Books Published in August 1981

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Could East and west love side by side? They were in love--why shouldn't they be married? But both Felicia and Faisal knew there would be problems. Ordinary English girls just didn't marry wealthy Arabs. On a cloud of love and optimism, ...

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Women were just playmates to him Adam Wild was a dynamic man--a talented photographer, exceptionally attractive, but cynical to the core. Women flocked to him, but his affairs never lasted long. In his own words, "Only freedom can give happine...

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Her beloved Italian homeland shattered in the wake of World War II, exquisite Serena, Principessa di San Tibaldo, has nothing left except her name, her ancestry... and her heart which she gives completely and forever to Major Brad Fullerton. But no...

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"I've never trusted a woman in my life!" Domenicos Aegethos was as blunt as his words. A wealthy man who got what he wanted, he brooked no argument from anyone, least of all a woman. As companion to Domenicos's motherless daughter, Laura had he...

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BROKEN PROMISES, SHATTERED DREAMS Monique was hurt when Miles told her that they had to hide their engagement if she was to follow him to his new job on Grand Cayman Island. It seemed to foreshadow the end of the engagement, and her fears were ...

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Why was Conrad so hostile toward her? Once Christabel had thought he was the man with whom she'd spend her life--he had been far from indifferent to her on that brief holiday in England. Yet he had made their parting final. But it seemed th...

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They have money, power and arrogance--and the world is theirs. Beautiful and unspoiled, Sara Coleville knows she can play their game. Now her fine-bred defiance and brazen masquerades have excited Marco Marcantoni--enflaming the hot-blooded duke's mo...

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The book that made Collins one of America's favorite authors sweeps readers from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas, plunging into the world of the Santangelo crime family. The book introduces stre...

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HOW COULD SHE VOW TO LOVE THE MAN SHE WAS SWORN TO HATE? THE REBELLIOUS BRIDE Beautiful and fiery young Christina MacCarthy came from a line of Irish aristocrats who had battled the hated British for centuries. But now Christina had been taken ...

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A HIGH-SPIRITED YOUNG BEAUTY SPURNS A RESPECTABLE OFFER OF MARRIAGE AND SETS HER CAP FOR LONDON'S MOST ELIGIBLE LORD. A LONDON KIND OF LOVE Catheryn Westering should have been happy to marry eminently respectable, utterly devoted Mr. Edmund Cas...

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Dirk Pitt proved invincible in RAISE THE TITANIC! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet--the rescue of a vital document for the United States. For an energy-starv...

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She was afraid she'd never become a woman. After her desperately unhappy marriage to Barry, the last thing Vicki Peters wanted was another involvement. Being an unloved widow was better than risking her heart again. But almost against her w...

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He was actually trying to bribe her! Liam Sherrard really believed that Carly was after his aunt's money. She was incensed when he even offered to recompense her if she'd refuse the old lady's invitation to visit their chateau in Britt...

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When the Wind Blows THE CHILDREN WILL CRY... The children were waiting. Waiting for centuries. Waiting for someone to hear their cries. Now nine-year-old Christie Lyons has come to live in the house on the hill �" the house where no childr...

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Greece held disturbing surprises for her... Carey had been Niki's nanny for four years. Now that he was an orphan, she was taking him to Greece to his mother's family. Niki's uncle, Dimitri Karamalis, turned out to be stern and high...

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Keith Stoner, ex-astronaut turned physicist, knows the signal from space that his research station is receiving is not random. Whatever it is, it's real. And it's headed straight for Earth. He'll do anything to be the first man to go out to c...

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Sam Glidden owed all his success to the opportunities he'd received from Thomas McGann, president of the Harrison Corporation. But now McGann was dead, and Mike Dean, a wildly flamboyant business speculator, was looking to add the Harrison Corporatio...

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Lovely, orphaned Lyn Taylor feared the fabulous whirl of the sophisticated London social season would pass her by. As secretary to her wealthy, snobbish Aunt Diana, she was the carefully hidden Cinderella as the list of eligible bachelors - men of mo...

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Twenty years of age, Katherine Shaw arrives in Venice, to be governess for the Marchesa Voccheroni's daughter. For Katherine, it was a fairy tale come true - Venice is the most romantic city in the world. From a quiet English upbringing, Katherine su...

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Torn by war, torn by love... From war-darkened London to the lush countryside of southern France during World War II, a pilot is caught in a conflict of passion versus duty. Neir Richardson, an R.A.F. flight lieutenant, fought side-by-side with the F...

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Did such a perfect love only tempt fate? Young, beautiful, Sara Demaine was on the verge of a brilliant career as a prima ballerina, desperately in love with Dr. Clyde Montgomery and eagerly looking forward to their marriage.... Yet one year la...

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She swore she was innocent. Maggie Fraser has tried to forget. The body of the man she loved. The blood seeping into the snow. The scandalous murder trial. The twelve agonizing years in prison for a crime she did not commit. But now Maggie is ...

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From the best to the worst... in a moment No love could be greater than what Amy felt for the sensitive artist Matt Cavanagh. From moment they met, she knew they were destined for each other. When Amy agreed to visit Crete with Matt, she though...

