Books Published in August 1986

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GUILTY -- OF DESIRE Ted Thomasson was odious, vile and full of scruples -- and if she'd disliked him at thirteen, that dislike paled when compared to the intensity of her feelings now. But thanks to fate -- and jury duty -- Caroline Lomax had to...

• Aug-1986
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Once James Paden had been the high-school bad boy --too dangerous to flirt with, but too gorgeous to ignore? Now Laura Nolan faced him as a woman, about to lose the home that had been a symbol of the good life in her small town to a man whose desir...

• Aug-1986
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Claire Westerbrook couldn't believe it. She had met a man like no other, a man who might very well be the man. He was sexy, witty, charming - and a total imposter. He was Max Conroy, and he had a job to do. His first interest wasn't in Claire; it ...

• Aug-1986
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Saul Bradford believed that Lucy Martin bore him a grudge for turning her out of her father's house -- she was well aware of that. Yet how could she resent him when she had helped to make him so unhappy in the past? She only wanted to atone for h...

• Aug-1986
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With the blazing spirit of a true Montgomery, heiress Christiana Montgomery Mathison bravely defies the two men who abduct her. Forced into the primitive rain forests of the Washington Territory, she is swept into a thrilling adventure. Amid schemes ...

• Aug-1986
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She needed time -- away from him! Likable, sensible Francesca seldom met anyone she didn't get along well with. In fact, as ward nurse of a Costwold village hospital, she was considered perfect. Except, it seemed, in the eyes of Dr. van R...

• Aug-1986
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Like a hero out of the Old West, he rode out of nowhere to save her from losing everything she owned. But from the moment Kane Montgomery swept into her life, Martine Galway was lost. In his arms she felt wild abandon, even as she wondered about this...

• Aug-1986
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Kira Rubinoff and Zack Damon had never met-but when their paths finally crossed, the Tamrovian princess and the powerful industrialist sensed they were not strangers. Desperate to enlist Zack's help in freeing a beloved friend from imprisonment, Kira...

• Aug-1986
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"Men should be kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen." There, Peggy grinned mischievously, no man would "warm up" to an answer like that. Especially not Adam Gale, the sexiest celebrity in the country - bound to be a chauvinis...

• Aug-1986
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Raistlin casts the magical spell that cost him so much. For him, the Portal opens. . . But, at the same instant, his twin brother, Caramon, operates the magical time-traveling device. The fields of magic shift and collide. Caramon and the kende...

• Aug-1986
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A WORD FROM LOUIS L'AMOUR "Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in `pulp' western magazines, I wrote a number of novel-length stories, known back then as `magazine novels'. In creating them, I lived with my char...

• Aug-1986
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A WORD FROM LOUIS L'AMOUR "Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' western magazines, I wrote several novel-length stories, which my editors called 'magazine novels.' In creating them, I became so involve...

• Aug-1986
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COLD VENGEANCE GUINEVERE JONES - Besides being brainy, brave, and beautiful, she had an uncanny way with people. From the moment she found the gold gun in the mauve-and-black marble executive washroom, she knew Mr. Vandyke was in serious trouble. ...

• Aug-1986
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DEFIANT BEAUTY With her budding beauty and southern charm, Samantha Johnston was able to wrap many a young suitor around her finger. So when her father unexpectedly announced that he had arranged for her to marry a wealthy middle-aged neighbor, Sama...

• Aug-1986
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She had to deceive the man she loved When a kidnapping threat endangered her pregnant sister, Domino Graham agreed to act as a decoy. In her brother-in-law's remote Austrian chalet, Domino would hide out under guard, posing as the countess. ...

• Aug-1986
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His proposal reeked of guilt -- and pity Victoria fell in love with Gavin Creed when she was a teenager and he was an aspiring actor who thought she was some sort of Lolita. It took her years to recover from his ruthless -- but very effective -...

• Aug-1986
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A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology the world's superpowers battle on land, sea and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you w...

• Aug-1986
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His holding her again was her dream ... Katya Collett tried to convince herself that she'd come to her sister's guest house in Cornwall only for a holiday. But deep down she knew it was Farrant Dominick's presence drawing her there. ...

• Aug-1986
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"Take me as I am, Kara." At sixteen Kara had felt an explosion of sexual attraction for the first time in her life. But the man who had caused it, Saul Diamond, had been a rebel from the wrong side of the tracks. Now, eight years later,...

• Aug-1986
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AS MARDI GRAS FLARED IN THE GLITTERING STREETS OF NEW ORLEANS, ECSTASY BLAZED IN A SMALL, STARK ROOM.... To prevent the duel she was sure would kill her sister's fiance, Anya Hamilton took as her prisoner the magnificently handsome Ravel Duralde. ...

• Aug-1986
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She expected her luck to change--not to end ... Despite her newfound wealth, Miss Emma Denton had to admit that luck wasn't on her side. The team of horses that nearly trampled her to death had probably been frightened out of control. And perhaps ...

• Aug-1986
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A WILLFUL EMBRACE .. . Just who was Joshua Edwards, anyway? And why was he trying to outbid Kathryn Colby for a painting her father had done years ago? With his jet-black hair and dark, dangerous eyes, he looked suspicious--and mind-blowingly hand...

• Aug-1986
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METAMORPHOSIS Alex Granger -- the same devil-may-care hunk who had lived unchallenged in Jessica Cassidy's daydreams -- was still the same outrageously attractive man. But now he couldn't seem to decide if Jessica was still a pesky kid or ...

• Aug-1986
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The passion had been as real as the heartache After nine glorious months of sailing the Caribbean and being romanced by Kit Barlow, he'd walked straight into the arms of another woman! But three and a half years had passed since Stella had ...

