Books Published in August 1996

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Nora Roberts presents the first novel in a dramatic new trilogy. Margo, Kate, anal Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Margo whose dreams first took her far away... Margo Sullivan had ever...

• Aug-1996
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Seth Webster, a widower with six-year-old twins, needs nothing short of a miracle to feel whole again. With his heart still scarred by the loss of his wife, he feels overwhelmed trying to care for his children, get dinner on the table, and keep his j...

• Aug-1996
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Substitute lover? Poppy Carlton: Cousin to the groom. She is devastated when Chris falls in love and marries someone else. She will never love again. James Carlton: The groom's older brother--and best man. Mocking and cynical, he is the exa...

• Aug-1996
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1119. Journeying from England to Scotland to wed a highlander, Lady Brenna Haynesworth had resigned herself to the arranged match. But when a band of fierce, painted warriors captured her en route, she fearlessly met their demand to marry their leade...

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A bewitching sapphire engagement ring leads a skittish groom to Regency Wales -- where he learns there is no love like the present... The Heirloom by Mary Balogh In order to celebrate his engagement, John Chandler drives his girlfriend from Londo...

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BORN ENEMIES, FATED LOVERS When sheltered southern belle Teela Warren gets a taste of the lush, exotic Florida Territory, her senses are dazzled. When she glimpses halfbreed James McKenzie, the most attractive man she's ever seen, her heart is in ...

• Aug-1996
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IN ALL SEASONS Together as two hearts once torn apart by greed and deception are united by a vow of eternal love. THE SCENT OF SNOW Together when true caring overcomes desperation and turns mistrust into devotion. STORE-BOUGHT WOMAN Together...

• Aug-1996
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Spanning over a half a century, VEGAS RICH is the unforgettable story of...Sallie Coleman, who follows her dreams from Texas to Las Vegas, where a twist of fate makes her the riches and most powerful businesswoman in Nevada...Philip Thornton, the han...

• Aug-1996
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Your father's or the truth. Whose side would you be on?Beautiful heiress Catherine Gowrie has spent her life protected by one of America's wealthiest families. Now Don Gowrie, her all-powerful father, is close to his greatest ambition - nomination as...

• Aug-1996
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THE SECRET Ten years ago, an innocent Samantha Rawlings had surrendered herself--body and soul--to a man whose blue-eyed gaze promised forever. But when the summer sun faded, Kyle Fortune was gone, and Samantha was left to raise their child alone--a...

• Aug-1996
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WHO WAS SHE? In Regency London, a woman escapes from a burning warehouse only to realize she doesn't know her own identity. Although the locket around her neck says her name is Miranda, she has absolutely no recollection of her past. Nor does ...

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FIRST, A KISS It happened in the space of a heartbeat. Matt, the mysterious cowboy, pierced the armor around Billie's heart, and then walked out of her life. But before their brief moment of passion faded into a bittersweet memory, fate reint...

• Aug-1996
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Gary had longed to return to the realm of Faerie ever since the day he left. In that mystical world hidden behind his house, life was very different. But at least there was beauty, and peace. But things have changed since Gary's last visit. The sa...

• Aug-1996
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Six years. Not so long in the lifespan of a drow. And yet--in counting the months, the weeks, the days, the hours--it seemed to me as if I had been away from Mithril Hall a hundred times that number, The place was another lifetime, another way of lif...

• Aug-1996
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His two best girls Four years after his wife's death, Dr. Jamie Brennan still devoted his energies to just two things: his job, and his daughter, Harriet. Another female in his life was bound to complicate matters! So when vibrant Sarah Jac...

• Aug-1996
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Get your ticket for terror. . . . Would you open an amusement park on Fear Street? Would you take the risk and go against the ancient curse of the Fear family? Dierdre Bradley's father would. He is opening Fear Park in a few days. But he doesn't kno...

