Books Published in January 1998

• Jan-1998
• / Romance
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"Tickets for the Sweetheart Stomp are still available at the student government office, Room 114, during lunch hours or half an hour after school."

B.J. Green though, not for the first time, what a dumb name Sweetheart Stomp was for a Valentine's D...

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1998
• / Historical Mystery
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Someone--or something--is slaying innocent persons on the night streets in the royal city of Memphis. Frightened citizens believe it is the gruesome work of the Devourer, the eater of souls, one of the most fearsome gods in the Egyptian pantheon. Eve...

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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At once intensely personal and intellectually exhilarating, The Island of the Colorblind gives us a fascinating, intimate understanding of Oliver Sacks' unique vision. By the author of Awakenings and An Anthropologist On Mars. Simultaneous hardcover ...

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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A black community gathers to share stories in this lyrical, multi-generational picture book from Sandra Belton and Coretta Scott King Award–winning illustrator Floyd Cooper.Miss Ida’s porch is a place where adults recall their past and wh...

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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The sequel to the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back is a classic novel of the slow return of peace to Europe in the years following World War I.After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few ...

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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Old MacDonald has a farm, and children will love exploring it as they sing out the familiar animal sounds, from moo to meow, to be found in this fun book. Enchanting illustrations make this visit to the farm a memorable and mooving experience. Full c...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Snow, snow. Right out there! Snowy ground and frosty air. If it snowed inside here too, think of all that I could do.

Haven't you ever wondered what would happen if it snowed inside instead of out?

Snowmen in the living room, one in every chair.....

• Jan-1998
• / Suspense
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Tom Willock’s first book, Green River Rising, earned the kind of reviews that are rarely accorded to most so-called literary thrillers. This remarkable debut was hailed for its rich, powerful writing as well as its dramatic, page-turning suspense. ...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Before E. M. Forster's Maurice, written in 1914, introduced a new openness about the favorable depiction of homosexuality in English fiction, a number of novels and stories carried coded portraits of homosexuals and homosexuality. Many of these were,...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Anthologizes works from the era before homosexuality was openly discussed in English literature. Included are stories from such well-known authors as Melville, James, Cather, Lawrence, Ambrose Bierce and 24 other writers. Reveals how homosexual theme...

• Jan-1998
• / Science Fiction
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"Hercules:The Legendary Journeys" first burst onto television screens as a series of five action-packed movies.  But unlike previous Hercules movies, these didn't feature togas and flowery language.  Instead, the producers created a Hercules for ...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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It's 5:00 a.m. and Elizabeth Hall can't sleep. She sits at her apartment window, entertaining murderous fantasies, while on the street below morons smash bottles, flip trash cans, vomit, and dance. Elizabeth struggles heroically to keep her wits, whe...

• Jan-1998
• / Romance
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When she and he were only babies, they were pledged in marriage. Now Atiyah has been sent away -- a political pawn in a war between the Beduin tribes in the year 1302. He vows to return to her as soon as he can.

But while Atiyah is studying at the ...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memoirs, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love.

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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They made an unlikely pair... Prudence and twelve-year old Dan were foundlings, and the dangers in northern mill had pushed them into escape. She also stripped a scarecrow for boy's clothes after a close encounter with a lustful farmer! It was sh...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Who was seducing whom? With her family's future happiness in Tareq al-Khaima's all-controlling hands, Sarah Hillyard was persuaded to become the sheikh's traveling companion for a year. She remembered his gentleness toward her as a you...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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THE RELUCTANT BRIDE Gisela of Brinkhurst enjoyed managing her father's keep and had never thought much about marriage. Little did she foresee the threats to her father's lands and how marriage would ensure their survival. Sir Alain de Treville ...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Cord and Ashley McKnight are proud to announce the birth of their son Cabe. Weight: Nine pounds, four ounces Height: twenty-three inches long... The doctors had told Cord McKnight he would never father a child. The doctors had been wrong. For on h...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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It's a hot, lazy afternoon in Africa. Everyone is indoors, keeping out of the sun. Everyone except Precious and her little brother Moses - they're out by the lake. They've just seen something magical - a mysterious blue ball that hovers in the air, s...

