Books Published in November 1981

• Nov-1981
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They had shared a beautiful affair Then Briony had learned the shattering truth. Although she had been deeply in love with Kieron, a reporter then, he had wanted her only for a newspaper scoop. It was painfully ironic to Briony that his calculated...

• Nov-1981
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It wasn't her job that he was after... Radio Wyechester was failing, and no one could hide the fact much longer. As advertising controller, Storm Templeton stood to lose a lot. She had worked long and hard to garner clients for the station. ...

• Nov-1981
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A strange compulsion seemed to grip her... Annette Long couldn't resist introducing herself to Josh Lord, the strikingly attractive owner of the resort where she was vacationing. In her utterly confident manner, she assumed he'd be more th...

• Nov-1981
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JILL BARTON HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR AN ESCAPE FROM LOVE When she drove into Logan Matthew's artists' colony, Mill Valley. Recently jilted at the alter, Jill pretended to be a writer so that she could retreat into this seemingly safe haven. But L...

• Nov-1981
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Did giving your heart only invite rejection? Suki Black didn't know the answer to that question. She was too frightened to find out, just in case it was true. She'd known rejection in childhood, and she knew she didn't like it. But ...

• Nov-1981
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The invitation held a pointed challenge Lisa didn't have the heart to refuse her stepsister's request. Julie had never been very good at organizing matters, and she simply couldn't handle her wedding plans alone. But Lisa had no ide...

• Nov-1981
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Could love exist without trust? Kathryn had been joyously anticipating her wedding to Rex Kingersby... until she found him, one week before their wedding, in bed with his secretary! Horrified, she returned his ring. Kathryn couldn't have k...

• Nov-1981
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His kisses erased the horrible past Valissa lost herself in her work after her fiance's tragic death. When she finally allowed herself a holiday she intended to spend it quietly -- and alone -- on a Greek island. But fate had other things i...

• Nov-1981
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Could she trade sex for financial security? Why was Roxanne's father encouraging his business competitor's attraction for her? She saw no need to pander to the businessman's ego. Sebastian Blair's electronics firm was the largest i...

• Nov-1981
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FORTUNE'S CHILD...DESTINY'S WOMAN Julia Dupre was the proud belle of New Orleans when she first fell under the mocking gaze of Captain Rudyard Thorpe. His self-assurance angered her, his insolence enraged her, yet he ws the one man who could help ...

• Nov-1981
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THE DEADLIEST ARTIFACT OF A DEAD WORLD �" KRANG The last vestige of the last culture of TAR-AIYM, the long-dead planet, was Krang. It magnetized the adventurous, the curious...and the greedy. And killed them all. Or turned them into its living...

• Nov-1981
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Could she really marry Colt Kielder? The very idea was repulsive to Rowan, but when her brother unexpectedly sold their home, Falstone Castle, to hated Scotsman Colt Kielder, Rowan had to do something to retain her rightful heritage. "Some ...

• Nov-1981
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To escape the unwelcome advances of her stepfather, Hester Stanley runs away to become mistress of a man she hardly knows. Posing as brother and sister in pre-revolution Paris, Hester is blissfully happy with Beau Vane -- until doubts begin to eme...

• Nov-1981
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BLISS GOT EVERYTHING SHE WANTED, UNTIL SHE WANTED JAMES! Bliss Bonner had enjoyed her quiet life in London. That was before she met James Etchison. James demanded that she keep her playboy brother, Benji, away from his sister. But Benji's impulsiv...

• Nov-1981
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The heartless scheme of a heartless man... To inherit his father's wealth, Viscount Blackwood had to marry. But he wanted a very brief marriage, one that would not interfere for long with his pleasures. So he decided to marry a dying woman ...a...

• Nov-1981
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For Lora, the marriage to Wade Tyler was an escape from loneliness and from the ruined South which had been her home. For Wade, the wounded young Union officer she had so tenderly nursed, the marriage helped ease the loss of his beloved first wife. ...

• Nov-1981
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A reckless young gambler learns why love always holds the winning hand Philip's strong arms tightened about her, and his lips pressed against hers with an intensity that seemed, to Augusta, as genuine as her own. "I... b-beg your pardon, " he ...

