Books Published in October 1988

• Oct-1988
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An earthy widow and mother of two was a far cry from the stylish glamour girls dashing man about town Cliff Howard usually dated. But one look into Diana Collin's soulful brown eyes had him thinking about apple pie instead of "cheesecake."...

• Oct-1988
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SWEET-TALKIN' TEXAN With only a quick glance at Nell Regan, a man might miss the beauty in the shy face, or the sexy figure hidden beneath the shapeless clothes. Nell had learned the hard way the she had nothing to offer a man. Her future was here...

• Oct-1988
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"I'm going to marry her," he'd said Just because David Kendrick fell in love with Jade at first sight, it didn't mean she had to go along with the idea! She had escaped to the sanctuary of a Devon village and a job teaching ...

• Oct-1988
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He was wise, strong, and brave. His destiny was to be king. She was young, beautiful, a warrior princess. Her destiny was to love him. But when first they met, it was not as princess and king -- it was as man and woman only, consumed by a passion ...

• Oct-1988
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He hardly seemed to notice her Prudence Makepeace had made her own plans for leaving England -- she'd applied for a job in Scotland. Yet somehow she couldn't ignore the needs of her elderly godmother, and so relucutantly accompanied her on...

• Oct-1988
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THE ASTONISHED EARL The Earl of Rutherford was handsome, charming, rich, generous, and as adept at giving pleasure as he was avid in pursuing it. No wonder, then, that when he marked Miss Jessica Moore as the latest in his endless string of conque...

• Oct-1988
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Elizabeth Carleton. A beautiful and dazzling concert pianist. She seemed to have it all. But when her fabulously wealthy husband is murdered, Elizabeth stands accused--and not even her surprise acquittal in a cliffhanger trial can quiet the whispers ...

• Oct-1988
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Dana Brantley had moved to sleepy River Glen to escape her traumatic past and find the peace she craved. Then a charming ten-year-old interrupted her solitude--and on the boy's heels came his handsome, insistent father. Passionate Nick Verone jeopard...

• Oct-1988
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Devastatingly good-looking and charismatic, ruler Andres Sereno was ruthless when it came to his island of Kadeira--and to the safety of Sara Marsh. Abducting her was the only way he knew to keep her from his enemies--and the only chance he had to ma...

• Oct-1988
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It was a terrible choice for her Yet Kit Landor was as implacable as his piercing blue eyes when he told Charlotte, "You'll marry me or Uncle Joe gets what's coming to him." Charlotte couldn't let her beloved uncle go to ...

• Oct-1988
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He was no longer part of her life Madeleine's anguish when watching West Marriot race, and his refusal to give up the dangerous world of fast cars, had led to their painful divorce. She had managed to avoid the facts surrounding the spectac...

• Oct-1988
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Griffin's bestselling series, The Corps and Brotherhood of War, have captured the pride and glory of the military community. Now he reveals a city police force with the same unique blend of realism, drama, and action. Here are the brave men and women...

• Oct-1988
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Bogie had nothing on him Taking care of business was Eve Whitfield's creed. So when her mother's lover skipped town, Eve hired a private investigator to find him. The condition: Eve would be along for the chase. Gabriel Bouvier had come highly...

• Oct-1988
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She despised the role she had to play When a tragic accident killed her twin -- and crippled her little sister -- a devastated Laurel Grahame needed money for the doctor's bills. And Laurel counted on her dead twin's estranged husband for ...

• Oct-1988
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BEAUTIFUL SCHEMER Brooklyn Hancock was no stranger to dangerous situations. But finding herself at the mercy of a man she'd swindled was enough to make the blue-eyed adventuress a bit nervous. Particularly since her would-be mark was intimidat...

• Oct-1988
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Nate Winslow owed her family a favor Yet only dire financial straits forced Courtney to contact the elderly family friend. Gratefully she accepted his generous offer to live at Hearthstone, his sumptuous Green Bay home, while she put herself throu...

• Oct-1988
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WHAT A PRETTY PICKLE SHE'D GOT INTO -- AND IT TASTED MORE SOUR BY THE MOMENT! Blessed with beauty, Mrs. Manners never bothered with the lesser skills of grammar and spelling. So, in order to entrap a second husband, namely the dashing Duke of ...