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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Crispin, taught the ways of a daemon handler as a child, uses his talents to take himself on a wondrous and exciting journey to Kirekune to hunt for his long-lost love, and then to the distant lands of America...

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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Ask Not For Whom The Whistle Blows... because it just might be blowing for you! ~ At least that's what it seems like to Ronan Lynch when he heard the Night Train blowing its terrifying tune in the dark Kansas night. He'd been trying to get the Hell o...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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Her mother is long dead. Her only sibling is missing. Her father, Doctor Elliott, is perpetually working at the hospital, trying to save the injured and dying Patriots of the American Revolution. Confusion, chaos, and destruction are all part of Mere...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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Desperate to escaper her life in Missouri as a barely-tolerated poor relation, Judith Alder journeys west to live with her uncle, only to be abandoned along the Santa Fe Trail. Her only hope of survival is a motley crew of cowboys and a simple ranch ...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Patti Thompson, RN, misser her special friends at Seattle's Shepherd of Love Hospital. Seeing the married nurses on and off duty is not the same as sharing living quarters. When will she find her own happiness in marriage? Lonely and recovering fr...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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What kind of man thinks he has to kidnap a bride? Brewster Johnson is scarred-physically and emotionally-by a painful childhood. With no hope of finding love, he sets out to take what he needs-a wife. But he did not anticipate a woman who would he...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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The Wells family has tended the lighthouse on a remote Lake Superior peninsula for fifty-four years. It is expected that nineteen-year-old Lacey will want to carry on the family tradition, but what of all her girlhood dreams of life in a big city tha...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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When her mother dies in childbirth, Jessica's father sends his infant daughter from his ranch in Kansas back to New York to be raised by an older aunt. But Aunt Helen only cares for social standing and proprieties. She tells Jessica nothing of her fa...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Confronted with unforseen challenges, Claire Winslow is forced to make all her decisions based on what will affect her multi-handi-capped daughter. Though widowed, lonely, and working full-time, Clair has decided marriage would only further complicat...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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A series of accidents and illnesses has kept Niki Alexander, a world champion runner, from competing in the Olympic Games for three consecutive times. She is bitter that God could have allowed a drunk driver to steal her last Olympic dream. Her hope ...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Brenda Turner has achieved huge success as vice president of marketing for a large company in the Silicon Valley. She works hard every minute to maintain her position and doesn't have time for the neurological disease that is attacking her muscles an...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Kristen Kelly has an all-expense paid summer at Florida's beautiful barrier islands in exchange for her companionship to eight-year-old Janelle Bradley. Weston Bradley,III hopes that Kristen can help his daughter adjust to the idea of a new mother. B...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Pastor John Miller needs a wife...someone to complement him in his ministry, share his lonely evenings, and fill a void in his mundane life. And soon after free-spirited hairdresser Sandi Peterson moves in his small Smokey Mountain town, he thinks he...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Vashti Shelton shuns involvement with her handsome client for fear of jeopardizing her legal career. Cameron Grande's search for happiness after the tragic loss of both parents ends a moment after entering Vashti's law office. Whie Vashti protects...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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Katie Colter never expected her father to die; neither did she expect to abandon her home among the Comanches to live with her uncle and aunt at Fort Davis. Leaving behind Lone Eagle, the warrior whom she was to marry, Katie sets out to begin her lif...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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Margarethe's heart sings for only one man. In a time when floods and endless border wars ravage the land, there is one brave heart whose faith burns bright. For Lady Margarethe, life at Castle Adlerschloss goes on much the same as always-her days sp...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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When Alexander Bixby's assignment as a Pinkerton agent sends him to River's Edge, Minnesota in 1894 in search of counterfeiters, he doesn't expect beautiful Amanda Mason's inexperienced attempts to help solve the case. Nor does he expect to fall in l...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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When an accident takes everyone in Sharon Martin's family except her grandson Bobby, she is devastated. When her grandson's life hangs in the balance, she is terrified. But when her secret of twenty-three years walks into the hospital waiting room, s...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Nothing but death could ever separate Joel and Val Bennigan. They proclaimed those vows on their winter wedding day-nearly a year ago-and they'd meant every word. But who could have predicted a near fatal automobile accident on a snow-slickened hi...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Lori Wilson agreed to leave the Lower Forty and teach at a remote Alaskan logging camp, she did not realize that it would mean leaving behind televison, telephones, and grocery stores. Monk Island is surrouded by miles and miles of raw nature-in...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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Branded a heretic and a witch for practicing medicine and consorting with a Jew, Jeanine De La Fontaine faces death by the hand of the man who was to have been her husband. Having rejected Antoine Colbert because of his distastful nature, Jeanine now...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Has she fallen in love with a thief? Mary Kate Moore, WJAK Television's newest on-the-street reporter, captures the vulnerable side of Blake Taylor, one of the most prominent developers in Florida, as he leaves the courtroom after being acquitted ...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Amity is running from past and present dangers. Leaving behind practically everything she owns and treasures, Amity Hudson Edmonds flees her home for the safety and comfort of her Aunt Enid's bed-and-breakfast in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Even the...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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Raine Thomas has been relieved of her position as headmistress of the London mission school. Going back home to live with Papa is out of the question, but what else can she do? Before she can decide, dashing shipping owner Ben Thackeray bursts into h...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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For Caleb, peace seems as fleeting as springtime in the mountains. Caleb Jonas was long known as a drifter, his travels taking him throughout the west. But he has finally come home to the Wyoming Territory of his childhood. Feeling like a stranger...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Her peaceful existence is shattered. Carlie and her new husband, Gus Dennis, enjoy thier small apartment and close church family in rural Virginia. The little they have belongs to them and brings them comfort. Unanswered questions in Gus's past ar...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Alex and Scott McClintock are as different as two brothers can get. Alex, a high-powered attorney following in his father's footsteps, is set on making a name for himself, while Scott has his own construction business and a low-key lifestyle. Everyth...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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Nurse Lorenna Fields always took her job at Chicago's Lakeview Hopsital seriously, determining never to becomes personally involved with her patients. Then a mysteroius man with eyes like onyx is admitted after a shipwreck on Lake Michigan. He has lo...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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As the Norman invaders sweep across the English countryside in the year A.D. 1067, one dark Norman takes possession of the Castle Fenlac and all its inhabitants. One of those among the conquered fears the the handsome invader who has entered her l...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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Lady Deena Heyford's sister, Lizzy, left the family home in England years ago to marry an American, and it could be said that Deena was happy to see her go. The sisters were as different as summer and winter. After the death of her father, Deena i...

