Books Published in October 1996

• Oct-1996
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Nora Roberts explores the wilds of the Grand Tetons--and the mysteries of love, murder, and madness--in her engrossing and passionate new novel ... The sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, Reece Gilmore settles in Angel's Fist, Wyoming--...

• Oct-1996
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Where is it written that a rancher's daughter has to marry a long, tall Texan-or lose the ranch? In her father's will-and Dana Mobry's just discovered that her partner in this marriage of convenience is none other than the sexiest cowboy in Texas-Han...

• Oct-1996
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All London is at Julia Wentworth's feet. The beautiful, enchanting actress is the toast of the theater world--and anything she desires is hers for the asking. But the incomparable leading lady guards a devastating secret: a mystery husband whom she d...

• Oct-1996
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Her wedding fast approaching, celebrated chef Kady Long knew she was the luckiest woman alive...until she slipped into a delicate satin wedding dress she found in and antique flour tin, and was overcome by an odd dizzy spell. When she came to, Kady w...

• Oct-1996
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Falling for the Professor... All the village assumed that Margo Pearson was to marry George, but unexpectedly meeting Professor Gijs van Kessel made her pause for thought. But being a plain, practical girl, Margo knew the professor was most unlike...

• Oct-1996
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Flower girls always have a special place in church -- especially when they pit Dylan, the sexy young reverend, against a feisty stranger, and come up smelling like roses....

• Oct-1996
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In a time when technology can manipulate moods and emotions, death holds the promise of ultimate ecstasy... They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Th...

• Oct-1996
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Dear Reader: The Heir first appeared as Lord Deverill's Heir all the way back in 1980. I have extensively rewritten this novel, giving it greater scope and depth, but most important are the changes in all the characters. They are now richer an...

• Oct-1996
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Left a bequest by a woman with rare psychic powers, Eada of Pevensey suddenly finds herself in possession of a box containing a mysterious document...and something even more extraordinary: the gift of second sight. Now she can actually "see" ...

• Oct-1996
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Russian exile Nikolas Rokoff has stolen an ancient crystal amulet--the key to terrifying power. It can be used to conquer the very depths of time and space, but if Rokoff releases its supernatural forces, the gem will rip apart the fabric of reality....

• Oct-1996
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Coming home for Christmas! Matthew Hamilton's baby daughter, Sophie, adores Daisy Blair. So when Sophie needs it babysitter while she and Matthew are staying with her grandmother over Christmas, he looks no further than Daisy. What Matthew doe...

• Oct-1996
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He had returned to save her... Once a handsome prince rescued a beautiful princess.... Well, that was what Rowena Goodman's children believed. And they soon decided that Keir Delahunty was the prince sent to rescue their mother. But Rowena had...

• Oct-1996
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Final revenge Robin Fear has waited decades for this moment. His evil plan is in place. Dierdre Bradley, her father, and Fear Park will be destroyed. Nothing can stop Robin now. Except one person. Who's been watching--finding out Robin's secrets...

• Oct-1996
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PUMPKIN POWER! Nothing beats Halloween. It's Drew Brockman's favorite holiday. And this year will be awesome. Much better than last year. Or the year Lee and Tabby played that joke. A nasty practical joke on Drew and her best friend, Walker. Yes, th...

• Oct-1996
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ALL WRAPPED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO While you're on vacation, you get a chance to check out an exhibit of Egyptian artifacts and a pretty cool mummy. But when you get to where the mummy is supposed to be, all you find is a pile of bandages and a really...

• Oct-1996
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Holly is having a hard time with freshman algebra, and the additional pressures of trying to figure out the identity of her secret admirer and write the new advice column in the school paper almost make her forget about Jesus...

• Oct-1996
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After nuclear holocaust, a former soldier fights to form a new nation and defeat mutants in this thrilling adventure from a USA Today�"bestselling author. Destroyed by the fires of nuclear war, our once great nation is in shambles. Life as we know i...

• Oct-1996
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LEGEND. OUTCAST. FREE MAN. The natural enemy of every free man is his own government... He has gone by many names during his long life. Heretic. Rebel. Ransom. Today he is called Cantrell. A beleaguered man of awesome strength and extraordinary p...

• Oct-1996
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An unlikely match... He's a farmer, she's an image consultant. He despises city women and she hates the country. But when a series of bizarre coincidences make Kear Lannion and Jan Carruthers neighbors, he just can't seem to keep away ...

• Oct-1996
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One of the most influential and glamorous cattlemen of northern Australia, Blake Courtland seems way out of ordinary Carolyn Donovan's reach. She is under no illusions-Blake couldn't possible want to make his aggravating neighbor his blushing...

• Oct-1996
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McCall Harrison was looking for a man. Not a man to love and hold, for her heart had died with her husband. What she needed now was a man for her mission. Sloan Alexander was looking for redemption. The war had stolen his hope and pride. But a bea...

• Oct-1996
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“When I want something, I stop at nothing until I get it...” Keen Malone couldn't believe his ears when Meg O'Neill turned him down for a loan! Determined to make the cool beauty understand that his wildlife center was the mountain's only hop...

• Nov-1996
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Dear Reader: At this magical time of year, I am always reminded of the fragile threads that bind our lives and the strength that comes from caring. It's the season when we hold our loved ones a little closer and say "I love you" just a bit more of...

• Oct-1996
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SHOULD SHE BELIEVE HER HEART... "For Lucy Tait, no one personified the word hero as much as Blue McCoy. As a child, he was her self-appointed rescuer, and as a teenager, he was the boy who hot away. Now he was back. But he was also a suspect in an...

