Books Published in April 1977

• Apr-1977
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Never before in his fantastic career on Kregen, planet of the twin suns of Antares, had Dray Prescot been in such a desperate predicament. A despised outcast by his friends who wore the red of Zair, he had now been condemned by his old enemies whose ...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / Historical Romance
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Young, innocent Sarah Cooper couldn't believe her good fortune when she was invited to go to the fashionable British resort of Bath as companion to Cassandra Fleetwood. There in the lush splendor of the ballroom, Sarah is dazzled by her first gl...

• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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What was the price of stardom -- and would young Angie Brenton be willing to pay it? That was the question that faced Angie as the aspiring actress set her sights on a dazzling theatrical career. Promising her a helping hand was ruthless, egocentr...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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New York Times�"bestselling author Jacqueline Briskin’s steamy romantic saga about two generations of a privileged California family that chases the American dream, from the post�"World War II boom years to the turbulent, psychedelic 1960s The ye...

• Apr-1977
• / Epic Fantasy
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THE SWORD OF SHANNARA is the first volume of the classic series that has become one of the most popular fantasy tales of all time Long ago, the wars of the ancient Evil ruined the world. In peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knows litt...

• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Honey Milward agreed to act as fiancee to the formidable plastic surgeon John Anston -- a man she'd always regarded as a monster. The arrangement was only for the benefit of John's visiting sister, an incorrigible matchmaker. Unfortunately, h...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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 “An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable.” -- Booklist, starred reviewThe star of her school’s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic…until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the...

• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Eden's hopes for her new life were dashed. She and her autocratic grandfather, George Pomeroy just didn't get along. Tired of being treated like a mindless nonentity, Eden left to establish herself elsewhere. Then she met the equally autoc...

• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Della tried to shut out the disturbing effect Cal was having on her. "Might be better if you let yourself go occasionally" he said. "I'd kind of like to see what's behind that wall you've built up around yourself." D...

• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Catriona had left her quiet Scottish home and come to London to marry Jeremy Lord -- only to find that Jeremy had forgotten about his holiday romance. Instead, she found herself involved with his sophisticated uncle, Jason. And Jason was even more ...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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A captivating collection unveiling the intricacies of love, life, and legacyThese twelve stories, told from the viewpoint of young women in life’s mid-passage, explore the splendors and miseries of love, both carnal and spiritual, and cast back thr...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Abbie had never really minded being just "Leo Lansing's daughter." Leo was a famous actor, and she believed no one would ever find her interesting for herself alone. Then she met the famous writer, Max Routledge, and his open dislike o...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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The Durrell family returns to the island of Corfu, continuing the story begun in My Family and Other Animals. Already an ardent naturalist at the age of 10, the young Gerald lives in an unconventional and disordered household with his mother, sister,...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"What concerns me," Matthew said, "is your position in this household. I've come to the conclusion that you're either too good to be true or else very ingenuous. I'm warning you, Olivia. Any mischief and you can expect no merc...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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After the Texas-New York nuclear holocaust the Starkies began to emerge. Loving, reasoning people with neural disorders. Gentle people who could suddenly brain out and destroy every living thing in sight. Cramer was a Starkey. Buried deep within Kenm...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1977
• / Fantasy
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Welcome to the Enchanted Twilight World of Atlanton Earth You are invited to enter a universe unto itself ... a vast realm of forest and river, mountain and cave, town and castle... a place of peril where the forces of light and the forces of darkne...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1977
• / Historical Romance
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LOVE... FORTUNE... DANGER Drucilla was a beauty. An incredible beauty. But when her career as an actress failed, the only alternative seemed the street. Then Kevin Farrell proposed she impersonate the long-lost granddaughter of one of nineteenth...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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The Night of the Wolf. On the Avenue in the bleak area where New York City blends into suburbia, the Orphans, their fast Fords and their Chevys 'coated by ice and leather and white dust', prepare to engage in deadly, intricately structured games of c...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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In a bullet-scarred game lodge, Colin Tait, a journalist, waits to interview hunter turned conservationist Cornelius van Delden.The occasion is the first wildlife conference after a Black African war. Van Delden's dramatic entrance triggers off a co...

• Apr-1977
• / Historical
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The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great. As the Civil War draws to its inevitable climax, THE WARRIORS carries the turbulent chronicle of the divided Kent family to far-reaching new battlefields. A gracious Southern p...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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What do you say when:you bump into a crocodile on a crowded city street?a nice gentleman introduces you to a baby elephant?the Queen feeds you so much spaghetti that you don't fit in your chair anymore?This is the funniest book of manners you'll ...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1977
• / Gothic
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Canyon of Darkness The circle grew. It was moving, coming closer like a flying saucer in a crimson sky. A scintillating fireball, whirling and shooting sparks, this way, that way, faster and faster in an erratic zigzag. Nearer! Nearer! Now it hove...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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Turkey’s greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal’s books delve deeply into the entrenched social and historical conflicts that scar th...

• Apr-1977
• / Gothic
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From the moment beautiful young Millijoy Gray came in contact with the proud Phenwick clan, she knew she would do anything to become a Phenwick woman. What matter if her birth was clouded in mystery? What matter if her childhood had been spent in tor...

• Apr-1977
• / Suspense
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Paris Police Inspector Paul Picard pursues the captivating Ric Lazare and his uncanny fortune-telling machine across the Europe of the 1860s, through deceits and violent deaths, and back to Paris and a necessary confrontation...