• 1998
• / Historical Romance
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The summer of 1885 finds Rachel Isaacs caught in a heart-searching, life-threatening situation which will forever change her destiny. Rachel is determined to make her Texas ranch succeed without accepting assistance from her fiance', Samuel James....

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Between work and single parenthood, Randi Thomas just doesn't have time for a romantic relationship. But when she accidentally falls into the arms of a handsome green-eyed stranger, her orderly little world start to rock on its axis. From the mome...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Doreen McCullough is content with her self-made business of daycare for dogs and has developed quite a clientele. Between her Lord, her church, and her best friend Gretchen, a Standard Schnauzer, life for Doreen is in good order. That is until the...

• 1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Julia McGowan once had visions of a happy home filled with children and love, until Mark Henley left her at the altar, brokenhearted and carrying his child. Ashamed, Julia left her small hometown to live with distant relatives-a Christian couple w...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Two Sisters. Total Opposites Wife, mother, and London suburbanite, Favor was raised by her roguish publishing-magnate father, but always wondered about the mother she was told died in childbirth-and the sister she's never met. Now, she's determine...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Kate Haywood is at the top of her career. After years of hard work, the homemaking empire she struggled to build has made her a household name. Her top rated TV show and award-winning magazine inspire millions of women to emulate her beautiful world,...

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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As the Foul Folk spread their evil across the kingdoms of Mithgar, two Warrows, bound by a pledge to a dying swordsman, continue their venture into the very jaws of the conflict ravaging the world. Yet Tip and Beau to not travel alone. Beset on al...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Olivia Chantry may leave her desk in disarray, but she's a business dynamo: her Seattle-based company, Light Fantastic, creates the promotional flash her clients need. Her marvelous success has almost made up for a crumbled marriage that has left her...

