Books Published in December 1983

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A MASTER OF THE MYSTERIOUS Pierce Atkins was a solitary figure, a magician who'd entranced audiences all over the world. Only one woman, Ryan Swan, had guessed the pain that lay behind his art, the past he'd chosen to conceal behind the flash and th...

• Dec-1983
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When uninhibited, flamboyant Shay Morrison accidentally walks in on Ian Douglas as he steps naked from the shower, she is slightly amused, sensually aware, but otherwise unperturbed. He, however, is clearly displeased. Why? Because his profession is ...

• Dec-1983
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His pride made him believe the worst! Five years ago, Lisa Hayward had fled her exotic island home of St. Martin's, leaving her just begun marriage in ruins. Back in London, she concentrated on raising her son, Robbie--Rorke's son The c...

• Dec-1983
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At last, the soaring, breathless, tumultuous climax of the Montgomery Annals ... She came to him as a precious gift, a naked angel rolled in a rug. Once he gazed into her green eyes, saw her tangle of honey blond hair, he was undone with passion...

• Dec-1983
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"MCFARREN CAN'T BE DEAD!" A bellow of primitive rage escaped Joshua Tanner. He felt possessed, demonic. The pleading of his sister went unnoticed. He had only one thought, one need. He had to find McFarren's daughter. But wou...

• Dec-1983
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Kelly McKenna would get her story and prove herself to her editor -- even if it meant using a bit of blackmail. She'd try anything to get dashing inventor-genius Nick O'Brien to take her along in his experimental balloon to Mexico. And though Nick ...

• Dec-1983
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The memory held nothing but pain Alex Thomassin was the last man Christabel Evans expected, or wanted, to see, a year after their disastrous night together. Here in the rugged north of New Zealand, she had another look, another life, even a dif...

• Dec-1983
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Beautiful Victoria McKenna ruled the Double M ranch as her private dynasty on the vast Wyoming high plains. If anyone dared touch her, a hundred guns stood ready to take revenge. But Mason Mahaffey defied the odds to lay his claim on the McKenna l...

• Dec-1983
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Edward the Second's first act on coming to the throne is to recall Piers Gaveston from exile, and the new king's devotion to the shrewd and avaricious young man soon becomes a scandal. It is assumed that when Edward marries one of the most beautiful ...

• Dec-1983
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She was more than willing to surrender to love Never before had Cordelia experienced such desire as she felt for Marcus Stone. And one sultry night in the exotic gardens of his Sri Lankan home, he revealed his own fierce passion for her. Then s...

• Dec-1983
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Julia's was a passionate nature A devastating warmth surged between Julia and her self-appointed guardian, Guy Guerard, the first time they met. Inexperienced in love, Julia let Guy take her to his estate in France, where she was paraded in vi...

• Dec-1983
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"Why don't you take a lover, my dear? It would serve that feckless husband of yours right." "But I don't want a lover. I am in love with my husband." Poor deluded Lucy. She had married a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunk...

• Dec-1983
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HE WAS PROTECTING HER FOR HIMSELF Being saddled with a paid bodyguard for two weeks in Hawaii was not Sabrina's idea of a dream vacation. But her mother took the kidnapping threats seriously, like it or not, she was stuck with Jake Devlin as s...

• Dec-1983
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QUEEN OF LOVE As the wife of Tajarez, the mighty King of the Lagonda tribe, beautiful Mara Golden was respected and admired. But was she truly happy? By day she questioned her decision to remain in her husband's world. By night, when Tajarez crushed...

• Dec-1983
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When Ellyn Douglass saved the handsome Union officer from the cold, merciless river, she didn't think this one action would so alter her future. As Price held her to his finely sculpted body, eagerly seeking her sensuous lips, she could only surr...

• Dec-1983
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From the Russian pogroms to the American dream, from Hollywood's heyday to the Promised Land, we witness the dramatic life of gifted young author and troubled war hero Gideon Zadok. In an epic search for himself, his art, and his heritage, Gideon jou...

