Books Published in September 1985

• Sep-1985
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IT WAS LIKE A CRASH COURSE IN DEMONOLOGY What happens when a college professor of medieval literature gets a little too drunk for anyone's good and conjures up a beauty of a demon right in the middle of a faculty party? Well, if the professor is W...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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TAKING A DIVE Tyrus Clay felt as if he was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. He'd been forced to retire from his career as a deep-sea salvage diver for health reasons. Now he was grounded -- stuck on dry land doing a diving study...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Traditional Regency
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An unexpected encounter was only the beginning... The fertile mind of Alida Grofton was busy at work. After stealing away from her uncle's country house, she was being pursued by two determined footpads. Alida's impulsiveness would be her ...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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Harlan Ellison, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction and a multiple Hugo-, Nebula-, and Edgar Award-winner, returns to his roots with the graphic novel, Phoenix Without Ashes. The year is 2785, and Devon, a farmer banished for challenging his ...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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They eye each other covertly across the supermarket aisle -- Mallory Victor, object of frenzied adoration as a lead rock singer, and Dr. David Hitchcock, exemplar of traditional, rock-solid values. Longing to be "ordinary," Mallory warms to D...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life a...

• Sep-1985
• / Science Fiction
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Human colonists travel too far into space and encounter aliens who impose an eight-hundred-year wave of total ignorance over an entire galaxy, causing all its inhabitants to struggle for centuries to restore their intellect...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war “with enormous realist dignity” in this collection of “wondrous work from [his] early career” (Kirkus, starred review).   In this short story collection, one of Italy’s greatest stor...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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To assistant director Savanna Collier, actor Teague Harris was exactly that. No one that good-looking could possibly have a mind, too. But Teague did, and he turned its considerable resources toward winning Savanna's heart. It didn't take long for...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Vietnam, assassinations and riots. In the spring semester of 1968, a series of brutal attacks draws campus women together to study self-defense and the psychology of rape. Graduate student Mary Beth Nelson struggles to keep the Lords of Death at bay ...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Action Adventure
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The Killmaster had never met a more deadly enemy. Nor a more beautiful one. Unknown to him, Raina's only mission in life was to avenge her father's death--by killing Carter in the most hideous fashion imaginable. At their appointed rendezvous i...

• Sep-1985
• / Action Adventure
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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She thought she was finished with love Two things mattered to Kirby: her baby daughter's happiness and her work. So the assignment to ghostwrite a famous artist's biography seemed like the chance of a lifetime. The writer in her yearned...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Marriage was the last thing Lea Karrington had in mind, yet here she was, miles from home, pursuing a mail-order mate! The things a young reporter for Chronicle magazine did in the name of duty! But duty had nothing to do with the feelings Logan Chen...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Dru held on to what she loved At first, Dru didn't like Locke Matthews, the tenant at her cottage near Brisbane. Then she discovered the vulnerable and sensitive man beneath the film star's celluloid image, and Dru fell in love. She kne...

• Sep-1985
• / Literary
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ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk ...

• Sep-1985
• / Traditional Regency
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"IF I COULD HAVE FORESEEN THE FUTURE, I WOULD HAVE MARRIED THE FIRST MAN WHO ASKED ME!" Tongues were set wagging when Elizabeth Markham's glamorous young parents were killed, sinking their only child to the unspeakable class of poor re...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Fantasy
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Who Dares to Tame the Dragon? When Magic Battles Nature -- Which Shall Prevail? The River Bilcad is a Dragon indeed. It is a monster but poorly restrained by the complex network of canals built to control and harness its raging waters and protect the...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Kate Fairchild never would have agreed to collaborate with Nick Trent on a new mystery novel if she'd known how sensually predatory he'd be. To her chagrin, she falls hard for this master of carefree flings...just when she's eager to sett...

• Sep-1985
• / Amateur Sleuth
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The sixties are dead…and so is Ginnie Mullens. She was many things—free spirit, flower child, entrepreneur, gambler—but first and foremost she was mystery writer Mallory’s friend and confidant since childhood. So Mallory under...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Gina Renzi dreams of becoming a doctor. She loves her volunteer work as a candy striper at the hospital. And when she starts dating soccer star Dave Bender, her life seems perfect -- at last she has it all! But Dave refuses to listen when Gina talks ...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical
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George Netfield, proprietor of Kirkville's leading saloon, was a calm, deliberate man-a man who knew what he wanted. And what he wanted most was to root out the rustlers that wanted to make a ghost town out of brawling, prosperous Kirkville.