• 1998
• / Horror
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ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO BE SOMEONE'S LITTLE GIRL... For as long as she could remember, Janet's world had been the orphanage, full of cruel jokes and silent wishes for the day she'd have a family of her own. She could hardly believe it when Sanford a...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Bear is very big, very brown, and very busy. His tree house could use a little sprucing up, so Bear heads up the ladder with a plan and a bucket of paint. But Little Bear has a plan, too--including a little mischief that brings Bear (and his blue pai...

• 1998
• / Horror
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ALL SHE WANTED WAS A FAMILYT SHE COULD CALL HER OWN.... As an orphan girl, Crystal was one of many--and utterly alone. But she still dreamed of a shining life of love and happiness, and freedom from the dark legacy of her past.......

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Something's wrong with Martha, the talking dog! She has eaten her daily bowl of alphabet soup, but when she opens her mouth to speak, strange sounds come out instead of words. Fortunately her nose still works, and she follows it to the source of the ...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Will Elizabeth surrender to love? Elizabeth Wakefield's heart is being ripped to shreds. The rivalry between her longtime boyfriend, Todd Wilkins, and the mysterious Devon Whitelaw has erupted into violence. Forget choosing between them. A disguste...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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A once-in-a-lifetime man Keir Durrell was a very special sort of man. He made Catherine Prentice feel safe and needed, a feeling she craved ever since the discovery that her birth mother had abandoned her. Keir was the man she'd been waiting f...

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awaken...

• Jan-1998
• / Medical Thriller
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ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Alex Tynan is a life insurance actuary. Numbers are her job - statistics, probability. So when the numbers stop adding up and a high-level executive dies, she begins to think the two are connected. As the company where she w...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Charmed by a mother and her little girl Heart surgeon Melissa Cartwright is traveling to Zaheer to tell Sheikh Arun Rahman al'Kawali she is pregnant with his child. She wants nothing from him--she guards her heart as fiercely as he guards his. ...

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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A MORTAL AFFAIR Dragonlord Linden Rathan, last-born of a race of immortal weredragons, has spent six hundred years alone, searching for his soultwin while his fellow Dragonlords watch over humanity's Five Kingdoms. When the Queen of Cassori die...

• Jan-1998
• / Mystery
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Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life. Twenty...

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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HELD CAPTIVE BY THEIR DESTINIES SANGLANT--the Prince of Dogs, King Henry's bastard son; though believed dead by all who could succor him, he is being held captive in the city of Gent by Bloodheart, the Eika warlord. Cursed by his mother's blood wi...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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This summer, Jake Sherman picked a camp for him and his friends. He thought he chose a place where they could play video games and eat fast food. But instead they're starving at Camp Grimley. There are no lights, no cabins, no bathrooms. And they hav...

• Jan-1998
• / Space Opera
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SKYWALKER DATA PAD ENTRY LOCATION: TATOOINE In just half a day, my whole world has changed. The farm, my aunt and uncle.... They're gone. Destroyed by the Empire. All my life I've been waiting for something to happen to me. Something important. A...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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When Benny hears that someone his age has moved in down the road, he's thrilled! Benny hops on his bike and rides over, excited to meet the boy. Then Benny reads the name on the boy's shirt. BETH. The new kid is not a boy. She's a girl!...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. Libby is a new girl in school. Mandy notices that she doesn't seem very happy. Poor Libby is ...

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• / General Fiction
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Dogs! Big or small, pedigree or mutt, Neil and Emily Parker love them all. And there are dogs of every kind at their home, busy King Street Kennels. Lucky is King Street Kennels' newest visitor, and she looks like the perfect puppy. Her cheeky ch...

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• / General Fiction
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In their most dangerous case yet, Neil and Emily cross paths with a poacher who has set up traps and a secret hideout deep in the woods. With the help of Tuff, a Jack Russell terrier, Neil almost catches the culprits . . . but he is caught first. It ...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Red was the Parkers' first ever kennel guest -- and now he's back. The beautiful, friendly red setter is an instant hit with Neil and Emily. Before long, he's like one of the family. But disaster strikes when fire blazes through the kennels! Can any...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. ANIMAL ARK IS FULL OF ANIMALS AND SURPRISES. When Mandy and James find a runaway gerbil by the ...

