Books Published in January 1986

• Feb-1986
• / Space Opera
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Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose side lost. Now she is forced to escape aboard Loki, surrounded by enemies and hunting her old comrades. And the fighting skills she must use to surviv...

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• / Science Fiction
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The ceremonious protocol of the Yills was impressive, colorful, and, in the long run, deadly! It was up to Jame Retief to figure out how to respond to the Yill's overtures in the correct manner; all the while keeping his superiors from making a deadl...

• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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HE TAUGHT HER THE MEANING OF ECSTASY --BUT COULD SHE WIN HIS HEART? Widowed after seven years of celibate marriage to a man old enough to be her father, Lysette Ravaisson is still young, lovely, and free at last to seek the love she longs for. But...

• 1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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a Loveswept Exclusive [1986] Travis Foxx's breath caught as Saber Duncan mesmerized her audience, her voice smoldering with passion and filled an odd, defiant yearning that stripped her heart naked. Could she possibly be the same girl whose records ...

• 1986
• / Traditional Regency
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MISCHIEF IN MARR1AGE The Earl of Bourne wanted no part of married life. After years of danger in foreign wars, he was eager to plunge into a campaign of Conquests among the long lists of London lovelies who would give their all to please a man as...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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THE WOMEN WHO WON THE WEST 1858: MARY -- The gentle eastern schoolteacher ost her heart to a handsome traper, overcomign the hardships of frontier life in the Wisconsin wilderness to establish a family dynasty. 1880: WILHELMINA -- Mary's flame-...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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SHE RAN AWAY FROM THE ALTAR -- INTO THE ARMS OF A HOT-LOODED GYPSY His name was Mateo. Magnificently sexy. Totally charming. Bursting with life in a way that set Charlotte's blood on fire. From the first moment she saw him, performing in a dazzlin...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jan-1986
• / Law Enforcement
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• Jan-1986
• / Law Enforcement
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It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life. Alex sets out to convince ...

• Jan-1986
• / Suspense
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After his boss dies, Harry Sommers, a gentle former prizefighter and amiable ex-con inadvertently inherits the private-eye trade when he investigates the blackmailing and murdering of the crooks who pulled off a successful wage heist eight years earl...

• Jan-1986
• / Police Procedural
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In 1946, newly promoted detective-constable John Coffin arrives in Greenwich to take up his post. Soon after, the body of a young woman floats down the Thames to South London. It quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder: the victim has b...

• Jan-1986
• / Suspense
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• Jan-1986
• / Suspense
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Rain Morgan is on assignment in the French Riviera for the London Daily Post. She is on the trail of a hot story about Sabine Jourdain and her long affair with the famous painter, Marius Durance. But on the eve of their scheduled interview Sabine is ...

• Jan-1986
• / Amateur Sleuth
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MEET ANTONIA FRASER'S JEMIMA SHORE.... Jemima Shore didn't plan on a life of detection. But at the age of fifteen, while staying at a Catholic boarding school, she found herself plunged into a bizarre situation involving a suspicious miracle and a...

• Jan-1986
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• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Montana rancher Tate Hollister had to be the grouchiest, grumpiest humbug man widow Maggie Jeffries had ever met. But as the holiay season progressed, Maggie discovered that Tate wasn't completely immune to the Christmas spirit - his loving embrace c...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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INTRIGUES YOU, SWEEPS YOU UP AND HOLDS YOU IN HIGH SUSPENSE UNTIL THE FINAL CURTAIN THREE GENERATIONS OF INESCAPABLE OBESSION Sweeping from Jazz age Paris to the golden era of Hollywood, to Moscow, London and New York, here is the glamorous a...

• 1986
• / Private Investigator
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Donald Strachey finds the grandson of the godfather of Albany's political machine dead--in Donald's car. When he finds a letter on the corpse specifically asking for his help, Donald, a gay P.I., does his best to fulfill the dead man's mission-even a...

