Books Published in August 1976

• Aug-1976
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Rhys took a step toward her, his eyes searching. "What's the matter, Julie," he demanded. "Have my adventures shaken that romantic imagination of yours? I know you're not indifferent. So what else is there between us?" Juli...

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"I forgot, Amanda --" Jarod's dark eyes mocked her as he spoke "-- you're wrapped up in those romantic notions about husbands and wives and the happily-ever-afters." But Amanda kept her secret fear that some day all this ha...

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For most of her life Sarie had been tormented by Blake Meredith. Now, she discovered with guilty fascination that she had never really seen him as a man. Once he had spelled out authority and restraint; now, incredibly, he was everything she wanted f...

• Aug-1976
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A GOOD MAN TO LEAVE ALONE Hoss high, pig tight and bull strong--the barbed wire was biting into the Live Oak country. Mort Davis saw the big spreads fixing to fence out his piece of grass so he called in Kilkenny. Kilkenny was poison in a gun batt...

• Aug-1976
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"I might have known," Sarah whispered to herself. There was no longer a shadow of doubt in her mind that this man was Zain Hassan bin Hamid, high lord of this place, and he had let her confess to him some of the most indiscreet remarks of her...

• Aug-1976
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Lindley Harding was a singer nearing the end of his career; Laurence Morven was a new star -- and rival -- coming up over the horizon. And Lindley's daughter Natalie, who loved them both, found herself torn two ways as the bitterness grew between...

• Aug-1976
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Juliet tried not to think of her last scene with Carlo. Eventually she would be able to laugh at his misjudgment of her--but for the present the hurt was still new and she loved him too much. It was too late now to tell him she was Janice's tw...

• Aug-1976
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Even after she and Kern McCabe were married Philippa felt she must be dreaming. Why should such an attractive man want to make her his wife? But she might have come to understand his love for her--if the glamorous Lilias Storr hadn't suddenly com...

• Aug-1976
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Jade was determined to remain in Tunisia indefinitely with her boyfriend, Phelan; her guardian was equally determined that she would not--and he arranged for his friend Jean Daker to separate the pair. Jean Daker was a force to be reckoned with. Woul...

• Aug-1976
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"I don't regret helping you," Teo said gallantly "You're still like the boy you pretended to be -- and a good companion; I appreciate you." Peta listened to his assessment with mixed feelings. Apparently she possessed so li...

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A magic candy bar improves Rabbit's basketball game more than is really desirable....

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Donna went out to a small Caribbean island to check up on her uncle Wilmot's banana plantation, which wasn't doing as well as it should. Her uncle blamed the situation on his enemy and neighbor, Elyot Vance. Vance was certainly a forceful cha...

• Aug-1976
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HANDMAIDEN OF THE GODS Abducted by powerful spirits released from an ancient ankh, talisman of Egyptian gods, young archaeologist Tallahassee Mitford suddenly found herself hurled back in time to a strange Nubian kingdom called Meroe. There, moved b...

• Aug-1976
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Emma's new life at the lovely old country house was very comfortable and she liked working for nice Miss Prescott. She could have done without the disagreeable Adrian Wroughton -- but as Lorraine Heywood was quick to point out, he was her property an...

• Aug-1976
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A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense.A ROLLING FOR KNOXis how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI b...

• Aug-1976
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When John Darnay's wife leaves him, independent and strongwilled young Sue Pringle decides to remain as his housekeeper in spite of what the people of their small Scottish village might say. It never occurs to her that she might fall in love with the...

• Aug-1976
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GRAVE On the northern bank of the Rio Grande, Edge witnesses a funeral ...which soon erupts into a scene of savage brutality. A young woman is beaten and raped before a priest and the coffin of her dead father. The attackers then break open the co...

• Aug-1976
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Ellery Queen leaps into action when a jet-setter is murdered in Wrightsville From New Year's in Málaga to Christmas in Hawaii, John Levering Benedict III -- or Johnny-B, as everyone calls him -- is the crown prince of the jet set. He has 3 ex-...

• Aug-1976
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Christine felt very strongly about Julian Galveston, who appeared to have nothing better to do with his time than break up her sister's marriage. So Christine decided to tackle him on the subject--and found herself getting into very deep waters. ...

• Aug-1976
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Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as...

• Aug-1976
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THREE STARS OF DESTINY Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of fled, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life To win a crown fr...

• Aug-1976
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Jehannette, an illiterate peasant girl of seventeen, hears voices that tell her she must help the Dauphin become king. But this proves hard to accomplish in 15th century France as the British occupy parts of the country, including Rheims where the cr...

• Aug-1976
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Young Diane DeMarco was going to make her own way in the world. Not all the DeMarco family money could make her sell out her dream of proving her own worth. No fortune-hunting man was going to turn her head from her goal. Diane gave romance a back se...

• Aug-1976
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A remarkable alien technology could have devastating consequences for humanity in this novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War. In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known as the Levant-Meyer...

• Aug-1976
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As the only woman doctor in her new job, Kate had to work twice as hard to win the approval of her conservative patients. And she also had to prove herself to her professional colleagues -- especially the stern and skeptical Robert Montgomery! ...

• Aug-1976
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From Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage. In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet...

• Aug-1976
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Of all the honors that Dray Prescot, Earthman, had won during his fabulous adventures on Kregen, none were valued by him more than his membership in the Order of the Krozairs of Zy.The Krozairs are the highest order of chivalry on that turbulent plan...

• Aug-1976
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Short-listed for the Booker Prize and named ''one of the greatest novels of all time'' byThe Observer, this riveting novel which was recently adapted on BBC Radio 4 shows Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best.

Freda and...

• Aug-1976
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From a sheltered girlhood as a Southern belle into a dark tunnel of terror and horrifying revelation was the journey that beautiful young Nancy Cox took when she fell in love with handsome, aristocratic Peter Phenwick. Nancy vowed that no barrier ...

• Aug-1976
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LESTER DEL REY The fascinating autobiography of a farm boy from Minnesota who followed his imagination to the typewriter, to the pulps...and eventually to the top ranks of sf greats. Illustrated by 12 superb stories from 1937-1942. On a bet from ...

• Aug-1976
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Could Beth be happy married to a man who was handsome, rich -- and a total stranger...? A marriage of inconvenience? Lovely young writer Beth Sheldon had only agreed to marry the mysterious Mr. Neal Harper because it was his deathbed wish -- an...

• Aug-1976
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To Galveston, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, comes Claire Becker, a woman who has married a man she does not love and is living out a lie destined to affect many people on a peaceful, shadowed street named Avenue L. For here, shuttered porches and...