• 1998
• / General Fiction
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Bella, a beautiful beagle, has been missing for months -- and Neil and Emily think they've found her. But the dog who disappeared was pregnant, and Bella's puppies are nowhere to be found. Did someone steal Bella for her valuable puppies? Neil think...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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First in the DreamWorks Classics CollectionTM, this big, beautiful storybook is the best way for fans to recapture the magic and grandeur of The Prince of Egypt. Acclaimed author Jane Yolen provides a powerful, finely crafted retelling, that matches ...

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Violet's paralyzing fear of the earthquakes that are rocking the San Francisco Bay Area makes it difficult for her to overcome her "baby" image. But things change when her family renovates an old building. While she helps her sisters sweep up, an aft...

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When struggling band The Sunnys lose a member on the verge of a tour of the Highlands of Scotland, they are left a saxophone short with a series of gigs to fulfil. When Liam is introduced to the band, he is perfect in every sense except one: he is bl...

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• / Historical Romance
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When Julia Cole abandoned her safe job and raced up the M40 to read English at Oxford, she didn't give a thought to the future. But now that she's thirty and newly graduated, it's pay-back-time - at least as far as the bank is concerned. With Fleabag...

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• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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When Caribou tells Polo that his mother loves him with all her heart, Polo is curious. How is this possible? he wonders. He asks several of his Arctic friends how their mothers love them. Pinpin, the penguin, explains that his mother loves him with a...

• Jan-1998
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• / General Fiction
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One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of c...

• 1998
• / General Fiction
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The book contains a very brief biographical sketch of the artist and approximately fifteen full-color reproductions of his work, as well as many smaller drawings and designs. Great resource for introducing young readers to this artist....

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"A complicated but compelling fantasy. Morals and principles with implications for today’s world as well as the imaginary one are as important as the magical elements.... A compact and cogent tale." --School Library Journal
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Gr 1-2--This is a terse, easy-to-read version of the classic tale. Sachi finds a sick crane, takes it home, and cares for it. When it flies away, a woman appears. She weaves silk for Sachi but asks that he not look at her when she is weaving. When th...

• Jan-1998
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1998 Skills through Literature, Reproducible Activities Grade 3 -- Arthur Dorros Rain Forest Secrets (P) ***Contents: *On-Level Skills *Enrichment Skills *Review Skills ***ISBN-13: 9780439044554 ***17 Pages...

• 1998
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• / General Fiction
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Among the favorite bedtime stories of Walt Disney's own children were A.A. Milne's tales of a round bear named Winnie the Pooh. Realizing how popular these tales would be with all children, Walt Disney decided that the creatures of the Hundred-Acre ...

• 1998
• / General Fiction
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Here's the perfect book for any child who has ever wanted to sit behind the wheel of a fire truck, try on a firefighter's helmet, or see what happens when a fire alarm sounds. Action photos bring the firehouse to life, capturing the daily routine of ...

• Jan-1998
• / Law Enforcement
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PAYBACK IS MURDER A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money. It's the vig - the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now, in the city by the Bay, everyone has to pay... Down-and-out-...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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From an astonishing new voice on the American literary landscape comes a powerful, haunting novel set against the harsh beauty of rural Vermont.  In Mercy Road Dalia Pagani exposes the soul of a wounded family, holding us captive under a spell of u...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America.   The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence....

• Jan-1998
• / Action Adventure
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It's icicle city... when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie to the frozen Arctic. Luckily, a seal hunter on a dogsled lends them warm clothes. Unluckily, they get stuck on cracking ice. Will the giant polar bear save them? Or will Jack and A...

• Jan-1998
• / Action Adventure
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"Where are the lions?" Jack wonders when the Magic Tree House whisks him and his sister to the vast plains of Africa. Before he can find out, Annie starts to help hundreds of wildebeests cross a rushing river. Next they follow a honey of a bird an...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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What is there to do when the power fails and you can't watch your favorite TV show? Plenty! This will be a rainy day that Chris, Erin--and even their dog, Fred--will never forget, as the whole family contributes to an action-packed afternoon that cul...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Ari and Danny have been inseparable friends and neighbors, living in their own world of magic kits, movies, and mythical games. When he moves away, she's left to face Marina, Queen of the fifth grade. Standing up to Marina shows Ari that she's spunki...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Lola the hamster wakes up with something important to say.  Special, tender words are on the tip of her tongue.  Are the words meant for Mommy and Daddy?  Or should she say them to her teacher?  Or maybe to her friend Frankie, the Skateboard ...

