Books Published in June 1979

• Jun-1979
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Would they compete for the same man? Suzanne and her stepmother, Celeste, had never been close. But after her husband died, Celeste persuaded her stepdaughter to help her snare a rich husband. Suzanne, although disapproving of Celeste's in...

• Jun-1979
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"Is it really me you want?" Jessica asked. She tried to pull away from Brodie. It was suddenly very necessary to think clearly. Jessica's meeting with Brodie Hayes after so many years was accidental, yet devastating. The Brodi...

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Laura should have realized earlier .... Why had it never entered her head? Her grandfather and Dan Harland planning her marriage--to Dan Harland! All her moments of suspicion gelled into the ghastly realization. It was their answer to everythin...

• Jun-1979
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Diane knew what Khasim had in mind And the prospect was terrifying. The fact that she'd brought it on herself by foolishly riding alone in the Sahara desert, didn't help. After Diane Ronay was thrown from her bolting horse, Sheik Khasim...

• Jun-1979
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"Computer matching works, you'll see!" Her roommates were enthralled with the idea of the experiment, but Gemma wasn't sure. It didn't seem right to cold-bloodedly plot another person's falling in love. Gemma liked it ev...

• Jun-1979
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A GLITTERING CENTURY WAS ABOUT TO END...AND SO WAS KATHLEEN'S INNOCENCE! Until she saw the mysterious papers, beautiful eighteen-year-old Kathleen believed she had always lived at the orphanage -- had always been alone in her empty world. Now she d...

• Jun-1979
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While the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like the proper Victorian ladies their papa wanted them to be, a maid in their own household was strangled to death. Other women had met similar fates. Then quiet, young Inspector Pitt...

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AMID THE AWESOME TEMPLES IN EGYPT'S VALLEY OF THE KINGS A FABULOUS TREASURE IS WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED, A TREASURE WORTH DYING - OR KILLING - FOR. It was the magic and mystery of an empire long past that beautiful Erica Baron came to explore. Inn...

• Jun-1979
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"And what if I don't agree to marry you?" Slade answered her question coolly. "Your brother loses his backer -- and faces bankruptcy. You have ten minutes to think it over." "Oh," Rosalind cried furiously. "I kno...

• Jun-1979
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Appearances can be deceiving.... "I wouldn't go out with a sailor like you," Ella had said primly. "I hate slumming!" It sounded snobbish, but she had to discourage him somehow. The "sailor" proved to be Bertrand Sco...

• Jun-1979
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Showcasing the evocative artwork created by John Moll for this special edition, James A. Michener’s The Watermen is a unique tribute to the adventurous seafarers of the Chesapeake Bay. Excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author’s classic ...

• Jun-1979
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Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge starts west with her adventurous, boyish husband, Clem, seeking to claim land and hoping for good fortune. But when the venture turns suddenly to tragedy, Marty is left alone with her great loss. And coupled with her ...

• Jun-1979
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Once upon a past. . . .Millie had been a ghost for 800 years. But now, restored by the magic of Xanth, she was again a maddeningly desirable woman. She could have had any man she wanted . . . except the one she did want, Jonathan the zombie. To grant...

• Jun-1979
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The English dove would be the bait Sicily, the home of her forefathers--and the home of the vendetta! Rosalba Rossi had no idea how vengefully the two were entwined. Then Silvatore Diavolo presented himself. The hatred between their families ha...

• Jun-1979
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There was a star Gate in Azeroth marked by alien fires that Morgaine must seal. But Morgaine and Vanye have brought devastation to the peaceful land. For the hordes of Shiuan were on their heels, determined to conquer a new land for themselves and to...

• Jun-1979
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"I'll find some way to get through to him!" Lisa resented having been bodily thrown off his estate, without even a chance to speak to the arrogant Yusuf ben Dacra. After all, her cause was important. She and her group were outraged ...