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• Apr-1977
• / Fantasy
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This debut novel from preeminent science-fiction writer Ursula LeGuin introduces her brilliant Hainish series, set in a galaxy seeded by the planet Hain with a variety of humanoid species, including that of Earth. Over the centuries, the Hainish colo...

• Apr-1977
• / Traditional Regency
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1782, London Alethea Newnham is a young woman with decided literary tastes, to the extent that she is called a Bluestocking by the gossips of Town. Educated in the country by her scholarly father and raised as an equal with her brothers, Alethe...

• Apr-1977
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• / Historical Romance
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• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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The classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the world’s greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus is the world’s gre...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / Science Fiction
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In this unforgettable space opera, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin presents a chilling vision of eternal night -- a volatile world where cultures clash, codes of honor do not exist, and the hunter and the hunted are often int...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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It has to be coincidence! Charlotte stared at the man through a mist of confusion. It was Logan. An older Logan, of course, but unmistakably the man who had ravaged her emotions and then abandoned her all those years ago. She ought to feel angr...

• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"That sort of proposal went out with the Ark," Nikki said. ''It's the sort of thing novelists used to write about. What you really want, Philip de Berg. is a slave girl, like your ancestors had. You'll make out a receipt for me and mail it to my fath...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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A phenomenal worldwide bestseller since 1977 THE THORN BIRDS is a robust, romantic saga of three generations. It begins in the early years of this century when Paddy Cleary moves his wife and seven children to Drogheda, an Australian sheep station, o...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1977
• / Historical Romance
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The slender young highwayman waving a gun at the Duke's elegant coach did not dream that his life--and that of the dashing Duke of Delvrav (reputed to be the most coveted prize on the Marriage Mart)--was about to change in the most drastic way. For w...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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She might just as well tell him, Cressida Bingley decided, knowing full well the final thread of their relationship might be snapped. Forcing herself to look at him she said in a clear voice, "I love you, Giles, but you don't love me. Tha...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, ...

• Apr-1977
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• / General Fiction
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After Robert Rimmers The Harrad Experiment there is just one way to go all the way! Harrad College has decided to expand its famous experiment. Its program of sexual liberation is to be pushed to the most far-out boundaries of freedom. Even more intr...

• Apr-1977
• / Gothic
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A BROODING EXOTIC MANSION A FLOOD-TIDE OF CONFLICT AND PASSION A TERRIFYING SAGA OF LOVE AND EVIL From smoggy, modern London to the ancient, winding streets of Hong Kong, this novel reaches across oceans and continents in a thunderous tale of te...

• Apr-1977
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• / General Fiction
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In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideasâ�,�”and throughout everything, her spiritua...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / Science Fiction
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From science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, an interstellar adventure of aliens, fairies, and time travel. Until the day he was murdered, Professor Peter Maxwell was a respected faculty member of the College of Supernatural Phenomena. Imagin...

• Apr-1977
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• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Troubled by her parents' stormy relationship, Carrie Slater vowed she'd avoid the marriage trap. Then handsome Stone Harland came pounding on her door in a fury, waving a copy of that flippant farewell note she'd written to Lance Stevens....

• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Only after the tragic deaths of her adoptive parents, did Faith learn the whereabouts of her real father. She could not rest until she had gone to New Zealand in search of him. But the real problem, she soon realized, was her father's grim stepso...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriche...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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Nestle high on cliffs that overlooked a churning sea, the village of Dynmouth seemed to daze in tranquil respectability, untouched by time. Untouched, that is, until 15-year-old Timothy Gedge was transformed from an awkward, irritating child into ...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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Sheila's Dilemma: To lovely Sheila Diniz, newly arrived from England with her small son, the Portuguese village of Penaco offered the security she had always longed for. The Intrusion: Beautiful Carol Caulfield was accustomed to the fascinated stares...

• Apr-1977
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1977
• / Historical Romance
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Like fairytale sisters, the three McCleod girls were beautiful, virtuous and bound to a dream--the dream of finding a new life in the West. But their story was no fairytale; for their father died on the trail and they were stranded, without money or ...

• Apr-1977
• / Science Fiction
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THE BRILLIANT NOVEL THAT LAUNCHED THE VARLEY PHENOMENONThe invaders came in 2050…They did not kill anyone outright. they said they came on behalf of the intelligent species of Earth -- dolphins and whales. The Invaders quietly destroyed every evide...

• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Melanie Kent arrived at Coorabin. But whatever her reasons for leaving London for Australia, love for David was no longer one of them. She had believed David could offer her a new life in a land of great vitality. Now she felt as far from him as t...

• Apr-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I'll be perfectly frank with you, Kim," Ursula Bennett said with calm deliberation. "Why don't you give up? Go back where you came from and leave Adam alone. Can't you see he desperately wants his freedom?" Kim stared ...

• Apr-1977
• / Historical Romance
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A woman with surging desires of the spirit, the flesh, and the heart... The only child of an 18th century sugar baron, lovely Shanna Trahern is given a year to find a suitable husband in London or to be married off to a dull planter. Instead, she...

• Apr-1977
• / Historical
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For all his eight years, Moon Shadow has lived with his mother and grandmother in a small village in China. One day his simple, quiet life is turned upside down. Moon Shadow suddenly finds himself sailing to America to start a new life in a strange n...

• Apr-1977
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• May-1977
• / Horror
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When Meg's family moves to a small house in the country, she must get used to many new things. She's annoyed about being stuck sharing a bedroom with her older sister, Molly. They have no common interests, and it's hard for Meg to hide her resentment...