• Dec-1983
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ISLAND OF DESIRE Beautiful, flame-haired Garnet Winters came from the chilly morality of 18th-century Boston to claim her plantation on the sun-drenched French island of St. Dominique. Nothing had prepared her for this place of nourishing beauty a...

• Dec-1983
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She loved him -- and he despised her Sloan Garfield thought Teri a gold digger, and worse, out for everything she could get. An owner of vast South African vineyards on the Cape Peninsula, he had a lot to offer. But what he was offering was nei...

• Dec-1983
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A science fiction adventure for readers of all ages, from a winner of multiple Nebula and Hugo Awards.   In the near future, a cargo hovership makes an emergency landing in a rural part of the Midwest. An adventurous teenager, Johnny...

• Dec-1983
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SLOCUM'S PARADISE. A prairie settlement that has a free love philosophy and the women to back it up! It was just Slocum's luck to stumble on this paradise with an eight-man posse on his trail. And just his luck to find that none of his hosts knows wh...

• Dec-1983
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She had always known he was still alive After three years of searching throughout Australia, Erin Wilding was certain she'd found her husband. Kirk had been missing and presumed drowned since crashing his plane into the sea off the Great Barri...

• Dec-1983
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Too hot to handle... Watch out, Sweet Valley High! Once again, Jessica Wakefield has gotten her way. Fresh from her greatest social triumph, Jessica proceeds to sink her hooks into rich, handsome Bruce Patman, the most eligible, sought-after guy a...

• Dec-1983
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Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired to be a maid.What could possibly go wrong during one unforgettable summer?A Hilarious Misunderstanding: Anastasia dreams...

• Dec-1983
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The Lightskirt's Daughter -- Pamela, golden, aristocratic, reckless. She threw away her reputation to save a man's life and almost changed the course of history! The Rebellious Beauty--Constance, born to dramatic events, her dark loveliness turned...

• Dec-1983
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A penniless young beauty masks her face at the Grand Ball--but cannot shield her heart from a dashing lord. THE TENDER TRESPASSER Miss Adele Russell knew it was sheer folly to attend the Duke and Duchess of Bellingham's grand masquerade. A year...

• Dec-1983
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A Gift Beyond Price... Freedom was one such gift. Having grown up in the vast spaces of Wyoming, Erin Hennessey had always known and appreciated it. For Mikhail Demertov, though, it was a rare and precious privilege. Mikhail was newly freed from a...

• Dec-1983
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The lady in command--graduate of Annapolis--beautiful Alex Page had put a career in Naval Intelligence and a bitter marriage behind her. Now, as security chief of a major firm, her main charge was guarding the body of its dashing president. Proud,...

• Dec-1983
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THRUST TOGETHER IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE, PASSION WOULD NEVER LET THEM PART.... ESMERALDA TALBOT -- Born in India, bound for England, she had survived shipwreck only to find herself stranded on alien soil and swept up by the winds of war. ROBERT...

• Dec-1983
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They couldn't agree on anything! Dawn's assignment to write an article on Byron Boyd's Hebridean castle wasn't going to be easy. He was harsh, sarcastic, unlikable and clearly resented the prospect of tourists invading his home. ...

• Dec-1983
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Eagles's father, Heads Off, leads the Elk-dog band by virtue of bringing to horse -- the "elk-dog" -- to the People. Eagle himself has mastered the ways of the horse, but now the warrior must learn survivor. His frightened, untrained mount, in pani...

• Dec-1983
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Clint rode into Two Queens, Nevada, looking forward to the high stakes poker game. They were all invited players, the game should be straight, and he knew there'd be women available... one, a beautiful brunette, was even in the game....

• Dec-1983
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It should have been easy: all Clint Adams, The Gunsmith, had to do was take a riverboat down to New Orleans and deliver a small package for President Grant. The trip starts out perfectly: gambling when he wants it and the bed of a luscious lady when ...