• 1986
• / General Fiction
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The indomitable spirit of seventy-eight-year-old Melanie faulters when she learns that her granddaughter Juliet, a young career woman, plans to abort the illegitimate child that Melanie so joyfully looks forward to caring for...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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In another world, somewhere in space and time, two countries - Bellogard and Chorny - are locked in perpetual war, conducted by magic. Each of the main members of the two countries' courts - king, queen, prince, bishop, knight and squire - has their ...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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It was a daring plan that backfired completely! Harriet Drummond, promising law student, caused a commotion the day she protested an expropriation bid by Lancaster International. Her antics landed her in the office of the company chairman, Ja...

• 1986
• / Historical Romance
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You gave the best performance of an innocent, hardworking unmarried woman that I've ever seen, Miss Abigail... Abigail Brannon had never expected frontier life to be easy. But when Indian marauders had murdered her young husband only a few years afte...

• 1986
• / Historical Romance
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They both loved the orphaned child. But which of them knew what was best for her? Rachael Whitaker - Boston born and bred, she reluctantly joins her mother and stepfather on a wagon train to Illinois in the spring of 1837. When her mother falls ill, ...

• 1986
• / Historical Romance
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According to Desert Rose Birchfield's first cousin and best friend Nate Birchfield, there was only one man for her, and it didn't matter that he lived thousands of miles from Wyoming Territory. Love--and Nate, of course--would find a way. Carmicha...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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THE TWO SISTERS LOOKED ASTONISHINGLY ALIKE But that was where the similarities ended. For although Angelica was sensual and sophisticated, Jorja was gentle and meek, accustomed only to the sheltered life in her father's quiet vicarage. And ...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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Lady Leonie of Montwyn, the exquisite mistress of Pershwick, recoiled in horror. Cruelly pledged to the dreaded Sir Rolfe d'Ambert, Lord of Crewel, she knew that her life was indeed over. But when she met the dark, magnificent, man who came to claim...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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Beautiful, doomed Anne Boleyn... forbidden to marry the man she loved...trapped by the relentless passion of her liege lord, King Henry VIII...destroyed in a political catastrophe whose poignant echoes still reverberate. Her attractions were so powe...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Audrey Driscoll grew up in her grandfather's San Francisco mansion. Her parents had been killed in a tragic accident when she was a child. By 1932 she was a second mother to her beautiful younger sister, a high-spirited companion for her elderly gran...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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What's happening to Becca's mermaid? Becca couldn't wait to see her Christmas presents. Exactly at midnight on Christmas Eve, she stole downstairs -- but suddenly stopped at the foot of the staircase: Something was moving on one side of the tree...

• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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A touch of computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert land. If only the brothers had normal parents, not a scientist mother and a father who experiments with space and time trave...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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How’s a girl supposed to know when she’s in love -- and more importantly, how does she get out of it? One remarkable older sister would be bad enough, but Karen Freed has two: Liz, a beautiful poet, and Tobi, compellingly intense and argumentativ...

• Jan-1986
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Featuring the best from the modern masters of detective, intrigue, suspense, and mystery fiction: "William Haggard: An Interview"; "Timeo Danaos" & "Commentary on Timeo Danaos" by William Haggard; "After the Thin Man: Part 1" by Dashiell Hammett; "Ac...

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• / General Fiction
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Wealthy Vietnam vet Sid Mehring goes to Miami to learn whether his young ward Jamie, orphaned sister of one of his dead buddies, has been murdered or been part of a cocaine scam. She's in love with Byron Racicot, who is in homosexual thrall to the sa...

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• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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There have been many books about the Grail, written from many differing standpoints. Some have been practical, some purely historical, others literary, but this is the first Grail book which sets out to help the esoterically inclined seeker through t...

