Books Published in October 1981

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I don't care for wheeler-dealers! Even before she knew him personally, Megan disliked Jerome Towers, the wealthy landowner plotting to buy out her family's farm. And when she eventually did meet him, he was as arrogant as she'd exp...

• Oct-1981
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A new place, a new job -- and a new love! Louisa did want desperately to get out from under the roof of her disagreeable stepmother, and she couldn't bear the thought of marrying Frank, who bored her. So after finishing nursing school, she jum...

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SHE COULDN'T DENY HER FEELINGS ANY LONGER. Three years after Shari escaped from the Lancaster family patriarchs, she returned home at the news of her mother's stroke. The reunion with her stepbrother, Whit Lancaster, brought the unexpecte...

• Oct-1981
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Could he love again? Did he even want to? Luck, the man with the blue, blue eyes, had called Eve "a little brown mouse." Unfortunately, it was true. Eve had always thought of herself as a very nondescript, "plain Jane" type. Bor...

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A sheltered New England beauty yearning for excitement... A passionate Latin landowner with love to share... In colorful, intoxicating Brazil they explode in a frenzy of desire and surrender with flaming abandon. But as neighboring plantation owners,...

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One night threatened to ruin her life Natasha was crushed when her engagement to Mike Porter was suddenly called off. And that was the only reason she allowed herself to have so much champagne at the party. But there was no excuse for finding h...

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Would the sordid past haunt her forever? Caroline Marshall had been abandoned as a child, but when a house was left to her in her father's will, she went to north Queensland to claim her inheritance. She didn't even know she had a pas...

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"YOU MUSTN'T DO IT, HYDEE!" Ellie's reaction was instantaneous, and Hydee Merrill knew her best friend was right. It would be madness to accept the terms offered by the arrogant Marques Carlos de Alva Manrique! Hydee had answere...

• Oct-1981
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Every line of his face, from the deep-set eyes to the arrogant nose and harshly carved cheekbones, declared that this was a man who lived by his own rules. He hadn't come to Tucson for his health. Hunter Manning wanted revenge. Stacy Rylan looked i...

• Oct-1981
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It was the most incredible thing: a corpse sitting in an empty hansom cab. And it wasn't just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Pitt and his sleuthing wife, Charlotte, this seemed the sheerest lunacy. Who would want to ...

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He would never love someone like her! They met accidentally -- total strangers, but sparks of awareness and antagonism flew between them. It was later, under very different circumstances, that Gay discovered him to be Luke Ashley, the self-made...

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Regan had to find a husband! There were only five weeks before her twenty-fifth birthday, and by then she had to be married or she would lose the home she loved so dearly. So when Keir Anderson turned up out of the blue -- and out of her past -...

• Oct-1981
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She'd lose her best friend -- or her heart! Debra felt responsible for Liz since the younger girl's parents had died. So when the job in Hong Kong was offered to Debra, she insisted that Liz come, too. "Fine," said Vane Oliver, ...

• Oct-1981
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Joanna swore her heart had been broken when Peter Finley married someone else. Then two gentlemen came to call. Sir Rollin Denby, handsome, tailored in the height of London fashion, flirted with her outrageously. Mr. Jonathan Erland, who had just ret...

• Oct-1981
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Miss Marjorie Montmorency James was very lovely, very young, and very impressionable. Which is why she fell in love with Lord Philip's picture in the newspaper. Until then, she had only fantasized about a mysterious, shadowy lover whose features ...

• Oct-1981
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She was lovely, the German heiress, Maria. She had the grace of a swan and the face of an angel. But she found the Englishman, Lord Moncrief unsuitable. Fascinating, but unsuitable. Too bold. Moncrief, for his part, appeared to prefer the enchanting ...

• Oct-1981
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Holly McCormack had no beauty but combined a beautiful voice with a witty tongue and a sensible approach to life. She lived with her aunt and beautiful cousin Jane near the Abbey, Lord Dewar’s home. He announced he would produce Romeo and Juliet, w...

• Oct-1981
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She was trading one heartache for another Just when Iseult was getting over her broken affair with a Paris artist, she found herself facing marriage to Nicholas Veryan. He didn't love her; the marriage would only be to secure a stepmother for ...

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DEEP LOVE Auburn-haired, amber-eyed Melanie Morganfield had already lived in Asa Parker's mansion since she was a child. But with each passing day now, the kind family friend -- 29 years her senior -- found it harder and harder to control his...

• Oct-1981
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He didn't deserve to know he was a father Ravelle had hoped for a quiet pleasant holiday in Queensland, on the Barrier Reef with her fiance, Matthew. But somehow that wasn't to be.... One of the first people Ravelle saw there was none o...

• Oct-1981
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A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S STORM-WRACKED ODYSSEY IN AN AGE OF BREATHTAKING OPULENCE Lovely young Kate Callahan was innocent of the harsh realities of existence when her swashbuckling robber-baron father died and left her stripped of the protection of we...

• Oct-1981
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Money was exchanged instead of love... Rowena's father had coerced her. into marrying the local squire, Sean Tancred. Both men profited by the arrangement -- only Rowena gained nothing. Actually, her father believed he was doing her a favor...

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Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs....

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She went for a child but stayed for a man... Katherine soon knew she was in trouble! She agreed to take a "tug-of-love" child to Scotland, out of his father's reach. Coralie Edgar the mother, obviously loved her son and was frightened...