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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CHILD OF WIZARDRY Tristen is both more and less than a man. A summoning, a shaping, he was brought to life by a wizard, to serve a king yet to be crowned. Now the wizard is dead. And young Cefwyn is king. Cefwyn has a dream: a united Ylesuin...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Christina Reese is the luckiest girl in the world. She lives at the Whitebrook Farm with her dad, Mike, and her mother, Ashleigh Griffen, one of the most famous jockeys ever. And when Christina asked for a horse for her birthday she g...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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Unhappy at the prospect of having a clown at his birthday party, Zeke is amazed when clown Idris Zanzibar McFloot makes a baseball cap disappear and sets out to learn Idris's magical secrets, but if Idris successfully pulls of his next trick, the Box...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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When Jill McCorkle feels a short story coming on, she goes right ahead and "wastes" wonderful ideas instead of hoarding them for a novel. The result is another extraordinary collection of stories and characters. In "It's a Funeral! RSVP," the storyte...

• Jan-1998
• / Private Investigator
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ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MURDER I LEARNED IN NASHVILLE The bestselling toast of Tennessee, author Robert Jefferson Reed has made big bucks with his little book of folksy homilies like "Never go to bed angry" and "Eat your vegetables." He ...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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It's Valentine's Day and Kitty has a very busy day ahead. In this interactive book, join in the valentine fun and help an adorable felt kitty go to the store, make valentine cards, and have a Valentine's Day party. And since Kitty is attached to the ...

• Jan-1998
• / Suspense
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Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's "fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing" police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's...

• Jan-1998
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• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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Conrad and Rose met as children, fell in love as teenagers, and married young. Conrad earned a living as a gilder, raised homing pigeons, and worshipped Rose. Rose gardened. They lived together for more than fifty years, and then Rose died. At sevent...

• Jan-1998
• / Suspense
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The secret was buried deep within the high mountains of West Virginia. It spiraled down to a devastating legacy of betrayal, revenge, and rage that was destined to destroy a dynasty. Charley LeBlanc is the black sheep, a disgrace to the family nam...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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No No, Jo!

For toddlers beginning to assert their independence, this fold-out adventure of a curious kitten has a funny refrain on every page.Little kitten Jo just wants to be helpful, but everything she does ends in a mess. Toddlers beginning to a...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1998
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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The first of a new serial novel series set in the Forgotten Realms world! Someone has kidnapped the fiancee of the Open Lord of Waterdeep on the eve of their wedding. Now the lord, Piergeiron the Palidinson, must find out who--but nothing is quite wh...

• Jan-1998
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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The Double Diamond Triangle Saga continues! Lord Piergeiron has fallen ill, but his loyal retainers prepare to rescue his abducted fiancee. But their quest lies far beyond the areas around Waterdeep, and in the uncharted Utter East....

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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After two hundred years colonising earth, the Aleutians prepare to return to space, leaving behind humanity and an earth that have been shaped by their presence, their care, and their cruelty.In the dying days of Aleutian rule, Catherine has altered ...

• Jan-1998
• / Romantic Suspense
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Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she receives a package containing a mysterious notebook from the father she has barely seen since his return from the Viet Nam War over twenty years ago. Unwilling to deal wi...

• Jan-1998
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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The Chaos War Rages For fans of Dragons of Summer Flame, this is a new short-story collection, featuring the brave heroes, dark villains, differing races, and all varieties of dragons of one of the most popular fantasy worlds -- Krynn. Edited b...

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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WOMEN OF MAGIC AND MIGHT... An apprentice sorceress must pass through the realm of the dead to gain the power to save the life of her mentor.... A young fugitive must unravel the mystery of a deadly curse or her companion won't live long enough...

• Jan-1998
• / Fantasy
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THE PRICE OF PEACE had proved extremely high for Nimbulan and his wife Myrilandel-he, the soul-weary Battlemage forced to give up his own family in order to preserve the University of Magicians and the kingdom of Coronnan; she, a practitioner of a ...

