Books Published in May 1981

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"COME TO AMERICA. YOUR HOME IS WITH ME NOW." Adelia Cunnane's uncle had written her. So Adelia had left Ireland to join him on what he had described as the finest horse farm in Maryland. Adelia agreed with her uncle about the farm. But what ...

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The reunion was almost unbearable Ashley Gauthier could hardly believe she was actually seeing her son. Circumstances had forced her to give him up at birth seven years earlier to her deceased husband's wealthy Arab family. Now the unexpect...

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Money was Lee's top priority! When her sister, Alicia, decided to play matchmaker, Lee found herself trapped in an uncomfortable situation with the infuriating Marc Leone. He was attractive, she had to admit, but also the most cynical, egot...

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Six months ago, Catherine Linton's parents were killed in a car accident. Now, on a wilting hot day in the small town of Lowfield, Mississippi, Catherine finds the bloody body of her doctor-father's long-time nurse. Suddenly Catherine knows that h...

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No situation could be more ridiculous To be "hiding out" as a rich man's maid at Abbott's Arbory did not suit Pandora at all. She was thoroughly modern, enjoying her university friends and her fast motorcycle. And she thought that ...

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St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act--the s...

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How could she bear to stay with him? Bobbie hadn't even really got over her parents' death and already she had to face losing Greentree Farm. When Rod Simpson offered not only to buy the farm but also to let her stay on, Bobbie wasn'...

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"I am cured, of both the illness and you." Randall West's words rang in Gillian Taylor's head. Their love affair had ended abruptly. Randall had been dying...and knowing this, Gillian hadn't been able to face him. So she had ru...

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TWO SISTERS AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY. CARLOTTA -- willful, beautiful, and passionate, men could not resist her seductive charms. She sacrificed everything -- loyalty to country, duty to husband, and the respect of her family -- to live in Par...

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Plaything of the Gods He was Perseus, son of Zeus and Danae, born in disgrace, exiled to perish at sea, fated to survive at heavenly caprice--until he met his love, defied the Gods and dared to fight them or die. She was Andromeda, enslaved by ...

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Men had gone to the stars; they had trod the soil of distant planets and settled their colonies; yet the homeworld of Earth remained. It was legend; it was a place of nostalgia for mankind's lost youth; it was always there. For every son or daughter ...

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The relationship was strictly platonic! Kylie was thoroughly enjoying her job as chauffeur/companion to the gentlemanly Grant Brandon -- until she met his nephew. Race Brandon frankly disapproved of his relative's "arrangement" wi...

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Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, heroic survivors of Crocodile on the Sandbank, are called back to Egypt by Lady Baskerville to complete the excavation of a recently discovered tomb. The dig had been left unfinished by her newly dead--and possib...

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Of all the justly famous writers of science fiction and fantasy, none has inspired greater enthusiasm and loyalty than Andre Norton. Of all Ms. Norton's works, none has been more warmly received than her famed Forerunner series, a series whose heroes...

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FORBIDDEN LOVE Penniless, a burden to her relatives, Grace Lawson had rashly married a virtual stranger to escape an intolerable home situation. She looked forward to making a new life in the Australian Outback. Soon she learned that she had be...

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SHE TOOK A GAMBLE ON LOVE.... Leigh Mallory knew that Dow Madigan was a man to be reckoned with from the first moment he had strolled arrogantly into her California office. His East Coast reserve had angered her, but his gentle touch had opened he...

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WAS SHE AN ARISTOCRAT -- OR AN IMPOSTOR? It took but a few words from the lips of a dying woman to change beautiful young Janine Oldfield's life utterly. The woman was her mother, who declared that Janine was more than the daughter of the mo...

• May-1981
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IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER.... ...AND NOW THE STORY CONTINUES IN THE WOUNDED LAND 4000 years have passed since Covenant first freed the Land from the devastating grip of Lord Foul and his minions. The mon...

• May-1981
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The magnificent saga of a woman swept up by passion and torn between two loves. The violent sea threw them together only to tear them apart yet again... Out of a band of violent men, shipwreckers all, came Marianna Harper--a girl so unkempt t...

• May-1981
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Grown-up hearts could be badly broken... Laraine was tired of being treated like a child -- she was nineteen, with a woman's feelings! But how could she convince Neal Hansen of that? Neal claimed not to believe in love, yet Laraine sensed h...

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Shocked by her broken engagement, Cameron Forrest blindly accepted Justin Bradford's offer to come to Gull's Glen and paint the portrait of the famous author's beautiful young bride. In the peace and privacy of the magnificent Big Sur ...

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INTO A NEW LIFE When she woke up after the accident, Anne knew that there had been a mistake. Her name wasn't Angela, and she certainly had never been married to Rory Hawthorne. But Angela and Rory were dead, and Anne could never go back to ...

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Former pulp writer and current hack Russell Dancer invites Nameless to the first annual Western Pulp Convention in San Francisco. He wants Nameless to help him locate the person who is trying to blackmail Dancer for a purported plagiarism of a story ...

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A forties Hollywood PI does not forsake Gary Cooper: Like all of Toby [Peters's] adventures, High Midnight is high entertainment (The Cincinnati Post).   When laconic leading man Gary Cooper needs a detective, he does the smart thing...

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First published in 1981, They Thirst was Robert McCammon’s fourth novel, and it remains one of the major milestones of an ambitious, constantly evolving career. Like its predecessors -- Baal, Bethany’s Sin, and The Night Boat -- They Thirst made ...

