Books Published in December 1982

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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The Grant brothers. Toughened before the mast on the storm-lashed New England coast, rebels against England's tyrannical King George III, only they would dare to penetrate the wild mystery, the fierce beauty, the vast promise of the South American co...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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As it seems to me, the great qualities of folk-tales are two. First, they are full of surprises and marvels. The essence of fiction is that the hearer is dying to learn what happened next, or if he already knows, he is eager to hear it again and to t...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction
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The world of Kregen revolving around the double suns of Antares holds many wonders. There are warrior men and warrior beasts with mighty fraternities of valor and courage. There are whispers of similar organizations among the high-born women of many ...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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Thousands of years from now, after a new Ice Age has reduced our world to frozen ruins, new civilizations and cultures arise from the Ice. But as the people of tomorrow slowly uncover the lost technology of the past, they also rediscover war, conques...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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DEVIL IN THE FLESH Generations before it had been one of the most elegant mansions in Georgia. Now it stood dark and decaying, possessed by a satanic presence that defied anyone to disturb its brooding solitude. Then the Hollywood movie company ar...

• Dec-1982
• / Suspense
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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• Dec-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Fantasy
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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AFRICAN ADVENTURE .. . Patricia Wells had vowed to forgo romance and dedicate herself to her career as a dance therapist. But then--on vacation amid the lush beauty of Africa--she encountered Armand de Vincent, a wealthy Frenchman. He was wild...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide.""A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly i...

• Dec-1982
• / Suspense
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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After the crash that took her memory and altered her appearance, Lilly Parker began to search for the identity that eluded her. As she searched she could not escape the memory of Kirk Remington, the husband of whose love she had never been sure. As a...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Stacey Hamilton had eyes as green as an aspen, hair as golden as sunstruck wheat--and a spirit as wild as the wind that swept the New Mexico canyons. It was a time when women could be either midwives or housewives, but Stacey was determined to be a d...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Behind her lay a ruined romance and a glamorous city job she could no longer endure. Ann Taylor had come home to the Ohio farm determined to reclaim her roots and forget about love. But one look at rugged Nathan Warner and her grim resolve failed....

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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Nancy Finch, her kidnapper, and on-the-run hitchhiker Judge J. Jolley drive westward from South Carolina and--after plots, failed chances, and retreats along the way--arrive finally at the Grand Canyon and deliverance...

• Dec-1982
• / Literary
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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"It is with particular interest... that we greet the publication of New Islands, a slim book of evocative, haunting stories by Maria Luisa Bombal, a Chilean writer whose creative period was basically confined to the 1930's and 40's and whose work, al...

• Dec-1982
• / Fantasy
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The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne.“A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewI...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Dallas knew she was in over her head from the moment she met Nick. Her feelings for her devastatingly handsome colleague washed over her like a tidal wave: He was irresistible, dangerous and more exciting than anyone she had ever known. She fought...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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Her gifts are limitless.... Rosellen Brown can do anything with language.—Cynthia Ozick All the stories in this remarkable cycle of stories are assigned an address. Each is also a separate life, yet part of the larger life that a neighborhood i...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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STRANDED . . . Lacy's first trip to Guatemala seemed doomed from the start. First her friend was called home unexpectedly, then Lacy's luggage and handbag were stolen...until finally she was rescued by the enigmatic Jordan Stone. But w...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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In the city at the center of time, paradox is just another urban renewal project.All time and all possibilities converge in the city of Cinnabar. to experience its magic you must:Seek entrances both near and far... Cross uncountable parsecs and mille...

• Dec-1982
• / Suspense
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Death and tennis meet in one of impossible crime master John Dickson Carr’s most memorable cases. John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling “impossible crime” plots in which corpses are discovered in scenarios that seem to lack any logical e...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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A wild passion sang in her blood... She had been chosen lady-in-waiting to Mary Tudor, queen of England! But it was dashing Lord Charles Varland who was to rule Lady Julian Redenter's passionate heart, to sweep her into the sweet fires of a d...

