Books Published in August 1985

• Aug-1985
• / Women's Fiction
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This is the story of one summer in the life of Natalie Simon, creative VP of a major New York ad agency, hard-drinking, sexy lady, woman in control of her life. This is the story of the summer when it all almost falls apart. She's had it! Her imma...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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From the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author: “A panoramic story of what happens to a world gone super intelligent” (Astounding Science Fiction).
 
With “wonderfully logical detail . .&#...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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ANTARCTIC SAVAGES - PREHISTORIC MASTODONS - FLYING FORTRESSES - PARALYSING RAY GUNS - GRYPHONS - WATER-WITCHES - LOST CONTINENTS - WONDERFUL FLYING MACHINES...AND MORE!Coming soon - the most fantastic contest ever conceived: An airplane race pitting ...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation �" a community living in vast subterranean cities �" and the Mutes, who have evolved to withstand the radiati...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predica...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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Granthan's mission was the most vital of the war. It would mean instant victory -- but for whom? Earth didn't trust his information. They were sure that he had been brain washed by the enemy. He had to convince them that he could be trusted before th...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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In a parallel universe to America, George Washington has been executed and Alexander Hamilton is exiled, leaving a government-free country--until, centuries later, several Hamiltonians want to travel back in time to save him...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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A TERRIFYING JOURNEY Martin Martel had become a dangerous man. The revelation that he had the gift of ESP, a power that belonged only to the gods, was certain cause for the respected scholar to be banished from the planet Karnak and exiled to an o...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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Stories tell of the last survivor of an alien purge, a time traveler, an immortal who outlives all of his companions, a scientist who tries to postpone the end of his race, and an individual who stays behind when Earth is abandoned...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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Drak, Crown Prince of Vallia, Dray Prescot's son, was sore beset on three sides. For one, he was leading an army of liberation against the usurper Alloran who had seized part of Vallia - and who was grinding Drak's troops down with blackest magic and...

• Aug-1985
• / Science Fiction
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In the New York City of the next century, twin domes over Manhattan control extremes of weather, illegal hang-gliding is common, and many old problems have been solved--but the rage of some Gothamites cannot be controlled. Reprint. PW. NYT. ...

• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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On Sunday Clare's biggest concern was whether she was ready to get married. Then she stopped to help a stranger pick up the papers he'd dropped. On Wednesday a bomb had destroyed her home and she was in hospital. But the nightmare was just beginning....

• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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In this time-shift romance series by the screenwriter of Beetlejuice, the timeless lovers are on a daring adventure through 1950s NYC and Havana.   Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, twenty-seven years ol...

• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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A ruthless killer preys on the young women of Montana in this tale of suspense from a pioneer of Western fiction Madame Simone runs a brothel on the outskirts of Overthrust, Montana, an oil town just down the road from the ranching community of Midbu...

• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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Assigned to investigate the murder and grand larceny following upon the unveiling of a work by America's hottest new painter, Detective Sergeant Teresa Webb ignores her cartoonist husband's intuition about the missing masterpiece until it is nearly t...

• Aug-1985
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1985
• / Romantic Suspense
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“A red rose, a chance phrase, and some spilt cointreau--this was the first link in a chain of events that were to lead Richard and Frances Myles to Nazi-dominated Germany. The young Oxford don and his attactive wife were sent by the British Foreig...

• Aug-1985
• / Romantic Suspense
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Sometimes second chances can be murder… Jack Draper is the last person Aubrey Nichols expects to pop back into her life. She doesn't need her heart broken again, especially by a desperate man holding a gun. Dr. Jack Draper's life is in j...

• Aug-1985
• / Romantic Suspense
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He was full of contradictions Misty Chandler had moved to Colorado for the simple lifestyle that funning a country inn offered. But with the arrival of her first guest, virile ex-pilot Craig Sutherland, Misty's peace was shattered. Tough and gentl...

• Aug-1985
• / Romantic Suspense
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When Karen Cornell, a beautiful journalist on assignment in Czechoslovakia, agrees to help a would-be defector by carrying top-secret documents to Washington, she is pulled into an astonishing web of terrorism, political assassination, blackmail, esp...