• Jun-1979
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Miles was like a desert mirage! Working in Egypt, Lorna met the fascinating Miles Faversham, who rescued her from the burning sands. Despite her hardened cynicism, Lorna fell in love with him. She thought that Miles loved her, too. But she knew...

• Jun-1979
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Polly's heart was not really broken. It had been hurt, though, by her broken romance in England. Thorn Clemance's offer of a job as companion to the lovely Serena Clemance took Polly to the lush Australian valley where the Clemance br...

• Jun-1979
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"I will marry the first man who asks!" Sara made her reckless statement in a moment of hurt and pique after being jilted by Cliff Iden. And for better or worse, the man listening asked her. Rede Forrest had said her desire to "show&...

• Jun-1979
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The Planet Was Dying Once Tal-Lith was a luxuriant world of millions. Now it was a chill, arid wasteland, with its remaining inhabitants clustered on a great ice mountain. And in a few, short solar cycles its sun would blaze into a deadly super-no...

• Jun-1979
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When a calypso singer and a prostitute are murdered with the same gun, Detectives Carella and Meyer descend into the murky world of sex and sadism to find a killer on the loose.

“Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysterie...

• Jun-1979
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The Duke of Westhampton had a wife in the country -- and a mistress in town. This suited the Duke of Westhampton, but his young wife, whom he'd wed and tucked away on his estate with scarcely a second glance was not pleased. So, being as audaci...

• Jun-1979
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It's been twenty years since the quixotic and worldsweary, Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and SpeakerTo-Animals are going tack, captives of the Hindmost, a' deposed puppeteer leader. With Louis' help, the Hindmost intends to regain his ...

• Jun-1979
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From a "master storyteller of frontier history," the saga of a rancher who goes undercover to chase horse thieves and discovers his true destiny (Elmer Kelton, award winning author of The Good Old Boys).Texas rancher Ben Langham hired Luke Starb...

• Jun-1979
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ONE MAN CLAIMED HER HAND Otto Maren, the eloquent man of God, whose skillful tongue seduced young Anne McLennan into marriage, and lured her from her Caribbean plantation home to the untamed Texas frontier. ONE MAN POSSESSED HER BODY Brant...

• Jun-1979
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THE ORIENTAL BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD It was the biggest secret crime clan in the West -- with a hatchet as a symbol and a tradition of terror. They'd been smuggling contraband cargo from China into Oregon -- human cargo forbidden to enter. Now...

• Jun-1979
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Hawaii seems like Paradise to Tamsen and Arab, newly arrived in 1868 with their husbands Dan and Juan -- but it is not. Beneath the beauty, like the hot lava bubbling in the volcano's crater, trouble seethes in Paradise. The daughters are dest...

• Jun-1979
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A WAR WITHOUT RULES When a U.S. agent notifies his boss that something is brewing in Central America, Nick Carter is sent down to investigate, but not before his contact is stopped dead by a quick blast from a lethal can of aerosol. Nick lands ...

• Jun-1979
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The acclaimed author of A Good Day to Die and Warlock has written a screenplay to be directed by Edward Zwick, starring Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, and Aidan Quinn, and scheduled for release October 7th from Tristar pictures. -- confirmed Jim Ha...

• Jun-1979
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Marooned on the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith agreed to lead an expedition to return the princess Ylin Ylan, the Flower of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe.

Monsters of land and sea lay before them, as well as beings both h...

• Jun-1979
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A lecherous Oxford don, rapidly approaching sixty and horrified at the dwindling resources of his normally hyperactive libido, seeks professional advice and tours the modern Inferno of self-awareness and sexuality...

• Jun-1979
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Kate was not going to be fooled twice Kate had fallen in love with her boss, only to have him ignore their engagement and make an opportune marriage to someone else. Never again, vowed Kate, would she get involved with a boss. When financier Ni...

• Jun-1979
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They were enemies right from the start Lee's encounter with Haydn Scott, before she knew who he was, was a stormy one. Later she was horrified to discover that the arrogant stranger was a friend of her brother, Jon. Jon was delighted to hav...