• Dec-1982
• / Action Adventure
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• Dec-1982
• / Action Adventure
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Shallie had to make her way in rodeo, a man's world, and Hunt McIver's help was invaluable to her. But the man himself remained a mystery. Why would he help a woman whose motives he didn't trust? Yet together they warmed the western ni...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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"If you so much as touch me -- with one finger -- I'll disappear so fast, you won't know what happened!" The deal was made. Cindy would work for Alan Michaels, celebrated author of children's books -- the stranger who'd sav...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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It was a Halloween party she'd never forget! The Bunny and The Bandit! Masked, costumed strangers, they'd fallen into each other's arms at the witching hour. Dr. Virginia Farrell gasped at the memory. At the stroke of midnight she'...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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NO MAN HAD EVER AROUSED SUCH FEELINGS As assistant museum curator, Liza respected the power Christian Chase radiated in the art world. And as a woman, she was alive to his vibrant personal charm. But how dare he try to destroy the perfect relat...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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SWEET REVENGE He said his name was "Mr. Lawrence," but Candra Bishop soon discovered the truth. The mystery man who had saved her from bankruptcy was the childhood idol she'd driven away. Josh was rich now. The tables had turned. But the years apa...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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A riveting, unforgettable story of vengeance stretched to the outer limits of sanity.

Fatal attraction to a charismatic killer--the only apparent link in the lurid slayings of young women across a dozen states, but seemingly enough for cri...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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Weber, an American agent and professional killer, faces an agonizing crisis of conscience as he embarks on an odyssey that takes him to Africa, Washington, Central America, and the streets of New York...

• Dec-1982
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Vietnam vet Mallory has been everywhere and done everything—from hippie life to construction work, from covering a reporter’s beat to walking a cop’s—before finally returning to small-town Iowa to try his hand at writing. In b...

• Dec-1982
• / Horror
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Mr. and Mrs. Dobson openly accuse each other of favoring one daughter over the other, and both they and their children must come to terms with their own individual feelings before they can have the family life they so desperately want...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Fiery-haired divorcee Claudia Spencer threw herself into her prosperous jewelry design business with anguished fury, determined to put her ex-husband Johnny and his globetrotting, reckless ways behind her. Then Rick Morgan, as proud and spirited as t...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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A trip to Japan with Brett Wells, the secret love from her past -- how could Carolyn ask for more? But ask she did, for she would never be happy until Brett's heart was hers. And in the mysterious East she saw her dream come true beneath the b...

• Dec-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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Lady Francesca de Lisle outrages the Winchester elite when, under the penname of Lady Alethia, she writes a column for the local newspaper describing the antics, rivalries, and peccadilloes of the most prominent social families. ------------- The D...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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TREE TRIMMINGAND SLEIGH RIDING . . . Christmas festivities were the furthest things from Leslie Stiles' mind when she left the city for her aunt's house in Vermont. The season held bitter memories for Leslie, and she hoped to avoid all the...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Suspense
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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The Star-Rovers It is the Year 2168 -- and men have become star-rovers. The agreed-upon code is that sciences and gadgets beyond the cultural level of the peoples inhabiting the other planets will not be introduced by Earthmen, or other visitor...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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The acclaimed and influential dancer-choreographer recounts the circumstances of the paralyzing stroke she suffered in 1975, her return to the stage, and the realignment of her life occasioned by those experiences...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Action Adventure
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction
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Jens Wylie would never leave Earth, but his heart was with the brave men and women of the first Mars Expedition, enchanted by the siren song of the stars. As U.S. Undersecretary of Space, he thought he could share some small part of that bold advent...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Rose's father is an abusive man without friends and his family hates him. When her step-mother, his second wife, dies, things get even worse. The only bright spot in Rose's life in is George, aka Bitter Creek. He won her box at a church box social an...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Why couldn't she practice what she preached! As coach of her son's Little League team, she found it easy to say, "We win some, we lose some." Was she the sore loser? Or was it the better part of valor to be content with what she ha...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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THREE WOMEN, THREE LOVES They were three generations of women, each one longing for the searing fires of passion, each one searching for a very special love ... CHRISTINE - beautiful and spirited, destiny took her from the streets of London to...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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RESTLESS HEART The trail west had started as a joyful adventure for young Lenora Adamson, but in mid-journey, tragedy struck, leaving her orphaned, alone, and doomed to die on the arid plains. But just as she was despairing, she was rescued by han...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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LARA CLAYTON KNEW WHAT BRANCH TAGGART WANTED. Now that her father was dead, Branch probably thought the feud was ended. But he hadn't reckoned on one person. Lara was determined that he would not own her or the ranch. It didn't help to ...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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A MADMAN'S PARADISE... High in the treacherous Chisos Mountains, Confederate Colonel Bascom Sutpen still terrorizes his slaves and rides roughshod over his troops -- even though the war ended fifteen years ago! The colonel's private confederacy li...

