Books Published in April 1982

• Apr-1982
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• Apr-1982
• / Space Opera
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ON THE PLANET MERCAN THERE ARE NO STARS, NO MOON, NO OUTER SPACE .. . The citizens of Mercan cannot conceive of worlds beyond their own. Their sun, Mercaniad, is prone to deadly, radioactive flare-ups, and the Mercans have organized their life aro...

• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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The Terridae believed the lost Earth was heaven and utopia combined. In their artificial planet, they moved slowly through the universe in search of it. And in their eyes, the rediscovery of Earth was to be the Event.Now they said the Event was comin...

• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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"""A funny space adventure that spoofs Star Wars while providing an easy-to-read story."" —Booklist

When Commander Toad finds a new planet that seems the ideal place for a picnic for his tired crew, he and Lieutenant Lily ...

• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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Still driven by his search for Man's fabled birthplace, Earl Dumrest accepts a commission to guard the Lady Derai, heiress to the proud House of Caldor, on the feudal world of Hive.On Derai's home planet, Dumarest had hoped to meet a living witness t...

• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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Meet Victor Hasselborg, easily the most miserable Private Investigator in the entire galaxy. More comfortable with the dull routine of investigating insurance frauds than interstellar adventure, Hasselborg is bound by duty to chase a runaway heire...

• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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He seemed utterly natural and perfectly human. He had total coordination and beautiful grace. He was handsome: eyes like two russet stars, eyelashes and hair dark cinnamon. Skin pale silver. He was a robot, and he could do everything a man could d...

• Apr-1982
• / Science Fiction
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This is the tale of Earl Dumarest. Space-wanderer, gladiator-for-hire, seeker of Man's forgotten home.Dumarest's search begins on the ghost-world of Gath, where he becomes unwilling champion of the Matriarch of Kund, and must undergo a fight-to-the-d...

• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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Molly Blake is a woman with a gruesome secret from which she cannot escape. A secret which lies buried beneath her husband's camellias �" and the fear of its discovery will drive her to madness.

John and Molly Blake are a quiet suburb...

• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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Someone was blasting America's key spy satellites apart - and it was Mike McVeigh's job to find out who. Someone had devised a weapon that could hunt and kill at a range of 22,000 miles - and Mike had to find out what it was. Someone had built a hidd...

• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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In John Katzenbach’s debut novel, the brutal murder of a young girl leads Malcolm Anderson, reporter for The Miami Journal, into an obsessive hunt for a ruthless mass murderer in this fast-paced thriller that was adapted into the film The Mean ...

• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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In 1914, Germany arms for war and the allies are preparing their defences. Both sides need Russia. The Earl of Walden and Winston Churchill plan a secret Russian alliance, but a man steals into England, intent on leaving his mark on history. Fate cat...

• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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A novelette of three stories about 'The Saint' Simon Templar, in the final battle of wits between Simon and Rayt Marius. the Saint fights a life-and-death fight with ungodly evildoers on one hand, and tweaks the nose of poor Inspector Teal, unusual a...

• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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Death of a Senator He was Stuart Channing and he had everything to live for. A former senator, up for a big Cabinet appointment, he had power, influence, and a very beautiful wife. His death behind the locked door of his study mystified the public, t...

• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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Simon Templar is the Saint—daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

In these three classic stories, the Saint inves...

• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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In Vietnam, a loner meets a strange man with a knack for murder in this Edgar Award–winning thriller. Mac finds Johnny Griffith nearly comatose with shell shock, on the edge of a massacre. When the Vietnamese fighters attack, he just stands the...

• Apr-1982
• / Suspense
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• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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A DARING MASQUERADE... Mariotta Abingdon was growing restless under the restricted life she led in Bath. Miss Abingdon's dress, like her limited social circle, was dictated by her mother, who was a very strict lady. Imagine Mariottas delight wh...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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When shy Minna Redmond overheard the dashing Oliver Seymour call her plain and dowdy, she vowed to make him pay for that remark. She would make him fall in love with her and beg on his knees for her love.... Which is why she decided to masquerade...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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THEIR MEETINGS HAD BECOME PITCHED BATTLES. Wendy's brother-in-law, Lord Menrod, was an arrogant, high-handed, albeit dashing, tyrant who was no more fit to be the guardian of children than a dancing bear. So Wendy thought. The children in question...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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It was the worst winter in London's history, and the worst dilemma in Meg's. Fiery Lady Margaret Underwood thoroughly enjoyed being single and the toast of the ton. But Lady Meg also enjoyed being immensely wealthy, and by the terms of the late E...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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LOVE WAS NOT PART OF THE BARGAIN SHE MADE WITH LONDON'S WEALTHIEST NOBLEMAN AN ACTRESS IN LOVE Jessica O'Neill was the toast of London society--a stunning actress who had appeared from nowhere to take the stage by storm. But not even her most a...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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"WITH THIS LIE I DO THEE WED" Every young lady dreams of being proposed to by a lord -- by Lord Margrave's proposal left lovely Miranda Russell frozen with shock, before she realized that poverty left her with no choice but to say yes....

