Books Published in April 1978

• Apr-1978
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"""We''ll spend the whole summer on the farm with Uncle Ross. I ought to make up something special just because we''ve never ever gone alone like this!"" And the first thing Elizabeth does is give herself and her younger brother, John, new names -- G...

• Apr-1978
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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"If you defy me, girl, there'll be trouble. Tracey shrugged off Ryan's warning indignantly. As far as she was concerned the Alexanders could keep their precious money, and their guardianship. She was her own mistress, and she planned t...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Historical Romance
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ONE MAN TAUGHT KATE THE POWER OF LUST Phillipe, the handsome, charming, totally amoral French-born gambler, who changed the ravishing Kate Devlin from a flirtatious young innocent into a woman aware of the overwhelming hungers that now would never b...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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The flak burst in waves and the plane groaned as it was wrenched around. A roar like a blast furnace crashed in a flash of red fire and the nose came off the machine, and the crew of Halifax bomber W. William parachuted into Occupied Europe. It was...

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• Apr-1978
• / Science Fiction
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The world of Shiuan was doomed. Rising waters and shattering earthquakes had sealed its fate. The only escape routes were the Gates. And just as this knowledge dawned on the desperate tribes and cities there appeared the woman Morgaine—whose...

• Apr-1978
• / Historical Mystery
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“At once charming, chilling and convincing as if it had unfolded in the Police Intelligence column of April, 1888.”  -- TIMELondon, 1888. Though the beautiful Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband’s assistant, she is sti...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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In 1915 Robert Ross, a young Canadian, enlists as an officer and begins a geographic and psychological journey through army training, troopship life, the slaughter at Ypres, a love affair in England, and the devastation of Belgium...

• Apr-1978
• / Science Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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A yogi walks up to a hot dog stand. The vendor asks, "What'll it be?" The yogi replies, "Make me one with everything." The vendor rolls his eyes as the yogi chuckles merrily. When the hot dog is finished the vendor asks for three dollars. The yogi ha...

• Apr-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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Disgrace had suddenly turned into dazzling opportunity for Miss Evalyn Pennington. When she lost her post of governess on false charges of pursuing her employer's eligible son, this spirited young lady found an ally in James Everard, heir to an earld...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Historical
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Moon Pass was a pleasant enough place.. .until they starting putting a railroad through. Then all hell broke loose. Finally they had to call in Dan Doran, the best troubleshooter in the west. Doran was a man who knew only one way to to do the job...a...

• Apr-1978
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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The Jetmarine, the second great invention of Tom Swift Jr., takes the young inventor into a desperate battle with bold modern pirates who have been ravaging the sea lanes off our southern coast. The atom-powered, two-man submarine is launched just in...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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Trying to be Tina Gogo’s friend isn’t worth it sometimes. At least that’s how Sarajane Punch feels. Tina acts like she knows more than everyone else; she makes fun of the Punch family’s restaurant; she tells all kinds of crazy stories about h...

• Apr-1978
• / Action Adventure
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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Farrell just wanted to live her own life Yet that seemed to be the one thing she couldn't do. She had gone home to her father in northwest Australia to sort out her life. But her stepmother soon made her aware that she wasn't wanted there....

• Apr-1978
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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ust elected Senator, ex-Governor Jason Crockett of Washington State hits Monument Town all fresh and eager and green and ready to sit at the feet of that Senatorial has-been, boozy, lonely Austin Barraclough, who can barely make it to the Capitol the...

• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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'He doesn't love you. It's me Mike wants!' Darcy was strangely disturbed by Maxine's declaration. Mike Trent was a stranger - but he'd saved Darcy's life. So, when he'd asked her to marry him - temporarily - she ...

• Apr-1978
• / Space Opera
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Numerous color stills from the award-winning film illustrate an account of Luke Skywalker's adventures after joining the Rebel Alliance to help defeat the Imperial forces that overthrew the Old Republic...

