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Books Published in December 1981
New Books List: 191 titles
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Duelling Fire
Anne Mather
She couldn't bear the unexpected truth Sara gladly accepted the offer of acting as companion to her youthful Aunt Harriet. Her father had recently died, and she welcomed the solace the English countryside offered. But life in Harriet's...
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For the Love of God
Janet Dailey
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN? He was the Good Samaritan who offered her roadside help, then stepped into his green sportscar and disappeared. Abbie Scott suddenly forgot the broken heart that had brought her home to Eureka, Arkansas. She only remembered...
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An Honorable Offer
Catherine Coulter
MEN WERE ALL BEASTS THAT SABRINA WAS DETERMINED TO BEST Lovely young Sabrina Eversleigh, granddaughter of the esteemed Earl of Monmouth first learned of the disreputable desires of men when her dissolute brother-in-law attempted to force himself u...
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The Dark Abyss
Robyn Donald
Amnesia wrapped her in its soft cocoon Luce had awakened in hospital with no memory. And the New Zealand police, despite an extensive search, had found no trace of her former self. So for two years she had simply got on with living. Then she me...
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Home To Morning Star
Margaret Way
The girl had come home a woman Miranda Seymour was shocked to suddenly learn she was penniless--and that her distant cousin, Blake Seymour, had been supporting her. Blake, her self-appointed guardian, had always treated her as a foolish child. ...
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Desire
Anne Hampson
HE WANTED AN HEIR, BUT NOT A WIFE. Kim Rosswell was young, beautiful, and desperate. Vidas Christou was wealthy, and determined that the child she carried bear the Christou name. Kim knew she should have told Vidas the truth. There could not p...
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No Man of Her Own
Violet Winspear
A crisis plunged her into turmoil Dominique Davis had to set aside her plans to enter the convent when she heard the shocking news: her sister, Candy, was partially paralyzed and needed her desperately. Alarmed, she set out at once for Italy to...
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Unconquered
Bertrice Small
Miranda -- Strong-willed. Impetuous. Brilliant. Beautiful. Unconquered -- when she's forced to marry a stranger to keep her home -- even though it's clear he's the only man for her... Unconquered -- when a savage Crimean slave breeder see...
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Dance of the Snake
Yvonne Whittal
Dane had no wish for commitment He regarded all women as potential bedmates. And Jessica, newly arrived doctor in the Transvaal town, resolved that she would never be one of them. Her relationship with Dane Trafford would be strictly profession...
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Meeting at Midnight
Flora Kidd
But without his love she had nothing at all It had been old Hunter Finley's dearest wish that Elizabeth marry his stepson, Dugald Morin. After meeting and falling in love with Dugald, that wish was Elizabeth's, too. But their marriage h...
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Sight of a Stranger
Sandra Field
Blaise was like a violent summer storm How could Shannon ever hope to understand this man who had given light to her world of blindness? He had rushed headlong into her life, turning it upside down. Yet he was as deep and unfathomable as the sea. ...
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Centaur Aisle
Piers Anthony
INTO DARKEST MUNDANIA Dor was having troubles growing up to be the next Magician-King of the magic Land of Xanth. He wanted no part of running the Kingdom. But now Good King Trent was leaving on a trade mission to non-magical Mundania, home of suc...
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Frozen Jungle
Jane Donnelly
It was not often that anyone got the better of the celebrated writer Duncan Keld, let alone managed to damage his reputation - but journalist Pattie Moss had unwittingly managed to do just that, with the result that Duncan, to put it mildly, had a ve...
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McGraw's Inheritance
J.T. Edson
The San Garcia was gila monster country, where the bears got fat on cattle if they got fat at all. McGraw couldn't figure it. Who would want his dry, rocky ranch badly enough to send a hired killer after him? McGraw needed help, and he knew where ...
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Just Like Yesterday
Ruth Langan
THE LOVE SHE LEFT BEHIND He was the only man who had ever called her Mike. And now, years after their bitter parting, Michelle Miller Scott had to face Erick McCord once again. She had returned to Northern Michigan to negotiate a merger between he...
