Books Published in October 1981

• Oct-1981
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A group of children are invited to a real witches' Halloween celebration.A very special Halloween party given by a group of witches enchants children with a pumpkin tower with a take-off and landing platform for bat-wing gliders...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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He didn't deserve to know he was a father Ravelle had hoped for a quiet pleasant holiday in Queensland, on the Barrier Reef with her fiance, Matthew. But somehow that wasn't to be.... One of the first people Ravelle saw there was none o...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Historical Mystery
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MISTAKEN IDENTITY, A MUTILATED MINK COAT, AND MURDER. Outside Alderly, the Earl of Burford's 17th century estate, the weather is decidedly parky, inside the atmosphere is definitely nervous-making. The loopy lord has thrown an impromptu house part...

• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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Joanna swore her heart had been broken when Peter Finley married someone else. Then two gentlemen came to call. Sir Rollin Denby, handsome, tailored in the height of London fashion, flirted with her outrageously. Mr. Jonathan Erland, who had just ret...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Fantasy
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KEEP ONE HAND ON YOUR MONEY AND THE OTHER ON YOUR SWORD! Welcome to SANCTUARY, a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy adventure talents, including: C. J....

• Oct-1981
• / Mystery
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THIEF! Becky is furious! The Checkertown librarian has accused her of stealing a rare children's book, and she's determined to prove her innocence by tracking down the real culprit. With the help of her twin brother Toby, Becky investigates a rash o...

• Oct-1981
• / Mystery
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IT WAS THE SALE OF THE CENTURY. AND MURDER WAS GOING CHEAP. The anxious buyers lining up in front of Bonnard's department store were bursting with anticipation even though the doors would not be opened for days. But with the New Year's festivities...

• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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Miss Lydia, a young American heiress (and secret novelist), was traveling in Europe with her brother, not so much because of his fragile health, but because she had no wish to marry the man her family had chosen for her. He was stuffy, boring, domine...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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DEEP LOVE Auburn-haired, amber-eyed Melanie Morganfield had already lived in Asa Parker's mansion since she was a child. But with each passing day now, the kind family friend -- 29 years her senior -- found it harder and harder to control his...

• Oct-1981
• / Romance
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HER HEART HAD NO HIDING PLACE When Kate Evans lost her fiancé in a tragic auto accident, the lovely young nurse vowed never to expose herself to such pain again. She fled to New York and tried to lose herself in her work in the Emergency Room of ...

• Oct-1981
• / Romance
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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San Francisco was a wild and lawless town, and no place for a beautiful young woman alone with two children. But it was the Promised Land of boundless dreams, and the woman they called Pastora was a new breed whose spirit and daring raised an empire ...

• Oct-1981
• / Fantasy
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Turley Vail has succeeded in forming an alliance of the northern Circle Villages of Imram. As the new Center, he has renounced the temptations of the Blessing Papers. But the triumph rings hollow as first his lovely wife Jeneen dies, and then his son...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Traces the origins of our favorite holiday customs and symbols, many of which antedate the first Christmas. "The well-written text is concise and interesting and the two-color marginal drawings are festive." -- Booklist...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Chubby Melissa daydreams about high school football hero Greg, but Greg only dates cheerleaders. After her aunt buys her a health club membership, Melissa slims down and learns about hair, clothes, and make-up, only to return to school for her junior...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Carly Bancroft returned to Rockport to work and paint, she expected to find peace and shelter in the charming Massachusetts art colony. But from the moment Duncan Findlay strode into her life, untamed, unmannerly, and outrageously demanding, she...

• Oct-1981
• / Romantic Suspense
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Stranger To The Exquisite Treachery Of Love... Beautiful, headstrong Perdita Sinclair, future Countess of Strathgallant, was to choose a husband before inheriting her adopted grandmother's fortune. Faced with selecting one o her four handsome...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Historical
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• Oct-1981
• / Fantasy
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The most dangerous matrix on all Darkover was the legendary Sharra. Embodied in the image of a chained woman, wreathed in flames, it was the last remaining weapon of the Ages of Chaos that had almost destroyed civilization on the planet of the Bloody...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Amateur Sleuth
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West End Television are planning a new situation-comedy series, to be called The Struttters. From the outset, things go horribly wrong with the new series. Odd accidentsif they are accidentsremove, one by one, the sharp-tongued Production Assistant, ...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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THEIR FUTURE WAS AT STAKE. Keely insisted that she had come to the Pacific paradise of Salutu only to write about its reclusive inhabitant, successful Canadian businessman Jordan Lang. But Jordan, who accepted her presence only grudgingly, refu...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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A FAMILY OF WOMEN -- THEIR DREAMS AND THEIR DESTINIES MAGGIE Raised among the stern Amish of Pennsylvania, she defied her world to marry the man she loved, and followed him West only to discover it was her strength that they both needed in order to...

• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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IMPOSSIBLE ALEXANDRA Beautiful, brilliant and headstrong Alexandra Cox-Neville was a thoroughly impossible young lady -- with an even more impossible dream of love. If she could not wed Darius Wentworth, heir to the neighboring barony of Blandon, ...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Action Adventure
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• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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"Samantha, may I present Major Wyndham Crawford?" The Major bowed stiffly, hiding his surprise with difficulty. This tall, slender woman was dressed so modestly, he would never have taken her for Phineas Crawford's granddaughter. Saman...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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In May 1832, in Newport, Rhode Island, a Methodist minister named Ephraim K. Avery was tried for the murder of a twenty-nine-year-old mill worker, Sarah Marie Cornell. It was the first time a clergyman had ever been tried for murder in the United Sta...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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The fearless Siamese cat Henry stows away in a hot-air balloon that suddenly takes off with only him on board. He had always wanted to fly but not without the others! Follow the flying cat as he maneuvers the balloon over hill and dale and past catas...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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A new edition of the sinister masterpiece, now in development at Netflix.“Was that an indrawn breath, or a hiss of static? She heard someone dialling on another line..."Barbara Waugh’s daughter Angela was kidnapped aged four, and when a disfigure...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Horror
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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Styles Kenric was now the master of Blackoaks, and his dream was to make it a breeding farm for pedigreed Fulani slaves -- descendants of a princely African race. But there was much in Styles life he needed to keep hidden. One day his lovely and n...

• Oct-1981
• / Action Adventure
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TO HELL AND BACK The Mukhino tribesmen refer to it as the cauldron of hell -- and it's the site of agent N3's next mission. THE LOCATION: the highly inaccessible Amur River section of Chinese Manchuria, the border between China and Russia and ...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Every line of his face, from the deep-set eyes to the arrogant nose and harshly carved cheekbones, declared that this was a man who lived by his own rules. He hadn't come to Tucson for his health. Hunter Manning wanted revenge. Stacy Rylan looked i...

• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction
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THE MANTRAP WORLDS Somewhere, from among the four human-settled worlds of the Warden Diamond, hostile aliens were spying on Earth. But no agent could be sent to investigate and report back. All trips to the Warden worlds were one-way. There, a mic...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Lost in space...lost in time. There can be no more terrifying situation for any spaceman to be in, and such was the problem when Commodore Grimes' Faraway Quest broke free from the mysterious Kinsolving's Planet.Because the universe was vast and they...

• Oct-1981
• / Suspense
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Simon Templar never goes anywhere with the intention of getting into trouble, but trouble seems to like following him.

In seven adventures ‘round Europe, he discovers dead bodies, missing jewels, kidnappers, and swindlers galore. He wa...

• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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Yvette spent her childhood in the convent where her mother left her. Now her mother, who had been a famous and beautiful actress, was dead, and had left her daughter a legacy of precious jewels. Only, as it turned out, the jewels were worthless. Past...

• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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Miss Marjorie Montmorency James was very lovely, very young, and very impressionable. Which is why she fell in love with Lord Philip's picture in the newspaper. Until then, she had only fantasized about a mysterious, shadowy lover whose features ...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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ALL THE DAYS OF HER LIFE HAD BEEN A YEAR A sense of hopelessness came over Sara as she remembered their brief marriage. She wondered if she was forever destined to be a shadow among shadows because she had loved unwisely. Luke. A surge of emoti...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Everything depends on Ramona. Ramona's job is to be nice to fussy Mrs. Kemp, who watches her while her mother works. If Mrs. Quimby didn't work, Mr. Quimby couldn't return to college. On top of all that, third grade isn't turning out as Ramona expec...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Charming, handsome, and a world-renowned horse trainer, the wealthy Belgian aristocrat Jacques Valbonne is more than any woman could hope to handle. Ariane Charles is sure of it. Yet the lovely, auburn-haired young widow cannot resist him...any more ...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1981
• / Romantic Suspense
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No one wanted to live there Cecilia arrived at Chesterton Manor eager to start her new job as tour guide. Work was scarce, and she thought herself lucky -- even more so because she was deeply drawn to her employer, the handsome Sir Evan Cedric-Bro...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Money was exchanged instead of love... Rowena's father had coerced her. into marrying the local squire, Sean Tancred. Both men profited by the arrangement -- only Rowena gained nothing. Actually, her father believed he was doing her a favor...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE COULDN'T DENY HER FEELINGS ANY LONGER. Three years after Shari escaped from the Lancaster family patriarchs, she returned home at the news of her mother's stroke. The reunion with her stepbrother, Whit Lancaster, brought the unexpecte...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could he love again? Did he even want to? Luck, the man with the blue, blue eyes, had called Eve "a little brown mouse." Unfortunately, it was true. Eve had always thought of herself as a very nondescript, "plain Jane" type. Bor...

• Oct-1981
• / Suspense
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Two men face to face. One is the new overlord of New York???s powerful and vicious Chinese mafia, an ex Hong Kong cop with a British accent. The other is an NYPD captain ordered to stamp out organized crime in Chinatown, an impossible job, one that ...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Mi preciosa, when you look on these, remember the afternoon use spent together." The nerve! To insinuate intimacy on a card her family was sure to see! Ana Maria looked at his expensive gilt with shock and indignation. He had invaded her life wit...

• Oct-1981
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Matt Cobb scrambles to save a celebrity event turned upside down by robbery and murder Matt Cobb may not be a detective by trade, but there are times when he sure feels like one. As the VP of special projects for a television conglomerate, Cobb is an...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Gavin Grey is everyone's All-American. A star running back at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s, he graces the covers of Time and LIFE magazines and appears on the "Ed Sullivan Show." Everyone wants a piece of him or to be around him...

• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the ...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Fifty years ago, a blue-blooded Yankee named Cecil Townsend and a street-wise New York kid named Duke Greene opened a speakeasy in the heart of Manhattan's chic East Side. Today, Duke and Cecil's 44 Club is the ultimate - the place to be seen, to be ...

• Oct-1981
• / Police Procedural
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He meets her at a suburban party. They share a flirtation over their red wine... and he doesn't see her again. It's the old familiar story for Morse. Then one clay he just happens to be in Jericho, where Anne Scott lives. Nobody's home--and Morse sho...

• Oct-1981
• / Fantasy
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QUEST FOR THE SLEEPING PRINCESS Master magician Blais was dead, murdered by the evil ice-lord Nimir. Now there was only Tristan, an ill-trained apprentice, to carry on the quest to rescue Allaire, a princess held in enchanted sleep in Nimir's frozen...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Literary
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• Oct-1981
• / Fantasy
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Such authors as Patricia Highsmith, Julian Symons, Isaac Asimov, Hugh Pentecost, and Hal Ellson are featured in a collection of tales which includes the best mystery stories from the years 1963 through 1977...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Historical
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DENVER -- A CITY SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE. LAND WAS HARD TO FIND. DEAD BODIES WEREN'T. An outlaw called Timberline has risen from his grave in Salt Lake City to walk the sun-bleached streets of Denver. But when Longarm looks into the matter, he fi...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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THE LAVETTE SAGA CONTINUES -- PITTING AN EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY AGAINST ITSELF AND AGAINST A SOCIETY IN THE THROES OF VIOLENT UPHEAVAL AND RADICAL CHANGE... The LAVETTES -- powerful, envied, hated, admired. From Nob Hill to Hollywood, from Washing...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Resenting her parents restrictions Stacey Hipner creates a web of deception with the new boy Garr Garwin but is she really interested in him or merely creating her own independence? WHY WAS SHE CONSTANTLY TORN IN TWO DIRECTIONS? Sixteen-year-o...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Action Adventure
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THE GOVERNMENT DENIES IT EVER TOOK PLACE. THREE DECADES LATER, THE SHOCKING TRUTH IS REVEALED. In the spring of 1952, six American Marines embarked on the most incredible covert military offensive of the bloody Korean conflict. The mission: to inf...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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I've read thousands of books over the years, many of which are military history and biography, but few have left such a powerful, lasting impression on me as this book. It's a well written first hand account of a U.S. Marine who was virtually forced,...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl ServiceThe much-loved classic, finally in ebook.A disturbing exploration of the inevitability of li...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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HER TEMPESTUOUS SPIRIT AND WILD BEAUTY HAUNTED THE STORM-SWEPT CORNISH COAST... MEG DEVORAN - Recluse by day, by night the flame-haired smuggler, Red Meg...She would be ruthlessly hunted through moonless nights, swept into a perilous web of intrig...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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He watched his ship burn in the San Francisco harbor, and with it, his dreams. She escaped the fire, but not the savage plot that dogged her. Only Jeremy could shine light on the desire and the greed that forged the destinies of a renegade tong and...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Marginal spy thriller about the discovery of a new energy source that could transform the world, and the efforts of commercial interests to suppress it....

