Books Published in August 1997

• Aug-1997
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Nora Roberts presents the final novel in a dramatic trilogy. Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Laura who seemed to have it all--until she lost almost everything and had to ...

• Aug-1997
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The Crighton family has been the cause of scandal and heartache for Bobbie Miller--and she wants revenge. All she has to do is seduce the sinfully attractive Luke Crighton and the family secrets will be hers to expose. But the perfect seduction backf...

• Aug-1997
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THE CLAYBORNES ARE BACK -- AND LOVE IS IN BLOOM! Adam Clayborne has always put great stock in the power of books. As an escaped slave -- and a wanted man -- reading has been his only ticket to the wonders of distant lands. Adam is content with hi...

• Aug-1997
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MORE THAN FRIENDS? Kayla Bedford had lofty visions of running off to Paris and marrying the prince of her dreams. But before she left, she needed to find a significant other for her conservative boss and best friend, Patrick Walcott.... And w...

• Aug-1997
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Marriage on his mind? Kate Crosby was determined to be independent. Her dreams were of owning her own catering business, not of marriage and babies! For now, she was happy enough putting her skills into practice as a housekeeper. She certainly was...

• Aug-1997
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Lady Emily Marlowe was beautiful, wild, and unspoiled. She could not hear or speak, though she listened with her eyes and answered with her smile. She was betrothed to a man who would have her as a pretty possession, a captive listener. But there was...

• Aug-1997
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A DROP IN THE OCEAN Stone Barrington only wants a winter getaway from the chill of New York in the beautiful, tropical Caribbean paradise of St. Mark's. But what the lawyer and ex-cop gets instead is the chance to defend Allison Manning. The beaut...

• Aug-1997
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NO ONE HEARD HER CRY FOR HELP... All attorney Laurel Chandler wanted was a place to hide, to escape the painful memories of a case that had destroyed her career, her marriage, and nearly her life. But coming home to the peaceful treelined streets ...

• Aug-1997
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Having fled her dorm room, college freshman Hope is hiding out in an abandoned sorority house on campus. But there is no escape from the evil that follows her -- because it has become a part of her....

• Aug-1997
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After the bizarre deaths of her parents, Madeline never expects to feel happy again. Then she falls in love with Justin Fier, a handsome young doctor. She is warned away from Justin by a young man no one else sees, and an old woman everyone things is...

• Aug-1997
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ON YOUR MARK. GET SET. SCREAM! Heads up! You're on your way to sports camp! If only Uncle Ed can find the place. He's the lamest driver ever. A sign up ahead says CAMP RUNNING LEAF. Hey! That's not the name of the camp you signed up for! But Uncle E...

• Aug-1997
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Jason Birchall is starting a zoo--in his bedroom! Besides a bullfrog, Jason now owns a tarantula. A big, hairy super-spider!And he knows a secret about his new pet. Something he refuses to tell even his friends in the cul-de-sac. Especially not Abby ...

• Aug-1997
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Stacy Henry wants to earn money for the Cul-de-sac Kids Club. But she can't get permission from Abby, the club president, who is out of town.The rest of the kids vote to go ahead with a yard sale. The friends make signs, and everyone brings old treas...

• Aug-1997
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THE CASE OF THE KIDNAPPED MOMMY Officer Guy Tripopulous knew that this was not his usual type of case. The ransom note was smeared, the letters printed, and the victim's children seemed awfully...informed. But Guy was willing to play along. He...

• Aug-1997
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THE JOY OF SEX... One minute, Mac Macready was a living legend in Texas every kid's idol, every man's envy, every woman's fantasy. The next, his fiancee dumped him, his career was hanging in the balance and his future was looking mighty uncertain....

• Aug-1997
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Single mom seeks experienced live-in carer for baby boy. Immediate start. Fly-by-nights need not apply. Nick Joseph was every woman's fantasy: darkly handsome and great with kids. Linda just couldn't say no when he offered his services as ...

• Aug-1997
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WHAT ACCOMPANIES A HUGE, TATTOOED STRANGER TO A TINY HIGHLAND TOWN? DEATH. Everybody in Lochdubh knew about the Macho Man, a mean bully claiming to be a professional wrestler. His insults at the local pub caused some bonny brawls. His sneaking aro...

