Books Published in September 1983

• Sep-1983
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Can beautiful, outspoken young Holly English help a young man with a physical handicap overcome doubts about God and find a true and lasting love? Holly English is an aspiring young Christian writer who takes a job at Reed’s Candy Shoppe. Almost...

• Sep-1983
• / Mystery
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For too long the city has suffered in the hands of crime and corruption: By fraud and forgery, by bootlegging and bribery, the syndicate has tightened its iron grip on the lives of decent citizens. But now the Senate Subcommittee is in town and a sho...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could Lacy Barnett love the man who had almost destroyed her father? That question burned into the beautiful young painter's heart when she learned the truth about Ward Blaine. Ward was handsome and charming, but he was not the friendly ranch han...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Amateur Sleuth
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THE CORPSE WENT BY BUS “The Goff Place mystery” remained unsolved, the body of the murdered pawnbroker never found. On the night of the killing, a bus had parked on the narrow cul-de-sac. Witnesses saw two elderly passengers dozing. Later a gh...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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For anyone else it would have been a dream come true. Cal Bishop was the designer of the decade. His estate was too luxurious to be real. Being singled out to model his luscious new line of sportswear then being miraculously swept into his arms -- wh...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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To my mind, Michael Hague is THE best children's book illustrator of our time. His detailed and evocative images will become the classic pictorial references for the great works of children's literature he has turned his eye toward....

• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Awesome for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day of Life depicts a typical day in the life of a peasant family caught up in the terror and corruption of civil war in El Salvador.

5:30 A.M. in ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Only sixteen when his father dies, Don runs away from the domination of his hated older brother and crosses paths with a murderer high in the Rocky Mountains, where he is faced with the choice between freedom and family loyalty....

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Inside the Kremlin, the Chairman is dying. Those who vie to replace him struggle in the shadows. Andropov is the leading contender, but the insane, brilliant Boris Gamov is preparing to make a move of his own -- if he wins out, the U.S. and Soviet Un...

• Sep-1983
• / Fantasy
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeti...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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"WHO ARE YOU?" TI ASKED. "YOUR SERVANT," HE REPLIED. "I DON'T THINK SO." For three long years, Ti Bennett had followed her father's orders. She'd run the ranch and cared for her two sisters. Then she received ...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that pr...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Fresh from her first success in Nashville, Gem Reasoner -- heiress to an oilman's fortune -- looked like a waif singing for her supper in a small-town club miles from nowhere. When the going got rough, it was Roan Christiansen who came to her ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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They boldly grasp for life beyond society's narrow confines: Flanders Wilde: A woman who casts off the restraints of Victorian propriety to shock her male colleagues and love a desperate fugitive with a price on his head. Lachlan McKenzie: A ma...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Science Fiction
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It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for cold-sleep. The M...

• Sep-1983
• / Fantasy
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To Thendara House came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaelle, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave. The cross-currents of two cultures, one male-dominated, one egalitarian, combined with the h...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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FLESH AND BLOOD, FIRE AND ICE, CLOSE AS SISTERS, DISTANT AS STRANGERS With her hot temper and unconventional opinions, Elizabeth yearned for adventure in the vast expanse of the West, daring to go beyond marriage for the passions her husband couldn'...

• Sep-1983
• / Space Opera
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The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed on the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Above, in space, armadas of alien races clash in a titanic struggle to claim her. Below, a ...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Two sisters -- the beautiful and alluring Marilyn, and her smart and savvy sister, Roy -- move to Beverly Hills with their mother after the death of their father, so that they can attend the posh public school Beverly Hills High. Though they live in ...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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The classic New York Times–bestselling tale of suspense and intrigue that takes readers behind the scenes of the secretive billion-dollar diamond business From a centuries-old building on a narrow street in the heart of London, a firm known as...