The ...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical Romance
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In freedom she found savagery, splendor and the sweet heartache of love ... Spirited Shea Kennedy; whose Irish eyes and innocent charms no man could long resist, found a heartful of joy and hope in the arms of Kane McAllister, her handsome America...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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A boy's struggle to grasp the forbidden truth about his world...Michael was quite young when he discovered that some of his playmates bled if they cut themselves, and some didn't. For a long time he didn't think about it. Nor did it seem strange to s...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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She'd lied to her best friend, bragging that she'd married a famous surgeon. Now Jillane Simms had to produce a husband, and Slater Holbrook was the best she could come up with. In desperation she made a deal. He'd play the part in exchan...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Women's Fiction
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Glamorous Manhattan, with its whirlwind of social, political, and romantic intrigue, sets the stage for this luscious novel of passion, money, and power. In the spotlight, thriving on every bit of excitement and glitter the city has to offer, are Cak...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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The Bahamas were paradise, especially to a northerner like Gia O'Flaherty. She basked in the sun and indulged her every whim. But when her freckle-dusted nose inadvertently poked into someone else's business, she discovered intrigue, suspicion -- and...

• Sep-1985
• / Horror
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The mysterious death of Marilyn's glamorous enigmatic aunt, seemingly linked to an ancient Egyptian amulet, leads Marilyn into a terrifying confrontation with the demonic forces that killed her relative....

• Sep-1985
• / Historical Romance
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ARROGANT COWBOY Union officer Daniel Jordan moved South to take possession of his cattle ranch -- and to stake his claim on Adelaide Caton, the golden-haired spitfire who ran the neighboring spread. He had met her once, before the war, and never for...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical Romance
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They were natural enemies but for one stolen moment Svetlana Ozerova found refuge and love in the arms of her captor, son of a legendary Chinese warlord. They dared to defy tradition and break every rule. Her rescue made them forbidden allies brought...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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Mild-mannered college professor and sometime CIA operative Horatio Cassidy, a medieval scholar, is thrust into the midst of an explosive international cocaine conspiracy and unrest in a Central American country led by dictator and drug kingpin Balisa...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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He calls her a sophisticated lady, but despite her highfalutin name, impeccable genealogy, and Greta Garbo looks, Abigail Vanderbine fears she isn't the classy woman-of-the-world Mick Piper wants. Sent to interview the wholesomely sexy peanut-butter ...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Mystery
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CHIPS, I’M SCARED, HELP ME. The message flashes on the computer screen when Larry is in the middle of a game. Then the connection breaks. What happened to the person he met via his computer whom he knows only as Peter Pan? Larry is certain th...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical Romance
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Through hardship and famine, like gold tested by fire, she emerges, purified and refined, only to meet her greatest test. Though the elements rage about her, Jennifer Townley is oblivious to everything but the mission which has compelled her to the r...

• Sep-1985
• / Romantic Suspense
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She set a trap only to be caught in it herself! Bettina Bacheller had just lost everything to the IRS because her dead father had owed a fortune in back taxes. Then she learned that he was still alive, and was being sought as an international jewe...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical Romance
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In another great American Windhaven saga, the continuing chapters of the Bouchard family unfold against the backdrop of the turbulent Reconstruction years in the war-ravaged South. White against Black, Yankee against Confederate, carpetbaggers agains...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Science Fiction
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The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.

Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstel...

• Sep-1985
• / Traditional Regency
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The Daughter of an Actress Brought up in a respectable country village, Dorinda Hale was as beautiful a gentlewoman as anyone could wish. But her actress mother had married a rakish nobleman for love -- and his sudden death left them without a fea...

• Sep-1985
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1985
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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A family crisis once wrenched Morag Macdonald from her home. Now another crisis returned her to the wild and beautiful island in Scotland. Callum Maconnell, the castle's new laird, had caught her brother with his hand in the till and offered Mora...

• Sep-1985
• / Science Fiction
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Bloodsong 1# The battle cry of Bloodsong, the slave who fought her way to freedom, has become a legend throughout the ancient world. Now her cry is heard again, as she undertakes a deadly mission to defeat Nidhug, the deathless lord who has doomed...

• Sep-1985
• / Action Adventure
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• Sep-1985
• / Romantic Suspense
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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In the final volume of the Avignon Quintet, Aubrey Blanford returns home to Avignon at the end of World War II to be joined by his beloved Constance, Sylvie, Constance's former patient and current lover, and Lord Galen and the Prince...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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The blood-drenched Navy Corpsman had it right as he labored to keep yet another Marine alive on the mean street of Hue City: ""Getting out of Hue alive is like trying to run between raindrops without getting wet."" Nearly half a century has passe...