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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Sir Michael Monford had seen her before... when he rescued her from the drunken embrace of a customer at the Crown tavern and when she had sold him fragrances at the shop called Maison Castle. Would he recognize her now in her new finery when she ...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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THEY CALLED HIM "BLACK JACK" GAMBLE, AND CHLOE THOUGHT HIM THE VERIEST ROGUE. Chloe Barwick was struggling to run her impoverished family estate because her brother Edward wanted to become a poet. Suddenly Lord Carnforth's wealthy nephew, lack Gam...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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What started as a lark soon became a dangerous deception as spirited Val Ainsworth stepped into her look-alike cousin's shoes. Posing as the famous Drury Lane actress Moira Blanford, Val met and entertained Sir Charles Stockton in elegance. Bu...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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HE WAS AN IRRESISTIBLE ENEMY... When young Perola set out to avenge the death of her dear departed sister, she had no idea what to expect. She only knew that no matter what the cost, she would repay the rogue who had deserted her sister and left h...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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She was the flower of Bermondsey, an East End slum, who rose to become a star. But Poppy Duveen quit the stage to marry Freddie Plummett, the only "gentleman" she had ever known--the bounder who died, leaving her in the castle and clutches of his for...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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The Earl of Dunmorrow is asked by the Prince Regent's secretary to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Sir Christopher Dee, an inquiry complicated by his eccentric father and his love for Lady Davinia Temple...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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No one ever dreamed that Prudence Mallow, who wrote novels and was not London's most ravishing beauty, would ever capture the heart of the dashing Lord Dammler. The fact that he wrote poetry was, of course, a bond with his beloved. But he cherished h...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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SHE HAD EXCHANGED ONE DANGER FOR ANOTHER.... Chantal would never marry Giffard Delaney and she was quick to tell him so. When it seemed that she was to be forced to do so, she escaped, only to fall into a pool at the bottom of a quarry. Awakeni...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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A DUKE'S DESPAIR! Tansy Tamerlane was headed for yet another position as governess when her distant cousin Ashley, Duke of Avanoll, invited her to London to act as a sensible chaperone to his flighty sister, Lady Emily. But the captivating...

• Apr-1982
• / Police Procedural
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Death is everywhere. A child in a playground. A playboy in a cheap hotel. A John Doe in a freight yard. A nanny and her two charges in a church pew.After twenty-six years in homicide, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza knows death is all in a day's work. But in...

• Apr-1982
• / Private Investigator
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Business is booming for Nameless; he's started in on three new cases in one week. But every single one of them turns bad some way. In the first, a husband disappears from a car that Nameless has been following. In the second, a woman is mysteriously ...

• Apr-1982
• / Law Enforcement
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While Henry and Emmy Tibbett are enjoying a sunny Caribbean holiday, events take an ominous turn when a shrewd old lady who has been staying at their hotel tells them of her strange experience with a vanishing boat, then herself disappears mysterious...

• Apr-1982
• / Law Enforcement
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Barrister Antony Maitland doesn't require saints for clients, but he doesn't do divorce. So when he's asked to represent a client being sued for divorce, he unhesitatingly says no. But it's a lot more complicated than that, as the wife is accusing th...

• Apr-1982
• / Law Enforcement
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• May-1982
• / Mystery
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Fifth grader Cam Jansen puts her mental camera to work when her homemade box camera disappears from the school science fair. Then two valuable gold coins vanish from the coin shop, and Cam and her friend Eric must work twice as hard to solve both cri...

• Apr-1982
• / Mystery
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• Apr-1982
• / Mystery
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• Apr-1982
• / Literary
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• Apr-1982
• / Literary
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In a totalitarian state that alternately praises and persecutes artists, Elena, the flute-player, keeps alive the creative spirit of the artists who are her friends, offering herself sexually and emotionally to all...