• Aug-1996
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HOME ALONE... WITH A MONSTER? Gretchen and her stepbrother, Clark, hate staying at their grandparents' house. Grandpa Eddie is totally deaf. And Grandma Rose is obsessed with baking. Plus, they live right in the middle of a dark, muddy swamp. Things...

• Aug-1996
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Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!You're off to visit your grandmother, whose house backs up to a graveyard. At first the tombstones seem far away. But every day they move a little closer. Then you discover the headstones ...

• Aug-1996
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In this western by the USA Today�"bestselling author of Spirit of the Mountain Man, a cowboy stops in the wrong town and soon faces double the danger. The Wyoming tinderbox of Muddy Gap is feeling none too friendly ever since the Grubbs gang tore th...

• Aug-1996
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"A mirror marriage, picture perfect but insubstantial, a mere reflection of the real thing. " In marrying Drake Arundell, Olivia Nicholls will secure Simon's future ... and condemn her own! Though she yearns for a "real" marria...

• Aug-1996
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Could any woman resist his blue eyes and outlaw's grin? Chase Samuelson was still the most gorgeous male Carly Jacobs had ever known! She'd never forgotten her teenage crush -- or his betrayal years before -- but now he was back, and the c...

• Aug-1996
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The rancher and the runaway. Who would ever have guessed that Kit Mitchell's guardian angel would have been wearing spurs? But rancher Jarod Banning had saved Kit's life, offering her what she needed most -- a place to hide from her stalke...

• Aug-1996
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The ruse and the ring! Yorke Mackinnon was determined to get back his grandmother's emerald ring...Grandma had given him two choices: return the ring to her, or give it to the woman he wanted to marry. Sabina was safekeeping her best frien...

• Aug-1996
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All her life, Jae lived in the mysterious region of Texas known as the Big Thicket. And even though the wild land was full of ferocious animals and deadly outlaws, the ebon-haired beauty never feared for her safety. After all, she could outshoot, out...

• Aug-1996
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In name only? Red McGee hadn't got her nickname for nothing. Her hair was as red-hot as her temper. Linus Hunt didn't particularly like her hair or her temper. He liked his life calm, orderly and businesslike. And Red was disorderly, chaot...

• Aug-1996
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A NOVEL IN SIX PARTS: COFFEY ON THE MILE Cold Mountain penitentiary has seen its share of death through the years. Now it's John Coffey's turn to take that final walk down the Green Mile. Yet prison guard Paul Edgecombe has uncovered a devastating tr...

• Aug-1996
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TEXAS MEN MAGAZINE PRESENTS: Bachelor of the month--Tanner Jones: Six feet tall, drop-dead gorgeous and filthy rich to boot, this rugged construction worker is looking for a woman who can love him for himself-- not his money. Through Texas Men ...

• Aug-1996
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HIS FATAL FLAW His problem, Mitch Cudahy told himself yet again as he hung upside down in a tree rescuing a cat, was that he always had to be the hero. Which was fine on the job, but he had to learn to leave his work at the fire station. Maybe he...

• Aug-1996
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The President is dead. Now, the weight of the world falls on Jack Ryan’s shoulders in this extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller from Tom Clancy.At the climax of Debt of Honor, the most devastating terrorist act in the history of the world ...

• Aug-1996
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WHO'S THAT BRIDE? Farmer Cord Rawlins was used to finding strange things in his fields, but a woman in a wedding dress -- with amnesia, no less? Now, that didn't happen every day! WHERE'S THAT BRIDE? But soon the sexy woman -- wh...

• Aug-1996
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From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Terri Blackstock comes a powerful story of love, loss, and the healing grace of second chances, perfect for fans of Karen Kingsbury and Francine Rivers.When Wes Grayson spots a mysterious woman pho...

• Aug-1996
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JESSICA JOHNSON is bored and frustrated with her humdrum farm-girl existence until she starts hanging out at the town's new coffeehouse. Its trend-setting crowd and sophisticated atmosphere seem to offer the change of pace she is looking for -- espec...