• Sep-1985
• / Gothic
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Unaware that she was unable to see him, a killer tracks down Linda Pietra an amateur pilot who accidentally strayed over the murder scene...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical
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Morton Lewis was part Indian … which meant that the only way the land-grabbers could take his ranch from him was to kill him … and the killing had to seem to be legal …But Mort’s grandfather was a Comanche war chief, and if a Comanche brave s...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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An experimental brain implant leaves Steven Collins with the bizarre ability to shift back and forth between alternate universes, an ability that makes Steven and a psychic, Hilborne Burton, the only ones capable of stopping an evil dictator, Alvarez...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical
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APACHES ARE READY TO REVOLT The name Laslo keeps turning up -- on the lips of a dying man, on a scrap of paper found in a fireplace, and most importantly, in the black book left to Jessica Starbuck by her father, listing cartel members bent on takin...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Historical
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SHE WAS WILDER THAN THE WEST... The young and beautiful Duchess of Clyde had fled England, leaving a trail of scandals behind. Now Queen Victoria wants her back at any price. The problem is that the Duchess is practicing the oldest profession of a...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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Cleo Lewis, a backwoods woman, finds her love for her family and her acceptance of the harshness and drudgery of her life, threatened by her sudden yearning for meaning and understanding and by the arrival of an unknown, mysterious stranger...

• Sep-1985
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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All in a day's work... Gwen Blackshire had always been intrigued by the Pacific beach house next to hers -- and somewhat curious about its occupant. In all the years she'd been living there she'd never even met him; Gwen assumed he was...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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He had never faced a real crisis. Pierce Lanson's charm and looks had carried him gracefully through life's challenges. Until he was forced to run from a jealous husband with underworld connections. Alone and broke, Pierce accepted a job on a...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Historical
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• Sep-1985
• / Historical Romance
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A MOTHER, A DAUGHTER, AND A MAN THEY BOTH LOVED! They were two courageous women on a journey across the American wilderness. In Dodge City they encountered the spark that started a passionate blaze. Tanner Royce...a hard, handsome, fearless cattle...

• Sep-1985
• / Action Adventure
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• Sep-1985
• / Science Fiction
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CALL FOR MR. FIXIT! The Company had a big problem--it was illegally exploiting a fabulously rich planet named Prism, a world where even the tiniest creatures were living jewels. But, somehow, all contact had been lost with the scientists of the...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Kate smelled a rat -- a big blond American one. "Take it from me," Kate's boss told her sheepishly as he packed to leave London, "Van Fitzgerald is a man worth knowing." This after having advised Kate to avoid his American frie...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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At the 1892 Chicago World's Fair, the paths of millionaires, merchants, suffragettes, and courtesans converge and heiress Margaret Marsh and courtesan Gertrude Jahn seek a reliable security and an escape from shame...

• Sep-1985
• / Thriller
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In eighteen hours America will be a different place!" With this ominous promise Rostov, Russian commander of a terrorist cadre that is sowing chaos and destruction in every one of the fifty states, continues the bloodbath he began with the wholesale ...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Literary
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A re-creation of the conquest of the Americas and Latin America, divided into 2 parts. In the first are the myths of pre-Columbian America; in the other, the history of America unfolds from the 15th century to 1700....

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Was there a wild passionate woman hidden within the serious psychologist? Hard to tell. Dr. D. Rebecca Simpson had her life pretty well in hand. A skilled family therapist, she helped others put their lives in order. And when Jared Wells came to get ...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Espionage
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It's a long way from the garden club to the CIA, but Mrs. Emily Pollifax made the leap splendidly. SOMETHING DANGEROUS IS IN THE HONG KONG AIR.... Faster than she can say her name, the newly married Mrs. Pollifax is packed and ready to go on an...

