Books Published in April 1981

• Apr-1981
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Andreas had every reason to hate her! Regan's father had run off with the wife of Andreas Vatis, and Andreas wasn't the kind of man to take that lightly. He wanted revenge; and now that her father was dead, Regan was the only one who could...

• Apr-1981
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ALL OF ENGLAND REJOICED ON HER WEDDING DAY, BUT JUDITH VOWED THAT HER HUSBAND WOULD GET ONLY WHAT HE TOOK FROM HER! At the flower-bedecked altar, the first touch of their hands ignited an all-consuming passion. The tall, broad-shouldered Gavin M...

• Apr-1981
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The honeymoon was over long, long ago Lara Cochran had once been a happy bride. Then Trevor, her charming husband, had turned to other women. Divorce was unheard-of in Lara's family, but she didn't want one anyway. One disastrous marria...

• Apr-1981
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How could she cause him pain? Long ago Samantha Harrington had given Eliot an acceptance that one day they would marry. Now, because of an encounter with the handsome, compelling Nico Martinelli, Samantha glimpsed a side to herself she'd ne...

• Apr-1981
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Would he misconstrue her love as pity? Angela Hart's love for Enrique de Zaldo was only intensified by the tragedy of his blindness. She had loved him all her life. Called by his Spanish father to their Mediterranean island, Angie hoped to...

• Apr-1981
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They called him Satan. His arrogant good looks compelled. His black eyes seemed able to see into one's very soul. Nicholas, the viscount Wyndham, was deemed a dark and dangerous man, outcast from polite society, hardly a fit companion for an inno...

• Apr-1981
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A WILD NEW LAND KINDLED HER PASSIONS. . . An untamed man won her heart. From proper Boston to wide-open Sycamore Hill, beautiful Abby McFarland made the journey to a tempestuous new land where danger is often unexpected-and love is always violent. ...

• Apr-1981
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When did love turn to vengeful hate? Young Gina hero-worshipped Quentin Hurst, but to him she was just a child, a dirty tomboy who helped in his stables with the horses. His frequent snide remarks had been cruel, but she'd always forgiven him....

• Apr-1981
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She was equal to almost any task As part of a skilled medical team, Margot Huntley was sensitive and alert to the needs of her job She had to be--especially since the arrival of Jordan Merrick, the new senior surgeon. Margot had never forgotten...

• Apr-1981
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A man doesn't want the love of a girl Although she was alone in the world and very young, Francesca's idolization of the man who became her protector was no puppy love. With Caspar Barrington she had sailed the golden Caribbean. Life ha...

• Apr-1981
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When Lucy's mother is flung out of the house by her husband, she is rescued by a naval officer. Only on her deathbed does she reveal Lucy's true lineage. Trying to hold the family together, Lucy seeks work at the Buchanan house, where her mother work...

• Apr-1981
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LOVE'S GAMBLE Clarissa, orphan daughter of Carlotta, is rescued from squalor and brought back to the family home at Enderby. Surrounded by Jacobite intrigues, she is kidnapped by them as a suspected spy. It is the Jacobite leader who allows...

• Apr-1981
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HE WAS A ROGUE AND A HERO AND HE HAD MARRIED HER FOR HER MONEY Everyone in bon ton knew that Lord Hubert Challenge had married country mouse Mary Tyre for her dowry, but no one had yet guessed that Mary had actually fallen in love with her husband...

• Apr-1981
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WHATEVER COULD A POOR, ORPHANED YOUNG LADY DO? Willful, capricious Perdita, after shaking her golden curls, stamping her foot, and flatly refusing to marry the aged Mr. Croft, was hastily packed off to her aunt's house to avoid further scanda...

• Apr-1981
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It was easy to fool one of the Lindleys Stage glasses and a severe hairdo had tacked Gregory Lindley into thinking that Margret was right for the job of housekeeper-governess. Maybe it was because he never really looked at her. Which was fine. Mar...

• Apr-1981
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RICHARD SHARPE FEARLESS SOLDIER, RUTH LESS ENEMY, AND PASSIONATE LOVER Captain Richard Sharpe--bold, professional, and ruthless--is leading his battle-hardened veterans against Napoleon at Talavera in the bloodiest Peninsula battle yet. Sharpe has...