• Oct-1981
• / Suspense
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While searching for a cure for her tubercular sister, Baby, Nancy Grange, an American heiress, and Dr. Eliot Beckett encounter the infamous Dr. Crippen, his mistress, and his overbearing, ill-fated wife Belle...

• Oct-1981
• / Horror
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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“Both the knowledge of a scholar and the imagination of a poet are brought to bear upon Jesus as child, boy, and man. . . . A bold speculative adventure” (Harold Brighouse, Manchester Guardian).   In Robert Graves’s unique r...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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TOO GOOD FOR HER OWN GOOD? She was the very model of ladylike propriety. But when lovely, dark-curled Amelia realized that her role as the "sensible" elder daughter was part of her widowed mother's plan to keep her as spinster and companion for a ...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Duérmete mi niña
Duérmete mi sol,
Duérmete pedazo
De mi corazón.

Sleep, my child,
Sleep, my sun,
Sleep, my little piece
Of my heart.

Young children will treasure this collection of Latin-American nursery rhymes. P...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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In the Name of Love Dangerous currents eddied about Graystone. But it wasn't until artist Lori Mitchell settled into her friend's seaside Maine estate that the mysterious intruder, Shawn Hodson, first appeared. Graystone was his for th...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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"YOU MUSTN'T DO IT, HYDEE!" Ellie's reaction was instantaneous, and Hydee Merrill knew her best friend was right. It would be madness to accept the terms offered by the arrogant Marques Carlos de Alva Manrique! Hydee had answere...

• Oct-1981
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Thriller
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In the realm of psychological suspense, Thomas Harris stands alone. Exploring both the nature of human evil and the nerve-racking anatomy of a forensic investigation, Harris unleashes a frightening vision of the dark side of our well-lighted world. I...

• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction
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TOO DANGEROUS TO LIVE. TOO VALUABLE TO KILL. Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvork, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grain-ships. This Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of pe...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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This “sort of detective story” by the New York Times bestselling novelist offers “farcical, reflective, luscious, gritty [and] stylish entertainment” (The New York Times).   As a Boy Scout, Johnny Lundgren was given the nickname Warlock....

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Gothic
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• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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SHE WAS WHIRLED ABOUT IN A DANCE OF LOVE AND DANGER All London wildly applauded beautiful young Nonna Lambert as she danced from triumph to triumph on the stage. But the aristocratic audience that adored her would have despised her had they known ...

• Oct-1981
• / Literary
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction
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Of the original population that colonized the planet Xilan five centuries before, a mere handful of descendants remain, including Gareth. Despite disease, starvation, and hardship, they survived. Much, including their technology, was lost as they lea...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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A portrait of Jim Morrison is based on seven years of research and tells the story behind his musical genius, worship of darkness, rejection of all forms of authority, and tragic death when his life spun out of control. Reissue....

• Oct-1981
• / Historical
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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During baseball season Ezra has a big problem -- his father. Mr. Feldman doesn't understand baseball, having grown up in Europe, and he doesn't understand Ezra's love of the game. When his father gives him an electronic chess game for his tenth birt...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Now available in eBook for the first time in America -- the New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp.“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the...

• Oct-1981
• / Suspense
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British barrister Stephen Kale investigates the case of his client, Lady Ann Wallington, a beautiful woman accused of killing her wealthy husband, and discovers something more serious than a single murder...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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She was trading one heartache for another Just when Iseult was getting over her broken affair with a Paris artist, she found herself facing marriage to Nicholas Veryan. He didn't love her; the marriage would only be to secure a stepmother for ...