• Jan-1986
• / Mystery
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In Tehran during the last years of the Shah's reign, veteran journalist Jim Morgan pursues the details of an Israeli's murder and discovers a bloody conspiracy more disturbing than the violence endemic to Tehran...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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A teen-ager who has always made fun of boy-conscious friends and who has been groomed to develop her "full potential" finds herself becoming interested in boys and begins to question some of her former thinking....

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• / Mystery
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• / General Fiction
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A history of literary criticism from Dryden to T.S. Eliot and Iris Murdoch, that shows by what stages the art of analyzing literary works has evolved from the early experiments of the seventeenth century into the techniques of the twentieth. The auth...

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• / Fantasy
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Spectators watch the circus parade. On board pages which fold out into one long strip. Turning the strip over reveals six removable, die-cut animal figures which link together to form a free-standing animal procession....

• Jan-1986
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• / Thriller
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• Jan-1986
• / Literary
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Since its founding in 1981, the quarterly Grand Street has become one of the country's premier literary journals; included here is a judicious selection of articles, fiction and poetry published in its pages over the past five years. There are deligh...

• Jan-1986
• / Literary
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A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin M...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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This is not so much a guide to finding a mate as it is a self-help book for single men and women. The focus is on making friends. However, there is also plenty of advice on finding "sleeping partners," with all sorts of pointers on venereal disease, ...

• Jan-1986
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• / General Fiction
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Self-conscious wisecracks and barely credible incidents aside, this plunge into the mind of a madwoman thoroughly engrosses the reader. Initially, it seems that thrice-institutionalized Curanne will find her way back to sanity by marrying Jack Truehe...

• Jan-1986
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• / General Fiction
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This book is an autobiography pin pictures of Joan Sutherland, the magnificent diva of the opera world. There are photos of memorable first nights & the famous productions of Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata, Norma, & The Tales of Hoffmann. Dazzl...

• Jan-1986
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• / Literary
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• / General Fiction
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How often do we ask ourselves, ‘What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?’ In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes ...

• Jan-1986
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• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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Lee Ezell tells the dramatic story of her remarkable reunion with her daughter Julie. It began in 1963, when Lee, a confused and frightened 18-year-old-the victim of a brutal rape-bravely chose to have her baby and give her up for adoption. In the ye...

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• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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WHILE THE DARK GOD SLEPT Long ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the p...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1986
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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A golem to the rescue!Grundy Golem was the size of an inconsequence, and nobody had any respect for him -- including Grundy! To prove himself, he volunteered to ride the Monster Under the Bed to the Ivory Tower to find little Ivy’s long-lost dragon...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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After interviewing Daniel Luu, a Vietnamese student and former refugee, for an article in the school newspaper, shy Sue Bolkowski discovers that despite their different backgrounds, they have much in common, including a mutual attraction....

• Jan-1986
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• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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By day, Fay Colby is a successful advertising executive, whose alternate persona, Ann Decker, recklessly satisfies an insatiable lust each night--but her separate worlds collide as her many lovers are systematically murdered...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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The war had been going on for nearly a year and the Sirian Empire had a huge advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge. Which was where James Mowry came in. If a small insect buzzing around in a car could so distract the driver as to...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical
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He was the best soldier Fort Dragoon ever had ... and the colonel was out to break him ... Colonel Mallory loved busting young lieutenants like dried sticks. So when he arrived at Fort Dragoon, he gave every lowdown, scum-eating duty in the outfit to...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1986
• / Historical
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An anthology of twelve Western short stories including "Casey Jones," O. Henry's "The Passing of Black Eagle," Wayne D. Overholser's "Steel to the West," Giles A. Lutz's "Westward Rails," John Jakes' "Hell on the High Iron," and others...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Meeting Joshua was just what she needed Though Eden certainly didn't agree -- at first. Haunted as she was by memories of the accident in which she'd lost her family, Joshua's arrogant takeover of her life was a rude shock. Graduall...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Geena had accepted Jordan's decision She had tried hard not to fall in love with Jordan Kincaid. For although she was a friend of his sister, Geena regarded the wealthy businessman as strictly out of her world. Things hadn't worked out ...