• Sep-1985
• / Action Adventure
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WARLEADER Deep within the dark recesses of Trama Mountain lives a mysterious being who holds the vast knowledge of ages past, and the powers of the glorious Golden Age. Yet he is alone; the sole survivor of that time which died with the falling su...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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SECRETS OF THE HEART When she heard that Chase Winfield was moving to Silverwood Lake, Diana knew trouble would be brewing. She'd met the wealthy bachelor five years ago, under strange circumstances. If he recognized her now, it could prove highly...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / Suspense
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Amateur Sleuth
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Dempsey Turner-Riley was delightfully eccentric, a woman who lived by whim and embraced the unpredictable. When James Halloran opened his door to find her selling vacuum cleaners, he sensed that his utterly safe life had been burst wide open, and his...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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Hired to produce the media campaign for the presidential bid of former Texas governor Stephen Wendell, media strategist Jerry Bloom discovers a conspiracy to sieze control of the presidency--by any means, including murder...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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The reader becomes Sagard, the sixteen-year-old barbarian, and must face the Ice Golem, the Devil-Bear, and many other dangers before retrieving the Heart of the Ice Dragon and becoming a full-fledged warrior...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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Summer of Dreams I thought becoming a teenager was going to be fun. Instead., the summer I turned thirteen my life turned upside-down. Dad lost his job and we moved into my aunt and uncle's beach house. Sounded great-but not When I had to share a ro...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical Romance
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PARADISE LOST Aurora knew that she didn't belong with the elves who raised her, but was happy to live among the gentle creatures of the glade. It was not until she met Frayne that she understood her destiny was in his embrace. Frayne - magnificent...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Casey Clayton had changed her life. Joining forces with a group of women determined to alter their habits, she'd succeeded in streamlining her body. But now Brian Powell's sudden reappearance made it clear that some habits were impossible to ...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Was he all things to all women? California sunshine and her sister's beach house overlooking the ocean at Malibu would do the trick. Bianca hoped the time alone would help her focus on what to do with her life. But her tranquility was short...

• Sep-1985
• / Literary
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The question is whether Handke is Existentialist or Post Modern. This collection includes three of the best examples of mid-Twentieth Century European experimental fiction: The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick; Short Letter, Long Farewell; and A ...

• Sep-1985
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1985
• / Historical
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Things aren't always what they seem! Take Fran, for example. Heer delicate prettiness belied her sharp intelligence and ready wit. Those who didn't know better thought of her as sweet and shy, an old-fashioned heroine, the kind who adored ...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical Romance
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Each year thousands of tourists visit the huge, prehistoric stones, marveling at their awesome size and mystery. Then one group came not to marvel but to resurrect the dark primal magic of Druid horror; to call up the unholy power that had once reign...

• Sep-1985
• / Science Fiction
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What if we could transfer objects, even people, across the galaxy in the blink of an eye?What hidden secrets would it reveal? What deadly dangers would it conceal?Will any part of human life be the same when the vastness of the Universe lies only ONE...

• Sep-1985
• / Historical
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• Sep-1985
• / Historical
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• Sep-1985
• / Science Fiction
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In the kingdom of Ruritania, Prince Rudolf is about to be crowned king. Instead, due to the machinations of his half brother, he becomes the "Prisoner of Zenda". That was back in the 19th century, But history is about to repeat itself--with a twis...

• Sep-1985
• / Fantasy
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When Guss Rassan, a reptilian humanoid from Essa, discovers that Earth is destined to be destroyed by terrorists, he comes to warn his friend Harry Borg of the plan, only to find Harry has already vanished...

• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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The minute Abby Morrell's raft hits the rapids, she knows she's in trouble. Everyone leaps from the runaway boat, leaving Abby alone and heading for more white water. But suddenly Kirk Phillips - with his sun-bleached hair and smiling brown eyes - cl...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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Real-estate agent Marla Rosetti thought she knew what she wanted--a no-strings lifestyle. When Jack Whiting, the celebrated artist, asked her to marry him, she'd just laughed--and said no. It wasn't until Jack's passionate attention suddenly turned t...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:

The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
Textual notes recording signi...

• Sep-1985
• / Gothic
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It was a legacy of mystery... Selina Ames came to Bittercreek, California, to unravel the mystery of her natural parentage. There she met two men who offered her assistance: Marcus Hannaford, a charming gambler and entrepreneur, and Jared Newcomb,...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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Ex-newspaperman Hank Cavanaugh, right-hand PR man to Democratic Massachusetts Congressman Sam Barry, methodically sounding out and projecting his boss's presidential possibilities, subordinates his personal life to the privacies, panderings, and poli...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Suspense
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"Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." -- The New YorkerWith the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinc...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of “God’s cause” -- a struggle for liberty and republican freedom. While most accounts ...

• Sep-1985
• / Mystery
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / Science Fiction
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THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN' Utopia was achieved in the 21st century. But even in a world of prosperity and freedom there were malcontents. They called themselves Overlord, and their possession of time travel gave them the ability to change the ...

• Sep-1985
• / Gothic
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Her fate was hidden in a locket... The McCabes had lost everything in the Irish famine of 1848 and were being evicted from their land. But a different fate awaited their foster daughter, Hannah. A handsome stranger named Richard Ralston had come t...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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