Books Published in August 1982

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HE WAS A SHADOW FROM HER PAST. Jace Whitehall had given Amanda her first taste of passion. His silver eyes had held a forbidden fascination for her, but at sixteen she had been too inexperienced to understand the fiery message in his searing kisse...

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Their antagonism was instant and mutual Simon Herries was dominating and arrogant, and he had readily jumped to the wrong conclusions about India. "You don't know me, " she stated, "yet you accuse me of trying to steal someone else...

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Erin had a profound distrust of all men Nothing in her life had persuaded her to think otherwise--from her father to the men she met in her daily routine. Was Josh Hawke any different? His proposition indicated not, but he had recognized her ne...

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SHE CAME HOME A SMALL-TOWN CELEBRITY BUT THE DREAM SHE FOUGHT FOR MADE HER A WOMAN OF THE WORLD Determined to repay those who had sacrificed for her, Laura Taylor turned her artistic drive to a fabulous dream. From the ruins of a Spanish mission, ...

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BRONWYN MacARRAN WAS A PROUD SCOT. STEPHEN MONTGOMERY WAS ONE OF THE HATED ENGLISH. He came to Scotland as a conqueror, saw her beauty and was vanquished. But still she would abhor him. She owned a temper hot enough to forge the armors of...

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Liane Crockett de Villiers-- It is the tense summer before the outbreak of World War II. She is crossing the Atlantic with her husband, the Ambassador of France, when she first meets Nick Burnham. The spark between Liane and Nick is instantaneous, ye...

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To Quincy it was a cheap publicity stunt Only because her young brother had entered her name in the contest had she agreed to go along with the plans when she was declared the winner. The prize? An evening out in London with dreamy, sexy, inter...

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CITY OF SIN For beautiful young Cassandra Brougham, the seething city of Genoa, Italy, seemed a world away from the great 18th-century English estate where she was raised--and the closest she had ever come to purgatory. Cassie was no longer an ...

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"He's a hatchet man," Bianca had warned Alix Coulter was told to get rid of the man who wanted to write her famous aunt's biography. But Liam Brant was not so easily dismissed. His writer's instinct sensed a mystery surround...

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Audrina wanted to be as good as her sister. She knew her parents could not love her as they loved her perfect, dead sister. Audrina was desperate to find out the family secret of how her sister died, and what her own destiny was. The idea of her s...

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"Fool!" she cried, scolding herself sharply. "You're behaving like an idiot!" Danica Morgan had fashioned her own success. First as a top model, then -- secretly -- as a best-selling novelist. She had had enough of the limelig...

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A Woman's Love Maria Lazzaro was as ripe and as sweet as the full, juicy grapes that grew in her homeland's vineyards. And as she boarded an immigrant ship for America, the olive-skinned, raven-haired beauty met the only man she could ever love. Tha...

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Were the lines around his eyes from laughter or light living? One good look at Ronan Patrick Blakely, Marquis of Herrington, and Gillian Redford thought she knew the answer. This knight in tarnished armor, who had rescued her from a coach accident...

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INNOCENT TEMPTATION TORMENTED PASSION BLAZING, RECKLESS LOVE Her flashing eyes taunted him, her sensuous lips tempted him, and the wild black curls dancing around the dark exotic beauty of her face drove him wild with desire. She was barely more t...

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This James Lee Burke classic features Son Holland, the great-grandfather of beloved hero Billy Bob Holland, as he flees a Louisiana prison camp with a Native American woman and a fellow prisoner in tow.James Lee Burke steps back three generations to ...

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Kate Blackwell is the symbol of success -- a beautiful woman who has parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Now, celebrating her 90th birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated, and loved: the fair and the ...

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Jackie Collins is… the undisputed Scheherazade of the stars." -- New York PostStrong, sexy women are the lifeblood of Jackie Collins's novels, and The Love Killers takes this to a bold new level! Famed activist Margaret Lawrence Brown had alway...

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“A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. Space is one of his best books.” -- The Wall Street JournalAlready a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. Michener tackles the most ambitious su...

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SWEET SURRENDER... Tawny, elegant Lacey Seldon was determined to cut loose from her librarian past and find liberation in the Northwest. An island paradise in Puget Sound seemed the perfect place to begin...until she met Holt Randolph. Holt was u...

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"No strings" was what they both agreed to But a price had to be paid, and when events separated them, Karen bore their child alone. She had loved Val desperately and refused to trap him into a marriage he did not want. Then, seven years...

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A first-contact novel written from an alien perspective by the #1 New York Times�"bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.   Ryo is one of the Thranx, a race of social arthropods. From his larval ...

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Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved ...

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"An oil rig is no place for a woman!" Leon Casson resented Catriona's presence in the all-male environment of an oil-drilling operation. Thank goodness the decision to fire her was not his to make! The ruthless domineering Texan oil...

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A chilling congress of killers The daughter of a top U.S. hi-tech contractor had been kidnapped in Algiers--a classic terrorist act in broad daylight. It looked like the girl's father was about to give the perpetrators what they wanted: a low-y...

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He was a stranger, a man of mystery Linsie bitterly resented Jean-Pierre Chardin, the disturbingly enigmatic Frenchman who had bought her grandfather's prosperous Loire vineyards. "Why is it you have such passionate hatred for me?" he asked, bewil...