• Nov-1981
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She wasn't at all like he insinuated Abby had misgivings about being an escort girl, even for one night. But her roommate was in a jam and begged her to help out. Unfortunately, against strict company rules, Abby's date wanted more than...

• Nov-1981
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She had ruled love out of her life Fay's every instinct urged caution from the moment she met writer Gabriel Winters, even though his clear gray eyes reflected his deep attraction to her. Love, Fay reminded herself, had taught her a bitter les...

• Nov-1981
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A BEAUTIFUL TEXAS HEIRESS AND THE PRICE SHE PAYS FOR LOVE! Stunning, green-eyed Morgan Stone, daughter of an oil tycoon, found that the exclusive parties, country-club dances, and posh fashion shows of Dallas high society left her as cold as the k...

• Nov-1981
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Is absent-minded Professor Bagley a spy on a secret mission? That's what he reveals to Nancy when he desperately needs her help during their student tour of Europe. Their tour leader is also the leader of an important plan to help ten orphaned childr...

• Nov-1981
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When Nancy arrives at the McGuire’s fitness ranch in Arizona, she discovers that the future of the ranch is being threatened by unexplained accidents. Teaming up with a ghost, Nancy begins her search for a precious collection of ancient Kachina dol...

• Nov-1981
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When an amnesia victim arrives at Rosemont Hospital in River Heights, Nurse Lisa Scotti contacts her friend, Nancy Drew. The young man was found injured, at the bottom of a cliff, with no identification and no memory of what happened to him. A thorou...

• Nov-1981
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When a top fashion model disappears shortly before a benefit fashion show, Nancy’s aunt asks her to fill in and model the beautiful designer clothes. Then the clothes disappear too -- and Nancy is hot on the trail of another exciting mystery. As...

• Nov-1981
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It was a long ocean voyage from England to Virginia but Matt Deverall had a great deal to think about. He was about to embark upon a new life: that of a plantation owner. That America was in the midst of political turmoil with his native land did not...

• Nov-1981
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Anger blinded her to the hidden risks Natalie instinctively fled to the refuge of her father's British Columbia ranch when her job in Vancouver suddenly collapsed. She'd be able to sort out her confused emotions. But she found life ther...

• Nov-1981
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The very sight of him made her weak with desire - this "brother-in-law" she barely knew. What cruel fate drove her into his arms and tempted her to yield to his outrageous demands? Jason Manning's arrogance knew no bounds. First he ex...

• Nov-1981
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St. Peter's Fair is a grand, festive event, attracting merchants from miles around--each one eager to sell luxurious clothing, fine wines, or treasures of silver and gold. But on the eve of the Fair one such merchant, Thomas of Bristol, is found w...

• Nov-1981
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YOUNG, LOVELY--AND AN OLD MAID? Forthright, sensible, attractive Caroline Draper. How could she have gone through two London seasons to no avail? Lovely Caroline, with her sparkling brown eyes and soft brown hair, thought herself well on her way t...

• Nov-1981
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All London was dreaming of a white Christmas, but somewhere on the West End a killer was dreaming of bloody murder. Already dead was a solicitor in Middle Temple, a newsagent in Upper Soho, and two tots in Regent's Park Lake. As the holiday grew clos...

• Nov-1981
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SHE WAS NO LONGER A STAR but a glimmer of recognition still lit his eyes. An accident had altered Sara's looks so that Doug Farrell could not have known that she had once been Sheila Star, the famous singer. Now, her deception had gone too far....

• Nov-1981
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THEY CALLED IT NO MAN'S LAND. ONLY THE RATTLERS SURVIVED. Llano Estacado. Parched plains. Burning, barren land between the Panhandle and Big Bend, Texas. Comanchero country in the old days. And now word was out that the white outlaw traders were b...

• Nov-1981
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In Hot Water, J. Wellington Gedge is the man who has everything-but finds himself caught in a series of international events which will, if he doesn't put a stop to them, leave him wearing the sissy uniform of the American ambassador to Paris....