• Apr-1981
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DOUBLE DESTINY For Stile, life was a matter of shuttling madly between two worlds, with the problems growing greater on each. On the science world of Proton, he was a serf, trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. On Pha...

• Apr-1981
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Rescue or terminate... Bolan's mission: rescue and evacuate the American agent known as Laconia ... or terminate him. Laconia had been tracking a group of Arab terrorists across three continents until he suddenly disappeared in the remote jungl...

• Apr-1981
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She would never be part of his world Janna had been raised in South America by a loving father, but now she was alone--until Luke Hayes-Ross walked into the tavern where she was working. With him her passage to England--and the possibility of find...

• Apr-1981
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TROPICAL NIGHTS MIRRORED THEIR PASSION.... Hannah Blanchard was thrilled about the unexpected invitation to the Isle de Cozumel off the coast of Mexico. It offered a needed respite after her recent illness. But her stepsister, Jill, has other pl...

• Apr-1981
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A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE In the wedding of the decade, Geraldine Glamorgan's millions were united with Steve Courtlandt's aristocratic name. Both young, handsome, vibrantly alive, they found themselves, "for better or for worse," bound in a glitt...

• Apr-1981
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"Impalavlei is just a business to you!" Jenny wouldn't see her late father's quiet bushveld game park transformed into a sophisticated resort -- as Joshua Adams undoubtedly intended. Impalavlei had to keep up with the times, he'...

• Apr-1981
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She loved him, but love wasn't enough Rachelle should never have married Pete Standring. She'd known he was a Canadian oil prospector, but she hadn't realized it was his whole life. Moreover, she hated oil-field living. So she left ...

• Apr-1981
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The Cardinal Sins ignited a worldwide sensation when it first appeared nearly thirty years ago. Selling more than three million copies, it launched Andrew M. Greeley's career as one of America's most popular storytellers. Back in print at last, this ...

• Apr-1981
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WIN OR LOSE HE WOULD TAKE HER--IN PASSION...OR IN ANGER! Beautiful, successful Alexis Stone had everything a woman could dream of--money, beautiful clothes, a glamorous job in her father's Dallas oil company, handsome men clamoring for her attenti...

• Apr-1981
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Lee had waited a long time for revenge Seven years ago Lee had been a starry-eyed eighteen-year-old who foolishly thought that if she loved and wanted to marry Kelsey Roberts, he must feel the same. That he was already married came as a great s...

• Apr-1981
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THE RICH AND THE RECKLESS. In this, her latest novel, best-selling author Dorothy Daniels weaves a dazzling story of romance and danger set in the golden era of Monte Carlo in the 1890s. A city sizzling in sin and teeming with royalty and high-rol...

• Apr-1981
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"O WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE, WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE!" Here is the Duke of Chatham, deeply in love with Lady Winship, but supposedly courting her daughter, Mariel, instead. And here is young Algernon Carleton, deeply infatuated with the...

• Apr-1981
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Seventeen-year-old Mary McFarland is pregnant -- or so the doctors say. Her parents are outraged and assume it is the fault of her boyfriend, Mike. But Mike knows this is impossible -- and assumes Mary has done with another boy what she has refused t...

• Apr-1981
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LONE GUN ON THE VENGEANCE TRAIL Ben Langham was dead, his body riddled with bullets, buzzards picking at his bones. And Luke Starbuck, who loved Langham like a father, knew who did it. A savage, fast-as-lightning killer named William Bonney, a.k.a. ...

• Apr-1981
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TOAST OF TWO CONTINENTS, FROM MEXICO TO SPAIN! They called her La Gringa -- beautiful blonde bullfighter Mariana Toscano, daughter of film goddess Pat Palmer and the late great matador Roberto Toscano. But it wasn't until Mariana fled the glit...

• Apr-1981
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The situation was becoming ludicrous! As far as Alix was concerned, Quinn Tennant was obnoxious, arrogant, conceited -- and he had a habit of showing up everywhere! She discovered he was her new boss, her landlord, and even the judge at the com...

