Books Published in April 1979

• Apr-1979
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The world Kregen circles the twin suns of Antares, far distant from the skies of Earth. Yet Kregen is the ground on which the Earthman Dray Prescot must stand and fight for all he holds dear. For Prescot is the unwilling battle arm of the mysterious ...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Now an ABC television series available on streaming platforms!In 1979 Karl Alexander's Time After Time burst upon the literary world with a brash, exciting novel with a unique concept: H. G. Wells, the famous, bestselling author of such sensations as...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Eugenie, pregnant and attempting to rebuild her life after the sudden death of her beloved husband, and Adele--trying to overcome the nightmare of marriage to a sadistic and sexually perverted man--desperately search for love...

• Apr-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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"Stay away from him -- he's a strange one!" If only Martine had listened! Richard Duncan was indeed a mysterious man, living a bitter life in the Scottish Highlands. The townsfolk spoke about him in whispers, not daring to voice the...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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From the moment the bus leaves for Camp Ma-Sha-Na in the Poconos, Tuffy takes part in the general hubbub and shenanigans, but she wants nothing to do with Bunk Ten's voodoo activities directed against the head counselor...

• Apr-1979
• / Fantasy
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MOMENTS FROM NOW AND LIGHT YEARS AWAY... On the planet Tarot, the new religions flourish. But all who dwell in that occult world, still worship the timeless Tree of Life as the one supreme god. Now this primitive culture is being haunted by apparit...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Here's to a joyous adventure, Suzanne!" Susan responded eagerly to Raoul Sansterre's toast. Was she toasting the adventure of opening up Thurstan Hall as a high-class restaurant, or the exciting prospect of getting to know this su...

• Apr-1979
• / Science Fiction
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The Tzen are fierce warriors, master strategists...and reptiles. The Enemy are savage conquerors, brilliant technicians...and insects. Neither has known defeat until...THE BUG WARS Scales versus swarms -- in a cosmic battle for survival....

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Horror
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• Apr-1979
• / Suspense
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Two men and a boy, on the boat they charter to game-fishermen, are lazing away the hottest hours of a Caribbean day when they notice a cameo which appears to be adrift. They manoeuvre it alongside their boat, one of the men reaches to pull back the t...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Historical
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Jesse James is Dead!On April 3, 1882, a bullet fired by Bob Ford from a Smith & Wesson .44 revolver ended the life of Jesse James, notorious badman. Since then, the James story has grown into a full-blown American legend.Here is the dramatic, day...

• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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When the movie studio bought her story, Bonita Langmeade surrendered herself to the dizzying reality of a dream come true. Then Jordan McCaslin, the arrogant, devastatingly handsome young producer, invaded her beloved Carmel Valley to make his movie....

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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From the author of the bestselling novel, The Boat - a stunning chronicle in his own words, his own photographs, of U-boat warfare in the North Atlantic. Over 5,000 of his photos smuggled into safekeeping, survived WWII of these 205 form this epic ph...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Gothic
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Celia Pressley's cottage in the suburban town of Longbrook was not quite what Nigel, just back from Brazil, considered the ideal home for his mother. But incurable optimist that she was, she overlooked the draughts, the tangled garden, the ricket...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Literary
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Sorrow Nix, a girl who cannot talk, finds and cares for an injured young whooping crane and risks her life to save the bird from John Barrow and the Sweet boys who aim to catch it for their own profit...

• Apr-1979
• / Action Adventure
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WHEN IS A SPY NOT A SPY? 'in other places, if an agent blew something like this, he'd be off to Siberia. We don't do things exactly that way... David Hawk, director of AXE the super-secret agency that takes the jobs nobody else can do, is speak...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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"He's here! They say he's a terror. " Lee's secretary warned her of the arrival of Adam Broome, new owner of the publishing company for which they worked. Adam, known as the "new Broome," had left a chaos of reorgani...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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No one wanted to marry Edie -- they wanted other things, but not marriage! And Edie was just not 'that kind of a girl'. So it was in a fit of pique that she answered an advert: 'cattleman seeks wife, preferably under thirty-five' -...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Six beautiful people arrive for a weekend in the country. Six guests of the unseen host who lies wasting away upstairs. Five heirs to a mysterious Legacy watch the body of the sixth float to the side of the pool. Four claim the unspeakable power of t...

• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Juliet soon learned: never love an enemy! Juliet went to Italy to check on her sister, Jan. According to Jan, she'd arrived just in time. Wealthy, powerful Santino Vallone was trying to prevent Jan from marrying his young brother, Mario. Wi...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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Lovely Sonia Goldfine lived a quiet life with her Uncle Meyer, making beautiful jewelry for the ladies of high society. Because she was Jewish, however, she was not a member of that group. Then, quite suddenly, the handsome and dashing Alastair Ch...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Simmering under the Kansas sun, Crowley Flats looks like a typical prairie town. Now comes the time of the stalker - relentless, violent, deathdealing. Fear trembles like the dust, stirring up naked emotions and lustful passions long held in check. C...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Growing up on the fringes of the Old South, twelve-year-old Annie Trammell is the daughter of a gentlewoman from an old family in decline and her closest friends--and practically adopted family--are black...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Action Adventure
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• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Born For Love This is Liliane --a beautiful woman swept by the storms of history from the embattled France of Napoleon to Virginia where violence simmered beneath the surface of slavery-dependent plantation life. Warm, passionate --a woman alon...

• Apr-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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She was at the mercy of this mysterious man Philippe Vernon was Lorraine's only hope. Alone in the Far East, she had no one else to turn to. When her fiance had called her to him, she'd gone joyfully -- halfway around the world. But ...

• Apr-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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He Was an Enfant Terrible... yet the pranks that little Lord Algcrnon visited upon his patient governess, Meriel Hathaway, were borne by her with good grace, until the morning he deliberately spilled blue ink over Meriel's pale gold curls. She sl...

• Apr-1979
• / Gothic
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Prisoner of Evil. For the beautiful American, Susan Fletcher, a vacation cruise of the Rhine suddenly became a nightmare of terror when she was kidnapped undercover of darkness and whisked away to Castle Stahlemberg. Imprisoned in this isolated, gloo...

• Apr-1979
• / Romance
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Endless nights of romance. Alaska. The starlit nights seemed to last forever, and the lure of gold still worked its own special magic. Here beautiful artist Carly Marshall met handsome gold-miner Patrick Donovan, fell in love, and immediately wis...

• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Violated sadistically by a man with an insane lust for cruelty, Cynara Rosslyn is maliciously accused as the seductress and sent off penniless to Australia. To survive, she must suffer relentless degradation at the hands of men who rule by fear and a...

• Apr-1979
• / Science Fiction
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UNION OF ICE Ethan Frome Fortune had been on Tran-ky-ky long enough...too long, in fact. He wanted out. He wanted to get back to business. He wanted to go home. So he and his sidekick Skua September headed their giant icerigger toward Brass Monkey...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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This volume brings together the works of two important American writers. Both Jewett and Freeman used as their settings the small towns of 19th-century New England, both created as their principal characters mature and elderly women. Their etched dra...

• Apr-1979
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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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"You're a classic arrogant Scorpio!" It was only a guess, but Frances knew she was right about this aloof, handsome stranger. After spending the past six months getting over an ill-fated romance, she was ready for a new man in her l...

• Apr-1979
• / Historical
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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A man travels to Israel to uncover a diamond's remarkable past in this vivid historical saga. A diamond cutter and seller from a long, respected line of precious-gem dealers, New Yorker Harry Hopeman is intrigued by the story of the so-called ...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering pa...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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First published in 1978, five years after the release of the classic horror film from which it is adapted, The Wicker Man is a gripping horror classic.

It is the tale of Highlands policeman, Police Sergeant Neil Howie, on the trail of a ...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had ...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Historical Mystery
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John Murrey Eden came home to bury the man and legend of his father -- and to claim a castle ands destiny named Eden. Standing amid the beauty of all that would one day be his to rule, was the woman that should never have been his to love -- the L...

• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Science Fiction
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Frank Herbert, author of the world-famous Dune, is one of today's leading futurist thinkers. Bill Ransom is a poet, a Pulitzer and National Book Award nominee. Together, in a bold and unprecedented collaboration, they have crafted a book that combine...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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In this terrifying supernatural thriller Mary, a normal American child, is kidnapped on a visit to Ireland. Not by humans, but by the spirits of the forest. A changeling is sent in her place to destroy all those who interfere with nature. In order to...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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When her husband continually shrugs off his son's bizarre behavior, which has recently included an attempted murder, Evie Lowell realizes that her desperately sick twelve-year-old must be removed from their home at all costs...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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FIRST EDITION, Fawcett Crest #2-3899-7, (c) 1979. Paperback original, so stated. Edited by Robert Hoskins and features the following stories: 'Wanted in Surgery' by Harlan Ellison; 'All You Zombies' by Robert A. Heinlein; 'Rainbird' by R.A. Lafferty;...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Space Opera
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• Apr-1979
• / Fantasy
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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You Will Never Forget Them: Spirited Annabel; romantic Chris; Emily, the perfectionist; and Daphne, the Golden Girl... Max, everybody's buddy...Alexander, the enigma... Ken, the perfect catch...and Richard, who took what he wanted, no matter what t...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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The indignities and affections of Dickens's childhood and adolescence are a prelude to his successes as journalist and novelist, his adult joys and disappointments, his social and political crusades, and his rewarding literary friendships...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could love bridge the gap between them? Caroline refused to let her wealthy father force her into an arranged marriage. To escape his tyranny, she fled to a mountain valley in Spain. Instead of the old childhood nurse she expected to find there...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Scruples is the novel that  created publishing history, the first-and widely  acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written  about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly  Hills boutique and the peop...

• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Nothing would ever be the same again! Linden had been only seventeen when Joss crashed into her life. Naively, she had offered him her friendship and trust. In return, he had aroused emotions in her she was too young to handle, wrenching her from...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Science Fiction
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From a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy: In a post-apocalyptic future, a priest must fight the forces of evil in order to bring freedom to humanity.
 
Three-hundred and sixty years after a nuclear holocaust r...

• Apr-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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Her love for him turned into a nightmare Her husband had been gone eight long months The nightmare of his absence was growing. Danielle was at her wit's end. She was running out of hope ... and of money. Then the mysterious phone calls began...

• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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'I've hate enough for both of us!' Maura MacDonald shuddered at her brother's words. The battle that raged between the MacDonald's and the Campbell's had been going on for years and the vicious circle of destruction and re...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Perilous Intrigue... Lady Tess had no idea of the trouble she would stir up by masquerading as her sister's servant when they paid a visit to some distant relatives. She simply had no wish to fritter her time away in polite society and did not wan...

• Apr-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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SHE THRILLED AT HIS PASSIONATE REQUEST, LOOKED AT HIM WITH EYES OF LOVE, AND TOLD HIM, "NO. " "I cannot marry you. You wish the wife you merit, my lord. Obedient, serene. I fear I can never be that woman." "It is that you do not like me, ...

• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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EVIL & ECSTASY Meredith Longley was a favorite child, sheltered and portected by an elderly father. She had been lovingly spared the harsh realities of life and was ill prepared to carry on her father's work when he died. Now, committed to an archae...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Science Fiction
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DRAGON FIRE Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before ...

• Apr-1979
• / Science Fiction
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A FANTASY OF A TIME WHEN... Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the daring and adventurous young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth. Pure white and incredibly agile,Ruth was a dragon of many tal...

• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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The voluptuous green-eyed Sea Siren sails again! Abandoned by the one man who can possess her completely, Sirena vows revenge and to win him back. BOUNDLESS DESIRE Wrenched apart by jealous rage, Sirena and the virile Regan van der Rhys are caug...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Running away from his overly protective parents and restricted life, a teenage singing star finds himself on a remote island where he befriends a tame but frightened cougar that he determines to protect from a vicious hunter....

• Apr-1979
• / Fantasy
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Estri was a god, and the daughter of light. Chayin was a god, and the son of darkness. Sereth was hase-enor, the son of all flesh. Lovers and friends, could they be the prophesied three who would wield the Sword of Severance, Se'Keroth, and ...

• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Dare she strike a deal with this man? Farrah knew her father's career would be ruined unless she intervened-and swiftly. One simple, human error shouldn't be held against him, she decided. And she was sure his employer, the handsome dynami...

• Apr-1979
• / Mystery
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• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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It was obvious. Nick wasn't coming back! They had argued over dinner; Nick walked off in a huff. Alethea tried not to panic when the check arrived, knowing she had nothing more than silver in her handbag.... Suddenly, the man she had seen s...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Mystery
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On her way home from visiting a friend, Christina Lattimore is grabbed in her driveway and drugged. When she wakes up she is on a narrow cot in a chilly basement. What is she doing there? Christina realizes she has been kidnapped and is being h...

• Apr-1979
• / Romantic Suspense
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She could pretend to be Marc's wife... She awoke in the hospital, unable to remember the accident. The nurse told her gently, "Your cousin Marion was killed in the car crash." Disbelief shot through her. "But I'm Marion!" she wanted to scream. ...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them -- from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle.   With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedd...

• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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"You shall marry me! Any protest is futile! " Charlotte cringed as Lord Braybridge spoke. Flow she loathed this repulsive man! Surely, she thought, he could not possibly force her into a marriage she did not want. But she was wrong, so very wrong....

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Science Fiction
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With Earth overburdened by too many people and too few resources, the planet's fate hangs in the balance, but the discovery of an Earthlike world in a nearby system brings new hope, unless humankind's warlike tendencies get in the way. Original....

• Apr-1979
• / Science Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearabl...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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1980, mass market paperback reprint edition, later printing, Harper Perennial Library, NY. 208 pages. "Every paragraph of her work is dense with psychological insight ... and simultaneously, very funny." Often referred to as "the most neglected novel...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Heroic figures, invested with a common pattern that satisfies the human desire for idealization, are the focus of this intriguing study of legendary characters -- from Oedipus and King Arthur to heroes of the Trojan War and Robin Hood. A fascinatin...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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Originally released in 1974, this arresting memoir was the first of its kind -- a brutally honest exploration of the emotional toll of addiction. Stripping away the romantic mythology of substance abuse as hopeless tragedy, it endures as a message of...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Action Adventure
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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A new kind of sci-fi heroine, the tough-as-nails Alyx, is introduced in this Nebula Award finalist that Poul Anderson called an “extraordinary” novel.   Set in a semi-utopian world, Joanna Russ’s groundbreaking debut novel is the story of ...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Police Procedural
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The bizarre, haphazard pattern of big-city crime and violence has never been more vividly portrayed than in this, Dell Shannon's 30th novel. As avid fans of this series have long recognized, no one handles his job with more finesse than Lt. Luis Mend...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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This novel portrays the difficulties encountered by traditionalist Jews coming to terms with the social changes that rocked Poland in the late 19th century. The central figure is Calman Jacoby, who stands between the old and the new, unable to embrac...

• Apr-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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Daphne's visit to her Aunt Effie was allowed with much misgiving. For Effie had once been the toast of London. Her beauty attracted men of all kinds --husbands, sons, brothers, fathers. Her first marriage ended in a scandalous divorce and the not...

• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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She was lovely, seventeen, and life was reaching out for her with promise, agony, and first love . . . Jody was beautiful, still shy, and finding out what every girl learns young in a poor Carolina mill town. Already she knew why her stepfather lo...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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High-minded, independent, imaginative, Teresa Hawkins knows only one commandment 'Thou shalt love'. Emotionally starved by her ramshackle family, Teresa searches for fulfillment outside her stultifying life as a working girl in a large city. Obsessed...

• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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Shortly before Bel's marriage to Ellis Brownlee, her friend, Louise Armstrong, goes house hunting for them and discovers a charming but neglected old stone cottage in the Cotswolds. Bel adores the house, called Fletchers End. Ellis buys the place fro...

• Apr-1979
• / Horror
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In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those ...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Literary
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"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron b...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Trust me, Lisa. It will be all right." Lisa could have laughed. How could she trust Bryn when he had taken advantage of her from the start? They had met outside the church where the man she loved had married Bryn's girl friend. Bry...

• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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When little Theodore Mallory inherited Garth House from an aged and distant relative, it seemed to his eldest sister, Dione, the answer to many problems. Against all advice, she persuaded her widowed mother to remove the family from the luxurious Lon...

• Apr-1979
• / Thriller
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A classic spy novel from the bestselling author, Trevanian, about a westerner raised in Japan who becomes one of the world's most accomplished assassins.Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Literary
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A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and h...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Traditional Regency
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A bold young beauty is forced into marrying England's most notorious nobleman. A MONSTROUS NIGHT OF MADNESS, A DESPICABLE DAWN OF DISGRACE Pilar had not even a family name to call her own. She had only her ravishing young beauty and rapier-...

• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Julie was just like her father--a rebel Julie Renard had no idea of the disruptive effect she'd have on the Renards--relatives she hadn't known until her grandfather's invitation to come to Australia. Now, she sensed the conflicts a...

• Apr-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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His proposal seemed like a lifeline! Antonia Marlowe's first young romance had ended tragically; her strict Spanish relatives repressed her. An empty, dreary life loomed ahead. But then Cal Barnard, a dynamic English industrialist, unexpect...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1979
• / Historical Romance
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WHO WAS SHE? Was she Andrea, a modern, liberated young woman from the California lifestyle of casual sex and laid-back love? Or was she Jennifer, a Victorian young lady who fought against her feelings for a man whom she could never wed but co...

• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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• May-1979
• / General Fiction
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