• Nov-1981
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"My father," Psmith had confided to Mike, meeting him at the station in the family motor on the Monday, "is a man of vast but volatile brain. He has not that calm, dispassionate outlook on life which marks your true philosopher, such as myself. I --"...

• Nov-1981
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DARK AGE DESCENDING Camber of Culdi, most powerful of the, magical Deryni race, was worried. Twelye years before, he had "died" and assumed the form of Bishop Allister Cullen, in order to guide .the human king Cinhil and ensure peace between Deryn...

• Nov-1981
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EVERYONE KNEW THEY'D MAKE THE PERFECT MATCH -- OR PERFECT ENEMIES. No doubt wagers were being taken when Lord Rossington returned to London to brazenly ask for the hand of the lady he had jilted nine years before. Now it seemed all of England sto...

• Nov-1981
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His cool gray eyes and volatile temper should have been warning enough to Lee Masterson, award-winning playwright. She was on her way to the top, and her first opportunity had come from Paul Devon, who forgot about her talent the moment he saw her fa...

• Nov-1981
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From kidnapped collegian to a woman's slave, from landless fugitive to warrior-captain, the life of Jason Marshall on Earth's orbital twin was a constant struggle against the naked power and barbaric traditions of glorious Gor. Now, in the heat of...

• Nov-1981
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"The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women."  --  New York Times Book ReviewAnna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who n...

• Nov-1981
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TRAPPED WITHOUT A PAST! She felt that she couldn't be Jayne Stewart. Yet they told her, after the plane crash that robbed her of her memory, that that was her name, and she could only accept and tremble. She trembled with humiliation, for J...

• Nov-1981
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With his New York Times bestselling Doc Ford novels, author Randy Wayne White has been hailed as “the best new writer since Carl Hiaasen” (Denver Post). But decades ago, under the pen name Randy Striker, he was already delivering non-st...

• Nov-1981
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SHE WAS A LADY IN DISGUISE. Tired of fighting off passes from boss after boss, Samantha Lorrimer took on a new look for her new job. When Cory Talbott, the Wizard of Wall Street, hired her, he thought he had taken on a staid, middle-aged spinst...

• Nov-1981
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There were those who said he couldn't have done it. Not decent, gentle, ordinary George Fortescue, the typical man next door. No matter what the police thought, George Fortescue couldn't have done those terrible things - could he? But the women who'd...

• Nov-1981
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OUT OF THE JAWS OF DESTRUCTION When the Witchmen caused the earth to move and called forth the fires from the mountain's inner depths, the Moon Maidens, Ahrmehnee, and Thoheeks Bili's troops barely escaped with their lives. Driven by the flames in...

• Nov-1981
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Born to sail the seven seas, to hunger for adventure and for the one man who could fulfill her reckless destiny... DAUGHTER OF THE SAVAGE HIGHLANDS, CHILD OF THE STORM-SWEPT SEAS... Oriana -- delicate silver-haired sprite. Born of the Viking pr...

• Nov-1981
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When tycoon, Charles Povey, is killed in a bizarre boating accident, his corrupt, look-alike brother, Arthur, adopts his identity and his financial empire. But the charade becomes complicated when one of Charles''s many mistresses sees through the...

• Nov-1981
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The glittering world of London's ton lived to the fullest heights of excitement. Lady Emily Mardenvail--a beautiful heiress, bored and mischievous, confined to a dull country life. Emily's only hope of amusement is to convince her cousin Gracia to...

• Nov-1981
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The unputdownable and action-packed story of Ancient Rome.Correus and Flavius are half-brothers, sons of a brilliant general. One, son of a slave, is a born warrior destined to excel. The other, a nobleman by birth, must struggle relentlessly to succ...

• Dec-1981
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DARING PIRATE CAPTAIN! BOLD-HEARTED ADVENTURESS! Brave and beautiful Tiana, enemy of the evil and powerful wizard Ekron, embarks on the most perilous of all her adventures at the helm of the Vixen. Armed with a black casket and its mysterious ...

• Nov-1981
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Alexander the Great lies dying. Around his body gather the generals, the provincial satraps and the royal wives, already competing for power and land. Only Bagoas, the Persian boy who loved him, wants nothing. In the struggle for succession, it seems...