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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Annabel's beautiful dream had ended.... Cornwall and the sea, the cottage, her innocent romance with young artist Toby Trevine.... Now Dr. Robert Fames, her late father's partner from whom she'd fled, had discovered her hideaway. An...

• Apr-1978
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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I want you to return the coin collection." Charles Vincent allowed his gaze to dwell on Claire -- and in that split second she was aware of his utmost contempt. What had happened to their marriage? Claire tried to remember, but the fog...

• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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She was a fool for loving him Helen met Simon Savage when she went to Brock Castle as governess to his young daughter. She quickly learned what everyone in the village had said was true. The famous South African playwright was a harsh, embittered ...

• Apr-1978
• / Science Fiction
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Somewhere in the unmapped regions of Kregen, beneath the two suns of Antares, alpha star of the Constellation Scorpio, lies the hidden city of the Savanti. The Savanti were the ones responsible for tearing Dray Prescot away from his native Earth for ...

• Apr-1978
• / Historical Romance
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Everyone knew her name. Men shouted it in the cafes of Budapest; women whispered it in the court of Vienna. Her name spoke of the sweetness of chocolate; her eyes betrayed the coldness of ice. Chokolade Her dancing emboldened them; her rebuffs ...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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She had been jilted, but she'd survive. Shelagh tried to treat her predicament with bravado. Arriving in Italy on the eve of her wedding, she'd learned of Camillo's desertion. Their holiday romance had blossomed quickly, but in spit...

• Apr-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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The Match of the Season... Charlotte Osborne was delighted that she was going to marry Justin Ravenshaw -- London's most eligible bachelor. Until she discovered he was romantically linked with Her Highness, the Princess Amelia. Charlotte knew...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Historical Romance
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HE WAS THE POWER AND THE FURY OF A DYNASTY. SHE WAS THE LOVE THAT COULD DESTROY HIM Edward Eden, a noble and passionate man of the people, pursued a course decreed by his bastard heritage. Heir to the vast wealth but not the title of Lord Tho...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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Virgil and Tracy Morgan, whose inordinately happy marriage is troubled only by Virgil's madcap, embarrassing father, Earl, finally buy their Maine dream house and fall victims to the panic chaos, and disintegration provoked by Earl's hunted, fugitive...

• Apr-1978
• / Science Fiction
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There was Joachim, captain of the Nomad star ship Peregrine, and ruler of the Peregrine clan. There were also all the ship's officers and crew and their entire families. Bound to no world, the better part of their lives spent on the great ships, the ...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Allison Graves stood frozen with fear as she stared down at the dizzying space below her. Suddenly she was pulled back from the brink of the fifty-first floor of the office building by a virile, handsome man. She soon learnt he was Kurt Franz, the bu...

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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Gothic
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Beautiful young Nellie Collier had been born with a gift that brought her both intoxicating power and terrifying peril. Nellie could see into the future as easily as most people could view the past - and what she saw filled her with horror. Nightl...

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• Apr-1978
• / Romance
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The Lure of Love. When beautiful Jennifer Rogers set off for a well earned European vacation, she arrived in Paris to find her brother Jeremy in the hospital and desperately in need of her help. So Jenny bid a temporary good-bye to sightseeing an...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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Nicholas Urfe accepts a teaching post on a beautiful, remote Greek island, in order to escape an unsatisfactory love affair. He meets the enigmatic Maurice Conchis, who introduces him to the exquisitely lovely Lily, his ideal of the perfect woman....

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Thriller
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• Apr-1978
• / Historical Romance
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From a peasant's hovel to the boudoirs of the King. Summoned from a peasant's hovel to Versailles on a whim of King Louis XIV, the beautiful and passionate Solange was an overnight sensation. Her favours were sought by many, including the Sun Kin...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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It looked to be a perfect summer for Liz Woodville -- ten weeks in her beloved England tutoring recently orphaned ten-year-old Timmy Kingston. And it looked even better when Liz met Timmy's young, handsome guardian, his uncle Craig. But her sight...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Police Procedural
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Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!“Hillerman’s mysteries are special . . . Listening Woman is among the best.” -- Washington PostThe third novel in New York Times b...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Historical
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Marshall returns to his hometown and receives a less than friendly reception, but he soon discovers that the peculiar goings-on are closely linked to Mike Gallo--an ornery varmint with a penchant for cold, sharp steel...