• Aug-1985
• / Romantic Suspense
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She let him take control of her life--lock, stock, and truffles... Kate Manning's life as a struggling actress in the Big Apple--an existence supported by selling her homemade chocolates--was relatively calm until Tony Kendall completely disrupted...

• Aug-1985
• / Romantic Suspense
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WHEN SHE BOLDLY PICKED UP A STRANGER IN A POSH ACAPULCO BAR... Sabrina Chase meant only to have a casual fling. She never dreamed the rugged expatriate would appear in Dallas to rekindle passionate memories she preferred to forget. They were, ...

• Aug-1985
• / Romantic Suspense
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Set in the 1960s during the Cold War, this is a captivating espionage adventure from “the queen of spy writers” who has been compared to Graham Greene and Ian Fleming (Sunday Express).   While on assignment in Paris and Venice, an American j...

• Aug-1985
• / Traditional Regency
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A handsome nobleman must crack the case -- or lose his only love. THE PENNY-PINCHING DUCHESS PLAN A BIRTHDAY DO FOR HER BROTHER? THAT WAS ODD INDEED! Deirdre Gower and her dashing fiance, Lord Belami, found it most peculiar that the Duchess'...

• Aug-1985
• / Traditional Regency
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DANGEROUS MASQUERADE There was no way that Miss Henrietta St. John could stop the sale of her family estate of Rutherford Place and her late father's magnificent racehorse Hypericum. And when the land and the steed were snapped up by the wildl...

• Aug-1985
• / Traditional Regency
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Love or Hate?... Young and beautiful Miss Felicia Mannering was engaged to the dashing and attentive Darcy Vellacort -- and as his fiancee, she was duty-bond to side with him against the world and make his enemies hers as well. But Felicia didn'...

• Aug-1985
• / Traditional Regency
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THE INFURIATED MISS FINLAY Miss Caroline Finlay was furious at her odious grandfather, Sir Egbert. That crusty old curmudgeon had given her hand in marriage to Lord Julian Carteret without asking her approval. Caroline had even more reason to ...

• Aug-1985
• / Traditional Regency
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A HASTY BETROTHAL Alexandra Saxon had journeyed all the way from America to introduce herself to her grandfather, Lord Saxon, and had no intention of being turned away, despite her unannounced arrival in the middle of the night. It was only in the...

• Aug-1985
• / Traditional Regency
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• Aug-1985
• / Romance
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A perfect fit... Janie Barstow knows that underneath her own shy exterior, there's a bright, funny girl just waiting to be discovered. But so far Janie's attempts to fit in at Kennedy High have led from one disaster to another. Henry Braverman is...

• Aug-1985
• / Romance
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• Aug-1985
• / Police Procedural
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The patient, brandy-drinking Inspector Alvarez must convince his superiors that what appears to be an innocent death is really a murder connected to a series of strange incidents, including the disappearance of a dog and the attempted suicide of a Ma...

• Aug-1985
• / Paranormal Romance
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He swore like a truck driver, tackled would-be muggers like a demon, and swept her into his arms like the devil himself. He was a walking powder keg -- and he was a priest? Donna Miro, heiress to an olive oil fortune, didn't know what to think. B...

• Aug-1985
• / Private Investigator
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Heartbreak Hotel... The Globe Apartments, six stories of decaying brick and concrete, rise above San Francisco's volatile Tenderloin district. The seedy former hotel, once a haven for the city's down and out, now houses Vietnamese families striving ...

• Aug-1985
• / Law Enforcement
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When his antiquated ship is destroyed in a vicious battle with a German heavy cruiser, Lieutenant Cameron is the only officer left to command the lifeboats and guide the survivors, thousands of miles from land, to safety....

• Aug-1985
• / Law Enforcement
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Christmas is a crime for cop Mario Balzic, and this mystery set in a small rust-belt town is “steady entertainment for fans of down-and-dirty local color” (Kirkus Reviews).   Not everyone is in the holiday spirit in Rocksburg, PA. Especially...