• Aug-1997
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MURDER WITH BITE In Scotland, where thrift and a "nice set of dentures" are admired, Dr. Frederick Gilchrist's cheap rates and penchant for pulling teeth have gained him a clientele. However, wiser Highlanders--like Lochdubh policeman Hamish Macbe...

• Aug-1997
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A PROPER SPINSTER Prim, plain, desperately virtuous Lady Mary Fairchild stared at the seductive gentleman and wondered--did he remember the elements of the night they met? Surely not. In the ten years since, she had abandoned her youthful impetuousn...

• Aug-1997
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Long had Marjorie Zimmerman been fascinated by the Dakota Indians Minnesota Territory--especially their hot-blooded chieftain. With the merest glance from his smoldering eyes, Spotted Horse could spark a firestorm of desire in the spirited settler's ...

• Aug-1997
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This time Piper Macintosh's great-aunt has really gone too far. Eighty-seven-year-old Hannah, who fancies herself a witch, has sold her historic Cape Cod house to a Tennessean whom she claims is the man for her niece. Piper doesn't think they're a li...

• Aug-1997
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Moment of truth! Eleri worked hard at being levelheaded, to make up for one solitary mistake in her teens. But there were times when being sensible was difficult! Take the situation with James Kincaid.... Eleri had been in love with James, her ...

• Aug-1997
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Seduced by the boss... Jessica Taylor's wedding would have been perfect -- if only her fiance hadn't run off with the bridesmaid...Jessica's sister. Instead of marriage vows, Jessica found herself making vows of a different kind: never...

• Aug-1997
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36 HOURS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING One April weekend the community of Grand Springs, Colorado, finds itself cut off by a mudslide and a storm-induced blackout, which creates all kinds of troubles. A mayor is found dead, a baby is born and abandoned......

• Aug-1997
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A BRIDE SCORNED Highborn country heiress Mallory Edwards was dutifully fulfilling family obligations when she exchanged marriage vows with a dashing gentleman she barely knew. But the charming beast, John Barron, abandoned her on their wedding night...

• Aug-1997
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Shayne O'Malley: Undercover operative. Handsome as sin, he plays the part of a jet-setting playboy, perfectly willing to use seduction to finish his assignment. No woman has ever been his match until... Suspected thief Bliss Fortune turned his wor...

• Aug-1997
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Have you heard the latest? Don't tell anyone, but... As far as Cal Forrester is concerned, Alexandra Sherwood is one step away from being a loose woman. It doesn't seem to stop him wanting her, though! Because she's a model, he seems ...

• Aug-1997
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There are crimes so sudden, so heartless, and so terrible, they can shatter the strongest of faiths. A man walks into a trendy Los Angeles restaurant--a disgruntled ex-employee with an automatic weapon--and seconds later, thirteen people are dead ...

• Aug-1997
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Though India Devlin left her hometown to pursue a brilliant career as a criminal prosecutor, she has always loved historic Devlin's Light, returning to visit as often as her busy schedule permits. But after her brother is found murdered on the steps ...

• Aug-1997
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A DOUBLE LIFE... She was every man's fantasy -- and most dangerous desire. One bewitching look, the whispered promise of unspeakable ecstasy, and London's richest and most notorious rakes followed the Brazen Angel like sheep -- ready to be f...

• Aug-1997
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SHERRY'S LIFE LAY IN THE HANDS OF THE MAN SHE LOVED THE MOST ... AND TRUSTED THE LEAST Two weeks before he was to marry Sherry, Clint Jessup disappeared without a trace. Now, suddenly, eight months later, he's back with no word of explanation. Onl...

• Aug-1997
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In a sleepy steel-mill town, the ultimate battle between Good and Evil is about to begin... Sinnissippi Park, in Hopewell, Illinois, has long hidden a mysterious evil, locked away from humankind by powers greater than most could even imagine. But ...

• Aug-1997
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Have you heard the latest? Don't tell anyone, but.... Nathan Monroe didn't know what to believe: he'd just heard that the woman he'd married wasn't all that she seemed. Olivia Monroe was apparently a ruthless woman who would do...