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• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic i...

• Jan-1986
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• Jan-1986
• / Action Adventure
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• Jan-1986
• / Science Fiction
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The Cadre sequence of Space Operas comprising Cadre One (1985), Cadre Lucifer (1987) and Cadre Messiah (1988) follows the career of orphaned space cadet Pol Tryees into adventurous adulthood across the Galactic Empire, which he comes to understand an...

• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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A gorgeously illustrated 35th anniversary edition of the urban fantasy classic, featuring a new foreword by Megan Lindholm and illustrations by Tommy Arnold.

Seattle: a place as magical as the Emerald City. Subtle magic seeps through the cra...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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MARA HAD A DESPERATE PLAN OF DECEPTION THAT WOULD IGNITE INTO ROYAL PASSION Amid the color and music of a gypsy camp in the foothills of France, Mara Delacroix of Louisiana and Roderic, Prince of Ruthenia, met for the first time. She was the daug...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical
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An urgent letter from Clint Adams' old friend in Raton, New Mexico, triggered an avalanche of trouble for the Gunsmith. First a sexy young widow made him a target for marriage. And then a savage gunman horse-napped Clint's trusty gelding, Duke. And t...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical
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A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER ... He appeared mysteriously in full armor, riding a black steed. The Ute Indians believed he was an evil spirit. The ranchers only knew that he was stampeding their cattle and burning their barns. But when the medieval knight f...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical
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• Jan-1986
• / Historical
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LOREN ZANE GREY continues in the grand tradition of his father, Zane Grey, with further adventures of Lassiter -- the rough-riding loner from Riders of the Purple Sage who became America's favorite hero. THE GREATEST WESTERN LEGEND OF ALL TIME It st...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical
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When Lee Morgan invests in a stand of timber, he gets more than he bargained for when he gets a gorgeous partner who is talented in many ways, and catches the deadly eye of a vicious Russian timber baron. Original....

• Jan-1986
• / Historical
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Tired of running from the law, Buckskin Frank Leslie, a.k.a. Finn Lacy, hides out in Bristolton, Texas where he becomes a partner in the local whorehouse, but trouble finds him once again when he defends a group of ranchers against a powerful cattle ...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical
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Young Harvard man Wayne Cameron travels west and meets his destiny. There, he falls in with a brave group of Westerners struggling to fulfill a dangerous, desperate and thrilling dream - to carry through a thousand miles of dangerous wilderness a sin...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Linda Dawson has only good intentions in matchmaking for her widowed mother Ruth, but Paul Tanner thinks both women are scheming manipulators after a rich man's money! When Paul's wealthy friend Simon falls for Ruth, Paul is furious with Lind...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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MASTER HER COMPLETELY Independent Stephen Campbell first glanced at flame-haired Jennie Jackson, his desire flared as hot as molten rock. Then he saw three strapping brothers and the rugged gold miner quickly decided a moment of ecstasy sure wasn't ...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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When renowned model Elizabeth Sheridan inherits the fortune of billionaire Richard Tempest, she seems determined and savvy enough to survive the family battles of Tempest's greedy stepchildren--until she meets Dev Loughlin...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Meg Lambert's new boarder won't leave her alone! Boone Bradshaw invades her kitchen, settles into her living room, and is forever disrupting her easy solitude with his amiable chatter and disturbing masculinity. When she begins to like having...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Her life depended on it. Or at least her future as an aspiring young journalist. That was the only reason Katie Hudson would confront the man she'd always resented. Her in-depth interview with Ken Hart, superreceiver for the Sarasota Saxons, turn...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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When exhausted, anxious new mother Laura Anderson crashes her Pinto into a vintage Austin-Healey, her plea for a savior comes true in the capable, disarming driver of the injured vehicle. Chocolate manufacturer Owen Reesling proves to be both fairy g...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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The sudden reappearance of Alan Weiss, a former lover from her days as a student activist, threatens to upset Marlena's marriage to Russell, a successful dentist, as she is forced to confront hidden feelings, dreams, and desires...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lured by quaint locomotives and eerie castles, librarian Catherine Hollis impulsively joins a mystery buff's tout: seeking a yen she devours in whodunit's. Within minutes, brash Jake Latimer smothers her with his hat, insults her appearance, snatches...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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THEIRS WAS A TENDER FREE LOVE THAT NEITHER DISTANCE NOR TIME COULD DESTROY! Beautiful, clever Mara Rydale was born to British aristocracy but raised in obscure poverty by a humble family. In the heady freedom of English country summers she fell in...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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Dakota Territory, 1875 She was a captive of his kiss -- and a prisoner of his touch! WILD EMBRACE Starr thought the world had ended when Indians killed her family and carried her away to the wilderness. Then she glimpsed the strikingly hand...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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PASSION'S REVENGE She was a ravishingly beautiful renegade who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. No one knew that beneath her dashing facade, Katrina Easton burned to exact revenge on the villainous uncle who had killed her parents and seiz...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Andee Rotini has had enough of her six overprotective brothers, but they come in handy when she impulsively agrees to drive renowned photographer Thor Engborg to the Southwest. Truck driver Freddy makes a junk-food drop when she's most sick of Thor's...