• Oct-1996
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To have ... but not to hold! Logan Steele was determined to win back his bride, Abigail -- even after four long years. And if she wouldn't come willingly, then he'd have to make her an offer she couldn't refuse and simply 'borrow'...

• Oct-1996
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Mistress material? Dane Sutherland was rich, powerful and sinfully gorgeous. He had it all--but he wanted more! He wanted Suzanne...and she was equally determined not to fall into his arms, or his bed! Suzanne had a deep grudge against Dane'...

• Oct-1996
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Christmas surprise! Lysan was miles away from home at this special time of year. She missed her family and friends, but found it all too easy to forget that she was engaged--to a man she could never love. And the longer she spent with Dante, her L...

• Oct-1996
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Amaryllis Lark is undeniably beautiful. She's also one of the best psychic detectives on St. Helen's, the earth colony recently cut off from the mother planet, yet not very different from home - a place where love still defies the most incredible odd...

• Oct-1996
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At 31, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At 29, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy ...

• Oct-1996
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Tommy Phan is a thirty-year-old Vietnamese-American detective novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American dream. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his doorstep. It's rather like a rag...

• Oct-1996
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An elegant career woman. A tough ex-cop. Great chemistry. Big trouble. Gabriella Starr has silk suits, champagne tastes, a great new career...and a stranger following her. She's definitely in danger, according to ex-cop and new D.A. Cam Yeager...

• Oct-1996
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There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desperation, Nevada. It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die. Let the battle against evil begin. Welcome to...Desperation ...

• Oct-1996
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"The more I see of you, the more I want you..." Jacques Challier's outrageous declaration took Sandi Gosdon's breath away, but she didn't trust him! He saw her as a challenge, nothing more. Marriage wasn't in the cards, and...

• Oct-1996
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Estranged from his wife, Amy, Jake Cantrell feels his life has stalled as he approaches his twenty-ninth birthday. Seeking a divorce and distance, he has moved to the town of Kent, Connecticut, to concentrate on his new electrical contracting busines...

• Oct-1996
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Young scientist Jeannie Ferrami discovers a baffling mystery. Two young men, law student Steve and convicted murderer Dan, appear to be identical twins. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers. Jeannie investigates, but shadowy for...

• Oct-1996
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Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato is a maverick lawyer who prosecutes police misconduct and excessive-force cases, and business at her firm of Rosato & Biscardi has never been better. Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart. All evidenc...

• Oct-1996
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ANCIENT MAGIC As mysterious, magical onslaughts ravage Valdemar and the kingdoms of the West, the western allies have traveled far to locate the ruins of the Tower of Urtho, Mage of Silence, and excavate his legendary Vault, hidden stronghold of s...

• Oct-1996
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First comes marriage...then comes love Arizona Adams: reluctant bride Arizona needed financial help; she didn't need a husband. Then she discovered that the man demanding she become his bride had been secretly funding her for months.... Dec...

• Oct-1996
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He wasn't about to be hog-tied! Wyatt Logan, champion bull rider, isn't ready to settle down. But from the moment he spots Charity Webster's cute little behind stuck in his aunt Nora's doggy door, he knows he's going to end up eating dust. Then...

• Oct-1996
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When Countess Zorah Rostova asks London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone to defend her against a charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For, without a shred of evidence, the countess insists that the prince of her small German pr...

• Oct-1996
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MEN OF WHISKEY RIVER Gavin Thomas: sexy, strong-minded, determined to have his own way and to find out the truth about �" Tara Delaney: Beautiful and beguiling. Back home in Whiskey River under duress. Lying through her teeth about something...

• Oct-1996
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Famous photojournalist Ryan Hunter has come back to a family torn apart by mistrust and resentment - to the father who disowned him, to the brother who betrayed him, to the little boy who shares his features. Ryan, the charismatic "bad boy" son, has ...

• Oct-1996
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Family secrets? Brett Carmichael walked out of nowhere into Lauren Halstead's life. All she knew about him was that he had gorgeous brown eyes and a long, lean body. He didn't seem to have a heart... or a past. Brett had come home after...

• Oct-1996
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The police think he killed someone. He swears he’s innocent. All she knows for certain is his crime against her. Louis Dubose, international art dealer, has been murdered. The police are certain they’ve got their man. Recently fired by Dubose, Be...

• Oct-1996
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He looked good enough to be Prince Charming.... Linc Blaise needed the perfect fiancee to win his dream job, but finding a woman who'd be convincing in a charade seemed impossible -- until he heard Daisy Flattery charm her way out of a sticky ...

• Oct-1996
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In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World--forces so terrible that when last they threatened, they could only be withstood by sealing off the old World ...

• Oct-1996
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A MAN ABOUT TO DIE... A WOMAN READY TO LIVE... Torn between devotion and a secret yearning for adventure and fulfillment, Mary Dennehy makes her choice. Shocking her family, she leaves the convent and her cloistered existence behind and sets out ...

• Oct-1996
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Here is New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's debut novel, a celebration of Black sisterhood hailed by Essence as one of the “50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years”.Valerie, Inda, and Chiquita are three women looking...

• Oct-1996
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It was another drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most drug-plagued housing projects - but the victim was the ex-wife of a politician. Now this explosive case is about to reunite an unlikely group of men and women who first bonded in the rev...

• Oct-1996
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Wanted: Willing Man To Wed Widow She popped the question after knowing him for one hour. For Beth Warren desperately needed a husband, and Nathan Maxwell was the perfect groom. But though she had planned on a marriage in name only, Nathan wasn't ...