• Apr-1978
• / Historical
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The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great. Postwar prosperity had transformed the nation. The Kents were thrust into the daring occupations of our country's most reckless and corrupt era...feverish speculation in the ea...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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The novel is set in a dystopian society in the very near future. Although it is not obvious at first, this is also an alternate history story. The central character is Haldane IV, a mathematician, in a caste-based society. He forms a forbidden relati...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Historical Romance
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A magical glimpse into the legendary age of Arthurian chivalry. Lynett, unwilling bride of the Round Table Knight, Gaheris, who leaves her husband and the true love of her life, his brother Gareth, to become the King's messenger. Knightly chivalry is...

• Apr-1978
• / Suspense
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The plan was only to scare their English teacher... They never actually intended to kill Mr. Griffin. But sometimes plans go wrong. ...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Julia's Sister That's what Annabel had been all her life. Quiet sister to the vivacious Julia. Plain sister to the beautiful Julia. Plodding sister to the brilliantly successful Julia. The stay-at-home sister who waited up to hear popular Julia's ...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin -- a respected minister and civil rights leader -- comes face to face with the sins of his youth in t...

• Apr-1978
• / Gothic
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THE WORLD HELD IT'S BREATH Her heart filled with dread. There was no place left on earth for her to go. From the moment Suzanne came to Warton Hall she dared not imagine what tortuous fate awaited her in the dark embrace of the twisted men an...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Historical Romance
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For seven long years, Deborah Stanton had lived in the painful shadow of passion lost. Duty had compelled her to turn away the man she loved, and now she still lived as a captive of the past, an unwilling prisoner of an undying hope. Now Morgan Ra...

• Apr-1978
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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A wonderous portfolio that has to be seen to be savored -- or even believed for that matter. Here are the plans for the Tower of Pisa -- on a skewed drafting table, the Eiffel Tower tipped over across from the Seine, the ruins of a McDonald's stand f...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university....

• Apr-1978
• / Romance
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Buddy Boyle lives year-round with his family in unfashionable Seaville, New York, in a cramped little house on the bay. Skye Pennington spends the summers nearby on lavish estate complete with ocean view and a butler named Peacock.

But Skye and Bud...

• Apr-1978
• / Science Fiction
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TIME, SPACE, MATTER, AND ENERGY...ALL WERE ALIKE TO THE GENESIS MACHINE Brad Clifford's theory was just applied mathematics--but its implications were too hot for the frozen minds of his superiors. So they buried it--and him--under wraps of secrec...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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Roak Garfield came like a curse into peoples' lives...leaving them branded like cattle! In place of a conscience he had cold-blooded ambition--and his trademark was murder and deceit. As he pursued his ruthless quest for power and money, three...

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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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LOVE -- INTRIGUE -- BETRAYAL From the moment young Major Bradwell rescued the lovely Imelda from the two drunken louts at the inn, the spark of love struck hard. But their romance seemed doomed, Sir Darrell Conyngton, awaiting Cousin Imelda, w...

• Apr-1978
• / Suspense
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Steven Marsh's US assignment to safeguard one of Israel's vital military secrets is undermined by a girl from Israeli Intelligence, who forces him into a wary association with her. Marsh is left with no choice but to attempt to reach the doubtful saf...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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A fearless leader with 104 victories to his name, Galland was a legendary hero in Germany's Luftwaffe. Now he offers an insider's look at the division's triumphs in Poland and France and the last desperate battle to save the Reich. "The clearest pict...