• Jan-1986
• / Traditional Regency
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She had a long way to go from the wedding to become a wife. "SOMEHOW I WILL MARRY BEFORE MARIGOLD--ANYONE WHO WILL HAVE ME" When Lady Anne Sinclair vowed to marry before her spoilt beauty of a sister, she had no idea the "anyone"...

• Jan-1986
• / Romantic Suspense
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A haunting, contemporary tale of deception and romance set by the breathtaking vistas of California's Monterey Bay... A COMPASSIONATE WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST. A MYSTERIOUS MAN WHO LEADS HER TO LOVE. AND THE DANGEROUS SECRET THAT IS STRONGER TH...

• Jan-1986
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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A troubled man disturbed by the appearance of a neighborhood restaurant's waitress, a hideously deformed woman named Marta, decides that it is his destiny--and his obligation--to put Marta out of her misery...

• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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An anthology of sixteen neglected or forgotten masterpieces of science fiction encompasses works by such writers as Walter M. Miller, Jr., Lewis Padget, Jerome Bixby, Pauline Ashwell, and Donald E. Westlake...

• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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If he finds the right world, Jamie can get Home again.When Jamie stumbled upon the powerful Them playing Their mysterious games, They threw him out to the Boundaries of the worlds. Since then, he's been yanked from world to world, doomed to wonder in...

• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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When an alien alliance upsets the balance of power in the conflict between the Sondak Confederacy and United Central Systems, Sondak's brilliant, ruthless commander launches a last-ditch offensive to transform defeat into victory...

• Jan-1986
• / Horror
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Badger Ettison does not believe in demons. Until a shrieking, freezing horror escapes its ancient prison. A soulless hunger. Hunger that turns a beautiful woman into a shriveled husk before she has time to scream. Hunger that has no form, no substanc...

• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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"After Pilgermann, a German Jew in the year 1096, ravishes the tax collector's wife, an angry Christian mob retaliates by brutally castrating him. Bleeding and left for dead, Pilgermann experiences a vision of Jesus Christ and resolves to set out on ...

• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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The first completely automated Bolo, designed to operate normally without a man on board, was the landmark XV Model M, which performed remarkably well.However, the always-present possibility of capture and use of a Bolo by an enemy was a constant sou...