• Apr-1981
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SNOWBOUND IN A SECLUDED HILLTOP CABIN! Reporter Julie Dever thought she knew everything about New Mexico's youngest senator, Nicholas Raffer, not only his politics but his intimate social life as well. However, when he rescues her from a car wreck...

• Apr-1981
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IT WAS A TOWN OF TIGHT-FISTED MEN -- AND BRAZEN WOMEN... Northfield. It grazed the eastern edge of the Badlands. A man could get lost-or killed-there, and no one would ever know the difference. Northfield. Tough, cocky, and a whole lot of troub...

• Apr-1981
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Even in today's world there are corners where past evils still cast their terror-haunted shadows. When the young man, Christian, came to his inheritance -- a once grand mansion in just such a remote corner of France, he knew only that there was some ...

• Apr-1981
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It seemed such a challenge! Beverley craved more excitement than her job provided, so when the ad appeared for a position in Kinneil she eagerly applied. It seemed innocent enough to deceive Alex Ramage into believing his new assistant was male...

• Apr-1981
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“Zuckerman Unbound is masterful, sure in every touch, as clear and economical of line as a crystal vase.” -- New York Times Book ReviewNow in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling autho...

• May-1981
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Something is very wrong at the museum! When Cam and her friend Eric go on a field trip with their fifth grade class, Cam's photographic memory reveals that some dinosaur bones are missing. But who could have sneaked them past the museum guards? Can C...

• Apr-1981
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It was a moment of exquisite torture. Cynthia's nerves tingled madly under his piercing blue-eyed gaze. "Understood?" he asked, his voice as commanding and arousing as his look had been. "Yes," she managed, turning away, break...

• Apr-1981
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Aided by his men in the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery and Homicide Division, seasoned veteran Luis Mendoza bravely meets the tough challenge of big-city crime and violence. Working with faint clues, he and his detectives systematically brea...

• Apr-1981
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SHE WAS FINALLY ON HER OWN! At twenty-four years of age Deborah Denhoff asserts her independence. Despite parental disapproval she travels to Texas to research the life of Clement Vaulkhurst -- Nobel Prize-winning novelist and a distant relative -...

• Apr-1981
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Home Is Where The Horror Is.. Suddenly, all the people she knew and loved seemed menacing and unfamiliar. It started right after Sarah Favor saw her fiance leave the country on a secret mission for the State Department. She came home -- and discov...

• Apr-1981
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HE WAS THE ONE MAN SHE COULD NEVER TRUST. Alex had every reason to distrust Damon Montaigne. Hadn't he cheated her father in business and' driven the family away? Yet now she had to live with him and try to forget the past. She resented his det...

• Apr-1981
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A spy thriller classic, now a major motion picture starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe, and Laurence Fishburne.“A taut, chilling plot and a protagonist as memorable as one of Len Deighton’s, or le Carré’s Smiley.” -- The...

• Apr-1981
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An “almost flawless novel” (People) about a quiet scholar who is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature and that she must make a new start in life.Since childhood, Ruth Weiss had been escaping from life into books, and from the att...

• Apr-1981
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The Contradictory Countess Morag Fleming, the Countess of Murr, had been bride to the most lecherous lord in Scotland yet this ravishingly lovely girl had never been touched. Needless to say, she had never borne a child yet as a young widow, she c...

• Apr-1981
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When a circus tent fire calls Tribune reporter Dalton Walker into action, he's disturbed to find that an eight-year-old girl has fallen victim to the tragedy; even more troubling is the fact that no relatives come to identify the body. While searchin...

• Apr-1981
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A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS The first error was one of pride -- pride that made Lady Leonora spurn the loving attentions of her commoner husband for the frivolous company of her aristocratic friends. The second error was one of vanity -- the kind of vanity...

• Apr-1981
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This is the novel that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce ever made, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Oliver and Barbara Rose are a passionate couple who meet at a Cape Cod auction while bidding for matching figurines. ...

• Apr-1981
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LAND OF LEGEND BEYOND A RIVER OF BLOOD... The call has gone out and the clans are gathering to hear the words of their war chief, Milo of Morai-words of prophecy that promise an end to wandering and a land of their own, the legendary homeland from...