• Sep-1983
• / Science Fiction
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Traces the development over milennia of a civilization of an unusual alien species, whose sense of humor, resourceful adaptibility, and metalworking skills are the strengths and the hope of their society...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Molly Knight reads her birthday card from Duncan Grover at her Sweet Sixteen party, she knows that he's the boy for her. But then Duncan's best friend, Matt, asks her to Landon High's senior prom-the kind of formal dress-up prom she's always dre...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Anna’s role in her family of gospel singers is an important one—far away from the stageEvery member of the Glory family is blessed with abundant musical talent. Everyone, that is, except for Anna. She can’t sing or play an instrumen...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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Her family tricked her into a betrothal with an evil old man. There was nothing to do but run... The first tiling Callista did was disguise herself as a boy, which was not easy with her long raven tresses and voluptuous body. But she managed to ge...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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THE GRIFFINS HAD MONEY. POWER AND POSITION. ALL THEY CRAVED WAS LOVE... Anthony Griffin dreamed of going to sea. He got more than he bargained for... Ceci was a beautiful Acadian outcast whom Antony loved more than life itself... Sophia def...

• Sep-1983
• / Gothic
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With no idea of what awaits her, Philippa Lyle returns to her hometown, the quiet English village of Montoak. Anticipating nothing more than an uneventful visit with her mother and some childhood friends, she discovers that all Montoak is in a state...

• Sep-1983
• / Horror
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Attraction, longing, desire -- but not love...that couldn't be what she felt for the beautiful young man who held her so passionately in his arms.... The unmerry widow, Jennifer Morris had devoted her every waking moment to running the Morris ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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A classic novel of Vietnam and its aftermath from Philip Caputo, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir A Rumor of War is widely considered among the best ever written about the experience of war.

At thirty-three, Nick DelCorso is an award-winnin...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Two World War I survivors--the one living in the village church carefully planning the restoration of its medieval paintings, the other, camping in a nearby field, in search of a lost grave--meet in the summer of 1920...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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SECOND TIME LUCKY Widowed and disillusioned, Faye Maddox was determined not to fall into the marriage trap again. Now that she had a good job and a nice home, did she really need a man to betray her again? When she met Scott Trent, her firm res...

• Sep-1983
• / Action Adventure
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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The first time their lips met, Kate Lonigan knew Mike Fleming was the man for her. It wasn't just his authoritative demeanor and incisive moves as temporary troubleshooter in her insurance office. There was something about his warm green eyes and wit...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO BE A WOMAN DESIRED... Alexander Cortlandt was a compelling man -- a startling combination of English aristocracy and a wilder Asian origin. As a political speechwriter, Caylie Quinn had corresponded with the brilliant ec...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Apache Tears--that was the name of the gemlike stones beautiful young Catriona Frazer mounted in the exquisite jewelry she fashioned. She went to the Indian reservation, leaving behind the secure world of her established life, to learn from the famou...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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WAS SHE A MATCH FOR LOVE? Ever since Sydney Armytage was a small girl, her ruling concern was her younger sister Meriel's happiness. Meriel was left motherless at birth, and Sydney watched over her anxiously as Meriel grew up to be ravishingly...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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Matthew was mesmerized by the gorgeous golden creature in the aqua lagoon. The flimsy cloth accentuated her luscious curves while her long dark hair seductively surrounded her. To taste her honey lips would be heaven. To hold her in his arms would be...

• Sep-1983
• / Science Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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Twelve-year-old Caroline's discovery of a forgotten painting in the family barn leads to her father's restoration of the portrait of Sprite, a filly in the Racehorse Hall of Fame, and a revelation about the previous owners of their old house....

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The long, endlessly surprising conversational duels at...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Edwin Muir wrote of Ivy Compton-Burnett in the Observer: ''Her literary abilities have been abundantly acknowledged by the majority of her literary contemporaries. Her intense individuality has removed her from the possibility of rivalry... She ta...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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First published in 1963, A God and his Gifts was the last of Ivy Compton-Burnett's novels to be published in her lifetime and is considered by many to be one of her best. Set in the claustrophobic world of Edwardian upper-class family life, it is...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Elevated to the papacy and involved with two remarkable mistresses, Baldassare Cossa--lawyer, soldier, and prelate--becomes embroiled in the political intrigue, financial machinations, and violence of late medieval Italy...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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The Songs of Earth series beings with “a daring, often dazzling storytelling feat—and absolutely not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews). It is the year 143,624 Cyclic, and Earth possesses only a past. The immortal Alan-Blue-Cloud, remem...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Bryan Stewart made his living diving beneath the sea. The underwater world held no terrors for him, but the world of emotion was another story altogether. Laurel Rand's job was to film a documentary on Bryan's latest expedition, but she soon fell ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Christian
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• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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Mystery Writers of America Presents: An innocent game turns tragic Drafted into telling fortunes at a fund-raising carnival, Angela Dawn prepares herself by studying a book on palmistry, never dreaming that lives will be changed by her predictio...

• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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When the Druidic ruins at Stonehenge disappear, dotty mystery writer Lettie Winterbottom takes on the extraordinary case, which combines political intrigue, modern-day Druidic ritual, and engineering wizardry...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Judith Wilkes, an ambitious journalist, leaves her husband and two sons in Australia and goes to Malaysia to report on the international refugee crisis. Ten years earlier, Malaysia provided Judith with her first major career success, but also with a ...

• Sep-1983
• / Traditional Regency
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SHE WAS THROWN INTO THE ARMS OF A STRANGER AT SEA--AND ANOTHER ONE ON LAND It was on a storm-tossed Atlantic crossing that young American Abigail Dawson found herself clinging for more than life to Charles Lydiard, the handsome Englishman supposed...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Nature always wins as true love claims its untamed possession... "A superwoman of the eighties" is an apt description of Evelyn Scott. Quickly climbing the corporate ladder for a New York City oil firm, Evelyn is thrown a curve when her bo...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Freelance book designer Kate Elliot had submerged her creativity and sacrificed her independence once -- and once was enough. Now she automatically steers away from any potentially domineering male... no matter how original or intriguing his approac...

• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Dirk, premier photographer of women, knows beauty when he chances upon it....

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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A darkly funny satire of human nature and American college football, set against the backdrop of the Cold War, by the author of the National Book Award�"winning novel White NoiseAt Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shou...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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From the author of the National Book Award�"winning White Noise comes a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)A thought-provoking exploration of the ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Gentleman loan shark Harry Waltz, a sixty-one-year-old resident of Marathon, Michigan, finds his life dramatically altered by the return of his grown children and his romance with Mary Hale, a successful, forty-year-old lawyer...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Amateur Sleuth
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BURIED ALIVE! The Hardys have come to Lake Tahoe to investigate the kidnapping of movie star Richard Chase. The disappearance is the latest in a series of suspicious incidents that have plagued the filming of Chase's latest flick, Horror Hotel. The b...

• Sep-1983
• / Amateur Sleuth
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Are you happy? Are you married? Are you tired of life in the fast lane? The answers were "yes," "no," and "maybe." As her postcards implied, Devon O'Neal, star reporter, had done well in New York. She wasn't sure ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Weary of his battles with the bureaucracy, with the bottle, and with his profession, an unemployed Soviet journalist reviews his file of clippings and recalls the real people and events now reduced to bland, officially approved lines...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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Inspector Coghill investigates the murder of Karen Whitfield, an enterprising woman who indulged the sexual fantasies of her gentleman callers, videotaped them, and developed a lucrative blackmail sideline...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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A grand tale of intrigue in nineteenth-century China, where imperial rule is crumbling as the Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion rage, from the author of Manchu. Loyalty is put to cruel test in Shanghai, where Jewish merchant Saul Haleevie and his long...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Illus. in full color. "Big Bird, Ernie, and Grover are invited to visit the firehouse where all aspects of fire fighting and fire prevention are explained. The trucks, equipment, and fire fighters (including a woman) are realistically depicted. Strai...

• Sep-1983
• / Science Fiction
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Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it is more than fifty years and two different worlds from ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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A stunning and understated debut novel of seduction and infidelity about a woman who, devastated by the death of her son, takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-in-law.  Following the devastating death ...

• Sep-1983
• / Mystery
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The second book in the Hank the Cowdog series opens with Hank defending the ranch against the attack of a Silver Monster Bird. Later he is stricken with the dreaded disease, Eye-Crosserosis, and unless he can find a cure for this dangerous condition,...