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Ride Proud, Rebel!
Andre Norton
As the Civil War rages, young fifteen-year-old Drew Rennie decides that he must enlist and fight for the Confederate cause. Barely old enough to shave, he runs off and joins General Morgan's campaign against the North. Drew has courage and bravery to...
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A Girl Bewitched
Marjorie Lewty
Loving him meant heartbreak for sure! Lisa's letters to her cousin Emma were full of glowing details about the new man in her life, Trent Marston. Then Lisa suddenly decided to marry Richard Southall. What had happened? All Emma had to do w...
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The Masquerading Heart
Caroline Courtney
They were twins who looked exactly alike--to strangers. Those who loved them recognized the spirit in Serenity's eyes, the gentleness in Sylyana's. But Ashen Svlyana was invited by her godmother, who'd not seen her in four years, to come to London fo...
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Holiday in Jamaica
Tracy Sinclair
SHE WAS PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME when Erin Brady agreed to go to Jamaica for a week with Jason Dimitrou. It was the only way that she could pay back her brother's debt. Jason was cruelly determined to take advantage of the situation. Yet when a gent...
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Play Our Song Again
Lynsey Stevens
She couldn't erase the painful past... Alex knew only too well that her marriage to Justin de Wilde, the talented symphony conductor, had been a disastrous mistake. But now, six years after they'd separated, Justin wanted her back. Alex...
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Hard Cash
Max Allan Collins
Heist-man Nolan is enjoying his retirement from crime, running his own restaurant, when the president of a bank he robbed two years ago shows up with a blackmail demand. All Nolan has to do is rob the bank again--and play patsy to a sexy girl friend'...
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Desert Haven
Roumelia Lane
He didn't understand what it meant to her Maybe it was an impossible, sentimental task. But Celia was -- determined to stay in Bahrain until she located her father's first love, the beautiful Arab girl Nevine. And simply because he'...
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Lawman's Choice
Ray Hogan
Shoham was about to become no-man's land--a town without a marshal, and Matt Kollister, caught in a murder frame-up and heading south to save his neck, was a marshal without a town. But was Matt, on the run from the law himself, really the man to cl...
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The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Lies down on the ground, and falls asleep....
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare
A contemporary translation of one of Shakespeare’s earliest explorations of love and friendship. In one of his earliest plays, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare began exploring themes of love and friendship that became the focus of some o...
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Henry IV, Part 1
William Shakespeare
Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the playFull explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the playScene-by-scene plot summariesA key to famous lines and phrasesAn introduc...
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Caroline and Julia
Clare Darcy
HURDLES FOR THE HEART Julia Daventry was an entrancing enchantress--but could she erase the arrogance of superbly attractive, supremely condescending Neville Devereaux? Caroline Devereaux was an exquisitely adorable young lady--but could she in...
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Longarm and the Devil's Railroad
Tabor Evans
THE WILDEST OUTLAWS IN THE WEST HAD A NEW "DISAPPEARING ACT"... They called it the Devil's Railroad, the mysterious route that shuttled the country's most-wanted men to South America. Disguised as a notorious one-eyed bandit, Longarm sets out to b...
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Journey to the East
Hermann Hesse
A great writer . . . complex, subtle, allusive. - New York Times Book Review
In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an exped... -
The Believers
Janice Holt Giles
Rebecca Fowler is only seventeen when she marries Richard Cooper. She cannot remember a time when she has not loved and trusted him and followed where he led. At first the marriage is happy; it is only after their child is stillborn that Richard show...
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Sensuous Burgundy
Bonnie Drake
They were enemies--adversaries who would soon face each other across the courtroom in a taut murder trial... one arguing for the prosecution; the other for the defense. Yet Laura Grandine found this commanding giant of a man irresistible. And he l...
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Wrack and Rune
Charlotte MacLeod
A gruesome murder leads Professor Peter Shandy to uncover an ancient Viking curse. When 105-year-old Hilda Horsefall tells young reporter Cronkite Swope of a stone carved with Norse runes that once sat in the nearby woods, the writer starts saliva...