• May-1978
• / General Fiction
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Natalie Armstrong has everything: she’s smart and beautiful, has the perfect boyfriend, early acceptance to college, and a loving family. But the summer she turns seventeen, she finally decides to ask some unanswered questions: Who are her biologic...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"A girl wants to be married for keeps!' The words came back to haunt Jo. "She doesn't want to have a few years and then spend the rest of her life as a seaman's widow!" Jo had come to the Cornish fishing village to find...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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Dying for Tomorrow by Michael Moorcock Condition: Fine Daw, NY 1978 First American Paperback Edition. 192 pages mass market paperback. Fine unread condition, See photos sr 2/3 Bookseller: biblioboy US (US) Bookseller Inventory #: 91445 Title: Dying f...

• Apr-1978
• / Suspense
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME •  James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of...

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• Apr-1978
• / Gothic
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Torrie St. Clair and Corinne Pettigrew had shared a girlhood of school. Together they had walked the rose-lined allees whispering of the elegant young beaux who courted them. They parted: Corinne to marry a wealthy, titled widower. Torrie to learn at...

• Apr-1978
• / Space Opera
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In the second book in the Legion of Space series, Jay Kalam, Hal Samdu, and Giles Habibula fight The Cometeers, an alien race of energy beings controlling a "comet" which is really a giant force field containing a swarm of planets populated by the...

• Apr-1978
• / Police Procedural
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The body of a woman from respectable, conservative Glendale is found stashed under a ramshackle house in the middle of the inner city. Detective Luis Mendoza marks the rising heat by the crime and violence raging through the sunbaked streets of Los ...

• Apr-1978
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a n...

• Apr-1978
• / Romantic Suspense
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POETRY OF THE HEART When handsome Fraser Grant shocked the cream of Victorian Glasgow society with his scandalous poetry reading, he couldn't have known that lovely young heiress Cathy Dewar was in the audience. Intrigued by a man who could wr...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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An all-star serial killer terrorizes Earth’s smartest detectives Raffles Tunny, a juggler in the employ of the United States government, is relaxing at his Swiss chalet when a killer comes to call. He’s found the next day, electrocuted in the ...

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• Apr-1978
• / Historical Romance
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Sold to settle her husband's gambling debts, kidnapped...betrayed and promised to the Mayan gods as their sacrificial bride... Texas-born beauty Mercy Cameron pursued one recklessly romantic dream - to be desired in all ways by the man who bought...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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Driven by famine and drought, and armed only with a boomerang and a few hand-made spears, Balulu, an Australian Aborigine boy, and his tame, dog-like dingo named Warrigal, cross the danger-filled desert in desperate search of new lands, the last hope...

• Apr-1978
• / Historical Romance
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Out of the turbulent passions and harsh morality of early America comes the fiery saga of a beautiful black slave whose flesh was sold for gold, but whose proud spirit could not be purchased by common coin -- only by the currency of love! -- The we...

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• / General Fiction
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• May-1978
• / General Fiction
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Hounded by a gang of kids after her mother's disappearance leaves her on her own, Lucinda hides in the abandoned caretaker's house in the local cemetery where she makes contact with intelligent beings from another galaxy....

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believ...

• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Can you really see me as your wife?" Brant Elliot was a ruthless devil, a man of driving ambition who would need a mature and sophisticated woman to hold him. Someone like his beautiful cousin, Jane Gifford. But Brant wanted Lori. He h...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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"One of the five greatest novels of the century."  -- Anthony Burgess The hilarious classic novel of postwar, mid-century English academia, documenting a Middle Age historian’s middle-aged slump, and his efforts to finally set his life right ...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could she wait six months to be free? Basically, of course, Adam was wrong about her feelings for Jonas, Lisa thought resentfully. Quite wrong! Though she couldn't deny that she responded to Adam, she did not love him. She still loved Jonas...

• Apr-1978
• / Psychological Suspense
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For an unsuspecting group of friends, a hike through the forest turns into a desperate fight for survival. Mr. Rogers is the ideal guide for a few neighbors looking to survey a large, wooded piece of property: He remembers every tree, stream, and ...