Books Published in February 1981

• Feb-1981
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It was more than a family matter... Dr. Duert ter Brandt disapproved of Christina's relationship with his brother, Adam, and he made sure they both knew it. True, he didn't stop Chrissy from coming to Holland to work near Adam -- but h...

• Feb-1981
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The great Calder Empire stretched across the Montana plains as far as the eye could see. Everyone knew a Calder's word was law and that one day Chase Calder would carry the name Calder to new glories. But for handsome, arrogant Chase Calder there...

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She'd known his type right from the start When Charley Collins needed a cowboy for her Idaho ranch, she had no choice but to hire Shad Russell. He was a drifter and a loner -- and undeniably attractive. Falling in love with a man like Shad wou...

• Feb-1981
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HOW COULD SAMANTHA TELL CHRISTIAN THAT SHE WAS "SAM" BLAKELY? For Samantha it began as a dream come true. She finally landed a staff photographer's position on Daylight Magazine. She was well on her way. And then she met the owner, Chr...

• Feb-1981
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She needed time--and that was running out After two years' separation from Gabriel, her husband, Marisa still didn't think she was ready to cope with being his wife. His wealthy life-style had intimidated her. His snobbish friends had made...

• Feb-1981
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From Dangerous Passion in Private Chambers to the Pageantry of the Royal Court, They Cherished a Forbidden Love The flaxen-haired Chandra watched with love as de Corbney grew to manhood, his hair as black as deep night, his fierce blue eyes shinin...

• Feb-1981
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ALIX WAS MUCH TOO SMART FOR THIS JOB Alix Conroy's journalistic talents were unquestioned, so when her boss, Carl Danning, gave her difficult assignments, she usually welcomed the challenge. This is time he went too far with his demands. ...

• Feb-1981
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'You've been well paid for the bargain." The deep voice over the phone made no sense at all until Reggie's sister Bella hastened to explain the immensity of the problem. It seemed that Bella had agreed to act as Severo Cardenosa...

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He'd shattered every one of her defenses Even at their first meeting, Roxana had feared Marcus Fleming. But she had fallen in love with him anyway -- a dynamic man whose life-style would be severely hampered by her blindness. "I won'...

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If only she could turn back the clock! Juliet Stone was an acclaimed actress and a very happy bride-to-be. But disaster struck when a strange illness ruined her career and caused her fiance to desert her. Lonely and desperate, Juliet accepted D...

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She was brave as she was proud When her only hope of returning home lay in traveling a thousand miles on horseback, Camilla, unlike the fragile females of her society, was equal to the task. When food rations became meager, she ignored her hung...

• Feb-1981
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Angie didn't know all the facts! When her sister, Cilla, decided not to marry Terzan Helios after all, Angie was persuaded to go to his Greek island to break the news. Cilla had described Terzan as "sinfully wealthy and wickedly attract...

• Feb-1981
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Like the man the mob was trying the lynch, the Ysabel Kid was half Comanche. He was a crack shot with a Colt Dragoon, a master of the border country art of cut-and-slash, and the fastest shot with a Winchester Yellow Boy repeater Texas had ever seen....

• Feb-1981
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Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire id the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies. Whoever controlled Pell's Downbelow station held the key to Earth's defensive perimeter -- or the jum...

• Feb-1981
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'We've met before, Mr. de Savigny." Josephine's words startled the snobbish French aristocrat, who had earlier mistaken her for a stable boy. The error was understandable, for Jo liked her tomboy image and scorned feminine things l...

• Feb-1981
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Love's Divided World Fervently Bristol Adams tried to be what seventeenth-century Puritan New England believed a proper young lady should be -- dutiful, devout, submissive to restraints and immune to desire. But even in this harsh atmospher...

• Feb-1981
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Neala and her friend Sherri only wanted to do a little hiking through the woods. Little did they know they would soon be shackled to a dead tree, waiting for Them to arrive. The Dills family thought the small hotel in the quiet town seemed quaint and...

• Feb-1981
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The Duke of Lyveden needed a wife--but which of three eligible ladies of the Ton would be most suitable? The best way to choose, he decided, was to arrive in London with a fraudulent fiancee--and judge the ladies' true characters by how they behav...

• Feb-1981
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Kley could have any woman he desired Brooke Drynan accepted a teaching position in North Queensland to get over a broken heart--not to fall for another heartbreaker. So when she met the district's ideal bachelor and he so arrogantly misjudg...

• Feb-1981
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He sleeps late and wakes up grouchy. He hates joggers, beats up dogs, and shreds his owner. He's cynical, witty, urbane, and sometimes downright mean. But best of all, he's back, better than ever, to delight cat-lovers and cat-haters alike....

• Feb-1981
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A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive. honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identi...

• Feb-1981
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During five days in the midst of a hot, steamy Louisiana summer, the lives of a colorful cast of characters intertwine in a series of public, private, and personal dramas at the famed St. Gregory luxury hotel. Book available....

• Feb-1981
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“SHE HAS KILLED.” It’s a long way to come from China to the depths of the Scottish Highlands for the sake of a few words splashed in confused Chinese script down the side of a scroll with a drawing of a bird perched on a bare willow bough. ...

• Feb-1981
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THEY WERE ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS.... When her small plane was forced down in the Alaskan wilderness, Christie hoped eagerly for rescue. But how could she have known that rescue would come in the form of Scott Kingsley, a reclusive author who had ...

• Feb-1981
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SOMETHING WAS HALTING THE U.S. MAIL -- AND IT WASN'T RAIN OR SLEET... The Feds wanted to know why the mail kept disappearing on a certain shallow stretch of the river they called the Big Muddy. So they sent Longarm, in disguise, to take a gander. ...