• Oct-1981
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THIEF! Becky is furious! The Checkertown librarian has accused her of stealing a rare children's book, and she's determined to prove her innocence by tracking down the real culprit. With the help of her twin brother Toby, Becky investigates a rash o...

• Oct-1981
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Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women . . . and solving crimes! A binge-worthy cozy mystery series from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon Brett, OBE. For fan...

• Oct-1981
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SHE WAS WHIRLED ABOUT IN A DANCE OF LOVE AND DANGER All London wildly applauded beautiful young Nonna Lambert as she danced from triumph to triumph on the stage. But the aristocratic audience that adored her would have despised her had they known ...

• Oct-1981
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All love aside, she would make him pay! Danni's sole dream had always been to succeed triumphantly in the male-dominated world of motor racing, until Shiloh O'Rourke came along.... She fell in love with him almost overnight--only to hav...

• Oct-1981
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HER TEMPESTUOUS SPIRIT AND WILD BEAUTY HAUNTED THE STORM-SWEPT CORNISH COAST... MEG DEVORAN - Recluse by day, by night the flame-haired smuggler, Red Meg...She would be ruthlessly hunted through moonless nights, swept into a perilous web of intrig...

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THEIR FUTURE WAS AT STAKE. Keely insisted that she had come to the Pacific paradise of Salutu only to write about its reclusive inhabitant, successful Canadian businessman Jordan Lang. But Jordan, who accepted her presence only grudgingly, refu...

• Oct-1981
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The most dangerous matrix on all Darkover was the legendary Sharra. Embodied in the image of a chained woman, wreathed in flames, it was the last remaining weapon of the Ages of Chaos that had almost destroyed civilization on the planet of the Bloody...

• Oct-1981
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Everything depends on Ramona. Ramona's job is to be nice to fussy Mrs. Kemp, who watches her while her mother works. If Mrs. Quimby didn't work, Mr. Quimby couldn't return to college. On top of all that, third grade isn't turning out as Ramona expec...

• Oct-1981
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Once there was unlimited magic, but reckless magicians have used up the ""mana,"" the power behind the magic. Larry Niven opens his world to the storytelling talents of Poul Anderson, Steven Barnes, Mildred Downey Broxon, and Dean Ing with storie...

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IT WAS THE SALE OF THE CENTURY. AND MURDER WAS GOING CHEAP. The anxious buyers lining up in front of Bonnard's department store were bursting with anticipation even though the doors would not be opened for days. But with the New Year's festivities...

• Oct-1981
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THE LAVETTE SAGA CONTINUES -- PITTING AN EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY AGAINST ITSELF AND AGAINST A SOCIETY IN THE THROES OF VIOLENT UPHEAVAL AND RADICAL CHANGE... The LAVETTES -- powerful, envied, hated, admired. From Nob Hill to Hollywood, from Washing...

• Oct-1981
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In the realm of psychological suspense, Thomas Harris stands alone. Exploring both the nature of human evil and the nerve-racking anatomy of a forensic investigation, Harris unleashes a frightening vision of the dark side of our well-lighted world. I...

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DENVER -- A CITY SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE. LAND WAS HARD TO FIND. DEAD BODIES WEREN'T. An outlaw called Timberline has risen from his grave in Salt Lake City to walk the sun-bleached streets of Denver. But when Longarm looks into the matter, he fi...

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The New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp.“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that hum...

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A complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham, declares it inedible, and sets out to complain to Duff and Trotter, one of London's most exclusive merchants...

• Oct-1981
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London society looks on in awe as a daring beauty matches wits with one of England's most charming rakes... AN ARISTOCRATIC ENTANGLEMENT With the voice of a songbird and a beauty unrivaled in Regency England, Marissa was the singing sensati...

• Oct-1981
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RIDE A DEADLY TRAIL Skye Fargo himself wasn't sure if he'd taken on the job of trail boss for the group of small ranchers because of threats made against him by the Haskells, who were trying to wipe out the local competition and didn't want Fargo ...

• Oct-1981
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TOO DANGEROUS TO LIVE. TOO VALUABLE TO KILL. Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvork, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grain-ships. This Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of pe...

• Oct-1981
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His name is Charles Render, and he is a psychoanalyst, and a mechanic of dreams. A Shaper. In a warm womb of metal, his patients dream their neuroses, while Render, intricately connected to their brains, dreams with them, makes delicate adjustments, ...

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Poor little Susie Burke. A beautiful dreamer, she imagined herself happy in a rose-covered cottage, only to find herself mistress of a great damp castle and wife to the elderly Earl of Blackball. Luck, not the lecherous earl, contrived to spare he...

• Oct-1981
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Yvette spent her childhood in the convent where her mother left her. Now her mother, who had been a famous and beautiful actress, was dead, and had left her daughter a legacy of precious jewels. Only, as it turned out, the jewels were worthless. Past...

• Oct-1981
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It all started with the baby shower that friends gave Sergeant Hackett. There, Alice Mendoza, bride of Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, met the insufferable Margaret Chadwick.But the next morning, Miss Chadwick's body was discovered in the Southern Pacific f...

• Oct-1981
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THE MANTRAP WORLDS Somewhere, from among the four human-settled worlds of the Warden Diamond, hostile aliens were spying on Earth. But no agent could be sent to investigate and report back. All trips to the Warden worlds were one-way. There, a mic...