• Apr-1982
• / Literary
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The action of Toby Olson’s PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Seaview sweeps eastward, following three men and two women across a wasted American continent to an apocalyptic confrontation on Cape Cod. Melinda hopes to reach the seaside where she was ...

• Apr-1982
• / Literary
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• May-1982
• / Literary
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A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal serv...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Left alone after her mother's death, 14-year-old Angel has nowhere to turn but to her mother's lover, a gruff-spoken mountain man. Angel's story, told in her own words, is the bawdy, rambunctious, and passionate tale of a dancehall girl, who comes we...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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This splendid novel, like Quo Vadis and Ben Hur, brings to life the colorful and corrupt world of imperial Rome and the dramatic feelings and events of Judea in the time of Christ. It is also the love story of a Jewish Zealot who becomes a Christian-...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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THE FALLONS They would let nothing stop them - not rebellions, not their enemies, not each other. From Washington to Mexico City - From the Atlantic Ocean to Texas - They were the builders of nations. This was the Fallon Legacy...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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INDIA: a land of teeming millions under the power of a handful of British officials, and about to explode into savage violence. INDIA: a world of strange contrasts, fabulous wealth, and utter degradation, where the stench of squalor is intermingled ...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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A Remarkably Intimate Tale of the Intrigue, Ruthlessness, and Majesty of Henry VIII's Court When country lad Will Somers lands himself the plum position of jester to the mercurial King Henry VIII, he has no idea that he's just been handed ...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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SHE WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS AN ANGEL...AND AS STRONG-WILLED AS THE DEVIL. Page Carver had grown up fast. Left destitute by her father's death, she fled to Chicago to escape her past and carve out a new life in the sprawling, rough city. She might ...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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At the turn of the century, the North of England was a hard, bleak world. A world where joy and love were the words in someone else's book - where men were resigned and women oppressed. Strong-willed and spirited, rebellious and beautiful, Maggie Cra...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Brings to life the passionate, sinister, and murderous Medea, one of the most fascinating and mysterious figures of ancient Greek mythology in a horrifying tale of a woman's betrayal and bloody revenge...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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SHE FOUND ADVENTURE ON THE WINDSWEPT PRAIRIES -- AND A THRILLING, BOUNDLESS LOVE! Lovely, copper-tressed Tucker Houston, was a fiercely independent orphan, determined to become a schoolteacher and find a better life, in the rich new lands of the W...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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The American Revolution at sea was found from the decks of history's most beautiful ships. And the men and women who took them into battle challeneged overwhelming odds and brutal conditions as they forged a nation and a navy. SHIPS AFLAME is the sto...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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A novel of rage and passion, of incredible hope and shattering despair - in the landscape of a changing America. Ths is the epic story of Suzannah Hopewell - passionate, willful and beautiful - the proud daughter of an enormously rich mill owner. M...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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This saga tells of the men and women who lived in the High Middle Ages - re-creating the loves, the violence, the beliefs and forbidden desires of an extraordinary era of human history. Here are the high and the low, the mighty and the poor - from...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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She Betrayed Her Father and Her Faith -- to Love a Royal Rogue AS 17th-CENTURY ENGLAND SUFFERED TURMOIL AND TREACHERY HE CONSUMED HER SOUL WITH A FORBIDDEN LOVE Rachel's lovely, tear-filled dark eyes looked out from beneath the ugly Puritan cap...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Romance
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• Apr-1982
• / Horror
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Nice clean copy- ATTN religious fanatics, this book portrays a quite naked blonde lady drawing a blue pentagram on the cover, you cant really see anything . There is anohter printing showing an equally nekkid redhead sittiing in the middle of the pen...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Mystery
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SHE IS THE ESSENCE OF GOODNESS. HE IS POSSESSED BY EVIL. AND THEY COME TOGETHER IN THE MOST ASTONISHING CHAPTER YET IN MARILYN HARRIS' EXPLOSIVE EDEN SAGA After driving most of his loved ones away from Eden Castlc with his cruel manipulations. the o...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical Mystery
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A painter has vanished: normally an event of no importance, but Théo is the heir to a fortune, and so Inspector Gautier of the Sûreté is put on the case. Then a shady art dealer is murdered. A dealer who had acquired three paintings under dubious ...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical
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VENGEANCE TRAIL Convicted killers with nothing to lose, the three prisoners had murdered the jail guard, kidnapped the daughter of the town’s richest merchant, and stolen the finest horses in the territory. But their desperate bid for freedom ha...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical
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Widowed at twenty with two young children to support, Elsa Jane takes on the male identity of the intrepid “E.J.” to survive in a man’s world. Leading a stubborn breed of sailors and pioneers from the raucous river towns of the East, she crosse...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical
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"You act like you're proud of them being slaves!" Boy tells her father with disgust when he speaks lovingly of his ancestors. "They deserved to be slaves, the way they let themselves be pushed around and never tried to fight back or anything. I would...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical
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BURNING HELL IN A YUMA PRISON... Getting arrested and disgraced was just another assignment for Longarm -- a way to get into the federal pen in Yuma. There he had to make friends with an old-timer who once stole and secretly buried an army payrol...