• Aug-1985
• / Mystery
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A blackout leaves New York in chaos as cop Tim Corrigan searches for a shadowy killer in this classic mystery from the legendary author. High above the sidewalks of Manhattan, Miss Graves is closing up the offices of the Burns Accounting Company when...

• Aug-1985
• / Mystery
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• Aug-1985
• / Literary
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• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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IN WILD AUSTRALIA SHE FOUGHT AGAINST THE PASSION OF TWO RECKLESS HEARTS--A RUGGED ADVENTURER'S AND HER OWN. Far from the stifling drawing rooms of England, beautiful Susan Barrett forged a life in a wide open land. Then the Gold Boom brought a...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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In a Catholic orphanage in Venice in 1687, Cathryn Godwyne and Father Vittorio fall in love and pursue a tempestuous, forbidden relationship in Rome, England, and America...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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Never Did the Land Face So Dark a Threat...Never Did Love Face So Great a Challenge Mercedes Fielding was a young woman of unbending will and fierce courage. Her willowy beauty held a hot passion that could inflame any man and a cold temper that c...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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FANCY JORDAN KNEW MANY A MAGIC TRICK -- BUT WINNING JEFF CORBIN'S LOVE WOULD TAKE A MIRACLE! When a traveling carnival left Fancy Jordan stranded in the rugged Washington Territory; she thought her luck had run out. Alone, penniless, she wel...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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SHE WAS MISTRESS, BUT PASSION MADE HER HIS SLAVE. A landowner's daughter, honey-blonde Sarah Markham was a virgin furiously dedicated to dreams of a just world - yet feverishly yearning for a man's clasping arms...Then she met a black-haired Irish...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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Love's Reckoning... Illegitimate daughter of a great French nobleman, young Ninon was whisked from a life of cruel drudgery by the dashing Philippe, Count of Froissart. But the flame-tressed Ninon was to be misfortune's captive once again, just as Ph...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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"Cry for yourself, Simone. Weep for the girl who is no one. Weep for the woman who dared to love a prince..." Rudolph Nikolaivich -- His was a golden beauty, masking an inner darkness. His was a tormented soul that was Russia itself and the glint...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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Beginning with the dramatic departure of the last boat allowed to leave China before Mao’s Community Party sealed off the country in 1949, Gates of Grace continues in the tradition of Belva Plain’s Evergreen and Cynthia Freeman’s A World Full o...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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She staked a claim to his heart in the name of love -- and glory! Orphaned since birth, shy, beautiful Janet Sullivan had never known the fire of passion, the thrill of a dare. Then Ryan Donovan, a bold, blue-eyed prospector, swept into the bustling ...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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WILLING PRISONER IN A PALACE OF DREAMS... Rangoon. Lysistrata's heart raced with excitement. A world away from Boston. A place where she could forget... Rangoon--land of color and adventure--where, like an emerging butterfly, she would taste ...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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THEIRS WAS LOVE THAT WOULD NOT DIE They had played together as children, the Indian lad and little Hannah Kincaid. Then Shadow and his people went away, and when he returned, it was as a handsome young Cheyenne brave. Hannah, now a beautiful you...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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A WOMAN'S AMBITION WAS FULFILLED THROUGH MEN--BUT MEN HAD AMBITIONS OF THEIR OWN. Margaret of Anjou came to England and married King Henry VI. Born to a family of strong women, Margaret was no exception. She was passionate, impulsive, loving, viol...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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A War To End All Wars... A Passion To Challenge Destiny LONDON 1917... A time of forced gaiety and weary patriotism, when the specter of war was a constant shadow. Into this volatile world came Emily Baird a gently-reared New England beauty who d...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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They were playing a game of double masquerade. But their lusty passion could not be denied... He was Captain Damien Clay, a freewheeling, swashbuckling, handsome member of Morgan's Raiders, daringly disguised as a woman to help win the war for the...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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Wild Swan --it is their land, the foundation on which Alexandria and Rane Falconer have built their lives and fortunes. Now, civil war threatens all. As Alex defends Wild Swan and her Thoroughbred race horses, as Rane battles to preserve his shipbuil...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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Embarking on a dangerous secret mission for Queen Elizabeth, beautiful, indomitable Skye O'Malley and her noble husband Adam de Marisco must leave behind their lovely, 15-year-old daughter Velvet. They have no fears for the safety of their youngest c...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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Blair Chandler loved a man of challenge and passion --- Dr. Lee Westfield. Still, she clung to her own dream of practicing medicine in Chandler, Colorado. With her impetuous spirit she had won her degree, and then won Lee's heart. Yet even as their a...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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Happiness and fulfillment, heartbreak and tragedy, faith and triumph--the unfolding panorama of "The Brides of Montclair." MONTCLAIR--The magnificent ancestral home of the Montrose family, built on an original King's Grant along the James River. B...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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The pageantry, intrigue, and suspicions that characterize the court of Edward IV finally center on his younger brother who moves through fear, love, envy, and betrayal to the throne and, ultimately, to a bloody death...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical Romance
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New Horizons As the nation stands poised on the brink of a new era, an age of unprecedented growth and industrial expansion, the Bouchard family is swept along, seeking new opportunities. But the traditions of Windhaven and the Old South live on, ...