• Aug-1986
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A DETERMINED YOUNG BEAUTY MUST PROVE HERSELF A MATCH FOR A LICENTIOUS LORD THE DISSOLUTE EARL AND THE RESOLUTE GIRL Adam Fortescue, the sixth Earl of Abberley, was the scandal of the county. This handsome lord had let his estate go to ruin and ...

• Aug-1986
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After a youth spent trapped in space exile, Jeff Font returned to Earth to seek vengeance against the planetary mogul who had framed and destroyed Jeff's family. Jeff's plans backfired: he was captured, drugged, rammed through a computerized court sy...

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Something is amiss at Maus Haus. Not just the mystery of an unsolved "suicide" which hangs over the old mansion, but something ominous in the present-day residence. When Qwilleran moves in to work on his new gastronomical assignment, strange things b...

• Aug-1986
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Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house. The consensus is accidental death -- but Inspector Wexford knows the stench of murder most f...

• Aug-1986
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After ten years in prison for shooting -- and permanently crippling -- a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to fill the days, but at least there's one blessing -- he wa...

• Aug-1986
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UNKNOWN DECEPTION Young and beautiful, Erica Bennet refused to obey her father's wishes and spend the rest of her life in an arranged marriage to the lecherous Sabin Keary. She had no knowledge of physical love, but she knew there was a man somewher...

• Aug-1986
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ACADEMY OF DEATH The bizarre killing of an ex-Vietnam buddy brings Mack Bolan to a military academy in California. In his role as survival instructor at the school, the Executioner uncovers a plot so sinister, it rivals any atrocity he has yet enc...

• Aug-1986
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Meet Don Pendleton's Ashton Ford..Psychic Detective, a Renaissance man with special supernatural powers. In EYE TO EYE, both America's and Russia's most brilliant astronomers and space scientists have mysteriously vanished. The CIA, KGB, and Ashton F...

• Aug-1986
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CODE NAME: BEAUTY After three years away from the agency, three years since josh was murdered, three years since she'd channeled her pain into world-class photography, the FBI wanted Blair Browning back to catch the mercenary responsible for her h...

• Aug-1986
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He was a man who built empires When Fleur Galaway's boss, Elliot Steadman, accused her of dipping into company secrets, she was shocked! Fleur--an industrial spy? Nothing could be further from the truth. But the determined and attractive ch...

• Aug-1986
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THE "STAR WARS" DEFENSE: THE SUREST ROAD TO PEACE The technology that fostered global nuclear terror can also provide a world freed from nuclear war....

• Aug-1986
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Colin Grey was in need of a wife That was fine with Mickie Oliver, young entrepreneur and budding corporate giant, for she earned her living in Manhattan as a professional wife. For a fee, Mickie and Company cleaned, shopped and ran errands -- all...

• Aug-1986
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Love in the eighties -- was it possible? Larkin Walker had always thought that the challenge lay in finding it. Her many tasks as director of The Learning Center on Long Island had always given her little time to eat, let alone socialize. Then Dr....

• Aug-1986
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The "Dear Ben" column should be scrapped! an incensed Chapel Barclay had written to the newspaper. Why, the man encouraged men and women to put romance in their lives at the expense of relationships based on a true meeting of the minds! But...

• Aug-1986
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ONCE THEY HAD BEEN LOVERS but Sondra had been too afraid to allow more, and she had broken the relationship off quickly because she knew Ben had the power to make her feel more than she wanted to feel. Now Sondra was prosecuting her first cas...

• Aug-1986
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A COMPELLING STORY OF UNQUENCHABLE PASSION She was running toward a forbidden marriage; he was destined for the dangers of war. But when lovely Raven Kirkland met fellow passenger Matthew Elliot aboard the ship that was carrying them from England ...

• Aug-1986
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TROUBLE HAD A WAY OF FINDING SLOCUM. When he returned a lost calf to the Lazy K ranch, Slocum expected nothing more than a simple thank you. But the tail, beautiful Rachel Anderson offered him a job on the ranch---and drew him into a bloody war again...

• Aug-1986
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Backstabber... It's pledge season for Pi Beta Alpha, and everyone in the exclusive Sweet Valley High sorority expects Sandra Bacon to nominate her best friend, Jean West. But Sandra's tired of always hearing about Jean's perfect figure, terrific gr...

• Aug-1986
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Playing favorites ...



Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are the best dancers in their ballet class.  Both girls want to dance the solo in the upcoming recital.  Elizabeth hates to compete with her sister, but Jessica doesn't mind at ...

• Aug-1986
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At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. What...

• Aug-1986
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He said he had come back for a reason Six years ago, an ambitious Andreas Phedonos had deserted his island home of Cyprus and his childhood sweetheart, Anna. Now he'd returned, a charming and successful businessman. Anna, independent and wi...

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CRISIS BROUGHT HIM HOME AT LAST A yellowed newspaper clipping had turned Craig Templeton's life upside down. He had thought his destiny lay on a ranch in Oklahoma, but he was actually a Kentucky blueblood, scion of a prominent family that had give...

• Aug-1986
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"THERE'S A UNICORN IN MY GARDEN." Stephanie had every intention of spending her summer soaking up the Southern California sun. But then the contractor building her new pool unearthed a mysterious fossilized skeleton, and Stephanie'...

• Aug-1986
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Angela Howard was the toast of London -- a breathtaking vision every woman envied and every man longed to possess. Few would have dreamed this violet-eyed beauty was the precocious child of a country schoolmaster... the feisty girl who had spurned Lo...

• Aug-1986
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RELUCTANT PARTNERS... Lucas didn't want to take Emily with him on the dive to recover the sunken diamonds, but he didn't have much choice. Her company was paying the bill, so if Emily wanted to come along, come along she would. Never mind that he ...