• Jan-1998
• / Science Fiction
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THE ULTIMATE BATTLE CRY It has been ten years since Andrew Keane's Union regiment was mysteriously pulled away from the Civil War and marooned in time on a hostile alien planet. But no battle ever fought against the warring Bantags can compare wit...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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On his way to meet a woman from his past, Skye Fargo rides to the aid of a beautiful rancher whose attempt to stand up to a ruthless organization of Kansas landowners is met with arson and gunfire. Original....

• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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OUT FOR GOLD Curly Bill Brocius is fed up. Been accused of murder. Spent a day in jail. And he hasn't had a robbing that's panned out in weeks. So when Slocum heads to Tucson to deliver some gold, you can bet Curly Bill's right there, cocked and read...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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Clint Adams doesn't ditch his friends in times of trouble. But when the friend is an up-and-coming politician named Teddy Roosevelt, the "trouble" could cost the Gunsmith his life. After foiling a murder plot against the Roosevelt family, Clint co...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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For even the hardiest of frontiersman, mere survival in the magnificent, uncharted Rockies was a daily struggle against brutal blizzards, wild animals, and bloodthirsty renegades. But to the brave souls who battled the vast frontier, the prize they s...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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Teaming up with an ornery Texas Ranger to guard high-level border talks between the United States and Mexico, Longarm is discouraged when the partnership begins with a brawl over the buxom Anna Marie. Original....

• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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Having returned home to Cheyenne only to find his best friend and partner murdered, Quint McCannon heads out into the dangerous frontier in search of a crazed killer, determined to stop him at all costs. Original....

• Jan-1998
• / Historical
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Unprepared for the savagery of the frontier, newspaper reporter Nathaniel Jones, a special correspondent to General George Custer's military expedition, becomes a witness to the conquest of the West and finds adventure beyond his wildest dreams...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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DESIRE CAME LIKE A WILDFIRE TO THE COLORADO HILLS...TO CLAIM A WOMAN'S PROPERTY AND HER HEART For five years after her father died, lithe, beautiful Dee Swann held onto Angel Creek valley and her independence. The homestead was hers, and she v...

• Jan-1998
• / Paranormal Romance
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A lovely lady discovers she is half-faery, created to bind a special man to the faery realm. But when he claims to love another, she defies the might of faeries to try and set him free. ***** Faery Weddings anthology (e-book) Gwen Forsythe is ...

• Jan-1998
• / Paranormal Romance
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Stolen by Faerie to increase their powers, a beautiful changeling must choose between the lure of magic and the doomed mortal stranger who calls to her still-human heart....

• Jan-1998
• / Paranormal Romance
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A faery lord is condemned to haunt the misty glens, cursed by his need to seduce mortal women to their deaths --- until a simple maid defies his spell and captures his heart....

• Jan-1998
• / Paranormal Romance
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A shy mortal girl rashly accepts a faery lord's offer of beauty and charm. Then he comes to claim a terrible price --- the loss of her new love and everything she holds dear....

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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Connecticut socialite Maggie Dumont's marriage begins with a grand wedding and great dreams. But her hopes for a happy life are soon shattered by her new husband, the bitter son of a wealthy New York businessman, who catches gold fever and insists th...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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Chastity, Purity, Honesty -- They were the qualities she'd been raised to respect, but when Chastity Lawrence headed West to find her long-lost sisters of the same names, she discovered they could be... Dangerous Virtues How was a respectable...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Hardworking single mother Karina Wallace is appalled when not only do her triplets take it upon themselves to find her a new husband, but they pick Phoenix Dye, the only man she ever really loved and has never forgotten. Original....

