Books Published in December 1989

• Dec-1989
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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Studying the past hardly prepared anthropologist Liberty Stone for loving a man from the future. Caleb Hornblower, with hair as black as deep space and eyes as blue as the Oregon sky his ship had fallen from--made her lev...

• Dec-1989
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Nine long years ago a tearful Letty Ellison had fled Red Springs, Wyoming -- and her beloved Chase Brown -- to pursue her dreams. Life had dealt her some cruel blows, but with her head held high and her child in tow, she was finally coming home to th...

• Dec-1989
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Lady Jocelyn Fleming, Duchess of Eaton, was a feisty, flame-haired aristocrat -- newly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord. Wealthy and titled, yet aching with the pain of unexplored desire, her restless heart led her...

• Dec-1989
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Cyn McCall desperately wanted something to happen, to shake up her life and turn it around -- but when Worth Lansing tempted her to share a weekend in Acapulco, did she dare go? Her husband Tim had died more than two years before, and Worth, his busi...

• Dec-1989
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TWOFOLD TEMPTATION Dark-haired and beautiful Miss Alexandra Purnell had a problem that most young ladies would have adored. Not one but two handsome lords had offered her marriage - and Alexandra had only to choose between distinguished Edmund Rai...

• Dec-1989
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Jay Delaney, on camera, had a dynamic appeal Offscreen, his blend of magnetism was even more potent. Not that Maggie was interested. She'd had enough problems in her life recently, and the last thing she wanted was an uninvited guest to dis...

• Dec-1989
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With his itch to travel spurring him on, young Colton McLean had vowed to wear blinders against sweetly tempting Cassie Aldridge. But one moonlit Montana night, passion had galloped out of control--and she'd tried to rope him into marriage. Refus...

• Dec-1989
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SCARTCH. PURR Night after night the soft cat noises drifted through the isolated A-frame where famous author Dee Conner retreated to write her romances. Was it another harmless prank pulled by one of her fans? Or with it something much more sini...

• Dec-1989
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He gave her direction Picking up a hitchhiker in a blizzard was a dangerous thing to do, but Lily Danziger was already living on the edge. Having run from the so-called security of New England society, she and her newborn were on their own -- dest...

• Dec-1989
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Another nightmare or a dream come true? Though weary and frightened, hazardous-materials technician Brie Williams could still spot danger, and her rugged new partner seemed to be it. Did Linc Tanner's macho facade hide chilling threats...or enough wa...

• Dec-1989
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"When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me-my triumphs and most of my misfortunes-were due to my passionate relationships with men." Raised in the pleasure-loving Aquitaine duchy of France, wher...

• Dec-1989
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SHE WAS CALLED THE BELLE OF THE SOUTHWEST Beautiful Candice Carter enjoyed the attentions of every eligible man in the New Mexico Territory, until her reckless heart led her to near death in the desert. But rescue came from a savage...Jack Savage,...

• Dec-1989
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Disturbed, angry, and at odds That just about summed up her reaction to Rick Emerson, Evonne thought bitterly. Ever since she'd first laid eyes on him. When she agreed to do her employer a favor, she'd expected to be helping a young, u...

• Dec-1989
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She had interior motives Anna Tilford's Connecticut farmhouse was the perfect weekend escape from the pressures of designing interiors for New York's elite. But her peace was shattered when her country neighbor, Sam Garrison, announced tha...

• Dec-1989
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Could she make a go of child rearing ? Lorraine Ellis didn't know-her modeling career certainly hadn't prepared her for it--but she was determined to try. The loss of her brother had made her painfully aware of how alone she was. Yet ...

• Dec-1989
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Clare Malcolm was in more than enough trouble She'd been having difficulty preventing her mother-in-law from exploiting her son Tim's talent as a violin prodigy. Now she was under pressure from maestro David Deverenko. Yet when David an...

• Dec-1989
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Four women leave their Spanish convent and enter an alien world of uncertainty, romance, and suspense....

