Books Published in October 1978

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Nothing bound her spirit -- but one man knew the whispered words to make her his. SUN-BLAZED BEACHES With languid tropic, breezes caressing her breathtakingly beautiful face, Bettina Verlaine stood before the mast, sailing westward to fulfill a...

• Oct-1978
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Alex yearned for freedom! Brought up in a French convent, Alex had been sadly neglected by her archaeologist father. He died leaving her starved for affection, desperate to love and be loved - desperate enough to trick her father's friend, Ja...

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Samantha's experience with men as the daughter of tycoon Reuben Gentry had been disillusioning. But she'd gone willingly to Chris Andrews's home miles from anywhere on an island in the St. Lawrence, expecting her father to join her the...

• Oct-1978
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It was hard to resist Alex He smiled arrogantly at her. "You've wanted me ever since we began working together four years ago. Admit it, Deborah." She turned away abruptly. It was true. She loved Alex St. James, a music-industry ex...

• Oct-1978
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She quickly refused Paul's proposition! "I'd make it worth your while," he had promised. "You'd have a villa in the sun, a car and an ever increasing bank balance." Knowing she was far from indifferent to this devast...

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"You will stay and marry my brother." Julio Valdez spoke contemptuously. "Because of you, my brother, Ramon, is now a paralyzed cripple, with very little to live for. But he wants you, so he shall have you." Julio's hard, unyie...

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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped ...

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Samantha had it all figured out. A year to fulfill the wishes accompanying her godfather's legacy - then she'd happily return to her own life. That was the plan. Farrell's, however, a big London department store, was a fascinating...

• Oct-1978
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It was the perfect solution for them Or so it had seemed to Petra. Left penniless, with a young brother to look after, she decided to look up a distant cousin in Canada and make their home with him. She had never met Neil Cameron, but she was s...

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Her peace of mind was wholly shattered Olivia Logan had used an unexpected legacy from her aunt to set up a book and stationery store in the bushveld country of 'northern Transvaal -- something she'd long looked forward to. She was leav...

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They not only came from different parts of the country. Their views belonged to different centuries! "Maybe that's why I've never found you real;" Jake said slowly. "Never met a lovely looking female yet who didn't do somet...

• Oct-1978
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Suddenly Valerie's world was changed! Fate crossed Valerie's path with that of singing-star idol, Nicky Barratt, and for some strange reason he was reluctant to let her go out of his life. What set her apart from his other admiring fans...

• Oct-1978
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Beth resented this man's interference! She.had been elated to discover that she had a grandfather still living; naturally she wanted to meet him as soon as possible. Unfortunately, she happened to meet Ryan Drago first. A longtime friend of...

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THEIR LIVES WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios. But when construction of a beautiful new home begins i...

• Oct-1978
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THE DOLMAN COMES The Beast unimaginable, bearing the final horror: annihilation. The time of Man has ended. But also comes the Sunset Warrior. The table for the awful feast is set, the ultimate battle about to begin......

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Sparks flew every time they met Ashley Beaumont had been bitterly disappointed when Kindyerra, the family sheep station, had been sold -- but that was nothing compared to her feelings when she discovered the identity of the new owner. Dane Carm...

• Oct-1978
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"You want Paradis for your collection!" Venture accused him, showing the bitterness she felt at her island home being desecrated with a holiday hotel. She had been prepared to hate the French hotel tycoon, and had pictured him as short,...

• Oct-1978
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In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dors...

• Oct-1978
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Anxious to make friends in a new town, a young boy lies about his experience as goalie in order to get on the local soccer team....

• Oct-1978
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Roumayne's world had collapsed around her Unjustly accused of causing a popular singer's death, Roumayne Mallory was fired from her job, jilted by her fiance and damned by public opinion. She wanted only to escape, and Marcella Du Toit, he...

• Oct-1978
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French and English -- they just don't mix! Her grandmother had instilled that misconception in Brianna's mind. So it was no wonder that the attempted reconciliation with her sister and French mother proved such a disaster. That was year...

• Oct-1978
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With more than four million copies sold, Wifey is Judy Blume's hilarious, moving tale of a woman who trades in her conventional wifely duties for her wildest fantasies -- and learns a lot about life along the way.Sandy Pressman is a nice suburban wif...

• Oct-1978
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Norah Lofts’s tales of royal Britain have stood the test of time.This international bestseller powerfully tells of the life of Katharine of Aragon, from her childhood in Spain to her reign and downfall in England as the first wife of Henry VII. A p...

• Oct-1978
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There is us. There are the Others. And through the shimmering gates they left for us, there are stars beyond stars: universes to be discovered on a voyage more awesome, an adventure more incredible, than anything humankind has ever dared to dream be...

• Oct-1978
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A gripping, inventive thriller about justice and retribution set in Paris thirty years after World War II Anna Martin is ready to put the past -- and her unsuccessful marriage -- behind her and start over with Nicholas Yurovsky. A titled aristocr...

