSION, the author has created the compelling story of Sam Palmer and Caroline Potter, who carve their place in a sprawling, lawless land - fighting savagery and corruption with the daring of their own courageous love....

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Suspense
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1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator’s private compound. He does. He h...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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On a cold spring day in 1880, fifteen American cowboys sail into Vladivostock with a herd of 500 acttle for delivery to a famine stricken town deep in Siberia. Assigned to accompany them is a band of Cossacks, Russiaâ�,��"�s elite horsemen and warri...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Research in American, German, and British archives and numerous interviews substantiate a comprehensive account of the hostilities in the Atlantic, from 1939 to 1945, between Germany's U-boats and Allied naval forces...

• Oct-1977
• / Fantasy
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A Cursed Realm. Making his way south toward the golden land of Khurdistan, Brak must first traverse the desolate territory of the Manworn - a land gripped by terror of things unknown and awful - a land of unseen watchers and horrifying riddles - a la...

• Oct-1977
• / Police Procedural
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On the surface, Dr. Lorrimer was the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body was discovered and his secret past dissected did the image being to change. Once again, Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh would...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Romantic Suspense
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"Who sent you to spy on me?" Jeanne's eyes widened in astonishment as her employer's face turned livid. "I demand an answer, some names," he raged. "I know you're out to destroy me." Stunned by his accu...

• Oct-1977
• / Mystery
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From Beyond the Grave Dracula's CurseReturns. Formerly titled: Hounds of Dracula. A novel by Ken Johnson now a Major Motion Picture.Back cover: Horror Unearthed! An ancient crypt in Transylvania lies freshly opened. A monstrous creature and its maste...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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You didn't know about her, did you? No. Tory hadn't known about Magnus's daughter until she arrived in the Caribbean to work with him. Carla had been a surprise. And yet, Magnus being married didn't matter, Tory was content to wors...

• Oct-1977
• / Historical Romance
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• Oct-1977
• / Gothic
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An abandoned southern mansion on an isolated island became a place of peril for lovely young Ophelia Phenwick. Cast up by shipwreck on those strange and sinister shores, Ophelia soon learned how little she could trust her safety in the hands of the t...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / Historical
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• Oct-1977
• / Historical
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The marshal's name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he's buried a few men in this two-bit cow town -- every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, C...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Romantic Suspense
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Marc was stunned. Surely not Sybil! A skiing accident had brought Marc to this medieval castle high in the Austrian Alps. Once there he discovered that this home for the girl who had haunted his dreams for many months. At last, he had found his belov...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"What did you expect?" Harriet said in angry surprise. "That I'd be thrilled to see you again? That I might have forgotten what a selfish swine you really are?" Without stopping to think, she stepped forward and slapped Andre h...

• Oct-1977
• / Literary
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Romance in the land of King Arthur and Stonehenge. In Song of the Heart, Paige is in England to collect the folksongs she loves and sings. She finds her cottage usurped by a TV producer who beguiles her into swapping her place for a gypsy wagon. He a...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Romantic Suspense
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She wanted love. Not heartache... or worse! Helen Lefeuvre returned to her hometown of Clermont with the hope of kindling a flame in the heart of Vincent Chazelles. For ten years, she had been nourishing her love for this attractive man. Now she m...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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A fantastical caper -- and the final novel -- from the acclaimed twentieth-century Irish writer praised as being imbued “with the true comic spirit” by James Joyce. No one would think that the end of the world would begin in the small town of Dal...

• Oct-1977
• / Suspense
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Blossom Culp is the outspoken outcast of Bluff City, always getting into trouble. No one wants to cross her, especially now that she's revealed that she can see the Unseen. Then Blossom herself is stunned, because her lie turns out to be truth. She a...

• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Send her packing!" Wyn heard Diane say Wyn knew it wasn't just lack of confidence in her expertise that prompted Diane's suggestion. She was also guarding her favorite possession--the masterful Russell Tylar, Wyn's employer. ...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Fantasy
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Ishmael Reed's electrifying first novel zooms readers off to a land they have never heard of, a crazy, ominous kingdom called HARRY SAM--a never-never land so weirdly out-of-whack that only reality itself could be stranger. Venturing into this risky ...

• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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DESIREE WILD BEAUTY... FIERCE INNOCENCE ... AN ISLAND WRACKED BY GREED AND RAPACIOUS DESIRE Steeped in the mystic lore of her adopted people, a stranger to the civilized world she had come from, the beautiful, white-haired Silva Armitage was in d...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Historical Romance
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‘I am the seventh Cleopatra of my name, but I mean the world to forget all the others and remember me alone.’

Whilst winning the hearts of the ancient world’s greatest men, the legendary Cleopatra ruled a mighty nation in a time of exten...

• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Then you must agree to be my bridegroom !" Jo Domini's impulsive behavior finally led her into trouble. It wasn't enough that she had insulted the Conte Leandro Tempera, aggravated her father and frustrated her sister who wishe...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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"A riproaringly magnificent time. Passing For Human is quite unlike anything anyone else has ever done." -Neil Gaiman When a dolphin-like alien comes to Earth disguised in a female human body, it sets the stage for a wild feminist romp that out stran...

• Oct-1977
• / Traditional Regency
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"JUST LIKE THE OLD DEVIL TO TAKE IT WITH HER." Unloved while she lived, tight-fisted, tyrannical old Aunt Sophie took her revenge when she died. No one would get her diamonds. She would take them with her to her grave. Claudia had neve...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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An abandoned baby. A locked trunk. A man called Finch. A stolen car ring. And a missing grandmother. Ronny and Greg Jameson didn't realize that one girl could be so full of mystery. But that was before the met Evie Hollis. Evie Hollis had polio and ...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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hey call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mys...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Law Enforcement
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OLD BONES AND NEW CORPSE What a most unwelcome surprise for the archaeologists -- not the Saxon artifacts they had hoped for, but a shrouded male corpse buries in a recent grave! Who is it? And why is he buried here? Inspector Rudd has only one...

• Oct-1977
• / Epic Fantasy
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Here is the story of the creation of the world -- the ancient dream that sets the stage for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings....

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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The worst is still to come," Bruce said Especially for you, Felicity thought. If only he knew. But Bruce was talking about the hurricane and she was thinking of what she had in store for him. Felicity regarded him as her brother's murde...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I'm going to hit you in a minute" Casey thought. Good and hard. The idea shocked her, because violence was not in her nature. But never before had she met a man like Igor Borodinov--a man for whom she felt instant dislike. And it w...

• Oct-1977
• / Gothic
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Dead Dolly Creek would one day soon be just another ghost town. Now it was still undergoing the slow and painful process of dying, the mines worked out, the young people gone away in search of a more promising future...but to Sharon Benedict it seeme...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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The Sesame Street Little Library is a box set of four small Sesame Street books by Kay Wood, published in 1977 by Random House. The books feature Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Grover and Cookie Monster. Each of the original books measures 4 inches by 5 inch...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / Horror
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• Oct-1977
• / Science Fiction
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Twenty-first century medical science has wiped out all the deadly diseases. Yet in a large American city patients have begun to come in with smallpox, diphtheria and all the other enemies that were supposed to have been defeated forever. No one but t...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction
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Down the street came a parade of children; they were beating a small keg for a drum and playing homemade flutes. And on the ends of improvised pikes, they bore the heads of three cats, still dripping blood. After witnessing the continuing spectacle o...

• Nov-1977
• / General Fiction
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A wonderful collection of stories from an award-winning author. Never take a cat for granted!

Meet Baraka, the cat who plays chess more cunningly than any human; Pescato, who becomes mayor for a day and dupes royalty; and other cats who befri...

• Nov-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Nov-1977
• / Literary
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In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times).The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on t...

• Nov-1977
• / General Fiction
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