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Wealthy and beautiful Samantha Denning was an independent woman who was determined to stay that way. But when her father died, his will included the shocking stipulation that she marry within five months or lose her inheritance. To solve her problem,...

• May-1981
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In front of eight million TV viewers, "The Greatest Mystery Writer in the World" bragged he could prove Christ was actually stolen from the tomb and never really rose from the dead . . . if he were given just one week back in ancient Jerusalem. ...

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IT'S A WILD WEST SHOW -- AND IT'S GETTING WILDER BY THE SECOND... Colorado planned a gala reception for the copper-haired Princess Danica of Hungary. But a band of Slavic rebels had plans of their own for her Highness... To stop them cold, Long...

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Amid the turbulence of the 14th century, when he was only eleven years old, Richard II was crowned King of England. He was never to know the carefree life other boys his age enjoyed. Instead, the early years of his reign were a constant battle agains...

• May-1981
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More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Empero...

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THIRTEEN FOR THE ROAD When prim but perversely voluptuous schoolteacher Karen Fisher hired Skye Fargo to guide her wagon-train of students through the most violent territory in the West, she said they were innocent youngsters. It wasn't until they...

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As the widow of a titled gentleman, the very beautiful Lady Caroline Kilgarron was pursued by fortune hunters and impetuous young men, and by aging rapes, too. One, the Earl of Farrowdale, was particularly insistent. And Caroline's unprecedented ...

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SHE HAD NO TIME AND ONLY ONE CHOICE .... With her sister's death Carrie Franklin is faced with the awesome responsibility of raising her infant nephew, Mike. His father, a member of the wealthy Revell clan, earlier denied paternity. And only Carri...

• May-1981
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"PLEASE CALL ME TIGER." Chloe was masquerading as an untidy bundle of rags in the corner of the stable when Lord Randal Beresford found her. And to protect the "poor little dab of a female" from her wicked stepbrother, he dressed h...

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The Los Angeles Homicide Department is a revolving door of crime where Lieutenant Luis Mendoza has hardly time to grab a sandwich between the serial muggings of seven senior citizens, the disappearance of a wheelchair-bound man, and the killing of on...

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SHE WANTED ALL HIS LOVE. Nicola's had never been a real marriage; Steve's real wife had been his job, and she only his mistress. He thrived on the dangerous life of a foreign correspondent until one day she gave him a choice: he could keep...

• May-1981
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In a stunning move, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has allowed thousands of his people to board boats and depart for America in what comes to be known as the Mariel Boatlift. But Castro is also exporting the worst criminals and undesirables of his socia...

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A beloved Pontiff prepares to make public his startling vision: Death and destruction will end the world--not in some far-off future, but at any moment! Terrified his pronouncement will spread panic, Vatican Cardinals imprison him in a monastery. ...

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YOUNG LOVE, THROWN AWAY, MAY NEVER BE FOUND AGAIN... Jessica Lansdowne, a handsome woman whose sprightly manner hid a well-kept secret, at six and twenty had adjusted quite nicely to a life of quiet unmarried propriety. Until dashing Max returned....

• May-1981
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Here's Angie Zane. She's 12 and ready for anything. She and her older sister, Kit, a police officer, live in Dadesville, Florida. Her good friend is Jess Ross. Here are the facts: a teen-age gang, the Wolfpack, has been breaking into empty houses....

• May-1981
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She was young, lovely--and quite dead. Her name was Julie Holmes and to the residents of quiet, treelined Gladstone Road where she had lived for only six weeks, she was quite unknown. But someone must have known her just a little...known her well en...

• May-1981
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DRIVEN BY HER HEART'S BETRAYAL, SHE SOUGHT REVENGE AGAINST LOVE SHE KNEW THE PAIN OF LOVING WAS INEVITABLE Marriage had left Megan emotionally shattered-her faith in men destroyed as her husband, Erich, had destroyed himself. Now, years ...

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THEY WERE THE FRONTIER HEALERS In the chaos that followed the Civil War, a turbulent tide of men and women surged across the Mississippi to escape the unspeakable horrors of a broken and humiliated South. Some chose to cast their lot in the sprawl...

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When Cybil Ackerman crosses her eyes at Simon for the first time, he knows he's in love. The battle over Cybil begins when Simon's best friend, Tony, decides he is, too. And he'll stop at nothing to wreck Simon's chances of winning her! Tony tells...

• May-1981
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The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.A figure had condensed out of the shuddering backdrop of the glare. He is b...

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Quitting her job wasn't good enough Frances was shattered when she learned the man she'd fallen for was already married. She broke off with him immediately -- then decided to get so far away there'd be no danger of running into him aga...

• May-1981
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It took a great love to defy society's disapproval. It took a great war to change society's rules. "They were golden days, when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy ... and I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong, and, ag...

• May-1981
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Chester Cricket--the famous cricket in Times Square--is homesick. When his friend Mario takes him to a sky show at the Planetarium, Chester realizes how much he misses seeing real stars at night.Happily, he finds his way out of the subway into Times ...

• May-1981
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The war of 1812... From the shores of Tripoli to the burning of Washington, from the Louisiana Purchase to Aaron Burr's Empire of Mexico, to the War of 1812, Robert Fallon--bastard son of wealth--takes part in all the momentous events of his time. B...