Books Published in June 1981

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She taunted him, defied him, and forced him to reckless desire. Corinne Barrows's flashing emerald eyes bid men fulfill her any desire. She was the scandalous darling of Boston's gilded age. SWORN TO REVENGE Now she had sailed half round the...

• Jun-1981
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He'd be her friend but never her lover Caroline's job as governess at a Mexican hacienda was more demanding than she'd dreamed possible. Her employer, Esteban, was an evil and vulgar man, and he wanted her. She turned for help to L...

• Jun-1981
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Love wasn't part of their bargain Renting their house was the only way Euphemia could salvage her family's muddled finances. If only the tenant had been someone she liked--anyone but Dr. Tane van Diederijk, that disturbingly abrupt man ......

• Jun-1981
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TRAPPED! When Tamara "borrowed" company funds to help her invalid mother, she had every intention of replacing the money before anyone discovered the loss. Then the company was taken over by the ruthless entrepreneur Bickford Rutledge. ...

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THE SEARCH FOR HIS “DREAM HOUSE” ENDED IN THEIR LOVE. Carly Andrews disapproved of the wealthy people who spent their summers in Bar Harbor as they waited for the fall social season to begin but Adam Noble was different. Raised in the commu...

• Jun-1981
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Chris and Cathy Made Such a Loving Home... for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart, who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was t...

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Had she sold her freedom forever? Perry had married Nash Devereux years ago for expediency. He required a wife and she needed the money he was offering. She hadn't seen him since. Now she wanted to wed Trevor Coleman and that meant she had ...

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Marnie couldn't escape from herself The Scottish island was remote enough--just the place to recover from her fiance's betrayal and her sister's tragic death. The only trouble was that the neighbors wanted to be neighborly. Marnie f...

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Her assignment was glamorous but tough The man Robyn was sent to work with was the disreputable playboy author, Bradley Dexter--a man whose scandalous life-style and cynical attitude she despised. However, Robyn wasn't easily deterred. She ...

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She wouldn't bend to his proud demands From the moment Selena literally bumped into brilliant film director Max Heger, she was drawn into a dangerous courtship -- one she desperately tried to escape. She wanted no part of Max's glittering,...

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She was committed to the crazy scheme Toni Bradbury pretended to be Sean's fiancée -- not because she loved him, but to fool one particular person: Rafe Stewart, Sean's domineering stepbrother. Rafe deserved to be put down by a woman...

• Jun-1981
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ADOPTED AS A CHILD, PHILIPPA PALFREY HAD THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. But, at eighteen, she wanted more. She wanted to know the identity of her real parents. Having always fantasized herself the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat and a parlour maid, s...

• Jun-1981
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It was time she faced the truth After her husband Perry's death, Raina believed Logan Thorne, his business partner, visited often because of her son, Danny. When Logan offered marriage, she didn't take him seriously. Why should he tie h...

• Jun-1981
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Never again would she dance on stage Birdie's career as a ballerina was over, ruined by a fluke accident. Reeling from the shock, she let sympathetic friends lure her to the island of Menorca for a rest. It was there that Birdie met the Con...

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RELUCTANT ROMANCE The chattering and giggling in a ballroom full of hopeful young debutantes had sent Lord Alexander hurrying for covers He had promised his father, the Duke of Carlyle that he would marry, but the fun-loving young lord was finding...

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A dynasty of women triumphs in the fiercely male-dominated world of high fashion amid the ruins of war. A daughter honors her mother s ultimate sacrifice by becoming a ruthless businesswoman who will stop at nothing to raise high her family s name...

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It was as well his interest lay elsewhere Kirstie's feeling was illogical. A proud half-Spaniard, she couldn't hide the fact that she despised Miguel Montanes for purchasing her old family estate. Kirstie's grandfather hinted it wou...

• Jun-1981
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Vicente was master of a lost art... Tania obeyed her father's last request: she contacted the Venetian glassmakers, the Massimos. And Benno Massimo whisked her away from an empty life in England, bringing her to the family villa -- as his fian...

• Jun-1981
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The time is 1780 and the bloody War of Independence has ended, but the peace terms are still a matter of passionate debate. To the young lovers parted by the throes of war, the separation is not only one of miles but also of attitudes and heritage. M...

• Jun-1981
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A KILLER OF MANY PERSONALITIES Martin Karpp was Alan Hobson, a compulsive thief. He was Willy Bennet, a flagrant homosexual. He was Jay Jefferson, a fanatic right-winger. He was Paul Liggett who hid his true nature behind a mask of mystery. Martin Ka...

• Jun-1981
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When Nancy is told that a large inheritance from a Greek tycoon, meant for her friend Helen Nicholas, was stolen, she knows it’s up to her to find the culprit. But after following clues in the form of a poisonous snake in a basket of apples and a s...

• Jun-1981
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“Today,” My father announced, “I bought a farm in North Carolina. We’re leaving the city, Marnie. We’re going back to the land.” Back to the land? Leaving the city? Marnie Macdonald can’t believe her ears, her parents must be kidding. ...

• Jun-1981
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She was determined to stick it out... A legacy had brought Dinah to Australia, and at first she regarded the chance of a job in a television news department as a bonus -- and a challenge. But when she found herself continually clashing with her...