• Dec-1982
• / Mystery
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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Retired CIA agent Wallace Mahoney is approached by Sonja, an Israeli intelligence agent. There's a mole in the Mossad, and they need an outsider to help uncover him. Against his better judgment, Mahoney agrees to help -- and finds himself entangled i...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Destined to change the very course of history, the house of Hanover forged a powerful European empire that extended from the old world to America, the land of opportunity ... an empire that would be torn asunder by clashing branches of the proud and ...

• Dec-1982
• / Suspense
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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From the moment Kate first set eyes on the mischievous McDuff, she and the little Scottie were inseparable. Now Kate was celebrating Duff's return home from the vet after getting "fixed." He was kind of old for an operation, but she knew that if anyo...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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• Dec-1982
• / Espionage
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The November Man returns... After twenty years in the Cambodian jungle, Father Leo Tunney has staggered out--with a secret of global importance. What does Father Leo Tunney know? Washington, Moscow, Vatican City and an international bank want to f...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Casey Adams worked her way up from a chambermaid to become Boston's most fashionable caterer. But she faced the greatest challenge of her career when virile Matt Stoner made a bet with a foreign industrialist, then hired Casey to win it. From the ...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Mystery
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When photographer Jonathan Brewster?s four-year-old daughter Joanne tells him about her new invisible friends, he doesn't think too much about it. But then he sees them for himself: weird and uncanny images of the dead appearing in his photographs. T...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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He was a complete stranger, yet she'd seen his rugged face in her dreams night after tormented night. Herbalist Judith Longfellow was shocked when Jason McNair finally appeared in the flesh: the psychic investigator assigned to share her home and exp...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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The bestselling author of The Search for Joseph Tully “will keep you up all night” with this paranormal thriller of heaven and hell, sinners and saviors (The New York Times).   In a masterful blending of myth and reality, the eternal conflic...

• Dec-1982
• / Amateur Sleuth
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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ONE HEART TO GIVE... For Susanne, working with famous novelist Nick Merridew was an exciting challenge. But when she met his brother Richard, it was love at first sight. Then, just weeks before their wedding, a car accident left Susanne blinded...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Law Enforcement
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DIRTY HARRY -- BREAKING THE RULES AND MAKING HIS OWN! Terrorists! Airports and public places are their stage. Civilians are their targets. The spread of chaos is their game. Now Dirty Harry wants to play -- for keeps. On battlefields from Frisco to ...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Mystery
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An officer in the Polish intelligence agency, Mr. X defected to the West when he became disillusioned with his government after a colleague's assassination, and now he reveals his knowledge of secret operations...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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In the spring of 1922, several months after completing "Siddhartha," Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, "Pictor’s Metamorphoses," is the centerpiece of t...

• Dec-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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Callie had her chance to marry long ago, and lost it. Now she vows that her sisters' charms will impress the wealthy Earl of Rutledge and save them all from destitution. But from the moment he first encounters Callie up a tree, Rutledge prefer...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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The hangman's noose was waiting for Bart Foraker unless he could reach the safety of the Mexican border. Wanted for a crime he didn't commit, Bart swore he'd come back to clear his name. Right now, escape was the only thing on his mind....