• Apr-1982
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• / Historical
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A PASSION FOR FREEDOM Skye Fargo was minding his own business when he stumbled into the middle of a lynching party. Common sense told him to stay out of things, but Fargo could never resist the plea of a beautiful woman in distress. A few well-pl...

• Apr-1982
• / Historical
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This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new lead...

• Apr-1982
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• Apr-1982
• / Gothic
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• Apr-1982
• / Gothic
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The best-selling author of The American Heiress, The Millionaire's Daughter, and The Vines of Yarrabee returns to her own roots -- amidst the barren beauty of the New Zealand mountains -- for this masterful story of an aristocratic family pioneering ...

• Apr-1982
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• / General Fiction
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• May-1982
• / General Fiction
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Ava, Justin, and Parker--three high-school essay contest winners at a Caribbean resort--form their own special Barracuda Gang and find themselves in a perilous underwater situation from which there may be no escape...

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• / General Fiction
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On board a cruise ship bearing aged vacationers, including widows Alice Pickering and Ellen Walsh, neighbors for thirty-eight years, and newly widowed Stella Dove, whose cruise trip is a contest prize, a well-mannered rapist skulks...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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The Book of Five Rings is a famous text written by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi in 1645, concerning Martial Arts, in particular Kenjitsu and the art of Zen. Miyamoto Musashi uses language that is as sharp and decisive as his sword - delivering in u...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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After witnessing the defeat of the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Buller and Maclewin become involved in a campaign to deceive the Germans concerning the armament capacities of the British Dreadnought cruisers...

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• / General Fiction
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This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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Daniel is hurt when others laugh at his wood carving, until he learns that giving people pleasure takes a very special gift. ‘Good, warm feelings result from reading this gentle tale set in rural Tennessee during pioneer days.' 'CS. ‘A lovely boo...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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This award-winning short story collection by the acclaimed author of Winter’s Tale “ascends to the peak of literary achievement” (The Boston Globe).Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these eleven stories demonstrate ...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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Something strange is happening on allen island, something eerie that no one can understand. For eric allen, it is the beginning of a hideous nightmare. Brutal mutilations, mysterious murders and dreadful apparitions plague the tiny island, and gentle...

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• / General Fiction
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Fun loving Dodie is at a creepy beach house to get to know her neat little stepbrother and her cool, perfect stepsister, Anne. Anne is thirteen, like Dodie, but they couldn’t be more different. When both girls hear footsteps on the stairs at night,...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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Because of her size, Great Cat, the biggest cat that ever lived, causes the neighbors to fear for their children's safety. Therefore, Great Cat and Toby move to an island where they rescue a sinking boatload of children....

• May-1982
• / General Fiction
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Follows the life of a Labrador retriever trained as a guide dog, from him birth to his placement with Peter, his blind owner, illuminating the selection and breeding of dogs, the matching of dogs to owners, and the rigorous procedures of guide-dog tr...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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Guiding women through every aspect of buying property, Rejnis reviews the various types of available housing, the property rights of cohabitants, and the best housing choices for widows and divorced women...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn''t want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there''s nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste o...

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• / General Fiction
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A great deal of unhappinesss is a direct result of our beliefs--the things we tell ourselves over and over again. Twenty five years after its initial publication, I Can If I Want To remains a classic. Its easy-to-read style, and simple-to-apply appro...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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"If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of H...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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In small town America, attorney Tom Carlyle discovers the raped and burned body of Sue Ann Ainsley. Realizing who was involved, he agrees to keep the whole story suppressed, in return for certain favours. Ten years later the incident is mostly forgot...