• Dec-1989
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"A divorce? Is that what you want?" After four years apart, Leon's reappearance was an intrusion into Felicity's successful new life. She'd done her best to forget him. Leon Draker might not have changed much in that time, b...

• Dec-1989
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TEACHER'S PET Professor Katherine Reed's research had her in a cold sweat. There was only one way to study the effects of cohabitation on behavior-find a male roommate. But Katherine never imagined that sexy Michael Tardo--the bad boy from her pas...

• Dec-1989
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A VOW NOT TO LOVE Miss Marian Wynswich had not been raised to be a proper young lady. Instead she had been educated to be as good as any man in everything from reading Greek to playing chess. Thus it was with dismay that she saw what falling in l...

• Dec-1989
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Orson Scott Card, author of the bestselling science fiction novel Ender's Game, also created a series to satisfy fantasy readers.Prentice Alvin Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committi...

• Dec-1989
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The heartwarming story of Marty and Clark Davis in the Love Comes Softly Series has captured the imaginations and emotions of readers from all ages and backgrounds. When Marty first travelled west, her dreams of a bright future were shattered with th...

• Dec-1989
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A Common Goal Casey Saunders's father had been cruelly gunned down in the street. And Sean Mallory was the one man who could lead her to the killer. Mallory had been hunting Wilson and his gang of cutthroats across the Southwest. He didn't need...

• Dec-1989
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HOT-BLOODED RANCHER Art teacher Catherine Eaton could hardly believe how stubborn Sam Connors was! Even though the rancher's young stepbrother was an exceptionally talented painter, Sam forbade Catherine to instruct him, fearing that art would m...

• Dec-1989
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Her heart pounded as his lips closed over hers. Never before had she been kissed like this...never before had she been so willing to surrender to love's passionate promise... Daughter of New Mexico cattle baron and an enchantingly lovely Mexican a...

• Dec-1989
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MR. DECEMBER Name: Tad Jackson Type: A rugged Texan with a raw sensuality as untamed as the open wilderness. Obsession: Doctor Jessica Bancroft--Kent-whose deceit had cost him his heart. Goal. To set the record straight. Years ago, Tad...

• Dec-1989
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Lady or Lightskirt? Well-bred orphan Cristabel Swann tolerates her thankless teaching job--until her uncle dies unexpectedly. Arriving in London to claim her inheritance, Cristabel encounters something else entirely--a loutish naval captain who wo...

• Dec-1989
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She made him want her... but would he ever love her? SHE HAD TO PERSUADE HIM Barter was a way of life in Rapture, Pennsylvania and Whitney (Whiskey) Daniels learned long ago that everything has its price. So when an officer of the new federal g...

• Dec-1989
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CHRISTMAS EVE 1889 Shots rang out along with the peal of church bells. U.S. Marshal Matthew Hawk fell wounded onto the snow -- not ready to die. He'd just determined to make himself a better life, find a wife, maybe start a family. But Matt ha...

• Dec-1989
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She needed a challenge That was why private investigator Martha Clark readily agreed to track down a real-life gigolo. After all, it made a change from her usual mundane insurance cases. Or so she thought -- before she met Quinn Maxwell, her ha...

• Dec-1989
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HE HAD THE POWER TO ASSUME A PLEASING SHAPE, BUT WOULD HE TAKE TO THE STAGE...? The audience was merry indeed when a third devilish imp bounded onstage to join the two that had been written into the script. But backstage all was uproar. The third ...

• Dec-1989
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He was tall, dark and dangerous Blaize Oliver was also a high-powered businessman who was out of Leila's league. Not that it mattered -- she was only interested in her temporary role as his personal assistant. At least that's what she told...

• Dec-1989
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He preferred experienced women And that Dorothy wasn't. The trip to Japan wasn't her main reason for accepting the job as little Pearl's governess. Quite simply her warm heart had gone out to the motherless child. She hadn't kno...

• Dec-1989
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THE CHILDREN WANTED A FAMILY TO BELONG TO It was their last Christmas together. Housemother Carol Shaw wanted to make it special for Frank, Nicky, Dorcas, Kathy and Candy -- children who'd never had a family and faced an uncertain future in foster h...