• Jun-1979
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FROM THE HIDEOUS JAWS OF DEATH TO THE LUSTFUL EMBRACE OF A KING Angel Dawson was a flame-haired beauty sprung from the squalor of the teeming London slums. The streets were her school, whore-masters and thieves were her teachers, and when she was ...

• Jun-1979
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How could she resist the opportunity of a lifetime? Aunt Meg, an old family friend, had invited her to explore the Nile and Upper Egypt, a chance Trudy Faraday would have welcomed at another time. This time she planned to go alone. But once again her...

• Jun-1979
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The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The ...

• Jun-1979
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"Be still, my lady, if you love your life!" The voice hissed harshly out of the pitch-blackness. Then a hand, firm and powerful, closed over Katharine's mouth, cutting off her screams. The terrified girl realized that she had fallen...

• Jun-1979
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Robin and Kitty are both pawns in a game played long ago by their fathers--a gambling aristocrat who finally lost more than he could afford, and a wealthy social-climbing commoner who offered the other an ideal way to discharge his losses. Now that t...

• Jun-1979
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST â�,�¢ John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules...

• Jun-1979
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RIVERRUN IT SURVIVED THE RAVAGES OF WAR NOW IT FACED THE FURIES OF REVENGE To Cassandra Bowsmith, the kidnapped Yankee beauty, the lavish plantation stood for everything she had loved and lost... Once, its master had saved her life, and pos...

• Jun-1979
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An ancient promise is redeemed, a dream rides up on a bay horse, a boy becomes something finer than a man. The young scribe of Tornor is taken by the chearis, the dancing warriors, to the warmlands where he learns what it means to be a witch. Compl...

• Jun-1979
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No one’s going to stop Captain Gringo!He’s snatched his life from the noose, wangled his freedom from his Army jailer, cajoled bed, board and a disguise from the town madam. He’s a man on the run �" Captain Gringo. By wit, by guile, by force, ...

• Jun-1979
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Remember the original Time Machine and the Time Traveller's astonishing account of his journey to the far future when humanity had divided into two races -- the worker-bestial Morlocks and the elfin-sheep Eloi? Remember also that the Time Traveller w...

• Jun-1979
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This 1913 novel, set in the mythical kingdom of Poictesme, concerns an outlaw named Perion who falls in love with Lady Melicent, the sister of a prominent count.  When Perion is captured by the heathen warlord Domnei, Melicent sets out to win hi...

• Jun-1979
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In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leaves behind the repression and censorship of the Midwest to pursue a career in New York, despite the famine and poverty of the overpopulated East Coast...

• Jun-1979
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SUICIDE MISSION!At great cost to American lives, the U.S. Marines succeeded in establishing a beachhead. In comes Sergeant James Hawk-a tough, young veteran of several suicidal missions-who's assigned to protect a Dutch plantation on an isolated part...

• Jun-1979
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IT IS THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY. A vast, complex bureaucracy rules. The rich live in comfort-able enclaves or deep-space colonies. They barricade them-selves in the burnt-out shells of the dead Earthly cities. Lord of one such Jungle is dander Sna...

• Jun-1979
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Ray Midge's wife, Norma, has run away with her creep of a first husband. She also ran away with Midge's credit cards and his Ford Torino -- in place of which she left her lover's 1963 Buick Special, a compact car with 14,000 miles on it and a quarter...

• Jun-1979
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Her revenge would taste so sweet... The bottom dropped out of Corinne s world with the sudden death of Isabelle, her beautiful sister. Then, among Isabelle's belongings, she discovered a letter implicating Raymond Cernay in the tragedy. Corin...

• Jun-1979
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From Mistress To Slave Ravishing Lucetta Grayton was raised as a child of privilege on the lush Caribbean plantation of Melrose. But with the tragic death of her aristocratic father and adoring mother, all rights of birth were stripped from her. ...