• Feb-1981
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The witch-hunters were close behind Spurred on by a twisted sense of justice, they wanted nothing more than to see Marietta burn at the stake. Terrified, Marietta ran till she could run no more. She collapsed on the ground and awaited her dread...

• Feb-1981
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SHOWDOWN WITH DEATH When a pistol-packing blonde beauty pegged Skye Fargo, the Trailsman, as a hired gunslinger out to get her uncle's foreman, it was draw first and ask questions later. Yet by the time he'd tamed the gorgeous young spitfire enoug...

• Feb-1981
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SHE HAD LOST HER HEART TO THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER... Raven-haired Sophia knew him as Philip Rich, a poor relative of the Earl of Rame. And she knew that he awakened in her a craving that her betrothed, Sir John Bladen, could not satisfy. But sh...

• Feb-1981
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HER MARRIAGE WAS A BARGAIN When their father is lost in a storm, Nicole and her brother are left penniless. Then help comes from an unexpected source when Nicole's rich girl friend, Angela, walks out on the eve of her society wedding. If Nico...

• Feb-1981
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IT WAS A PERILOUS MASQUERADE! Andrea knew her honor would be compromised if this escapade ever came to light. But she did not care. She had to discover who had murdered her father, the count, and Pola, her beautiful but wild sister. So, disguis...

• Feb-1981
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It was midday on December 21st in the city of Tromsø when the boy was last seen: a tall, blond boy swathed in anorak and scarf against the Arctic noon. After that he wasn’t seen again, not until three months later, when Professor Mackenzie’s d...

• Feb-1981
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A bustling port city, Charleston, South Carolina, is the crossroads of the American Revolution where supplies and weapons for the rebel army must be unloaded and smuggled north. From the window of the dressmaker’s shop where she works, lovely Celia...

• Feb-1981
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Like a misty fog, a dark force rolls over the Isle of Welas. Now proud-hearted Prince Trevyn must embark on a quest to free the Isle of evil's grip and realize his own legendary destiny ......

• Feb-1981
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EARTHQUAKE! When Nick Carter flew in low over San Diego all he could see was a dense cloud of brick dust. The city was virtually gone. Next stop: Los Angeles, as the quake worked its way up the fault line. And the devastation was man-made. T...

• Feb-1981
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Ex--Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan survived a military hell only to find it again where he least expected it--as a fisherman trolling the Gulf Stream in his thirty-foot clipper. His new life is shattered when a psychotic pack of drug runners turns the tur...

• Feb-1981
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For millions of readers, New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White “raises the bar of the action thriller.” (The Miami Herald) Two decades ago, under the pen name Randy Striker, he was already delivering high-octane adventure with ex-Na...

• Feb-1981
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He had the eyes of a predator Even if drama critic Max Anderson hadn't wrecked Vanessa's promising acting career, she would have loathed the man on principle alone! His inviting if slightly world-weary smile and outrageous charm had mad...

• Feb-1981
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A castaway government official is stranded on an island of man-made monsters in this bold reimagining of the H. G. Wells science fiction classic War is hell, and the conflict tearing the world apart may be humankind's last. Set adrift on a makesh...

• Feb-1981
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A rip-roaring page turner. A perfect read!" - Boston Globe Meet the Pratt clan. Driven men. Determined women. Through six turbulent generations, they would pursue a lost Paul Revere treasure. And turn a family se...

• Feb-1981
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Ever the spitfire, never the wife. Just as well, too, for Miss Julia Weston , in all her 24 years, had never found a man she wanted to spend 10 minutes with, let alone a lifetime. So what in the name of heaven was she doing at Grayhall, Lord Brand...

• Feb-1981
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NOW YOU SEE HIM... Law-enforcement officials think they've seen everything until they bump into Elmo Wimpler, the inventor of a substance that can make anything invisible. Wimpler's found his niche in life by dropping out of sight -- literally -- ...

• Feb-1981
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IT WAS EDEN NO MORE The island paradise of Chimera had been her father's dream come true, and now Petrina had to watch it become just another tourist trap. Worst of all, the man responsible for the change was David Palmer -- the man she had se...

• Feb-1981
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A riveting, blistering novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins. Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he’s no...

• Feb-1981
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The barrenland lay on the face of the world like a sore, nearly round, more than three hundred miles in circumference. It had been there so long that it was endured, as were the twisted monsters that wandered out of the barrenland and killed. Conrad,...

• Feb-1981
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She loved a man who refused to love again Ross Sutherland was the boy next door. Everyone assumed Dulcie would marry him. "But do I really love Ross?" Dulcie agonized. It wasn't until she was on a huge Saskatchewan cattle ranch as c...

• Feb-1981
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A dazzling collection of stories that masterfully weaves together tales of love and desire in all its forms, exploring the universal complications of the heart -- and the mysteries of being fully human in the world. â�,�¢ “Colwin�...

• Feb-1981
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"I HOPE WE MAY NEVER MEET AGAIN, SIR." And the pale young beauty meant it with all her heart. But Serena Spence did meet handsome Giles Abbott again and again. And each meeting was marked by her deepening feelings for him. Feelings she ...

• Feb-1981
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Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. When he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, Catherine turns her attention to Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks....

• Feb-1981
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THE COUNTERFEIT GOVERNESS Anne Calder was a headstrong young woman, unwilling to marry some dull country squire and stubbornly set on earning her living as a London novelist. But before she could follow her first successful book with a second, Ann...

• Feb-1981
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It was a long way from snowbound Minnesota to the tropical blue skies and volcanoes of Pago Pago. When Thayer Elwood arrived to help her uncle run his banana plantation, she never dreamed that his sudden death would make her sole owner of Seacrest. ...