• Oct-1988
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The School for Manners Amy and Effy Tribble had an impressive address, impeccable breeding, and a talent for matchmaking. But the funds for their School for Manners were frightfully meager when they advertised to "Bring Out a Wild, Unruly or U...

• Oct-1988
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THE THEATER IS NO PLACE FOR A LADY Pamela Comstock's semi-engagement to weak-kneed Nigel Raleigh interested neither party, not one whit. Luckily for all, Nigel's gaze wandered to the lovely dramatics of Flawless Fleur, the delightful French actres...

• Oct-1988
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TORN BETWEEN DUTY AND LOVE... Border Patrolman Cody Daniels had been sent to work undercover for Mariah Butler. Someone on her ranch was smuggling South American orphans into the U.S., and it was his job to find out who. His bosses didn't care...

• Oct-1988
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Someone wasn't getting the message When Page Linstrom first set eyes on Ian Faber, it was two a.m. and she was delivering an order of truffle pate and champagne to his San Francisco town house. Ian was intrigued. Page kept her distance. But he...

• Oct-1988
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GETAWAY WEEKEND Gregory Duncan was looking forward to getting away from the pressures of his law practice by spending the weekend alone in his friend's country cabin. What he hadn't bargained on was another houseguest -- an obviously frigh...

• Oct-1988
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MISCHIEVOUS VIXEN After seeing her home and family destroyed by the cruel and hateful Epson gang, Randee Hollis swore revenge. The feisty young woman knew that she couldn't do the nasty job alone -- she needed one good man to help her stop the m...

• Oct-1988
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For years a "lost" collector's item, here is the second novel from a brilliant young author testing her literary muscle, and it's bursting at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast of characters and crackling quips. Written immediately a...

• Oct-1988
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Straddling the Mason-Dixon Line since before the Civil War is Runnymede. And it seems that ever since then, most people in the town have been inherently split: between good and bad, or love and sex, or male and female, or politics and sobriety. Nicol...

• Oct-1988
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THE CRUEL HAND OF FATE... When she was sixteen, Megan MacKay worshiped Jeb Jackson. But that was before Jeb, driven by an all-consuming lust for power, ran her daddy off their ranch and laid claim to the MacKay land--leaving Megan nothing but her ...

• Oct-1988
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THE STILL OF THE NIGHT When the rugged cowboy found a gorgeous, unconscious woman and her dead companion along a Texas dirt road, he knew he had to try everything to save the unlucky lady. He spirited her off to his mountain shack, gave her a potion...

• Oct-1988
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California killing fields Ngo Tien, ruthless king of Orange County's Asian underworld, has built his empire of drugs, prostitution and pornography by extorting the people he pretends to serve: the refugees of Southern California's Vietnamese commu...

• Oct-1988
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HEAVY TRAFFIC A powerful cartel of Colombians tightens its stranglehold on the U.S. cocaine trade despite efforts of the DEA to infiltrate the organization. In a desperate bid to cut off the supply at the source, Washington sends one man to wag...

• Oct-1988
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RETURN TO VIETNAM A covert CIA operation to locate American MIAs held captive in Southeast Asia turns sour when Langley's recon operative disappears. Washington knows that Mack Bolan is the man who can find him. But the red dust of South Vietna...

• Oct-1988
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The man was tall, wide-shouldered, powerful-looking. His face was youthful, but his eyes were not.They seemed to reflect years of hard living and hard riding, years in which he had looked death in the face too often, but had always come out standing ...

• Oct-1988
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AT HER DISCRETION When word reached Deirdre Fenton that her brother was pursuing the notorious actress Mrs. Dewinters, she immediately set about extricating her incorrigible sibling from his latest folly. But her brother had gone too far this time f...

• Oct-1988
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A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.In forty-four very sh...

• Oct-1988
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LIFE WAS FOR THE LIVING Sage Parker knew what life at the bottom looked like -- alcohol had seen to that. Now he was living day to day, rebuilding his ranch and teaching his people that life on the reservation had a value all its own... Then into ...