• Oct-1981
• / Suspense
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A doomed journalist travels to Iceland to destroy a Soviet superweapon Halfway between the United States and the Soviet Union, Iceland is one of the most strategic points in the Cold War. And home to a NATO squadron that could wipe Moscow off the map...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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Better boredom in the country than marriage in the town! That was Clarissa's answer to her father's ultimatum and she packed herself off to the family estate without further ado. She was resigned to bitter isolation and a resolute battle o...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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One night threatened to ruin her life Natasha was crushed when her engagement to Mike Porter was suddenly called off. And that was the only reason she allowed herself to have so much champagne at the party. But there was no excuse for finding h...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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When Prince Krishna is called away, he leaves behind some strict instructions for the Hall children about one of the openings in the mysterious summerhouse: Keep Out! As Eddy and Eleanor swing through each of the other openings, they refuse to bre...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction
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The Hoorka, a guild of skilled assassins, maintain their existence in the turbulent society of Neweden through strict obedience to a stern code of neutrality: Kill only when hired. Reveal your client only if successful. If the victim survives until d...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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Favored daughter a noble house, Spring Moon was a pampered jewel whose serenely gracious world was sheltered behind the walls of her family's privilege and power. But suddenly that world was collapsing around her. And the girl who had known only luxu...

• Oct-1981
• / Action Adventure
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Amid the flash and glitter of Broadway, they each hungered for the adoration of millions... and one perfect love! Raina, slender, lithe, tawny blonde actress was neglected by her wealthy parents, but never by men. Innocent Jana, petite, rave-haired b...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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Hunger for money, for power, for love... Noel -- a fiery Creole heiress, she was as fierce in her surrender to pleasure as in her refusal to yield to a husband she despised... Hawk -- he matched Noel passion for passion, but the secrets of his pas...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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She went for a child but stayed for a man... Katherine soon knew she was in trouble! She agreed to take a "tug-of-love" child to Scotland, out of his father's reach. Coralie Edgar the mother, obviously loved her son and was frightened...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Romantic Suspense
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Death pitched her into a nightmare of despair. Anne was grief-stricken after her husband, David, crashed to his death in a car accident. Their marriage had been happy, though David was a man of strange moods ... and painful secrets, she discovered. F...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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They are Americans in Ireland. But Jennifer Logan--with her wine-red hair and green-gold eyes--might have been born in the small seacoast village of Glengarriff. And Steven Donlevy--with his proud, willful stance--could pass as a true Irish lord. The...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Taking as their theme the power of two English institutions--the monarchy and the justice system--two stories demonstrate with delectable wit how individuals can become so bound to the institutions they serve that they cease to exist...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Emily and Eugene need to cheer up their friend Carruthers. Carruthers is sick, sneezing, and miserable — he sure is one hard-to-please patient! When hot tea, throat lozenges, card games, and warm blankets don’t help, Eugene spins a yarn t...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Romantic Suspense
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She was a beautiful heiress who couldn't remember her name. Who ran from Cape Cod's untamed coast to the fagged cliff of Ireland, from old Salzburg to trendy London, in search of love-- and her hidden past. Liam, the rugged Irish actor, swept her int...

• Oct-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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Her father had gambled away the very roof over their heads. Her mother was long dead. At two and twenty, Amelia Grant took charge, determined to make her sisters' fortunes, establish them in the bosom of society--and keep her independence. It was...

• Oct-1981
• / Romantic Suspense
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An enormous fortune would be hers on day. Melina was grateful that her grandfather, a Greek shipping magnate, had chosen her as his heir. Yet there was one issue that she hotly disputed with him: the question of whom she would marry. She wanted only ...