• Aug-1985
• / Horror
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Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California.  Until the horrifying car accident.  Until a brilliant doctor's medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death.  Now, Alex seems the same...

• Aug-1985
• / Horror
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"""Total entertainment . . . one of those roaring new-wave horror novels that has the power to keep the reader hooked from the first few lines."" - Whitley Strieber

""A terrifying new novel by the author of Audrey Rose."" - Chicago Tribune

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• Aug-1985
• / Historical Mystery
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A headstrong young soprano must solve a murder to save her friend The Metropolitan Opera has no time for illness. So when its principal baritone succumbs to a head cold on the eve of Carmen, house diva Geraldine Farrar doesn’t hesitate to recommend...

• Aug-1985
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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• / Historical
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• / Historical
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• / Historical
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• Aug-1985
• / Historical
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Clint Adams has had a number of strange assignments in his time, but none more unusual than acting as a bodyguard for a Japanese ambassador -- and a prized statue of the Golden Horseman. As the train bearing Clint and the Japanese delegation trav...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical
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Doc Weatherbee and Raider, Pinkerton operatives, are robbed on their way to Helton, Nevada, where a mysterious woman named Sequin owns half the town, and an old friend, the local marshal, needs their help...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical
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• Aug-1985
• / Historical
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Hungarian immigrant Lazlo Kusik risks everything to find a fortune in the gold-rich hills of the Sierra Nevada, but when he finally stumbles upon a treasure of gleaming gold, he has to guard his discovery and his life from the gold-hungry hardcases o...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical
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JESSIE AND KI STRIKE BACK WITH A VENGEANCE! Fenton Chadwick is getting richer by the day -- at Starbuck's expense. His outlaw army rules the San Joaquin Valley, and his pirate navy chokes the rivers. As if that isn't enough, Jessie's life is threate...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical
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MEAN AND CROOKED Who says a cattle outfit has to be run sensibly? The owners of these lean, leathery longhorns are driving them 150 miles west of their destination, but that's no crime. Or is it? Everything looks okay to Marshal Long -- who wo...

• Aug-1985
• / Historical
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• / Historical
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• Aug-1985
• / Historical
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WILD JUSTICE. Wesley Putnam was Head Detective for the Arizona Cattlemen's Association, and the best friend Slocum ever had -- until four fugitive rustlers burst into a cantina and gunned Wesley down in cold blood. All Slocum got from the dying frien...

• Aug-1985
• / Gothic
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It was a time of magical mists and primeval forests, of powerful chieftains and white-robed druids who called themselves mediators between humans and the ancient Celtic gods. And it was in the house of the King and Queen of Ireland that Marda, their ...

• Aug-1985
• / Gothic
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No man had ever kissed Susannah this way before. The Marquis de Silva towered over her, his manly strength making her feel as helpless as a magnolia petal caught in the swirling waters of the Mississippi. And as this irresistibly handsome man pressed...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize�"winning author -- an irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedyTravel writer Macon...

