Books Published in October 1989

• Oct-1989
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Roman DeWinter came to the charming Seaside Inn with only the clothes on his back and a loaded .38 revolver. His orders: expose a criminal organization based at quaint vacation hideaway, and all the evidence pointed to the innkeeper, Charity Ford. It...

• Oct-1989
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ON-THE-JOB TRAINING Danetta Marist didn't know what to do about her gruff, handsome boss. He gave her looks that made her spine tingle. And then there was that sweet, heart-stopping kiss in his office. But Danetta believed in marriage, and everyon...

• Oct-1989
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It happened all the time Jenneth told herself she wasn't the only woman in the world to have been let down by the man she loved and expected to marry. She knew people went on to rebuild their lives and find lasting relationships. So why cou...

• Oct-1989
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It was too late to correct their mistake Sorrel Llewellyn didn't particularly want to meet her long-lost cousin Val from Australia. However, since the girl had come all this way just to make contact, it seemed a little churlish not to welcome ...

• Oct-1989
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Hannah Maitland congratulated herself "There's no man in my life...no love to whom I'm committed. Not now, not in the past and not in the future." A bleak picture for most women - but for career-minded Hannah it was satisfying. ...

• Oct-1989
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Oliver Watson's world suddenly dissolves around him when Sarah, his wife of eighteen years, returns to Harvard to get her master's degree. Oliver is left on his own, with three children and a freedom he never wanted. When Oliver's mother is diagno...

• Oct-1989
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"Safe, solid, reassuring Oliver," Beatrice thought. She was grateful to have Oliver Latimer on hand to pick up the pieces when her father's heart attack suddenly turned her world upside down. And he didn't make impossible demands, even though h...

• Oct-1989
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RELUCTANT SPY They called her "Highness," ravishing Lady Amanda Sterling, forced to spy on Lord Eric Cameron by the lord governor of Virginia and her evil, ambitious father! She'd detested Eric Cameron on sight. He was a traitor to King and country....

• Oct-1989
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He could forget the dividends! Juliana Grant naturally assumed that once she'd been intimate with her man she was free to pop the question. But when Travis Sawyer turned her down flat, Juliana pulled the sheets out from under him. From now on all ...

• Oct-1989
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THE HALF-BREED AND THE LADY Emily Cordelia Mason Brockinger was a proper lady, Boston born and bred. So nothing could have shocked her more thoroughly than Cloud Ryder's outrageous proposal: He would guide her safely to her brother's home in the S...

• Oct-1989
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Her father had warned her. "Danton Fayette is the most dangerous man I know," he'd said. He advised her to steer clear of the dark, disturbing tycoon. Some deep instinct in Bernadette, however, rose to meet the challenge. She would ...

• Oct-1989
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WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Nightmare Island "Nothing bad w...

• Oct-1989
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It was a time of intrigue and treason in Elizabeth's England when Elise Radborne mysteriously disappeared one night from her uncle's estate. With no idea who her kidnappers were or why they had abducted her, the British beauty found herself p...

• Oct-1989
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No one brings to life the Old West like Louis L'Amour. Collected here for the first time, these vintage frontier stories introduce you to lawmen and loners, ranchers and renegades, gunslingers, cardsharps, bank robbers--even a "he school-ma'rm:" In t...

• Oct-1989
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ROSETTA KNOWS LITTLE OF LIFE BEYOND THE SCHOOLROOM... Until she finds herself shipwrecked off the African coast. Saved from the raging seas by the ship's handsome, mysterious deckhand, she soon discovers her hero is fellow-Londoner Simon Perri...

• Oct-1989
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THEY'RE CAVIAR AND BEER. KEROSENE ON FIRE. THEY'RE GOING TO FALL IN LOVE She was the most beautiful British bauble in Europe's jet-set playgrounds. Now she's broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown... ...

• Oct-1989
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SHE WAS HEIR TO A GLORIOUS DESTINY -- BUT ONE MAN'S LOVE WOULD CHALLENGE HER DREAMS... For Sloan Stewart, romance meant only heartache and betrayal. Rip Stewart's eldest daughter was raised as if she were the son he never had. She knew e...

