Books Published in August 1979

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The will stated that Lisel would inherit! Domine and her brother naturally expected to inherit their grandfather's fortune. It was a shock to learn it was left to a cousin they'd never heard of. And living in Peru! To make matters worse...

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"Are you admiring the view?" he asked "Yes," LaRaine agreed without turning. She didn't want Travis McCrea to see the brightness of the unshed tears in her eyes. "It's a vast, beautiful .... " The lie stuck in he...

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"How much to get out of my son's life?" Mark Hammond's question was contemptuous. Rachel was furious. As a night-club singer, Rachel had become indifferent to men's admiration. But young Nicky Hammond was special. His boyish...

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When Sarah Ashington's actress mother dies after a devastating scandal, Sarah is left at her long-lost father's rambling, ancestral estate, to face the disturbinbg questions of her own past. Then her father's death draws her to his Ceylon plantation ...

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Tied to Don, she loved Philippe... Jane was stunned when her husband wanted a divorce so he could marry the woman he really loved. Jane had to get away -- had to think things out. The job in Mauritius was a godsend, but caring for the two small...

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"It was never determined what had actually happened to the 200 tons of uranium", but three countries know the truth. Three young men met decades ago and now world events have cast them as adversaries. Nat, Israel's hero, known as 'The Pirate', stages...

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The future held no bright prospects Melissa's wealthy cousin Helen tried to pressure her into a loveless marriage, so Melissa fled back to her Cornish home. There she found that the small market garden business leased by her mother and step...

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Rebecca had landed herself in a jam! It had been her own impulsive decision to help her look-alike cousin, Becky, by taking her place at Craigievar. Becky had promptly vanished. Then the river had flooded, cutting off access to the remote shee...

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Gina just wanted a glamorous holiday Gina was embarrassed by her traveling companion's behavior, but she was hurt when author Ryan Barras accused her of coming to the Bahamas to pick up a wealthy man. Ryan's cynical attitude made Gina d...

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"I'll never give you a divorce..." Cesare had told Kathryn firmly. "Because we married in haste it doesn't make our marriage any less solid, to my way of thinking." Kathryn had been stung by his words. It was true she ha...

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The latest Ecco reissue of Joyce Carol Oates’ early classics: a fiery gothic tale of doomed fates and demons of biblical proportions in rural New York state Nathan Vickery came into the world amid unfortunate circumstances. His mother, Elsa Vi...

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Corralie Somerford's sheltered past has left her quite unprepared for the seductive sophistication of Sir Madoc Vaughan. Some believe Sir Madoc is a notorious rake after her fortune, but Corralie knows she has to have him, even if it means follow...

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A RECKLESS NOW ENGLAND BEAUTY...A DAUNTLESS FRENCH BUCCANEER...THEIR LOVE BLAZED TO FIERCE FULFILLMENT! UNTAMED INNOCENCE Devon Lindsay was a restless, high-spirited girl when she met Andre Raveneau, a notorious sea captain whose pirate's plunder...

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"You have no proof he's my father! " Morgan had quickly answered Katriona Carmichael's challenge. "Proof?" he echoed. "You're so like him it's ridiculous--an attractive, utterly feminine version of a proud, stub...

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FANGS OF THE WOLF WORLD At one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. A...

• Aug-1979
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Ramona wished her mother would quit her job and stay home all day the way she used to. Then maybe she'd have time to notice that Ramona was not a baby anymore. She was seven and a half and quite grown up! If her mother stayed home, Ramona wouldn't ha...

• Aug-1979
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Embark on the first Tolkienesque adventure in an epic fantasy series about destiny, war, betrayal -- and the return of a long-dead hero -- by a giant of British fantasy.John Daker dreams of other worlds, and a name: Erekosë. He finds the strength ...

• Aug-1979
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Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master. -- Chicago Daily News...

• Aug-1979
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IF YOU'RE IN TROUBLE, SEND FOR THE ARMY -- OR ONE TEXAS RANGER That's what the Texans always said. But now the Rangers themselves were in trouble. A comrade had been shot down, they were hot for his killer's blood, and Longarm had been sent to...

• Aug-1979
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The world called Indigo turned upside down for Magdala Cled one unexpected morning. From being that world's only genetic misfit, the shunned outcast of an otherwise ideal society, she became the focus of attention for mighty forces. Once they had ...

• Aug-1979
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The novel that first introduced the Pulitzer Prize�"winnning author’s most acclaimed character, Nathan Zuckerman, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, who meets a haunting young woman at the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol....