• Apr-1982
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"It would be as hard to give up all thought [of being a soldier] as it would be to stop breathing," wrote George S. Patton in October 1945; "The great tragedy of my life was that I survived the last battle." But Patton would not see the year out: in ...

• Apr-1982
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From Simon & Schuster, Lines is Joseph Viertel's novel about the Russian Jew following his persecution—and the decisions he's forced to make as a result of it.When an eminent Russian Jewish pediatrician becomes the target of official persecutio...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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In Lillelord, Norway’s contemporary master Johan Borgen (1902-79) demonstrates his belief that our lives tend toward schizophrenia. Wilfred Sagen at fourteen is still a perfectly turned out, impeccably behaved "Little Lord Fauntleroy" to his fam...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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A young woman leaves home during the turbulent early '70s seeking freedom and self-expression yet, on her return, she cannot accept her father's pursuit of self-fulfillment through his divorce and remarriage...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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Built on the theme that the methods of mathematics are simply devices for solving problems, this book covers a variety of mathematical thought, including geometry, probability, computer technology, graphs, functions, and calculator puzzles...

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"Here"s Mishmash again! This time, our favorite mutt is somewhat overweight and rather lazy. But fear not, he solves his problem by joining a school marathon. A rib-tickler." -- An American Bookseller"s Pick of the Lists "Once again the easy style, ...

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A detailed reconstruction of the theft of confiscated heroin from the New York City Police Department headquarters focuses on Vincent Papa, a powerful narcotics dealer, and the uneasy alliance between organized crime, the police, and the prosecutors...

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Imagine, thirty years after the end of World War II, Israeli Nazi-hunters, some of whom lost relatives in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, find a silent old man deep in the Amazon jungle. He is Adolph Hitler. The narrative that follows is a profound...

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EVERY MAN IS A SUSPECT While the village slumbers, a restless man lurks in the shadows. He jingles his keys... keys to the houses where women sleep alone. Shame keeps his victims silent. A wig, a mask, a pair of gloves, keep his identity secret. A...

• Apr-1982
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An acclaimed scientist is chosen to travel through alternate futures to find safe haven - and instead, finds a totalitarian world of dictators and concentration camps . . .Christian Queghan is a Myth Technologist, a highly respected scientist on Eart...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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“Our treasurer reports that we have exactly one dollar and fifteen cents in the treasury. Despite this dismal fact, we voted unanimously to undertake a trip of eleven hundred miles to Washington, D.C., next spring.” What a wonderful, crazy id...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” -- The New York Times Book Review  One of Sports Illustrated’s 100 Greatest Sports Books  “If you build it, he will come.” When R...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1982
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Darcey, I write this because I’ve just come from the doctor. He told me it would be very soon and these are things I must say to you. I know the last five months have been hard on you, knowing that I was going to die. Those months in the hospital ...

• Apr-1982
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• Apr-1982
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• Apr-1982
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SOUNDING takes us into the extraordinary mind and emotions of the magnificent sperm whale, an aging bull roaming the waters of the Atlantic. Troubled and separated from his herd, the whale wants to fulfill his one obsessive desire -- to communicate w...

• Apr-1982
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• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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One dark night, an African father tells the story of another black night long ago when he, Momo, was a small boy -- when he lay awake in his house in the bush, with his mother and grandmother and baby sister -- when there came a knock on the door and...

• Apr-1982
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• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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A gripping chronicle of a slave revolt aboard a nineteenth-century slave ship becalmed in the South Atlantic evokes a powerful confrontation between good and evil in a vividly and dramatically realized tale...

• Apr-1982
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On August 12, 1952, Russia's greatest Jewish writers were secretly executed by Stalin. In this remarkable blend of history and imagination, Paltiel Kossover meets the same fate but, unlike his real-life counterparts, he is permitted to leave a writte...

• Apr-1982
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What -- and who -- made Jack Sullivan: that oddest of preparatory academies, the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and its graduates, the people who inhabit the ambiguous world of spies, deceit, and illusion. In early 1963, when the CIA with...

• Apr-1982
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When pure chance puts Martha Sullivan in a courtroom with accused wife-murderer Everett Madison, her obsession with the accused murderer leads her away from rationality and the advice of family and friends and toward a moment of ultimate darkness...