• Oct-1988
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QUESTIONS

Sensitive and idealistic fifteen-year-old Kelly McAllisterfeels at odds with everyone around her. Her best friendhas suddenly turned boy crazy. Her talented mothercreates greeting card designs instead of real art, an...

• Oct-1988
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LIKE A LEGEND COME TO LIFE . . . Wolves were howling and the moon was full on the night Carly Kiernan reached Castle Vadim. Its walls rose forbiddingly, as if part of the mountains themselves. No less forbidding was Jon, Count Vadim, who dressed i...

• Oct-1988
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"CLIVE BARKER IS A SUDDEN MASTER OF THE HORROR GENRE....In Weaveworld, a prosaic Liverpool clerk named Calhoun Mooney falls into a magic carpet. He has entered the cursed and enchanted Weaveworld of the Seerkind, a people with the power to make magic...

• Oct-1988
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"Now's the time you start to pay." The vindictive words cut right through Sian's body. She wanted nothing more than to leave the bitterness of the past behind her, but evidently Blair Davenport wasn't going to let her. Blair...

• Oct-1988
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Lawyer Sam Bogardus thought it was a routine adoption case. His client believed her natural father had died years ago in a bizarre accident. But now, she has received a message that her father is still alive. The message is attached to four pages of ...

• Oct-1988
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Nanny and the Kramers Judy Cassidy took charge at once when she appeared on the doorstep of the Kramer family's residence in Manzanita, Oregon. It was a snap extracting little Katie's foot -- clad in a Big Bird shoe -- from the toilet! Mit...

• Oct-1988
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Step by step, Dwight McAran built a wall of vicious hate around himself. It was easy. He was a man who could slap one woman to death because she loved him, and hum a love song to another while he raped her.Sure, he did some time in jail. He sat in a ...

• Oct-1988
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Once a sheepfarmer's daughter, now a seasoned veteran, Paksenarrion has proven herself a fighter. Years with Duke Phelan's Company taught her weaponry, discipline, and how to react as part of a military unit. Now, though, Paks feels spurred to a s...

• Oct-1988
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It was the place to be seen, the only place to be. And for those who frequented the playground of the very rich, it was a way of life... Mark...dedicated to medicine and to saving others, he almost lost sight of the meaning of his own life. Unti...

• Oct-1988
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Alison Murdock tried her best to remain proper and professional, but how could she describe her unusual inheritance to the most handsome and exciting man she'd ever seen? Tucker Boone was rugged, tanned, with sky blue eyes any Texas cowboy would be p...

• Oct-1988
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Kathy Broderick gazed at the Dallas sky, but there wasn't a hint of snow in it. Then her bike hit the open door of a sleek limousine, and she fell into the lap of an outrageously sexy man! Paul Garth insisted on taking her to the hospital and replaci...

• Oct-1988
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Rudyard Kipling was a prolific British writer and poet.  Kipling’s children fiction, specifically The Jungle Books and Just So Stories, are some of the most famous in English literature.  This edition of The Day’s Work includes a table ...

• Oct-1988
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BUFFALO CENTER RAN ON GUNS AND CORRUPTION. There was a protection racket in this tough town, and it was pay up or die. When one good man said no, they started digging his grave. Slocum decided it was time to end the murder and he didn't care how many...

• Oct-1988
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What did he really want from her? After six years away, Keri returned to the vast Australian cattle station of Kinga Downs to study the dangerous giant crocodiles. She was happy to spend time with Robyn, a dear friend, but seeing the arrogant stat...

• Oct-1988
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Impossible dreams... All Jade Wu wants is to be as all-American as the other girls in Sweet Valley. But her traditional Chinese father won't let her date or do any of the things other teenage girls do, so Jade's sure she'll never fit in. Jade is a t...

• Oct-1988
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Everyone knows Sam Krupnik. He's Anastasia's pesty but lovable younger brother. This is Sam's big chance to tell things exactly the way he sees them. He has his own ideas about haircuts, nursery school, getting shots, and not eating broccoli. Sam ...