Books Published in May 1980

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Joanna didn't know what to expect... Necessity forced Joanna Seton to accept a position as governess to Jake Sheldon's daughter. She set out for Ravensgarth, his farm in the Lake District, with a determination to make the best of what she ...

• May-1980
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ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE US NOW. As the world prays, the Vatican watches, waiting in horror as the terrifying prophesy long held secret is about to be fulfilled. One young virgin shall bear the child of light. Another shall spawn the beast of everl...

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"I don't went my life disturbed." Baron Radinck Thoe van Erckelens was very clear about his reasons for wanting to marry Caroline Tripp -- and love was not one of them. Caro loved Radinck, though, so she agreed to his terms -- that ...

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"Why doesn't he leave us alone? " Kit and her grandfather managed the Flying Eagle Ranch. For years they'd been doing it without interference from its long line of mostly absentee owners. Now the newest heir, Baron Reese Talbot,...

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AN UTTERLY SHOCKING HUSBAND The first time that captivating, quick-tempered Arabella Deverill saw Justin, she thought this arrogantly handsome stranger to be a vagabond adventurer trespassing on her family lands. The next time she saw him was...

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In Europe's capitals, the ultimate assassin shoots to kill. In those very cities, on the nights of the killings, the brilliant concern pianist John Mikali performs... Not even his lover, American psychologist Katherine Riley, suspects the truth. B...

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Sarah loved her happy single life in London. But the sweet memory of Carl Duris and their first encounter in Greece made her heart wander, her mind wonder. Soon she was back in Carl's arms -- a captive bride, a prisoner of love and revenge on ...

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CLINT DIDN'T KNOW WHO KAREN WAS -- AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN HE FOUND OUT? Karen began her masquerade as Clint's staid, middle-aged housekeeper in a fit of pique. He had said she couldn't act. Well, she would show him! At first it ...

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A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car...or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare? At work the n...

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She had driven away the man she loved. Sharon Tiler met Lee Brent by accident, but his pursuit of her was purposeful and marriage quickly followed. But when rumors started, Sharon hadn't the confidence or security to ignore them. The though...

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SEAWORLD A guilt-ridden Earth had turned Cachalot over to the few surviving cetaceans as a perpetual refuge -- a planet whose surface was one great ocean, where the remnants of the whales, porpoises, and dolphins could pursue their lives and perha...

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"He's every bit as sexy as his father! " Her grandmother thought that description would appeal to Rowan, but Rowan was determined to avoid any friendship with the arrogant James Fraser. Aboard his luxury yacht, that wasn't easy. When they were ...

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His approach to life was irresponsible! Niccolo Martelli was the most exciting man Lucy had ever met, yet she had no illusions about him. He was a rich aristocratic Sicilian; Lucy was an English children's nurse. Then she learned the match...

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Her stepfather lived in a fairy-tale world Ralph Francis had snatched Sara from her boarding school and thrust her into his jet-set life-style. She was delighted with her stepfather's generosity--and the excitement of their life together. U...

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A young woman stops at the grocery store after work, but she never makes it home -- at least not all the way. She is stabbed to death in front of her building, her groceries strewn across the cold pavement. Upstairs her neighbor and popular ghost sto...

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When her father leaves home to fight in World War II, Elizabeth goes with her mother and older sister to live in her grandfather's stately old house on Autumn Street. It's there that Elizabeth forms a special friendship with Tatie, the cook, and Tati...

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She taught him a lesson in manners, and learned a lesson in love A duel of manners How dare he! Sophia fumed as she recalled the scene at the ball. Ruefully, she admitted to herself that she shouldn't have thrown her arms around him, a total st...

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Matt had no idea how capable Jacqueline was! Jacqueline Donnelly was fed up with people who doubted her competence because she was young, beautiful and appeared fragile. And Matt Simmons was furious because head office in New York had hired her...

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REBECCA HAWKINS She was young, beautiful and used to winning. But at nineteen her ideas of victory were confined to equestrian contests and harness racing. Now, as her womanly graces began to attract men, it would be a different kind of competitio...

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Anne had to keep reminding herself that she was an American student at the University of Madrid. True, she was a replica of the Nordic beauty that Miguel de Ortega had married. But how had she let the handsome, compelling stranger convince her to pla...

• May-1980
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Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, ...

• May-1980
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"Full of fascinating dialogue, surprising twists of plot, and well-developed, memorable characters, a stunningly successful work of fiction."
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This is the tumultuous novel of men and women pitted against a world of wealth, power...

• May-1980
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Looking for one man, she found another Nicola, for her Aunt Bella, happily traveled halfway around the world to find a long-lost uncle Walter. It seemed the perfect holiday -- leaving her small, safe world for the excitement of New Zealand. Bu...

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ONLY FOOLS PLAY WITH FIRE TWICE. Five years ago Melody Travers had fled in humiliation and anger from her marriage to Brand Travers. He was a hard man used to making decisions and having them instantly obeyed. Now he was forcing her to marry him a...