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The Rose Parade Mystery
Laura Lee Hope
Only a few days before the spectacular Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, the Bobbsey twins visit with the Hamlin family. Mr. Hamlin is a well-known float builder and he invites the Bobbseys to help decorate the floats for the parade. But when t...
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Strength of Stones
Greg Bear
In a theocratic world far into the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer ...
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Web of Desire
Jean Hager
No other man had aroused her as Thorne had done with a touch -- or merely a look. Once, they had found each other. Once they had fallen in love. Once he had been the world to her. Even now the pain of betrayal pierced Rhea's heart like a stiletto....
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Watching Me, Watching You: Stories
Fay Weldon
A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer.`Watching Me, Watching You' was Fay Weldon's first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, ...
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An Innocent Deception
Linda Shaw
SHE MADE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES--AND FOUND A DARING NEW LOVE! Struggling young journalist Amanda Phillips had the brains and ambition to match her golden-haired, sensual beauty--and enough daring to follow powerful banking titan Russell Gregory t...
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Bound by Love
Catherine Lanigan
Fires of Love Fires of War Apocalypse of Passion Theirs was a love between strangers begun on the edge of doom. In a Southern mansion Christopher made Elise his bride and swept her through New York society to the glittering capitals of Europe....
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The Tomb
H.P. Lovecraft
THE. TOMB The tomb of the old Hyde family held a fatal attraction for Jervas Dudley until he communed with the dead and learned their secrets. THE FESTIVAL An ancient ritual sends a procession into the catacombs beneath an old church to confront...
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Gentle Torment
Johanna Phillips
Tawny-haired Lindy Williamson fled the sun-graced south for the promise of the Alaskan frontier -- leaving behind Jake, the rugged ex-husband who'd tormented her even as he tempted her. Facing a challenging job with an oil-drilling company, Lindy...
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Sweet Dawn of Desire
Meg Hudson
"YOU'RE A BIT TOUCHY AREN'T YOU, JOY?" That did it! His sarcastic carping was driving Joy crazy! She didn't care if he was a famous British spy--she had feelings even if he didn't! When she was assigned to edit James Dun...
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Dean's December
Saul Bellow
After being widely portrayed as a virulent racist and a traitor to his city, Professor Albert Corde, dean of the faculty of Journalism, is forced to leave Chicago. Corde is ill-equipped to handle the outrage that faces him, both as the author of seve...
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Deceptive Love
Anne N. Reisser
She was a fantastic secretary. But what made men think her willingness to share their work meant a willingness to share their beds? More than once Keri's mischievous green eyes, auburn hair, and sensuous body had cost her a perfectly good job....
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Hand of Zei
L. Sprague de Camp
Dirk Barnevelt knew he wasn't a hero, but somebody had to find the explorer who'd vanished on the low-tech planet, Krisha and to do that, somebody had to single-handedly rescue a beautiful princess from bloodthirsty pirates and to do that, somebod...
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Souls and Bodies
David Lodge
The ups, downs, and exploits of a group of British Catholics--for whom the sexual revolution came a little later than it did for everybody else...
In this bracing satire, a group of university students make their way through the fifties and into th...
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Mermaid
Margaret Millar
Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, drops out of sight while attending an exclusive school for retarded young people. Shortly before her disappearance she had gone to the office of Tom Aragon, a young Hispanic lawyer, for what seems...
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The Devil in a Forest
Gene Wolfe
He lives deep in the forest in the time of King Wenceslas, in a village older than record. The young man's hero-worship of the charming highwayman, Wat, is tempered by growing suspicion of Wat's cold savagery, and his fear of the sorcerous powers of ...
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The Long Day Wanes
Anthony Burgess
A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor... -
Take This Love
Mary Carroll
NOW WAS HER CHANCE.... Jamie MacPherson had always dreamed of seeing the Highlands. She wanted to leave London forever and concentrate on her painting. Now that her uncle had died, she could claim her inheritance -- a cottage on the land of her ki...
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