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Creatures from an unknown star are closing in on mankind and Slippery Jim deGriz, your favorite con man turned secret agent, must save the galaxy from a horrible doom!...

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The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience.  Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to a church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It On The Mountai...

• Aug-1979
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Timothy, Amy, and Douglas John Megglethorp are in for the shock of their lives! Their parents have gone away for a week and they've hired Hildegarde Brasscoat to stay and keep watch. The thrree Megglethorps aren't really troublemakers, but they do...

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"Would you like to come to Greece?" Annabel had thought Ran was joking when he asked her. Although his younger brother, Kit, had been her companion since childhood, it was Ran -- reserved, clever, complex -- she'd grown up loving. N...

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“I neither invited you nor consider you welcome in this house.” Susan Harcourt's "uncle" Richard stood before her like a blond, bronzed statue, shirt open to the waist, one eye blazing at her, the other hidden behind an ominous black patch. ...

• Aug-1979
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John Grimes, owner of the deep space pinnace Little Sister, could not afford to be fussy about whom he carried. But there were compensations, for if his ship had not been chartered to take Fenella Pruin, muckraking reporter, to exclusive New Venusber...

• Aug-1979
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Two more adventures for the Saint based on episodes from the TV series starring Roger Moore: in 'The Art Collectors' the Saint comes across a collection of Old Masters that have been hidden for many years, but then the art collector herself goes m...

• Aug-1979
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ONE OF THE WRITERS WHO TURNED SCIENCE FICTION FROM PULP ENTERTAINMENT INTO A LITERARY CATEGORY WITH BROAD AND LASTING APPEAL, JAMES BLISH IS AT HIS PEAK IN ... THERE SHALL BE NO DARKNESS A werewolf can be a very awkward houseguest... COMMON TI...

• Aug-1979
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Ancient treason threatens to ignite a new skirmish in the Cold War.

It’s January, 1778, and William Davis is standing guard for the Continental Army at Valley Forge when he witnesses something sickening: an American selling intelligen...

• Aug-1979
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ONE LOVELY LADY AND TWO DARING SUITORS IN A SPELLBINDING ADVENTURE OF INTRIGUE AND ROMANCE... Stephanie Langley, fresh from the country, was in London to be introduced into society. She was lovely and innocent but intelligent enough to long for ex...

• Aug-1979
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"You're not much of a gentleman," she accused. "But, my dear," he replied softly, "whatever gave you the notion I was a gentleman?" And before Catherine had a chance to form her furious retort, his hand tore at her...

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CRUSADING HEARTS SOLANGE DE ST. FLORENT the silver-blonde beauty on a fateful crusade to an exotic land of longed-for love and bitter betrayal. AIMERY DE MONTVERT lover to Queen Eleanor of Acquitane, and Solange's husband by royal command. ...

• Aug-1979
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When Ellen Farrell was asked by her cousin Anthony to pretend they were betrothed so his father would increase his allowance, she agreed. She hoped to turn his affections away from the greedy mistress who was quickly putting him into debt. But she...

• Aug-1979
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They were so young, so very, very young When Judith and Rodney first set eyes upon each other, they were little more than children. What Judith saw was a slim, fine-featured youth with arresting gray eyes; he saw a yellow-robed angel with hair of ...

• Aug-1979
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"Something About Eve, an entry in the Poictesme series, ""shows its non-hero feebly intending to gain promised glory awaiting in the land of 'Antan' but forever delayed on Mispec Moor (anagram: 'Compromise'), wearing literal rose-colored spectacles a...

• Aug-1979
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An epic adventure in the world of speculative fiction. Ramagar was a thief--a thief of thieves. One night he became the owner of a prize beyond his wildest dreams, taking he and his partner, Mariana, upon an incredible journey to free a once-proud la...

• Aug-1979
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This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells

In this harrowing novel, the...

• Aug-1979
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James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of Jim Loney is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from b...

• Aug-1979
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James Mangan is a failed poet and when he is deserted by his beautiful wife his life is devastated. Searching among his father's papers he finds a photo of an Irish ancestor, also a poet. In search of his past he uncovers a sad, violent history of in...

• Aug-1979
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How could a pretty merchant's daughter learn the gracious ways of a lady--and win a title of her own--when she was born to dance? Ballerinas were never ladies in Regency London. But lively Betsy Cotton was a very special dancer, and soon all Engl...