• Sep-1983
• / Private Investigator
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A newscaster’s son disappears, and Amos Walker dives into the depths of Detroit to rescue the boy

On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a 10,000-watt smile, and the God-given abi...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical
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SOMEONE'S PLAYING TAX COLLECTOR AND MAKING OFF WITH A MINT! A Federal agent is missing and U.S. Marshal Long is the one sent to bring him home. But a hired killer is lurking in the shadows, just aching to put a bullet in Longarm's back. Could it b...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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CHARMED LIVES... She was April Juneau. One day spent watching the parade of light and shadow, the glory of the Spanish bullring, would change her life forever. He was Alejandro Cervantes, a matador, a man who wore the suit of lights and danced ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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When Alec's fiancee is killed in a tragic accident, he flees west with the Black. Dazed and heartsick, Alec wanders in the desert until a Native American boy rescues him from near death and recounts a startling prophecy. According to legend, a rider ...

• Sep-1983
• / Science Fiction
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The Green Odyssey' is an uproarious, hell-bent adventure story, combining fantasy, imagination and science, with a liberal dash of humor. It is in the best tradition of adventure science fiction, a swashbuckling tale of a resourceful spaceman who is,...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Romance
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Love’s Messenger… Blair Morley…his very name made beautiful Abby Trent shake with anger. She had fallen under Blair’s spell years ago, while he was working for her uncle. But instead of treating her like an attractive child. Abby had hoped...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Once lovers, could they still be best of friends? The idea of sharing a house in California's Topanga Canyon enticed Kelly Mitchell. On her meager salary as a physical education teacher, she found that communal living offered a high quality li...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Romantic Suspense
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Lacey Fosburgh, an American Journalist, author and academic best known for her bestselling book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977) was born in 1942 and died in 1993. She was born in Manhattan, New York, to the journalist Hugh ...

• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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FLAME OF PASSION As far as headstrong, honey-haired Mandy Cooper was concerned, the Yankees weren't welcome on her land, in her home and certainly never in her bed. But that was before she encountered Major Buck Delaney. Enchanted by the fires of ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Counter-intelligence chief John Morpurgo, already caught in a web of internecine war and a dangerous love affair, sets a trap using a Soviet spy as bait and finds himself swept up in the machinations of a spymaster more powerful than himself...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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SHE WAS A HEADSTRONG BEAUTY CAUGHT IN THE FLOOD TIDES OF PASSION AND WAR. Tempestuous, amber-eyed heiress to the magnificent Roselynde dynasty, Sybelle knew that her time had come to choose a husband. But she was ruler of her own lands and would b...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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"Billie Wind lives with her Seminole tribe. She follows their customs, but the dangers of pollution and nuclear war she's learned about in school seem much more real to her. How can she believe the Seminole legends about talking animals and earth spi...

• Sep-1983
• / Mystery
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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THEY DARED TO SURVIVE The Maimons -- They had come to Palestine to claim a new life, an ancient dream in the golden-hued land of their fathers. And their children would reap a harvest as sweet as the scent of orange blossoms, as savage as the blo...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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The hilarious underground bestseller about one woman’s pursuit of carnal pleasure -- and the philosophy that gets in the way.

When Renee Feuer goes to college, one of the first lessons she tries to learn is how to liberate herself from the ...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Money...she needed it more than love, more than anything he had to offer. Sloan Tallet was tired of struggling, of doing it all on her own. When Westley Adams -- retired all-American quarterback -- arrived on her doorstep, she decided to marry hi...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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A tornado brought them together in a storm cellar, where the unleashed forces of nature rivaled the tempest outside! But Maggie Sims and Mark Wilding were anything but perfectly matched. He was a tall, irresistibly handsome playboy who was used to ge...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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UNDONE BY FATE With her dear father dead, Amber Forrest was alone in a foreign land, at the mercy of a cruel, domineering stepbrother who vowed he would bend her to his will and make her his bride. PURSUED BY DESIRE But Amber was a prize all me...

• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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The death of Harry Maxim, who fell from a fifth-floor apartment, leads Charles Russell into an investigation of an international heroin ring and a parliament member's attempt to avenge his narcotics-addicted son...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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AN ACCIDENT OF LOVE Summer theater was an exciting new experience for actress Robyn Flannery, but when she was framed in a hit-and-run accident, it seemed like the end of her dreams. David Christopher, a handsome veterinarian and father of the ...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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For doctoral candidate Rebecca Blakely, writing about the past was no longer enough. For thriller author Ryan Prescott, writing about the present was no longer possible. In the clear air of Maine they learned to see beyond their limitations. As th...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical
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• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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Miranda Heriot has grown up knowing nothing of the stage. In the miserable atmosphere of her grandmother's house, the topic is never, ever mentioned. Then, a secret trip to Stratford reveals to Miranda the excitement of the theater. Although she may ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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In a Fury of Ungodly Hatred and Ungodly Love Fierce guardian of her ancestral heritage, reigning beauty at the rakish court of Charles II, Annunciata Morland's restless spirit refused to be confined by her illustrious station. With a will of iron,...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sometimes mistakes are made in loving regret Cassandra Spencer was nervous. She had finally made the decision to go back to work after her husband, Quinn, died, but now, in the moment before she was to meet with Quinn's ex-partner, Casey had cold ...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Cathy Phillips never takes chances -- and she's not about to start now. When she returns to close up the New England lake house where tragedy shattered her golden existence, she intends to leave her memories ... and way of life... intact. The vita...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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One night in New York, a city under siege by snow, Peter Lake attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home... Thus begins the affair between this Irish burglar and Bev...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Trudi was torn between two worlds Trudi Carr loved her exciting fashion career in Christchurch. And she was determined not even marriage would steal her away from it! But when Dan Johnson, a sensitive yet arrogant drifter, proposed on the roman...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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A new enemy, a savage battlefield, a devastating loss...Dicken Quinney proved himself as a brilliant and heroic pilot in World War One, saving the lives of his fellow RAF servicemen, and winning a slew of medals. It is now the near aftermath of the G...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Earth has become a library planet for thousands of years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge -- esoterica of all types, history, science, politics -- gathered by teams of “pack rats” who scour the galaxy for any scrap of information. ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Mark Lomax, a radio engineer living in Geneva holds evidence to a World War II war crime---the sole evidence, except for that buried beneath the Arctic Ocean--evidence sought by Polish revolutionaries, the CIA, and the U.S.S.R...

• Sep-1983
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• / Suspense
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Fantasy
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• Sep-1983
• / Science Fiction
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Del Rey / Ballantine, 1978. Mass market paperback, 2nd of two printings. This is the third in a trilogy of novels; it follows Master of the Stars (1976) To Control the Stars (1977) This trilogy describes, over a period of aeons, a cluster of galac...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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HE HAD BUILT A WALL TO DIVIDE THEM Hope Standish was stunned by the speed with which Ross Adair took control of her life -- and her heart. When an accident on an Indian reservation curtailed her painting trip through the Great Smokies, she was for...

• Sep-1983
• / Fantasy
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Strictly business brings wealthy Heather Andrews to the isolated Pacific island where her devastatingly handsome ex-husband practices medicine. Years ago Ross chose to leave her glittering social world far behind; now she refuses his invitation to ex...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could she be jealous of her own teenage daughter, a budding blond beauty who had apparently enchanted a man more than twice her age? Ridiculous! Katherine Meadows thought she had good reason to mistrust the arrogant new neighbor her two children a...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Kane Webster bought the Seattle bank he bought trouble. One embezzler had already been uncovered and there was certain to be an accomplice. The evidence seemed to point to Erin O'Toole, but evidence is sometimes circumstantial. Kane listened ...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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THE ART OF LOVING... J.T. had expected to find new artists on her buying trip to Europe. She hadn't expected to lose her heart to the most difficult of them all. He was Jake Marshall, and despite his talent he had shut himself off from his nat...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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John Cooper Baines -- the Hawk -- now rides forth to battle his deadliest foe. Clad in buckskin, his long rifle at his side, he is the undefeated master of this wild, sprawling Texas land. But a white renegade has sworn allegiance to hell itself ...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU MINE, JESSIE. TOTALLY & COMPLETELY" Their strong wills clashed from the moment the small plane crash-landed in the desert. But only one could win: Lucas Kincaid, primitive male, who dared to claim Jessica Travers...