• Aug-1996
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Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sad...

• Aug-1996
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Buck Duane, son of a gunfighter, kills a drunken bully when he is forced to defend his father's name and, disgusted by what he has done, heads for the trails of southwestern Texas where he finds Jennie Lee, a young woman who is held prisoner by a gan...

• Aug-1996
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DATES FROM HELL Or at least that's what date number 867 -- and the other 866 -- felt like to Temple Burney. She'd promised her grandmother she'd make one last attempt to find Mr. Right, but she might as well have added or die trying! A...

• Aug-1996
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Chad Wheeler, an arrogant, self-centered associate in a large Portland, Oregon law firm, disobeys the orders of his father - a senior partner in the same firm - and commits a terrible blunder in a multi-million dollar law suit. Fired from his big ci...

• Aug-1996
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The townsfolk of Moulton Bay said there was something otherworldly about Alexander Claybourne. Some people whispered that with his dark, arresting features and mesmerizing eyes, the seductive stranger looked every inch a vampire. They never guessed h...

• Aug-1996
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She was his living fantasy Dr. Matthew Jarvis advertised for a trainee GP, preferably female, for his New Forest general practice. To his total shock, one of the applicants was Dr. Linsey Wheeler, the girl he had rescued from drowning eight years ...

• Aug-1996
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MARRY A STRANGER? Juliana Aldrich wouldn't think of it! But that's exactly what her benefactor's will was asking her to do. Worse, her would-be groom, Caleb Duncan, actually wanted to go through with it! Think of the money, he insisted. All Julian...

• Aug-1996
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In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the...

• Aug-1996
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SHE'D THOUGHT SHE WOULD NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN. Wounded and backed into a corner, Ryan Buckhart sought a temporary escape from months of undercover police work. He could go to only one place... find safety in the arms of only one woman. He'd neve...

• Aug-1996
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Maid Of Honor Falls For Best Man! Other than being in the same wedding party, Cade Gallagher and Miranda Sinclair had nothing in common--except intense attraction. After one soul-searing kiss goodbye, Miranda wasn't going to let the sexy cowboy ge...

• Aug-1996
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Nicholas DiCello is desperate -- his wife Paula plans to divorce him. So when a fortune-telling floozy in a floozy in a flowered dress swears the only way to win back his wife's love is to discover her heart craving, he listens!!...

• Aug-1996
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The daughter of an impecunious baron -- and a woman with few illusions and even fewer assets -- Katherine Sanderson has just accepted the position of governess to the infant daughter of the Earl of Moncrief. The notorious, sinfully handsome nobleman ...

• Aug-1996
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Love is always a miracle, but sometimes it needs a little help from above. Now, seven authors of historical romance bring us stories sure to make us true believers in the divine intervention that unites hearts, souls...and bodies! And in Karen Ra...

• Aug-1996
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Dinosaurs create prehistoric hysteria in this eleventh book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series -- now on TV!There are dinosaurs in Spooksville! Huge meat-eating lizards attack people in their cars. Flying rep...

• Aug-1996
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A FAMILY SECRET BEST KEPT QUIET Quentin Fears is a certifiable recluse, moving restlessly from town to town, investing the millions he's made as a software creator and always avoiding companionship. Until one night he meets his dream woman, Madele...

• Aug-1996
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LIFE IS FULL OF SURPRISES Elisabeth Whitfield is restless. Her son doesn't need her anymore. She and her husband don't seem to connect the way they used to. And she's secretly envious of gorgeous, tempestuous Gypsy Dugan -- the superstar host of a...

• Aug-1996
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THE RED BOOTS
Videssos was beset by enemies. A pretender held the throne--a despot who cared little that barbarian hordes and rival realms carved away at his empire, so long as the wealth and booty of the land satisfied his unbridled appetites.