Books Published in October 1977

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"What did you expect?" Harriet said in angry surprise. "That I'd be thrilled to see you again? That I might have forgotten what a selfish swine you really are?" Without stopping to think, she stepped forward and slapped Andre h...

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"Lucky at cards, unlucky in love." Tells word as they left the casino brought the haunted look back into Andrea Grant's eyes. The skiing holiday in Squaw Valley was all she'd hoped for. And she had totally ignored the warning voice...

• Oct-1977
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The marshal's name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he's buried a few men in this two-bit cow town -- every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, C...

• Oct-1977
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The worst is still to come," Bruce said Especially for you, Felicity thought. If only he knew. But Bruce was talking about the hurricane and she was thinking of what she had in store for him. Felicity regarded him as her brother's murde...

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On the surface, Dr. Lorrimer was the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body was discovered and his secret past dissected did the image being to change. Once again, Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh would...

• Oct-1977
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"JUST LIKE THE OLD DEVIL TO TAKE IT WITH HER." Unloved while she lived, tight-fisted, tyrannical old Aunt Sophie took her revenge when she died. No one would get her diamonds. She would take them with her to her grave. Claudia had neve...

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ALASPIN "MY WORLD...AND WELCOME TO IT!" Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra --Ab, for short -- Flinx Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeplanet of his flying snake. ...

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"The CLUSTER series of SF adventures is set in a future focused on colonization of distant planets. Every living thing has a Kirlian aura that can be measured. Through transfer, a refinement of mattermission technology, the mind and personality of in...

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"Do you know just what you're doing?" Leon's cool question brought Fran abruptly back to her senses. It was true that for her uncle's sake she had tried to be friendly with Leon Aldridge. But falling in love with him was another matter entirely...

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"Then you must agree to be my bridegroom !" Jo Domini's impulsive behavior finally led her into trouble. It wasn't enough that she had insulted the Conte Leandro Tempera, aggravated her father and frustrated her sister who wishe...

• Oct-1977
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"I'm going to hit you in a minute" Casey thought. Good and hard. The idea shocked her, because violence was not in her nature. But never before had she met a man like Igor Borodinov--a man for whom she felt instant dislike. And it w...

• Oct-1977
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"I misjudged you," he said. "Forgive me." Diane had looked forward to meeting her pen pal, Maria, for the first time. She had not expected to have her whole world turned upside down. Unfortunately, from the moment she met Maria&...

• Oct-1977
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She had loved Jerry Now she wasn't sure "You have a lot-to learn about men, Ice Maiden," Matt said. ''Maybe I can teach you a few things. I might be doing Jerry a favor!" His words echoed in Lara's mind as she fled...

• Oct-1977
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"Send her packing!" Wyn heard Diane say Wyn knew it wasn't just lack of confidence in her expertise that prompted Diane's suggestion. She was also guarding her favorite possession--the masterful Russell Tylar, Wyn's employer. ...

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DESIREE WILD BEAUTY... FIERCE INNOCENCE ... AN ISLAND WRACKED BY GREED AND RAPACIOUS DESIRE Steeped in the mystic lore of her adopted people, a stranger to the civilized world she had come from, the beautiful, white-haired Silva Armitage was in d...

• Oct-1977
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Across the stormy sea, destiny awaits.... Felix Brooke, the orphaned son of an English soldier and an aristocratic Spanish mother, has been raised in his grandfather's strict, loveless household in Villaverde, Spain. When Felix gains possession of a ...

• Oct-1977
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Here is the story of the creation of the world �" the ancient dream that sets the stage for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings....

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She was unwelcome in her own home Nicky's father had left her his share of a plantation on the Pacific island of Malos and she was looking forward eagerly to her new life. But her father had left her more than the plantation. He had left he...

• Oct-1977
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RIDERS ON THE TIME STORM The time storm had devastated the Earth, and all but a small fraction of humankind has vanished. In the rubble of the world, three survivors had formed an unlikely trio: Marc Despard, determined to find a way to stop the t...

• Oct-1977
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Blossom Culp is the outspoken outcast of Bluff City, always getting into trouble. No one wants to cross her, especially now that she's revealed that she can see the Unseen. Then Blossom herself is stunned, because her lie turns out to be truth. She a...

• Oct-1977
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It seemed to be only a light vapour, but it was evil incarnate, strong enough to knock a tough man down. Dr. Palfrey is up against an enemy greater than any he has faced before, who moves in a white, insidious mist that brings death to all but one. T...

• Oct-1977
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CHARLIE M was a total embarrassment. His scruffy clothes were deplorable, his accent was all wrong. Charlie was an outmoded oddity in a new and sophisticated world. Charlie had once been the leading British operative -- now the Department abhors h...

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Twenty-first century medical science has wiped out all the deadly diseases. Yet in a large American city patients have begun to come in with smallpox, diphtheria and all the other enemies that were supposed to have been defeated forever. No one but t...

• Oct-1977
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"You're an extremely attractive female!" Rex declared as he kissed her. Yet Davina felt heartsick because he appeared not to love her. Though she had accepted Rex's offer to be housekeeper on his remote sheep farm, she suspected he'd offered th...

• Nov-1977
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A wonderful collection of stories from an award-winning author. Never take a cat for granted!

Meet Baraka, the cat who plays chess more cunningly than any human; Pescato, who becomes mayor for a day and dupes royalty; and other cats who befri...

• Oct-1977
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An abandoned southern mansion on an isolated island became a place of peril for lovely young Ophelia Phenwick. Cast up by shipwreck on those strange and sinister shores, Ophelia soon learned how little she could trust her safety in the hands of the t...

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IRELAND Afraid for her life, Brenna fled the lush emerald hills of Ireland to seek the safety of the New World. THE CARIBBEAN Ahead lay torment and untold adventure --- among rogues and pirates, and on a slaveship bound for danger. NEW ORLEAN...

• Oct-1977
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hey call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mys...

• Oct-1977
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She heard the waves roll in, roll in.... "Jeffrey! Jeffrey!" she sobbed, urging her pony down the steep cliffs to the sea. Gorse caught cruelly at her cloak and skirts, her petticoats flashed white. But Amy thought only of her desperate race again...

• Oct-1977
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On a cold spring day in 1880, fifteen American cowboys sail into Vladivostock with a herd of 500 acttle for delivery to a famine stricken town deep in Siberia. Assigned to accompany them is a band of Cossacks, Russia’s elite horsemen...

• Oct-1977
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Romance in the land of King Arthur and Stonehenge. In Song of the Heart, Paige is in England to collect the folksongs she loves and sings. She finds her cottage usurped by a TV producer who beguiles her into swapping her place for a gypsy wagon. He a...

• Oct-1977
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Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Mystery: "Eerie . . . A book you will gulp down" (The New York Times).   Lyons, Basche, and Tyler -- three ordinary guys -- find their fourth poker night partner, Reece, fatally beaten on th...

• Oct-1977
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"A riproaringly magnificent time. Passing For Human is quite unlike anything anyone else has ever done." -Neil Gaiman When a dolphin-like alien comes to Earth disguised in a female human body, it sets the stage for a wild feminist romp that out stran...