• Oct-1978
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He looked so like her hero, Charles the First, that it was easy to fall in love -- and into trouble. She shopped along the Ponte Vecchio. She spoke Italian and French with fluency and knew more English history than many a girl born and reared in ...

• Oct-1978
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A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings.What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into th...

• Oct-1978
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Barbara Layette -- beautiful daughter of rugged Dan Layette and his aristocratic first wife. Rejecting the conflicts of her dual heritage, determined to build a life of her own, she fled an opulent Nob Hill mansion for a turbulent Europe on the brink...

• Oct-1978
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HE WAS THE COOL-HANDED MARSHAL WHO ALWAYS GOT HIS MAN -- AND HIS WOMAN. THEY CALLED HIM...LONGARM Longarm had a new mission. Ride to Crooked Lance. Pick up Cotton Younger, killer cousin of Jesse James, from the town jail. Bring him to trial. It w...

• Oct-1978
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A tough-guy travel agent loses an heiress while on a drug-fueled vacation Reid Rance can't take his eyes off May Gibson. It's not her figure or her face that's got him mesmerized though. It's the emerald on her finger and the checkbook in her han...

• Oct-1978
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A DANGEROUS, ROMANTIC ADVENTURE -- AND A DREAM OF INNOCENCE... Silken locks of flaxen gold, dark eyes flashing, Mandy was breathtaking in her young loveliness. But so far the only man she had ever loved was her twin brother, Ned. Now, suddenly,...

• Oct-1978
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A sweeping adventure set in the Arabian Desert, where the shadow of British colonialism threatens to destroy a father and son. Three years ago, nineteen-year-old David Thomas beat his father to death. Actually, David only punched the old man, but...

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Greengages Hotel was a sumptuous sanctuary for the super-rich. Until its most pampered hypochondriac took the cure. And then her life. Or did she? To find out, Scotland Yard sends Superintendent Alleyn to knock at the gilded gates where murder ...

• Oct-1978
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"Even the gutter is too low for you!" Babette was stunned, overwhelmed with shame. His cruel insult drove home the appalling lengths to which this Mississippi gambler would go to mend his wounded pride. He would ruin her family... and hers...

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BODIES ARE BAD FOR BUSINESS And Christmas was very big business at Balaclava Agricultural College where the campus ''Illumination" attracted hosts of joyful tourists. So when Professor Peter Shandy found a faculty wife sprawled dead on his living ...

• Oct-1978
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“A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather.  Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows ...

• Oct-1978
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SHE IS BOUND TO ONE MAN BY HOPE - TO ANOTHER BY LOVE Sara Glass. The captivating English rose. Her life as a married woman has just begun when her young husband, Eric, vanishes into the exotic and shimmering East... Leaving behind her safe wor...

• Oct-1978
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“The definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize�"nominated Kenyan writerThe puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, h...

• Oct-1978
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Richard Ashley is a journalist who cares about the truth, and he''s about to break the greatest story of his career.

Italy''s ruling clique is rotten to the core. A scandal centred around Vittorio, Duke of Orgagna, points to a web of corrup...

• Oct-1978
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With all of Charles Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, Women, the 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum, is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to surv...

• Oct-1978
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The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway ...

• Oct-1978
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Here, Jemima Shore, investigator and TV personality, arrives at Inverness Station for a Highland holiday. The sun is shining. Paradise, she thinks. But at that moment, she hears a voice: "All this way for a funeral."

So begins an adventure f...

• Oct-1978
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In her latest novel of ancient Greece, Mary Renault turns to the world of the poet-the bard who since the time of Homer had sung his verses from memory for the occasions of the court. This is the life of Simonides, who live in sixth-century Greece du...

• Oct-1978
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An historical novel about Alves Reis. He pushed so many counterfeit escudo notes into Portugal during the 1920s that he almost crashed their economy. He was able to do this by using forged documents that enabled him to have other countries print th...

• Oct-1978
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Have you ever fantasized about leaving big-city life behind and making a beeline for a bucolic village? That's exactly what Alphonse Daudet did, and he documents the results of his decision in the series of fictionalized sketches collected in Letters...

• Oct-1978
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SHE WAS A LOVE TOKEN How could the lovely Lady Jessica hope to be happy in the arms of a dissolute duke who had won her hand in a card game? How could she hold her own in the glittering, titled society of Regency London when only the luck of the d...

• Oct-1978
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When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections." The heart of the story is ...

• Oct-1978
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The invading warriors appeared from nowhere -- an implacable horde that ravaged the lands of Krantin, slaying and taking their own death wounds in eerie silence. The outer islands had fallen, and soon the sorcery-driven soldiers would be striking at ...

• Oct-1978
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Widow Bride Vital, young Caroline Aubrey was the recent widow of an unsavory old Virginia planter whom she'd been forced to marry. Now, she had returned to England to join her sister and establish her place in proper society. But the right ...

• Oct-1978
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The lone survivor of a catastrophic mine explosion announces that the end of the world is at hand and begins a new cult that, sweeping the mining towns, gathers believers in anticipation of the Coming of the End of the World...