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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He could neither forgive nor forget Nothing Olivia could say would diminish Nick Baretta's hatred for her. The woman who had cruelly rejected and deceived his brother Greg would suffer for her callousness. Now, though she was innocent, Oliv...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Deaf to her pleas, blind to the truth, he swept her into his arms, kissed her--then left her in a white heat of outrage and passion. But Aaron Stone, San Francisco real-estate magnate, would be back, convinced that Wynn Harris made a business of p...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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With an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm TóibínOpening with a crime of passion after a years-long love affair has soured, The Dead Girls soon plunges into an investigation of something even darker: Serafina Baladro and her sister run a s...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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A Woman of the Future, first published in 1979, was David Ireland's best-selling sixth novel and his third to win the Miles Franklin Award.  An imaginative tour de force, it is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt -- from conception to sex...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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THE DEVIL WITHIN A MAN OF MANY TALENTS... With his carefully groomed Southern manners, Yale Ransom might have stepped straight out of Gone With The Wind. But stockbroker Dara Bancroft sensed a primal force beneath the glossy surface of her prosp...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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CHILD OF FORBIDDEN LOVE SLAVE OF FORBIDDEN DESIRE Lovely Amalia Morena was totally innocent of her harsh beginnings. Daughter of a Spanish grandee and a beautiful prostitute, she spent her childhood in a convent far from the New Orleans brothel h...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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LOVE HOAX On a ski trip to Switzerland, Belinda fell desperately in love with Adam Lloyd, a handsome Welsh farmer. But before the vacation was over, her scheming identical twin had lured Adam into marriage. Then, unexpectedly, her sister deserted A...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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He was Ryan Middleton, a man without a past. Wounded by the Germans in the fields of Belgium, he lay sleeping in a coma, lost to the world. Only Alys Prevou, a young mother already widowed by the war, could save him and teach him to live anew. Shel...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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Christy and Mike are finally going steady! And Christy’s senior year promises to be extra special, especially after she gets a part-time job in a gift shop. But by Thanksgiving, nothing is right. Mike gets upset every time Christy mentions her job....

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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"We have to escape or die," Zach told her Suddenly Tamara's holiday in the Caribbean had turned into a nightmare. On a guided tour of a rain forest she had been captured by guerrillas! Only through the strength and comfort of fellow ho...

• Dec-1982
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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Embroiled in seething rebellion, Sworn to defend the tottering throne of ancient Nemedia, Pursued by the luscious and shameless Sularia, Cimmeria's bravest, most exciting hero challenges the magic-spawned menace that cannot die: The invincible, diabo...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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THEY WERE THE FAITHFUL AND THE FEW... In turn of the century America, the sons and daughters of Liam O'Donnell must fight to preserve their Irish heritage. Among them is young Jim O'Donnell, a master fiddler sworn to guard the music of his ancestors...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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A POTENT MAGNETISM DREW HER TO EGYPT Robyn Douglas, Ph.D. candidate in ancient languages, was deeply moved by the mysterious desert land. She felt she was home at last--doubly so when she met Sayed al-Rashad, the dizzyingly attractive archaeologis...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Autumn Alley: where the East End's most fascinating call their home . . .Here you'll find Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; ...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Was Kirsty to blame for her broken heart? Neil had once been Kirsty's sole reason for living. Then he disappeared without a word, and she had changed from an impulsive girl willing to give herself in love to a cautious, bitter woman determined...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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'The West that Henry mourned belonged to the Western movie, where the land and the cattle went to their proper guardians and brought a fortune in respect and power. It was a West where the best cowboy got to shoot the meanest outlaw, woo the pretties...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Mystery
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BLUE BLOOD WAS FLOODING LONDON WITH HORROR A killer who made Jack the Ripper seem gentle was slitting the throats of the cream of England's aristocracy. Naturally Scotland Yard launched total war against this monster, enlisting the great Sherlock ...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Laura knew there was no future for them Right from their first meeting, Laura felt that Tom Farrell would change her life. Somehow he brought her painfully out of her cocoon of work and uninvolvement as no one else had done. At last she was ful...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Space Opera
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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Beverly Hills, an enclave of the super-rich, where passion has its price. Rodeo Drive, a street where lives are bought and sold....