• Jun-1981
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Dead Man's HandNo one paid any mind to Jack McCall as he unloaded a .44 caliber slug into Wild Bill Hickok's brain at point-blank range. Deadwood's legendary gunslinging marshal was dead, holding a poker hand of aces and eights, a dead man's hand.The...

• Jun-1981
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If Letty Montressor had not been quite so determined to escape from her family and marriage to the odious Mr Sludge, she would not have been found wandering the streets of London late at night with no other companion but her canary. Harry Tyne, th...

• Jun-1981
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A MAN COULD GET KILLED ON THE LOOP... The Laredo Loop -- a notorious rustling network that spirited U.S. longhorns south of the border, fixed them up with phony "legal" papers, then shipped them back to Laredo for sale. When Longarm is enliste...

• Jun-1981
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LADY TAFFETA WAS EVERYTHING AN HEIRESS COULD HOPE TO BE -- AND MORE! She was as high-spirited as her own Arabian gelding; as beautiful as the assembled jewels and lush lace that adorned Almack's at the height of her very first, very successful s...

• Jun-1981
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Why did he seem to dislike her so? Captain Valyev had been kindness itself when he stopped on the road to give assistance to Nadya, one of a vast crowd of refugees fleeing before Napoleon's advancing army. But the moment she told him her full name...

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AT LAST SHE WAS HOME! After graduation, Clementine Masters returned to Glenmeadows Farm in Kentucky where the death of the farm's owner evoked a unique legacy. An unknown relative inherits everything after a year; however, Glenmeadows can ...

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Bestselling author Pat Conroy’s debut novelâ�,�”now available as an ebook

A powerful story of a man’s undoing at the hands of his greatest admirer

 

• Jun-1981
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1982 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Place: 15). Collects 14 stories with introduction and afterwords by the author, including: The Man Who Stole the Moon, The Deimos Plague, Forefather Figure, Moment of Inertia (McAndrew series), Th...

• Jun-1981
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The earth gone mad... Always, beneath the calm surface of our planet, colossal forces are building up, and from time to time must find release; minor geological events such as the San Francisco earthquake, and the eruptions of Krakatoa and Mt. St. H...

• Jun-1981
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Original title: The Avenhurst Inheritance. THREE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN THREE EXQUISITE PASSIONS THREE HEARTS BEATING WITH LOVE--FOR THE SAME MAN Handsome, passionate Jocelyn Rivers had fallen deeply in love with Celia Croyde , the neighborhood be...

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DIVORCED, DISHONORED--AND OUT FOR REVENGE! When Jessabelle ran off after a fight with her tempestuous husband, the Earl of Pennymount, she had not expected to be kidnapped by a highwayman. Nor had she foreseen that Lord Pennymount's displeasure, a...

• Jun-1981
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When Tito discovered a plot to sabotage Yugoslav autonomy, his only possible confidant was his oldest enemy -- Dusan Ankavic the dissident. And the only person Ankavic can turn to now that Tito is dead is Nick Carter. But when Ankavic meets with an "...

• Jun-1981
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VAGABOND DESTINY... Well-bred, innocent Mary Cabot. Her future amid the cream of Boston society, as the pampered fiancee of banker Harry Ames, seems assured until her brother Frank vanishes--along with a suitcase full of the bank's money. Mary's des...

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ON TO ADVENTURE... Nicola had great hopes for her Australian holiday, and even the fact that her friends couldn't meet her plane didn't dampen her spirits. In fact, her adventure started right away when a handsome stranger offered to drive...

• Jun-1981
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From “one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (Time), Other People is a tale about a woman’s path toward self-actualization.A woman wakes in an emergency room and remembers nothing -- not even her own name. She hears a song about a ...

• Jun-1981
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THEY WERE SISTERS, DAUGHTERS, AND OCCASIONAL RIVALS IN LOVE.... What could be more idyllic than three lovely ladies sitting on the lawn of a Regency estate on a cloudless summer day? Nothing, it would seem, could blemish this picturesque scene ...

• Jun-1981
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MARRIAGE FOR PROPRIETY Jilted and brokenhearted, Megan Jordan believed she would never trust another man, until she met Dr. Alex Dominic. A widower with two sons, Alex's sensuality and the vulnerability of the Dominic children attract Megan...

• Jun-1981
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“So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.” -- Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book ReviewA startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA violent war for equality has ...

• Jun-1981
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At the end of the Cold War, a brutal murder in a Moscow alley forces two rival agents together in a mission to catch a serial killer - before it’s too late.

Moscow is a bad place for an American to walk alone, particularly a woman as ...

• Jun-1981
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In the Nahella Valley of Appalachia, a rumor is whispered about a man named Eli Pettit and the small fortune in stolen money he supposedly hid on his farm before disappearing, leaving a wife, daughter and sister-in-law to tend the land and guard the ...

• Jun-1981
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TWO IS COMPANY -- FOUR IS A LOVE KNOT THAT NEEDS UNTANGLING! Spirited Miranda Brandywine knew that even though Charles Hartley was a poet and a dreamer, there was no reason for her father to stop the marriage. And gentle, lovely Emily Rockhall ...

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THEY WERE A PERFECT MATCH-- FOR A FIGHT TO THE FINISH Saskia Van Hooten was a lovely young lady with the weight of her entire family's future on her slender young shoulders--and a stubborn spirit that refused to bow to adversity. Derek Rowbridge ...