• Oct-1989
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"This is Jared Snow warming you...in the HEART OF THE NIGHT" Every night, the husky voice of D.J. Jared Snow wafts over the airwaves of Rhode Island. As warm and pliant as a kiss, it arouses scores of women listeners, each with a fantasy ...

• Oct-1989
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It was the chance of a lifetime Any ambitious secretary like Jolene would seize the opportunity to accompany the big boss on a wide-ranging business trip to the Soviet Union. However, impressing Cheyne Templeton with her sterling qualities was...

• Oct-1989
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When Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he left behind the first four chapters of a new Philip Marlowe thriller. Now three decades later, Robert B. Parker, the bestselling creator of the Spenser detective novels, has completed POODLE SPRINGS in a full-le...

• Oct-1989
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Sara had once dreamed of lots of things -- Of doing something more exciting, of leaving town, of meeting a man who'd see behind her quiet exterior a woman eager for life. Now, though, she was resigned to being the spinster secretary to the ...

• Oct-1989
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In this exciting new series, W.E.B. Griffin reveals a city police force with all the authentic detail and drama that made THE CORPS and BROTHERHOOD OF WAR phenomenal bestsellers. Here is an explosive novel of the men and women behind the badge -- a u...

• Oct-1989
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At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist. Alex encounters a face from his own past--Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Al...

• Oct-1989
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She was free at last to do what she wanted Family pressures had forced Ashley at nineteen to give up the man she loved. Now, six years later, she wanted to put the family farm back on its feet. She hadn't counted, though, on Ross Reid, now...

• Oct-1989
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Nothing made any sense to Ginny She'd been dutifully helping one of her domestic agency's clients by running 17 children to school -- then wham! Not only was Ginny kidnapped along with the children by their dynamically attractive uncle ...

• Oct-1989
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Predominantly set in the valleys of Uttarakhand, the stories in this book are warm, intimate portraits of life in the Himalayan foothills. Apart from gently satirical studies about village and small-town braggarts and petty officials, this collection...

• Oct-1989
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Lacey hadn't expected this sudden change True, she'd always known she was slated to take over running the family hotel sometime. Now, her father's bad health meant it would be sooner rather than later. The Clinton hotel had a disadv...

• Oct-1989
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THE DANCER AND THE DETECTIVE. TOGETHER, THEY'RE EXPLOSIVE... Amanda Charles was a showgirl with Grace Kelly good looks and lovely violet eyes that were wide open to both the golden glamour and sequined tawdriness of Reno. But like the dancers in ...

• Oct-1989
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MODERN NOTIONS WERE ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT WHERE DID ONE FIND A MAN TO SHARE THEM? Though Frederica chafed at the restricted life she lived as the adopted daughter of the infamous bluestocking Mrs. Waverley, she did agree with her philosophy. Unti...

• Oct-1989
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THE SCHOOL FOR MANNERS Amy and Effy Tribble are matchmakers extraordinaire, but when Clarissa Vevian is sent to their School For Manners, the redoubtable Tribbles fear they have met their match. How can they possibly polish this potentially lovely...

• Oct-1989
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It isn't called Hell's Kitchen for nothing--a gritty landscape of dark doorways and dirty alleys inhabited by crack addicts and homeless. A sleaze-and-terror playground lorded over by Mickey Ballou, the bloodstained Butcher Boy. Ex-cop, ex-boozer, ex...

• Oct-1989
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She was no stranger to the dead But the venerable scholar on Kristin Wallace's bed was recently dead -- and Charles Belmain blamed her for the demise of the Belmain-family archivist. In England to conduct research, Kristin put her historical m...

• Oct-1989
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A MAN WITH A MISSION One morning, government agent Tim Walker woke up to find a beautiful woman sleeping next to him -- and his memory of the last two weeks gone. When the mysterious blonde gave her same as Elisabeth Barringer, the situation went...

• Oct-1989
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Single mother Gillian Hunter steered clear of men -- especially well-meaning ones. Still, she desperately needed help keeping her mischievous young son in line. How could she refuse Kurt Reynolds's generous offers to play "big brother" to the boy? ...