• Aug-1985
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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-- Dying in a bamboo bed, Captain Clancy hallucinates several philosophical conversations with a snake and a tiger. Meanwhile, Captain Knightbridge and Nurse Jane of the Search & Rescue Unit have sex in their helicopter -- the Bamboo Bed -- at 10,000...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Family disaster overwhelms Amelia Belchamber, obliging her to make a new life for herself as a Governess in the north of England. Her troubles begin when she is left alone with eight offspring, the children of her employer, cotton manufacturer, Stane...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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The hilarious story of a sneeze that causes barnyard havoc The farmer is snoozing on the hay in his barn, surrounded by his dozy animals, when the fly buzzing around lands on his nose. Of course he sneezes, which sets off a long chain of consequence...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Obsessed by the desire to reunify Germany, two military men--one West German, one East German--implement a scheme to eliminate NATO and Warsaw pact influence from the region by using nuclear blackmail...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Parsifal, a knight of the Round Table, becomes engrossed in the search for the Holy Grail while coping with his errant son, Lohengrin, who has stolen a magical sword and plans to give it to the evil Morgana...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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FALLEN ANGEL ON THE RUN! Hitchhiker Lisa Stevens is as tough as a Texas coyote and as beautiful as a prairie sunset -- a combination bounty hunter Jesse Heller can’t resist. From the moment she throws her long legs across his big black Harley he...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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When a computer genius and inventor of a device that may revolutionize the computer industry falls in love with a computer analyst, they unknowingly transgress the time/space restraints of their own world and enter into a parallel existence...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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After a nuclear space missile misfires causing a solar flare that devastates Earth, the President of the United States is kidnapped by German terrorists, and it is up to troubleshooter John Norris and Vice-President Julia Waggoner to get him back...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Two women from very different backgrounds leave their old lives behind to become police officers with the New York City Police Department, in a novel that explores the early lives of Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey and how they became a team...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand c...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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"The sky is failing! The sky is failing!" Chicken Little and her feathered friends are all aflutter when she gets a mysterious bump on the head. Steven Kellogg's hilarious retelling and irresistible illustrations bring fresh delight to this timeless ...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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STRANDED FOREVER in a place beyond the touch of all familiar things and people, Jeanette and Amy hadn't counted on losing the timeway. But, even worse, now their friend Jesse is trapped in a world not his own. After much searching, the girls fi...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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The murder in the south of France of the cabaret star known as "The Madwoman of Pontaillac" draws Laura and Francois LeBreton into its vortex as the dead woman's seemingly innocent secrets from the past wreak unexpected consequences...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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The odds are against Commander Smith in this epic story of battle on the high seas.Autumn, 1917: Britain is just about surviving against incessant U-boat attacks, but there are mutinies in France, a revolution in Russia and stalemate on the Western F...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Reluctantly aiding a woman fight a wealthy and mysterious cartel interested in her vineyard, retired investigative reporter Aubrey Warder stumbles into a baffling conspiracy that threatens the world-wide wine industry...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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Stripped of his powers for displaying signs of earthly corruption, E.T. must elude the elite guards of the Starcruiser fleet, escape to Earth, and guide Elliott through his awkward transition into manhood...

• Aug-1985
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Life was not possible on that watery world except on the Hundred Islands. The Empire of Arelia ruled them all - all except one. Peldain was entirely covered with a forest so impenetrable and so deadly that all attempts to explore it were disastrous. ...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Betsy Lewis is an innocent abroad until she meets Alice Blanders Russo and her much younger lover, Leo Conti. Together they form a triangle of friendship and desire that will turn Betsy’s marriage� -- and her principles� -- upside down. Add a hilar...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Scott's New House Is Haunted! Ten-year-old Scott’s troubles start the day he and his family move to Chagrin Falls. His best friend is now far away, he's stuck in a school he hates, and all the popular boys ignore him, Plus, strange things start ...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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They were just kids, playing in the graveyard among the rotting bones of the dead. They were just kids, playing new and explosive games, indulging in forbidden pleasures, exciting each other...and something else, something evil. They were just ...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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The true story of a year in the life of the Utica Blue Sox, a minor league baseball team in upstate New York, by the acclaimed author of The Boys of Summer.   Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Good Enoug...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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As Sagard, the reader must survive the tomb of the seven-headed Green Hydra and obtain the precious jeweled trophy that is protected by the Nightripper and the horrid lizards with silent tongues of death...