• Dec-1983
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New Orleans is a town for high living and high rolling. But the Gunsmith's easy life comes to an abrupt end when he joins up with Henri Duboir to fight a French Quarter crime syndicate. The gang is vicious, lowdown and playing for keeps. Fortunately ...

• Dec-1983
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Wyatt Earp was a young buffalo hunter when he and The Gunsmith teamed up for card-playing in Caldwell, Kansas. And there they met another youngster named Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson, who showed great promise as a gunslick....

• Dec-1983
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It was April in Paris and love was in the air when Anna Foray met Count Rudi Andrassy. They were strangers in paradise, two seekers after beauty in the halls of the Louvre, and the night they shared was no less magical than the season and the setting...

• Dec-1983
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It is the spring of 1802. The Peace Treaty of Amiens, signed only a few weeks earlier, is already showing signs of collapse as Britain and France wrangle over the return of colonial possessions won and lost during their long, bloody war. In the li...

• Dec-1983
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Arlie was reckless, wild, a little naughty -- but in the nicest way! Whenever she got into a scrape, Dan was always there to rescue and comfort her. He had been her first crush, her uncured case of puppy love -- and she was still his beloved albatr...

• Dec-1983
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The acclaimed author brings us crime at a country-house Christmas party in "one of her best and most baffling mysteries" (Daily Express). It's the Christmas season in 1972, and Agatha Troy is at a house party, enjoying the local holiday pageant a...

• Dec-1983
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If Jill wins the contest, she'll lose Craig forever... Jill's vacation gets off to a wild start when her best friend, Toni. thinks up a contest--- who can be the fist to date ten new boys! It seems like a great solution to a boring summer until th...

• Dec-1983
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He was the Cougar Club's star attraction, mesmerizing hundreds of women in the smoky glare of a spotlight, his hips swaying in the provocative motions of love. But in the dusty attic of a deserted mansion, Philip Brooks captivated his chosen lady...

• Dec-1983
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THE HAWK was the image that came to Alanna's mind whenever she saw the sleek powerful master of Raven Oaks plantation. Beau Remington was the kind of man who would stalk his prey until he got what he wanted. He wanted lovely Alanna. Just one look...

• Dec-1983
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Three women share a lifetime of emotion in one year. Helen, Chloe and Pansy came up to Oxford University in the 1970s full of hopes and dreams. For a year they share a special friendship, but the men in their lives change them forever....

• Dec-1983
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This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in the 1936 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'She Devil' is one of Howard's spicy stories featuring the charcter Wild Bill Clayton. Robert...

• Dec-1983
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BLACKMAIL LOVE... Dawn Lockwood could hardly believe it when she was promoted to chief window designer by Warren Hemingway, dynamic young owner of an elegant London department store. But a new job wasn't all Warren had in mind. He blackmail...

• Dec-1983
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The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Sal...

• Dec-1983
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IT WAS AN OUTLAWS' CONVENTION Doc Holliday... Clay Allison ...John Harrow... and two hundred more of the West's worst badmen had gathered in a secret riverside camp -- and the cartel that had always menaced the Starbucks was behind it somehow. Their...

• Dec-1983
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They had once made a promise to belong only to each other, but he was Marc Fremont of the Louisiana Fremonts, and she was only Megan Mahlar, of the nowhere-in-particular Mahlors, and the promise made with the hot impetuosity of youth was destined to ...

• Dec-1983
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DREAM LOVER Desiree Beaumont literally dreamed up her ideas for her exquisite negligees, then simply put them down on paper. But when a dark-eyed man invaded those fantasies, the solution wasn't so easy ... especially when he stepped out of her dr...

• Dec-1983
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HAUNTING DREAMS OF LOVE Sara couldn't believe her bad luck. She had mortgaged her entire future to buy her dream house in the exclusive writers' community of Ravenwood, only to discover that her next-door neighbor was Hunter Hathaway--the...