• Oct-1981
• / Gothic
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When Loran Brant, heroine of FALCON'S SHADOW, learns that she was adopted, she leaves her nursing post in a London hospital to find her real parents. Loran's search eventually takes her to a lonely village in Dorset. There she meets elderly Mrs Cranm...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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She'd lose her best friend -- or her heart! Debra felt responsible for Liz since the younger girl's parents had died. So when the job in Hong Kong was offered to Debra, she insisted that Liz come, too. "Fine," said Vane Oliver, ...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Examines the scientific and ethical ramifications of genetic research, particularly the development of recombinant DNA, discussing the future biotechnological revolution and its effects on medicine, industry, science, economics, and more...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Humanity Crushed - In trying to save the Earth, Anthony Rogers may have doomed it. His desperate assault upon the alien Prl'lu lunar base has awakened the hidden Prl'lu legions left in suspended animation beneath the soil of that ravaged planet- and ...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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A sheltered New England beauty yearning for excitement... A passionate Latin landowner with love to share... In colorful, intoxicating Brazil they explode in a frenzy of desire and surrender with flaming abandon. But as neighboring plantation owners,...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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They met at the Mardi Gras -- beautiful Lorelei Averill, siren-like in her shimmering green costume, and rugged Rathe Drummond in buccaneer garb. When they fell in love, the sea-soft breezes of the Bahamas could scarcely cool their ardor. Only the wa...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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It was a year of triumph and excitement London, 1851. Queen Victoria opened the Crystal Palace, and thousands of visitors thronged the most dazzling exhibition in the world. It was also a time of gentility and decorum. Young ladies hid their an...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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I don't care for wheeler-dealers! Even before she knew him personally, Megan disliked Jerome Towers, the wealthy landowner plotting to buy out her family's farm. And when she eventually did meet him, he was as arrogant as she'd exp...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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He was a mystery. Dill, lean, rugged, Jason Stewart had been cold, arrogant, inexcusably rude from the start. And he had done nothing to endear himself to her -- until tonight. Tonight his caressing hands, his burning kisses, had swept her recklessly...

• Oct-1981
• / Mystery
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• Oct-1981
• / Literary
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• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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A new place, a new job--and a new love! Louisa did want desperately to get out from under the roof of her disagreeable stepmother, and she couldn't bear the thought of marrying Frank, who bored her. So after finishing nursing school, she jump ...

• Oct-1981
• / Fantasy
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Once there was unlimited magic, but reckless magicians have used up the ""mana,"" the power behind the magic. Larry Niven opens his world to the storytelling talents of Poul Anderson, Steven Barnes, Mildred Downey Broxon, and Dean Ing with storie...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical
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• Oct-1981
• / Amateur Sleuth
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S STORM-WRACKED ODYSSEY IN AN AGE OF BREATHTAKING OPULENCE Lovely young Kate Callahan was innocent of the harsh realities of existence when her swashbuckling robber-baron father died and left her stripped of the protection of we...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Sophie struggles through the hardships and crises of becoming a woman in early twentieth-century Europe, overcoming her troubled childhood and the morphine addiction resulting from her first marriage to live a full and rewarding life...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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He would never love someone like her! They met accidentally--total strangers, but sparks of awareness and antagonism flew between them. It was later, under very different circumstances, that Gay discovered him to be Luke Ashley, the self-made m...

• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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Trapper Jim Bridger struggles to make a life for himself on the earlynineteenth-century frontier while the American Fur Company attempts to keep the independent mountain men from claiming their share of the fur trade...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Historical Mystery
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It was the most incredible thing: a corpse sitting in an empty hansom cab. And it wasn't just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Pitt and his sleuthing wife, Charlotte, this seemed the sheerest lunacy. Who would want to ...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Set in the racing world of Newmarket in the 1880s, this is the story of Laura and her intense feelings for Fred Archer - the tall, slender young jockey who became one of the most famous men in Britain. Based around the true story of Fred Archer's...

• Oct-1981
• / Action Adventure
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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This early novel by Barbara Pym captures the charm and folly of English middle-class life. The two title characters share a devoted friendship based on memories of Oxford school days, poetry and their neighbors' private affairs- all discussed over le...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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Jill, one of triplets, becomes involved in the problems of her family--her widowed, hypochondriac mother, daughter Daisy, workaholic brother John, and overorganized sister Julie, who runs off with a lecherous priest...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Historical Romance
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When Kate and Richard were children, they promised eternal love and devotion. Kate kept to her promise, Richard could not; he was to the manor born while Kate was the daughter of a seamstress. Richard wants a gentler, more submissive woman that the b...

• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction
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And now, with SPACETIME DONUTS, Rudy Rucker pushes the barriers of speculative fiction even further back! SPACETIME DONUTS-- the wild and contemporary tale of a future in which staying stoned, sex-starved and stupid is the approved way of life, and t...