• Oct-1989
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They were both running away Roslin Hebb was trying to escape from a life that had suddenly turned sour. Tyson McCully had a past that made him scared to trust in the future. A chance meeting brought them together and their paths seemed fated to...

• Oct-1989
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New York Times bestselling author Piers Anthony's Man from Mundania concludes the fan-favorite Xanth trilogyEmbark on a thrilling journey with Ivy, a young, bored out-of-her-wits princess trapped within the confinements of Castle Roogna. Yearning for...

• Oct-1989
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OUT OF THE ASHES In the heat of an upcoming U.S.-Soviet summit. a dozen people in the Washington, D.C., Federal Witness Protection Program are executed. While acting as a security consultant for the President, Mack Bolan starts digging -- and disc...

• Oct-1989
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McMurtry's follow-up to All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers will capture a whole new audience, opening up the world of the now-millionaire Danny Deck and his strong and passionate daughter T.R.."Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious...

• Oct-1989
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Rugged vet Paul Belue was part Clark Gable, part Cajun Gypsy, and all mouth-watering male, but when elegant, mysterious Caroline Fitzsimmons arrived to train his pet wolf for a movie, he vowed to drive the cool sorceress from his bayou mansion! She w...

• Oct-1989
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One rash day financial dynamo H. M. Somerset had cashed in her ritzy urban existence for a one-way ticket to a remote Caribbean isle. Now, two years later, she was at peace -- until plane trouble stranded thorny workaholic mogul Silas Duran in her tr...

• Oct-1989
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A PERILOUS LOVE In the folk-tales of pre-Christian Russia, the most dangerous ghost of all was the Rusalka, a murdered girl still seeking to exist by drawing the energy of life from all nearby living things. Once Pyetr Kochevikov had mocked belief i...

• Oct-1989
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Only one woman would ever claim his heart. Bad Company Jessie Conway's family always came first. She would brave anything to find her father--even the likes of a man she thought a dangerous gunslinger. Cole Matthews was on the trail of a col...

• Oct-1989
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SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION Psychologist Jacqui Hughes rarely lost her cool. Then a series of suspicious fires sent sexy fire fighter Scott Llewellyn into her life, and he began wreaking havoc with her heart. To Jacqui's consternation, Scott was...

• Oct-1989
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Police officer Lianna Novak was furious about her transfer to Burglary, but when handsome Detective Michael Kirvaly claimed her as his partner, she was shocked by the attraction that sizzled between them! Michael felt his breath catch when the sultry...

• Oct-1989
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TEXAS TEMPTATION Widower Joshua Malone had his hands full running a business and raising his two small children all by himself. So he hired Melissa Banning as a housekeeper to make his life easier--and immediately found he'd only added to his trou...

• Oct-1989
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WAGONS WEST For one hundred glorious years America offered true freedom to those seeking to escape tyranny's chains. Now, in 1876, pioneer and farmer, businessman and laborer, join to celebrate the grand Centennial. It will be a day to remember fore...

• Oct-1989
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Her assignment was reasonably straightforward At least that's what Coralie Rhodes--working under the name of Lee Roman--expected. She was to go to Bermuda and interview an industrial tycoon. But that was before she met the tycoon--and more ...

• Oct-1989
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In a novel that sizzles with passionate intrigue and breathtaking romance, Marsha Canham whisks the reader back to war-torn Scotland as a legendary warrior fights for the two things most precioius to any man: his country and the woman he loves. TH...

• Oct-1989
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WAS IT POSSIBLE TO FLUNK LOVE? What was the quintessential high-powered businesswoman doing with a laid-back cartoonist who'd lampooned her in a nationally syndicated comic strip? Eating Larry Toland's gooey desserts. Enjoying him in his role a...

• Oct-1989
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Matching wits with a murderer was a deadly dare... Abigail Deane had made it her mission to ensure that the fortune in Confederate gold left to her and her sisters, Linsey and Kate, was safely banked and invested. But the bank accounts now showed ...