• Dec-1989
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“SHE MAY LOOK LIKE AN ANGEL…but she’s a tramp.” That was when I hit him, my best friend. I thought of Laura and our three-day honeymoon. I thought of the sting of her full lips, the long lush lines of her warm, wonderful body, her throaty,...

• Dec-1989
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Lord Pomeroy has been rejected by his long-time fiancé and must find a woman to marry for his ill father’s sake. His sister suggests Claire Sutton, who has been on the shelf for years. And Bertram is willing to consider her, except that she’s ...

• Dec-1989
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ALL PATTY WANTED WAS A FATHER OF HER OWN Normally, chemistry didn't present a challenge to ten-year-old genius Patty. But man-woman chemistry was a different thing, and it had Patty stumped. Patty thought she only had to find the perfect fa...

• Dec-1989
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She was blonde, beautiful, and had the longest legs he'd ever seen, but was Dr. Joy Barlow really good for what ailed architect Declan Harris? He'd been working night and day since his partner had died in an accident, and now this psychologist was pl...

• Dec-1989
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Throughout the civilized galaxy, in spacers' ports on the most far flung worlds, an ancient Terran legend echoes...about a race of magical beings called the Little People or the Fairy Folk. What if there is truth behind the old stories and songs? Wha...

• Dec-1989
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Lexi Leighton's friend Binky is interested in a guy at school but feels out of it. Her clothes, her hair everything seems out of style. The perfect solution seems to be a babysitting job that will allow her to get a new wardrobe. Everything begins to...

• Dec-1989
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THE MIDNIGHT HOUR Sheer terror had driven cosmetics heiress Gabriella Winters to flee her family home in the dead of night. But when a frightening encounter aboard a freight train led to rescue by dark, handsome stranger Austin LePort, she knew sh...

• Dec-1989
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When beautiful, violet-eyed Evelyn MacGregor fled to San Francisco, she thought she had escaped forever the domination of her autocratic guardian, Adam Rawlins. Rolling pie crust and slicing apples in her homey little bakery, The Forbidden Fruit, Eve...

• Dec-1989
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Now available for the first time in paperback--the latest riveting novel in the bestselling 87th Precinct series. The hardcover of Vespers has sold almost twice as many copies as McBain's previous hardcover releases. This paperback edition will conta...

• Dec-1989
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Elizabeth Wakefield and her best friend, Amy Sutton, have big plans for the holiday weekend, including a fabulous party, a family barbecue, and the chance to see a dreamy deejay broadcast live from the Sweet Valley Mall.



But the weeken...

• Dec-1989
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Who's Mr. Marshall?

Elizabeth and  Jessica Wakefield are identical twins who sit side by  side in their second-grade class. When their teacher  is out with the flu, everyone changes seats, and  the substitute teacher can't figure out ...

• Dec-1989
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You're in for an unforgettable experience when America's master storyteller turns his enormous narrative gifts to the passionate, haunting subject of the American woman, searching for--and often finding--love and faith... in Andrew M. Greeley's All A...

• Dec-1989
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MYSTERY IN THE MISTS.... Nancy, Bess, and George have been invited by their former grade-school teacher June Braden to spend their vacation on the coast of Maine. Miss Braden's brother, Karl, was recently lost at sea and is presumed dead, but his da...

• Dec-1989
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The Dean of Emerson College enlists Nancy to investigate the thefts of a valuable substance being used in a top-secret experiment. But when Nancy discovers that the experiment involves biological mutations, she knows she must find the culprit before ...

• Dec-1989
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Ellie Bennett had always wanted more than just to live under the collective thumb of her model-citizen family. But in Aubrey, Oklahoma, you did what was expected of you. Oh, she'd secretly dreamed of defiance, but her dream had never become a rea...

• Dec-1989
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THE LADY WORE BREECHES Young Lady Samantha Mayne had no desire to be a proper young lady. Let her cousin Emma dress in fashionable gowns, attend glittering balls, and hunt a mate in the marriage mart. Samantha preferred to aid her brother George's...