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Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers. But the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of the Men with a Load of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of th...

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A glorious day on the sparkling Utah slopes lay behind her. Flames blazed on the hearth in front of her. Before she knew what possessed her, Camille had surrendered utterly to the virile stranger -- a man like no man she had met before. Two ...

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DRIVEN TO DESPAIR . . . From the moment they met, Paige Garrison knew that Linc Tanner was someone special. Arrogant and magnetic, he seemed to her as dangerous as his profession: auto racing. She came from a different world, and her wealthy fa...

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"He'll be old and bandy-legged ..." Or so Roma's roommate had predicted of Earl Paget. Roma had inherited not only the racehorse, Silver Cloud, but also Earl, its trainer. It was unfortunate that the man didn't match her roo...

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In a lawless land When Luke Starbuck takes on a wealthy banker as a client, the only thing more compelling than the paycheck is his prey. The James-Younger gang has confounded countless detectives, including the men of the Pinkerton Agency. Now it...

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Their passion gave rise to a mighty desert empire... On the untamed Southwestern plains they made love--and history. Rosemary... the feisty Irishwoman with secret fears--and secret loves. She made the Cambria empire hers forever. Stephen......

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Fast's stunning reimagining of the life of John Peter Altgeld, a courageous politician and forgotten national hero Though Abraham Lincoln is often considered the United States' most legendary politician, he wasn't the only country lawyer out of Il...

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ICE STORMS AND LONGHORNS... When too many fences are cut for cattle rustling, Longarm is sent out to collar the culprits. Instead he winds up in the thick of a local land feud, a troubled budding romance, and the fading marriage of a memorable you...

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A schoolteacher fights to prove that her father's suicide was actually murder in this classic whodunit from one of the greatest names in mystery fiction. Ann hasn't seen her mother in three years, and she doesn't miss her at all. But without warn...

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CROSSED SWORDS Tanaka Tom Fletcher is in Colorado seeking f Bradley Ashton, a former lieutenant in the regiment that murdered his family. Learning that Ashton is leading a religious cult in the Rocky Mountain valley, Fletcher takes off for the com...

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Dominic liked women who were soft... But Veronique, now that she shouldered all the responsibilities for her father's plantation, was becoming anything but. Yet why should she care? Despite her girlhood crush on the handsome Dominic d'E...

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BEAUTIFUL IMPOSTER Moments after lovely and spirited Annabel Haygarth was unjustly dismissed from her position as governess for allegedly seducing her employer's son, she found herself involved in a hairbrained scheme involving her employer's daug...

• Aug-1981
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From master storyteller Graham Greene comes the tale of Anthony Farrant, who has boasted, lied and cheated his way through jobs all over the world. Then his adoring twin sister, Kate, gets him taken on as the bodyguard of Krogh, her lover and boss, a...

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SHE WAS FORCED TO SUFFER THE SHAME OF HER FATHER'S CRIMES! Poor Vicky Lingford. Her feckless, handsome father had scandalously ruined the family name by swindling most of London's finest and fleeing to the continent Disgraced beyond rep...

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They claimed a heritage of passion, a dynasty of power, from the young wild glory that was Arizona! THEY WERE WOMEN WHO LIVED BOLDLY, FIGHTING FOR THE LAND --AND THE MEN THEY LOVED... For Talitha, blond foster child, gentle stormy-eyed Patrick ...

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As in a dream I swayed to the gilded coffin. I tore away the paneling and lifted the lid, and then I knew it was no dream, for dreams cannot approach the horror that was the creature lying within, with eyes like a midnight demon's and a face of loath...

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AN INFURIATING MAN! That was Katy O'Hara's personal opinion of movie superstar Craig Sverenson. But as junior editor of Personality Magazine, she had to remain objective and get an in-depth interview with Sverenson while he filmed his late...

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Wild ecstasy and soaring passion in the secret heart of the Orient... Katie Adair, the schoolmaster's beautiful daughter. She would be swept from seclusion in England to sail the China Seas with the brooding Rupert Llewellyn in search of precious sil...

• Aug-1981
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“Baja California is no place for a woman alone,” said the arrogant stranger. Mark Chavira was too handsome by far. And far too self-assured. But Joey Scott pointedly ignored his disturbing stare and set out for La Paz, Mexico. All too soon she...

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With one act of kindness, the fate of a Manhattan family is forever altered in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of Rich Man, Poor Man.   The Strands are a happy family, save for the occasional financial struggl...

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Though she struggled to maintain control, Andrea couldn't deny the waves of pleasure coursing through her body as his strong hands caressed her knowingly. Breck Carlson -- blond, blue-eyed, towering above her like a Ming warrior. His vigor and...

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Writer Nick Maxwell arrives at a Virginia bookshop to find the owner causing problems for his father's credit card company. Abigail Wetherby turns out NOT to be a dusty old bibliophile, but a gorgeous, sexy woman making changes -- in more ways than o...

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WHOM DID HE REALLY LOVE? Temple could hardly believe her luck when she landed the glamorous singing job at St. Thomas's most fashionable nightclub. It was her chance to be somebody, to live the good life on the exotic, sun-baked island. B...