• Aug-1997
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Cressida "Cressy" Vale was the youngest in a family of thin, glamorous, beautiful women. Only she wasn't thin or glamorous, and only the kindest of souls would ever call her beautiful. Which was why Nicolas Talbot's interest in her wa...

• Aug-1997
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The fully restored manuscript of the author's classic tale of western justice chronicles a U.S. deputy marshal's mission to stop cattle rustling and shut down a cattle baron mayor bent on maintaining the status quo. Reprint....

• Aug-1997
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A PERSONAL AFFAIR Gabe Thornton's interest in the "personals" column is strictly professional. The Atlanta journalist's assignment is to canvass the classifieds for the "crazies" who look for love at two dollars a line. H...

• Aug-1997
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Anne Cartwright had barely arrived in the astonishingly beautiful Hawaiian Islands when her missionary husband died, leaving her penniless and alone thousands of miles from home. As woman, Anne cannot minister to the natives' but she can tend t...

• Aug-1997
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THE STROKE OF SURPRISINGLY GENTLE HANDS... THE FLASH OF FATHOMLESS BLUE EYES... THE SCORCH OF WHITE-HOT KISSES... And once again, Harriet Ginoza was swept away into rapturous fantasy. The up-to-date psychologist knew the object of her desire was...

• Aug-1997
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HONOR RAZES HELL! Honor Harrington has faced ship-to-ship combat, assassins, political vendettas, and duels. She's been shot at, shot down, and just plain shot, had starships blown out from under her, and made personal enemies who will do anything...

• Aug-1997
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FBI agent Con Randolph's six-month-old son has been abandoned. The state has arranged an adoption - they just need Con's signature. Con knows they've made a mistake. He's never fathered a baby. But it turns out he's wrong. Horrified and guilt...

• Aug-1997
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From her arrival in Virginia, Baroness Merrivale, better known as Fancy, and Chance Walker cannot abide each other. She thinks he looks like a backwoods barbarian. He thinks she is a haughty upstart and, worst of all, the fiancee of the scoundrel who...

• Aug-1997
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A Sweeping, emotional novel capturing all the passion and majesty of the medieval period. Set near the Scottish border at a rugged castle on the edge of the sea, this is the story of a courageous lord who lost everything he held dear....of a strong y...

• Aug-1997
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THERE ARE SOME MEN A WOMAN CAN NEVER FORGIVE... Recently widowed, the mother of a teenaged daughter, Kate Rose has finally come into her own as head of her own talent agency. She has kept her past carefully hidden: the callous lover who abandoned...

• Aug-1997
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Feisty and beautiful Maggie Malone is determined to earn her livelihood as a private detective--a daunting profession unheard of for a woman on her own in the wild West. And when her stepfather asks her to help his son escape the hangman's noose for ...

• Aug-1997
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A Most Unsuitable Guest! Grace Barton had always done the proper thing--until now. Suddenly she was dragging a handsome stranger home through the mud and wondering what he looked like with his shirt off. What on earth had happened to her sensible,...

• Aug-1997
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SHE WAS SCARED OF HER OWN SHADOW! Kim Berry kept her head down, her guard up and always drove under the speed limit -- until Zach McCain came roaring into her life. Suddenly Kim's well-ordered world was turned topsy-turvy. The excitement she f...

• Aug-1997
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Spun off from a computer game and a collaborative serial novel being created on the Internet, a novella introduces readers to a cosmos of infinite realms where entire cultures live independently in different dimensions. Original....

• Aug-1997
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A magnificent historical romance set on a Texas plantation during the Civil War. It is an unforgettable tale of two men and one woman...of honor lost and won...of a love that will steal your heart... During the summer that the Yankees invaded Texa...

• Aug-1997
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The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And they were about to vanish forever when the new highway cut through them. While Chief Inspector Wexford privately despaired about the loss of his hiking grounds, local residents and ou...

• Aug-1997
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TERROR LAUNCH Accused of the most brutal terrorist strike in U.S. history, a cadre of Arab radicals are set to go on trial in Chicago, even as angry Americans demand blood retribution. Mack Bolan brought down these killers, and now he must keep t...