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• / General Fiction
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Upon his return from service, Vietnam veteran Thomas Joseph Hollaran finds that his wife has left him, his home town, Newark, New Jersey, is disintegrating, and only his buddy Eddie can help him get through...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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In the ficticious Middle Eastern country of Marsanee, a country in the throes of revolution, an idealistic architect struggles to realize his dream of interfaith tolerance and peace, in a novel capturing the turmoil and passion of the contemporary Mi...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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The conclusion of the Lavette saga focuses on Barbara, now in her sixties, whose campaign for election into Congress brings excitement, the renewal of a romantic love, mortal danger, tragedy, and personal triumph...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Shortlisted for the 1976 Booker PrizeThe year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas’s final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master’s vineyard in order ...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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In all the lands of Arthur's Britain no knight could outshine Tristan of Lyonnesse. Fierce in battle, gentle on the strings of a harp, unequaled in the hunt, notorious in Tintagel's bedrooms, he seemed bound for a glorious destiny--and found ...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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Magical realism and haunting mysticism cloud the circumstances surrounding the death of Lady Winslow, a New Orleans woman of mixed racial background who passes for white in the Vermont resort where she teaches music and plays ragtime...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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Lisa's father just didn't understand; there were certain questions that a growing girl couldn't talk to her father about. After her mother's death, he had become withdrawn and bitter. Then finally, Cynthia came into Lisa and her younger brother Er...

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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WAR OF HEARTS They called her Rambling Rose McKenzie, a woman so wild and sweet, so high-spirited, no man could tame her -- or resist trying. Her birthright was McKenzie's Hundred, rich Virginia acres threatened by a desperate war. Blind de...

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As the lone survivor aboard a wandering space station, the reader must choose between landing on an unexplored planet or tracking down the mysterious plague that has spirited away everyone aboard the space station...

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Ruin threatens the proud old Alvaro family! They can’t pay the mortgage on their ranch. Their house and barn have been destroyed in a suspicious fire. Their only hope is to find the family’s priceless heirloom -- a jeweled sword that mysteriously...

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George Naylor, an Anglican priest, has doubts about his faith. He goes to stay with his brother’s family, who unfortunately regard religion with some disdain and George as a bit of a joke. Enter Father Potter, sent by the establishment to regain th...

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"I'd rather fail in story writing than succeed in anything else,"         Josephine Herbst declared in 1913. The Iowa native's Trexler family trilogy,         wit...

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A model son since he was adopted, Robbie Ward, now in his midteens, experiences wildly erratic changes of mood, a dangerous condition that his parents must face and find help for before it is too late...

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The eBook edition and the Periphery Press "Trade Edition" (large 6"x9" format, superior quality) of Sand in the Wind are, at present, the only corrected and authorized editions available.


"...an extraordinary tribute to the GIs who, as [Ro...

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The reader's decisions and ability to solve mazes and puzzles will determine whether the interplanetary spy can capture Skystalker, a criminal who has stolen the ancient Romular Sphere from the planet Kellzor...

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Volume One of The War of the Dragons trilogyElenya and Alemar have come of age hidden from the decades-long war between an empire-craving dragon and the human dynasty that stands in the way. The twin sister and brother nevertheless may be the means t...

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Trudy Coles' rocky rise to Hollywood stardom takes her from her West Virginia mining-town home through Hollywood's decadent underworld and the glitter of Broadway, to a bout with alcoholism and her final triumph...

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Two scientists forecast, on the basis of present scientific knowledge as well as an understanding of historical, social, and political trends, the "history" of the next millenium, written as if looking back from the year 3000...

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“Dazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding.” -- Philadelphia InquirerThe critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment.“A writer of blistering intellec...

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Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen trag...

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