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THE LURE OF CRYSTAL Her name was Killashandra Ree; and after ten grueling years of musical training she was young, beautiful--and still without prospects. Then she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild on the planet Ballybran, where the fabled ...

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THE MAINS-Carolina plantation owners, they proudly defended their leisurely, aristocratic way of life. THE HAZARDS -- Pennsylvania industrialists descended from an English fugitive, they lived in the thrilling world of invention and commerce. T...

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He was the heartthrob of millions of fans But to Rhiannon, pop superstar Shane Santiago could never be more that a friend and business associate. For Rhiannon still mourned the death of her fiance. Brad, whose place Shane had taken in the group Su...

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HE WAS NOT HERS TO LOVE. Judi Duggan had gone to Spain to design and stitch the trappings for the Arnalte family chapel. She certainly did not plan to fall in love with Don Joaquin de Arnalte y Pizzaro, scion of the aristocratic Arnalte family -- ...

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WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED? When Kelly James went to Australia it was to fulfill a promise to her father: to see the woman who had been his first love, Maureen Kilpatrick Cassidy. How could she have known that in Maureen's son Jake she would f...

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Valentine was living -- loving on borrowed time Once Kemp Irvine knew who she was, and the part she had played in his cousin Philip's tragic death, he would feel nothing for her but hate. Only by Philip's death had Kemp come into his un...

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Ralph "Smart" Mouse is fed up with living at the country inn with his rowdy mouse cousins who always want to ride his motorcycle. When his pal Ryan Bramble takes him to school, Ralph is delighted with his new home and instant rise to fame. But Ralph...

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A crazy scheme to bring peace to the world with the aid of rust. A martian who could be Jesus. An author, plucked from his grave, is thwarted by one Melissa Toad, the mysterious witch of New York. This is a collection of tales which demolish the old ...

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He was provoking and unpredictable Trying to prove herself in a new forestry job, Seana nervously demonstrated incompetence only when Ryan Stranger was around. "You're a walking disaster area," he told her. Seana resented his abilit...

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Decket had a tiger by the tail when he arrested notorious killer Shotgun Travers. But Decket had asked for it. He had been wearing a U.S. marshal’s badge when he was nothing of the sort. He was a small-town peace officer who had used the badge to h...

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MAGNOLIA MOON .. . Nothing went right for Nicole Bridges when she went to New Orleans without a job until, at the Mardi Gras, she found magic. Ryan St. James was a man with everything under control--until he met Nicole. She made his blood ru...

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LONGARM FINALLY MEETS HIS MATCH When the biggest cattle baron in Texas is assassinated, naturally the Feds send in U.S. Marshal Long. Longarm finds himself threatened by a conspiracy reaching from Washington to Japan, armed with a strange new weap...

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Now for the first time in e-book, a collection of Tanith Lee’s short stories and novella about the fantastical adventures of Cyrion, a hero larger than life.Roilant needs a hero -- fast. He’s trapped, betrothed to his cousin Eliset in an agreemen...

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COLLISION COURSE... At last the woman who had never lacked for anything had everything she wanted. Lindy Randolph met her match when she met Neil Hammonds. He was a man to dream about; the challenge was to make him dream of her. Lindy's br...

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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. TV newsperson Toni Lawrence was on the fast track to fame when photographer Theo Chakiris swept her off her feet at the royal wedding, in a London alight with love. How had she abandoned herself to this adventurer sh...

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NO MAN'S WOMAN At nineteen, Katherine Rafferty was ravishing, alluring, and ripe for marriage. But as countless men professed their love, the spirited beauty tossed her lustrous hair and flashed her violet eyes in fierce rejection. Since no man she ...

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The "strikingly original" debut novel by the masterful British author is "a perfect adventure" of love and smuggling on the English coast (The Nation).   Francis Andrews is a reluctant smuggler living in the shadow of his brutish fat...

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In This Sweet Sickness, Patricia Highsmith, in her own inimitable fashion, has created a complex psychological tale as suspenseful as The Talented Mr. Ripley.David Kelsey, a young scientist, has an unyielding conviction that life will turn out all ri...

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The feelings Dirk Lancaster, outback lord, raised in Risa were enough to leave her aching for his touch. Yet to be the woman he needed would challenge her as nothing had before. This land of torrential raw and dry spells of searing intensity would...

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MONSTROUS MAGIC It all starts when Russell Crannaker buys a "monster's ring" from weird old Mr. Elives. Russell is sure the ring is just a silly magic trick -- but he follows the instructions anyway, and slips it on his finger. Then he whispers the ...

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ACE OF HEARTS... One night of love made her his forever, bound by memory -- and a child. Linda Brown tried to escape, to become a singer and raise her son alone. But recording tycoon Jason Reynolds tracked her down and swept her into his life as h...

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Stare for stare, she matched him, her blue eyes an impenetrable barrier against his as he probed for her slightest weakness, then arrogantly asked, "Where did you meet my mother? Are you expecting a free ride?" Dressed in worn jeans, Raine...

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In the earliest years of the history of the universe, the Worldmaker has turned against his creations with unaccountable malice. One by one the ruling sun lords of each solar system have fallen, succumbing to the lure of forbidden knowledge. The terr...