• May-1980
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IN HANSVILLE -- THEY SAID THE TRAIL WENT DEAD... Government rifles. They'd been missing for six months -- and the hard-nosed local law said they were gone for good. But Longarm found a bigger swindle -- rustled herds and a cheatin' sheriff....

• May-1980
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Yellowstone Kelly is an Indian fighter and scout like no other. The devil-may-care Irishman can pick off hostiles and quote the classics with equal ease and accuracy. Even the mighty Sioux fear him-or most of them fear him.

Sitting Bull's m...

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HER NAUGHTINES, THE WAYWARD LADY NESS.... Her real name was Vanessa and she was forever getting into scrapes that titillated her peers and shocked her parents. This time she'd really started the gossips mongering, so the lovely Lady Vanessa...

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First valuable antique weather vanes are stolen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country and Frank and Joe are hired to catch the thieves. Meanwhile, their father is asked to find a missing Navy employee and a top-secret government document. What is the connect...

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She was a bewitching minx, that pretty Polly Marsh, and she knew it. She also knew that beauty could be her passport into the castles where she had always known she belonged. So she set her cap for a duke and joined the firm of Westerman's as a steno...

• May-1980
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THE LAST VETERAN Kawashita had passed up the chance to die honorably, to go down with the mortally wounded carrier Hiryu. He was sure he had made the wrong choice when the alien spacecraft plucked him from the sea near Midway -- now he would certain...

• May-1980
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Scandal... She was born to Ham Maxwell's bed wench Elen, sired by the handsome mustee Brass Door. Through ironic tricks of fate, Scandal became, at 17, the belle of white New Orleans in 1961 and married into its wealthiest family. Meanwhile the m...

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DEATH GOD... Five hundred years have passed since the combined fleets of humanity met and broke the berserker armada at Stone Heath. But though the human victory was total, one of the killer machines -- weaponless, its star drive a ruin -- managed ...

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DARLING DECEIVER When Griselda (called Zelda by her friends) discovers that her irresponsible younger brother has lost the family mansion to a notorious gamester named Devil Fallon, she refuses to accept defeat. Unbeknownst to her brother, she ...

• May-1980
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Tamsen Tallant, most beautiful of the fabled McLeod sisters, is alone in the Australian outback. Alone with a ranch to run, two rebellious teenage nieces to care for, and Opal Station's new head stockman to reckon with - a man whose very look holds a...

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"I WILL HAVE YOU WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT...." JoNell knew that the wealthy South American playboy Jorge Del Toro would carry out his threat. He played the game of love and business with a fierce determination to win. But JoNell was unpre...

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Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die -- either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial ...

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FOR $20,000 JESS WOULD DO ANYTHING! And when Derek Thorpe offered that sum to Jess Stanton to photograph his jungle expedition, she jumped at the chance. However, when Thorpe learned the "Jess" stood for Jessica, he wasn't pleased with the idea...

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She had expected Judge Griffen's "old" friend to be an elderly gentleman, but from the moment she set eyes on handsome Adam Rourke, Samantha Logan thought she knew the score. She was only the judge's young assistant, a mere law stu...

• May-1980
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"Crossing the Water, a collection of poems written just prior to those in Ariel, . . . is of immense importance in recording [Plath's] extraordinary development. One senses on every page a voice coming into its own, the chaos of a lifetime at last ge...

• May-1980
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The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly. Shadow & Claw brings togeth...

• May-1980
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Britt Ryan had never dreamed that her flair for photography would take her to France to visit the historic Chateau de Laon. Now she had only to pin down the elusive Philippe, master of the chateau, and she would have all the shots she needed for a st...

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She was the poor cousin of Lady Prunella Throxton, brought to London as companion to the flighty teen- age heiress. Perhaps in such moneyed company even Cecily Camden could find a suitable husband. Tall, slim, red-haired, and unfashionably freckled, ...

• May-1980
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The Saint is in Washington, DC, when a young woman asks for his help. Her father, a noted scientist, has invented a new form of synthetic rubber. But he has disappeared, and she is under threat. She turns to Simon Templar, who soon finds himself i...

• May-1980
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"I'll never marry, never!" twenty-one-year-old Thomasina declared, scorning the flirtations and matchmakings that were the very breath of Regency society. Orphaned and impoverished, she had seen her highborn father gamble away their m...

• May-1980
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A human lie detector sets off in search of a revolution There are 1,500 hand grenades in Alabama's Styx River, and none of them work. Rebels are attacking UN peacekeeping forces in Burma and Honduras, but just when the battle gets started, they f...

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Vacationing with his wife in a Derbyshire village, Superintendent Simon Kenworthy of Scotland Yard finds himself participating in a local dramatic production and in a series of sinister, unexplained incidents...

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Lovely young Sophie Sandringham knew whom she wanted to wed -- Oliver Grantford, her childhood sweetheart. Happily, Oliver shared her desire. One obstacle stood in their path: Oliver's father, whose threat to strip Oliver of funds and future p...

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THE SAPPHIRE CALLED THE PASSION STAR It was stone- mined by men and polished to brilliance- but to Adrienne McGill the six-spurred Passion Star was both magic charm and mystic curse. It transported her out of the slums of Glasgow to training and ...