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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IT WAS LIKE LIVING ON ANOTHER PLANET Holly questioned her own sanity. What was she doing as camp cook for a group of fossil hunters in the South Dakota Badlands? Her real milieu was the glittering world of New York fashion modeling. But everyth...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Law Enforcement
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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He must never guess her true feelings As far as Adam was concerned, their marriage was a businesslike arrangement. Both had suffered the pain of rejection, and both had vowed to avoid any future emotional ties or commitment. "Our marriage s...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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One searing kiss -- that was all it took! The barriers were broken. Her foundation was shaken. He wanted her, and, worst of all, his desire equaled her own. A gambler! Vichy moaned. Ninety-nine percent charm and one hundred percent opportunism. Sh...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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THE HEART'S SURRENDER Before she even knew he was her boss, ravishing Leslie Grand abandoned herself to a dark, compelling stranger for a single, wanton night. How could she tell him she wasn't that kind of woman, that it had been love at first s...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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A GEM-CROSSED ROMANCE When collector Justin Sinclair walked into the Russell family's shop, all he wanted was a jewel appraisal. Then he met lovely Suzanna Russell, a gem specialist only too willing to let Justin monopolize her time. What bega...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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THE TEXAS SUN BLAZED ABOVE THEIR LOVE UNTIL A FRONTIER FEUD TORE HER FROM HIS ARMS... Under the dazzling Texas sun, in a family torn by dark secrets, Debra Moraghan blossomed like a fiery desert flower. Then, defiantly, she fled the poverty of her...

• Dec-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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Why would a most independent young woman want to risk a second chance at love with a maddeningly arrogant nobleman? THE TRESPASSER When Vanessa Damery's dashing husband, Frederick, fell in battle, Vanessa locked all thoughts of romance out...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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SHE WAS TORN FROM THE ARMS OF LOVE AND IMPRISONED IN THE HOT EMBRACE OF PASSION... Sultry Tampa, crossroad for gallant soldiers of the Spanish-American War, was the beloved home of young Jessica Manning. Her elegance and delicate beauty entranced...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction Romance
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BEHIND THEM LAY DEATH, BEFORE THEM THE UNIVERSE... The Senyas dancers--they practiced their unique skills on their home planet, Deva, their smooth skin glowing with complex energy patterns as they learned the power dances and mentally mastered the...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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DANGER AND DESIRE The Contessa Valentina de Cortivanni was young, headstrong, wealthy, and breathtakingly lovely. Men willingly risked their honor and their lives to win her favor. Valentina, betrothed to the notorious Nicolo Polo, father of the...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Once Dusty Winthrop loved life. But since her husband's untimely death, the dark-haired beauty has hidden her exuberant soul beneath a sophisticated exterior, becoming immersed in her work as a New York City art dealer. No one in her glamorous world ...

• Dec-1982
• / Suspense
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Pretty little five-year-old Bonnie Jackson was the darling of all the stage world. Until the night she found herself wandering, terrified, through the darkness of the Winston Theater -- a night that would end with evil consuming the innocent girl in ...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Mirjana -- reckless yet innocent, a princess of the Ottoman Empire, desperately begs El Cid to rescue her from the caravan taking her to a loveless marriage... El Cid -- fierce and ruthless, legend and power, betrays Mirjana, taking her captive t...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Alaine's heart never had so much as a sporting chance of escaping unscathed once she met ballplayer Doug Morrow. The tough, charismatic pitcher was used to having his own way, and Alaine soon stopped trying to fight their mutual attraction. What ...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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CONFLICT OF INTERESTS Ski instructor Joda Kerris was post from the moment she gazed into Egan O'Neill's midnight blue eyes. He pretended to be a beginner, but she suspected that he knew what he was doing right from the start. By the time she learn...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Nick's magnetism was overwhelming! Infatuated, Rachel offered no resistance to Nick's seduction. Then he insisted she marry him--not because he loved her, but because of the result of his own unbridled passion. "No child of mine," ...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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The Soviets have taken the space laser out of Science Fiction and made it terrifying fact - an irradiation beam of incmparable power ready to be unleashed against the USA. All that stands between the world and a cataclysmic war is an extraordinary gr...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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No one could envy her position As Lady Manderly's companion, Jemima responded cheerfully to her eccentric whims and demands. But then Jemima Mason was capable of coping with almost anything. The exception was her employer's nephew, Professor Al...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Gillian West arrived in China as an historical consultant on a film being directed by Burke Ferrara--Hollywood's "golden boy"--she was furious. The studio had hired her against his wishes, and he wanted no part of her. But Burke is ambitious,...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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Leigh swore she'd never love again! In the two years since she'd left the Far East, Leigh's pain at losing her young husband, Patrick had not eased. Revisiting the exotic, alluring island of Singapore with its ornate temples and cos...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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Three stories of “sensuous prose and indelible imagery” that re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate (The New York Times).   Refugees drawn to Jerusalem in search of safety are confronted by activists rel...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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IT WAS TO BE AN UNOFFICIAL BETROTHAL. Cornelius often despaired of the behavior of his sister, Carrie and his ward, Bree. They shared a mischievous sense of humor, a breathtaking beauty and an uncanny ability to read each other's thoughts. ...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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• Dec-1982
• / Fantasy
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IT WAS THE SIXTH CENTURY AFTER THE CATACLYSM ... and in the fair coastal Kingdom of Westria, the dashing young King set out to find a bride, a lady who could be not only mistress of his heart, but also Mistress of the Jewels. The Jewels of Westri...

• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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All she wanted was to start over. The sensational press had ripped her character to shreds, blaming her for the drowning death of her famous fiance. On an isolated Scottish island Sharon hoped to strengthen her broken spirit. There she met Calu...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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As the beautiful, fair-haired Angel Sherwood sailed from England to Louisiana, she sensed that her destiny flowed with the rough waves of the ocean. Frightened by the harsh sea, Angel prayed that perhaps, just perhaps, she would find happiness and ro...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Nelda and Lute made love, their hearts and bodies sang in a rapturous duet... until the death of their infant daughter drove them into discord and destroyed their marriage.... Years later, Nelda returns to Iowa, anxious to reassess her futu...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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A ROLLER-COASTER AFFAIR Harris Linton was a charmer, the kind of man Jessie Hampton despised--and couldn't resist. This beautiful lakeside hotel was the perfect setting for romance. But here, in his passionate embrace, she was lost, scared, totall...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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A young actress, also a single mother, is murdered and left for dead on a New York City street. Only she wasnt murdered. Somebody tried to kill her, somebody she knew. But who? If only she could remember, before he tried a second time....

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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'If there be one place in all this orb of earth where a secret is a Secret, that place is a Roman Conclave' Part novel, part daydream, part diatribe, this strange masterpiece tells the story of George Arthur Rose, a poor, frustrated writer who liv...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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HE WANTED HER HEART -- FOR THE PLEASURE OF BREAKING IT DID HE LOVE HER OR DID HE ONLY WANT REVENGE? He had Jace's eyes--dark and compelling. Those eyes carried Vanessa back ten years to the magic of Jace, the glow of their love. But Jace wa...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Historical
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WAS TWO WEEKS OF LOVING WORTH DYING FOR? Skye Fargo had two weeks to find Ivy Thompson. Her father wanted Ivy so badly, he kept raising the ante. His experienced wife Cordelia just raised her skirts. Skye took the money -- and everything else -- a...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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The world knew him as Christian Dent, best-selling author and surprise lecturer at Dartmouth's summer writers' workshop. But to Allison Saunders, ex-teacher, ex-executive, and now aspiring writer, the devastating stranger was none other than Cate Har...

• Dec-1982
• / Historical Romance
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SHE FEARED THE MAN SHE LOVED At sixteen, Renee Fontaine's cascading black hair and soft, full curves drew the suitors of St. Louis like bees to spring's first flower. But the dazzling beauty had eyes only for Marshall Westlake, the handsome lawyer w...

• Dec-1982
• / Science Fiction
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She lived in a savage world in an uncivilized age, a world ruled by men and governed by the sword. They called her Red Sonja -- for her flame-red hair, for the smouldering fire of her pride which gave her sword arm a strength few men could match and ...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Fantasy
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Welcome aboard the sex-drive void ship . . .Captain Genro commands the giant spaceship Dragon Zephyr - on board are ten thousand passengers in electrocoma, a smaller number of conscious passengers eagerly utilising the ship's dream chambers - and a P...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / Mystery
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Libby shivered a little and took a deep breath. She wouldn't let herself be scared. The call had probably been a joke. It was nothing. But Libby was wrong. That strange call was the beginning of the most dangerous adventure Libby had ever had to face...

• Dec-1982
• / Mystery
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For a whole year, Elizabeth had been in love with handsome Scott Norris. But Scott didn't know she was in love with him. The love letters Elizabeth wrote to Scott stayed in her desk drawer -- until now! Would the thief show the letters to Scott?...

• Dec-1982
• / Christian
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others suffer from the same affliction a...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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