• Sep-1983
• / Historical Mystery
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Playing the sport called love was all in the game... The difference between Bobbi Morrow and Blain Pearson was sizable -- in more ways than one. A star player for the Washington Bullets basketball team, Blain had known a lot of women, but was neve...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Jane Smith sneaked aboard Jake Dominic's yacht on a dare, never dreaming she'd collide with the bronze playboy-director in the flesh! But the muscled arms that captured her were inescapable--and suddenly Jane found herself agreeing to a month...

• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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Sarah embarks on a dangerous mission in Spain when she searches for her father, a famous exposâe writer, who has mysteriously disappeared from his hotel....

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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In a last-ditch stab at fortune and glory, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed round-the-world race. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the treacherous Atlantic Ocean's vast expanse,...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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Terrified of growing up and confronting her femininity and the prospect of independence, fifteen-year-old Willa, the sensitive daughter of an artistic, affluent Manhattan couple, embarks on a desperate course of self-starvation...

• Sep-1983
• / Science Fiction
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They were three: Maq Ancor, the master assassin, Macician Cherry, space illusionist, Sine Anura, mistress of the erotic. Chosen for the great quest, the journey into the heart of mankind's greatest creation: Zeus. Zeus who made the new worlds for ...

• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE WAS A FOOL TO FALL IN LOVE Fate played a cunning trick on tourist journalist Meg Brown. Because of a dizzying series of mishaps in romantic Venice, she found herself entangled with the most stunningly attractive man she'd ever met. Marco Monte...

• Sep-1983
• / Horror
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Old Charlotte Aubrey has died. Yet something still lives at Aubrey House, glowing with a strange blue light, breathing in the dark, waiting... -- Is it waiting for Richard Creighton, the brilliant philosopher who longs to forget the terrible accide...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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In his powerful new novel, Elia Kazan takes up the life of the young Greek from Anatolia whose early years he chronicled in his first and highly acclaimed novel, America America, giving us the story of a man caught between two worlds and fighting to ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Historical
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Traditional Regency
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Matrimony was simply not Elinor Bennett's affair. As landlady of a bustling coaching inn, lovely Nell did her best to conceal her feminine charms, while overseeing the family business in her brother's absence. Soon Elinor was so successful at innkeep...

• Sep-1983
• / Fantasy
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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A leading daytime soap opera, "The Sinners", had jumped to the top of the ratings. But success meant serious trouble. Now catastrophes scripted for the characters were happening off-camera--to the cast! Casey Fredericks, exquisite private eye, had be...

• Sep-1983
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Unlucky thirteen! Jenna thought. It was two years since she'd met him, eleven months since he'd vanished. Their marriage had lasted exactly thirteen months. Together they'd been the music world's most beautiful -- and explosive -- couple. Since th...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Her face was her fortune. But when Kea Mason's light plane crashed outside L.A., her life shattered with it. Her husband was dead; her brief, unhappy marriage over; her future as a respected TV interviewer uncertain; her position in a world of wealth...

• Sep-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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Once Lane Winters had been a girl with dreams of glory: She would sing and the world would listen. Ross Matthews was the man--the lover--she had left behind in her quest to make it on her own. The dream had come true. Her voice had indeed been ...

• Sep-1983
• / Fantasy
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• Sep-1983
• / Action Adventure
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Captain Robert M. Falconi of the 5th Special Forces had his orders: the clandestine SOG needed an enforcement arm and Falconi was to put it together. Made up of the best jungle fighters if R.S. could muster, they were to take the war to Charlie - no ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Historical Romance
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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From the magnificent mansions of POrt London to the fabulous facadesof Park Avenue and the French Riviera-- Here are the private secrets and the public pleasures of the East Coast's power-elite whose blood fortunes and family connections are born of ...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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It began without warning... -- The babies stillborn, monstrously deformed...the adults dying, one by one. Then without reason it stopped. The beautiful New England town forgot. Once again healthy children skipped along its tree-lined streets. E...

• Sep-1983
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1983
• / Law Enforcement
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Houston sprawls in the sun like a woman ready for the richest comer. Past the plush condos of expatriate Brazilian to the city’s rotting wharves, wealthy Police Detective Stuart Haydon cruises in his Jaguar -- hunting a killer. The homicides chi...