• Jan-1986
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• / Fantasy
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On the stolen throne of Darion sits the ursurper, Sedry, haunted by the silent grey eyes of the half-sister he banished, whose gift for magic was equal to his own; Elfrid, the Bastard. At watch, folded into the darkness, Bal of Korent remembers a hal...

• Jan-1986
• / Fantasy
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KEEP ONE HAND ON YOUR MONEY AND THE OTHER ON YOUR SWORD! Welcome to SANCTUARY,- a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy talents: LYNN ABBEY • C. J. CHER...

• Jan-1986
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• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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For months, she'd prepared for nothing but this moment She'd moved to Tulsa, disguised her features and changed her name. She'd carefully chosen time and place so that the encounter would seem perfectly innocuous. Now she found herself staring at ...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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For a moment it was like a movie--romantic, adventurous, exciting. Then Hillary Ann Worthington snapped back to reality-albeit reality of a rather exotic sort. The Blue Flamingo--a vintage railroad train that rivaled the Orient Express--was her late ...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Black gold. Oil. Men risked lives and fortunes to find it, but Faith Hutton went them one better: she risked her heart. Faith quit a good job as a petroleum geologist to join forces with wildcatter Houston Traynor. Houston was a maverick, unintere...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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An expert in Middle Eastern languages and the daughter of a famed archeologist, Gerri Wainwright was at home in the most exotic cities of the world. But nothing had prepared her for handling Foreign Service Specialist Scott Antrim. Bold, sensual, he ...

• Jan-1986
• / Romantic Suspense
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Mistaken identity ... or the real thing? Lauren Stevenson still felt self-conscious about the way she looked after having undergone plastic surgery in the Bahamas. But she'd opened a frame shop in Boston with a friend and welcomed starting afresh....

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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Free-spirited Judith McMahon's idea of a good adventure doesn't involve taking over her father's lumber business, but the Chippewa country surrounding the mill inflames her imagination. The reality is something she could never have prepared for - a v...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Mathematics professor Vanessa Blake had work to do. House-sitting on Cape Cod seemed the ideal opportunity to do it -- until the waves tossed up a very intriguing stranger with a very sprained ankle. President of a sporting goods empire, Luke Spencer...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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Why was she so purely delighted that he had entered her world? In an age of the decline of the Spanish dons--those elegant lords of central California during the mid-1800s--Felicidad Martines meets an Irish sea-man, Seamus Fisher. Though born in d...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE WAS DETERMINED TO SUCCEED... Faye Hunt inherited her grandmother's farm only to discover outsiders weren't welcome in Lexington, Kentucky. But Faye didn't care. She desperately wanted to make the farm work, for suddenly, setting down in a plac...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE COULDN'T EVADE HER PAST FOREVER When Natalie Carter fled her home in British Columbia eleven years ago, she disappeared without a word to Adam Rutherford, the man she loved. Her return threw her and Adam together again, but the reunion ...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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She could forgive him anything... Casi Cavanaugh had spent years looking beautiful for the camera. But posing for mercurial photographer Nicholas Penheiro, she found herself longing to be more than just the image in his lens. By a twist of fate sh...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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INFERNO OF PASSION Innocent ebon-haired Alexa had no desire to journey to the western frontier -- until she met handsome Keane Rawdon. His glance shot a delicious tingling down her spine. His musky scent whet her appetite for his kiss. In that ins...

• Jan-1986
• / Traditional Regency
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Ariadne Caswell-Drake had little choice when she wed Sir Iden Peverell. She was an inexperienced chit of a girl, he was a very experienced man of the world, and two nights alone with him on a lonely Greek isle was enough to make marriage a necessary...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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MELTING AWAY.... The Aleutian Islands were exactly where Dr. Tory Richards wanted to be: far away from nonstop, high pressure Los Angeles, where she'd done her medical internship. Now all she was going to do for a year was administer to the simple...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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WHO WAS MARK JAMES? He had escaped from his jungle captors and reached safety despite a bullet in his leg. It was Dr. Mickie Blake's job only to heal his wound, but she soon took on the added task of healing his heart. His past was clouded...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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On the advice of a mischievous Ouija board, business-weary executive Linda Chester dashes off for a European vacation, certain she'll meet the man of her dreams. Sure enough, within hours of her arrival, a heartstoppingly handsome stranger rescues he...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Survival expert Vivian Chaney was interested in selling copies of her books -- but this time her literary agent had gone too far. Vivian always knew that David McMahon was arrogant, hardheaded, and penny-pinching, but she wasn't aware he was also...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Their paths should never have crossed But in a town as small as Heritage, Missouri, such things were inevitable. In one day, Elaine Farrell encountered Judge Nathan Stewart not once, but twice. The first time, he lectured her about speeding. The sec...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Was it the chance she'd been waiting for? Uncertain of her expertise. Joanna Kinsman hesitated. As assistant to the director of a leading art auction and appraisal firm, she was to go to Spain to assess a collection that might be worth millions. Bols...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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DON'T LOOK DOWN! BeeGee Chambers finally belonged somewhere. After years of travel she'd discovered the joys of home in the paradise of Fort Myers, Florida. At last, BeeGee had found her niche. Dan Greening had found his place, too -- a...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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PORTRAIT OF A LADY... Leslie Harper was every inch a lady when she walked into the seedy Texas bar. Cutter was clearly no gentleman, but then, no gentleman could do the job she needed done. With Cutter's help she had to enter strife-torn Sa...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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IN THE BOOK OF LOVE. Samantha Monroe planned to spend the summer swept away in a world of fantasy created by her favorite romance author. Then one day a real live fantasy man appeared before her on the beach. Jason Armstrong seemed to have step...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE Jess Winter always operated with a master plan, and Elly Trent found herself on schedule to marry him. He said she was everything he wanted: undemanding, reliable, tolerant -- and she could cook! Elly wanted to scream. Jess ...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Pandora had always known there was no other man in the world for her but Philip El Kabbar, the magnificently arrogant sheikh who ruled the desert land where she'd grown up. As a reckless tomboy she'd refused to go unnoticed by the fascinatin...

• Jan-1986
• / Historical Romance
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Emerald-eyed Charl Beckwith was too proud for love until she met the mysterious Seth Porterfield, a duke's bastard son, sent by England to betray the new America she loved ... As war raged around them, passion was their battlefield ... As fate wre...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Drawn together as if by magic Sam Cassidy was a busy architect. He knew next to nothing about caring for children--especially not pint-size refugees from the jet set. So he hired Tessa O'Brien, an innovative day-care teacher from Los Angeles,...

• Jan-1986
• / Romantic Suspense
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The carnival would reveal many surprises .. . Nicole Reid looked forward to leaving Tangier, Morocco, and returning to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras. Being pursued by a gray-eyed Arab through crowded bazaars was more than unsettling. Then ...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sitting in a ditched car in a Minnesota blizzard, wondering why she'd ever left California, Erika Sarinaan knew her body had frozen solid. But when a bearded Viking of a savior turned up to dig her out, she felt a surprising sudden thaw in her heart!...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Her heart was on the line Jamie Garland loved working for the eccentric Miss Isabel. Her job often threw her into the company of the most fascinating people . . . like Cade Santerre. From the start, he made no secret of the fact that he desired he...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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GABRIEL VENTURE HAD TAUGHT HER HOW TO LOVE--AND HOW TO HATE At nineteen Joy Anderson had been innocent, trusting, and wholly in love with Gabriel Venture. Gabe was a journalist on assignment. Joy had been his guide. Together they explored Lost Ri...

• Jan-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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THEY WERE ALL SUSPECTS... in the blackmailing of Trudy St. Martin. So for her eightieth birthday, all family members were invited to return to the fabulous St. Martin estate to celebrate...and to prove their innocence. Ivy Murdock, the gardener's...