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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TWO BROTHERS ...AND THE WOMAN WHO CLAIMED THEIR HEARTS ... Ash Whittier had barely returned to Oakland's harbor when he was arrested for arson, insurance fraud, and murder. His only hope was his brother Cabot, the best lawyer in Oakland, and Cabot...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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When Hallie Summers took over her father's medical practice, she was determined to be the best doctor the rough-and-tumble town of Lampasas, Texas, had ever seen. She had her whole life planned--and a brusque, infuriating, handsome bodyguard didn't f...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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STEALING AWAY Rose Trelawney thought she'd been caught red-handed robbing the Duke of Cumberland's London estate. But she soon realized she'd been mistaken for the Duke's mistress, and the tall stranger who'd found her was out for revenge. Suddenl...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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A DELICATE FLOWER Lady Caroline Burroughs is desperate. Her unscrupulous guardian is squandering away her inheritance, and now wants to gain complete control over her dwindling wealth by forcing her to wed his aged crony. But Caroline has found a s...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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After the Battle of Shiloh, Lottie Jackson's 12-year-old brother is all the family she has left. Determined to save him from the dangers of the Civil War, she keeps him occupied helping her run her Smoky Mountain boarding house - and a secret moonshi...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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Having killed her evil stepfather in self-defense, Hannah Gibbons escapes to the New World only to become a slave of the Seneca Indians, but she finds her new master stirs her heart with desire, not fear. She Ran From The Arm Of English Law... ...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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She Made Him a Hero... According to her wildly popular dime novels he was a bounty hunter with integrity and the fastest draw this side of Wyoming, the standard against which all other men of the West should be held. But real cowboy Jake Cordell's j...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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After British captain Damian Knox finds her illegally stealing food to feeding orphaned children during the American Revolution, Nina Evans must brave the harsh winter of 1778 while deciding whether to follow her forbidden love or her freedom. A ...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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Marsali Gunn had been betrothed to Patrick Sutherland when she was just a girl, yet even then she knew the handsome warrior would have no rival in her heart or her dreams. But when Patrick returns from distant battlefields, a bitter feud has shattere...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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Bad weather and marauding rustlers nearly wiped out Cassandra Rakefield as a rancher. She can't pay her cowboys or her mortgage unless she gets her inheritance, controlled by a law firm in Kansas City until she turns twenty-five. She needs the mo...

• Jan-1998
• / Paranormal Romance
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Newport, Rhode Island, 1998 She put her ear to the door and closed her eyes, trying to recognize voices or names. But after a few brief seconds, the sounds of the party faded. "It's gone..." whispered Hannah. The legend of private e...

• Jan-1998
• / Paranormal Romance
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Alexi Bound by chains of silver, the vampire had slept for a hundred years, locked in a world of pain and hunger, until the seductive scent of one woman's blood recalled him to ravenous life. Marisa Unnerved by the sight of the carnival's ca...

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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HIS FAIR LADY Julian LeFevre, Duke of Claridge, found being a reformed rake terribly dull. So he wagered a friend that he could make any pretty trollop in London pass for a lady of the ton. But when his friend presented him with Miss Hannah Gregory,...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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Marcus Brandtwood is renowned for the generous trinkets he gives his mistresses--right before he casts them off. But Lady Thacea Worthington is different! Her respectability is as genuine as her gentle smile, enchanting eyes and blue-black hair. So w...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Truly Unforgettable Georgeanne Howard, charm school graduate and Southern belle extraordinaire, leaves her fiance at the altar when she realizes she just can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. John Kowalsky u...

• Jan-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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Caught redhanded stealing her car back from her ex-boyfriend, Dara Lange reluctantly agrees to four weekends of volunteer work with executive Nick Bordeaux, only to find herself falling in love with him. Original....

• Jan-1998
• / Suspense
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A YOUNG LAW CLERK IS KILLED. A HIGH-PRICED CALL GIRL IS STRANGLED. TWO MEN ARE FRAMED FOR THEIR MURDERS. AND ONE WOMAN INTENDS TO PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE. Defense attorney Kate Logan has become embroiled in two important murder cases. One is the def...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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As the bravest knights in the land competed in Stoneham Magna's jousting tournament, Isobel marveled at their prowess. She was pleased when her stepbrother Lionel seemed to be winning the tourney, but her heart filled with dread when he was challenge...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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SHE SURRENDERED HER HEART As innocent as she is lovely, raven-haired Una lives a simple life in the heather-covered moorlands of her beloved Glenfinnan -- unprepared for the man who will cast her destiny to the winds of love. When she discovers the ...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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TOO WILD TO TAME Cotannah Chisk-Ko is banished from the Texas ranch she has always known as home, to return to the Choctaw Nation where she must learn to behave like a proper maiden of her tribe. Cotannah continues her outrageous flirtations, yet sh...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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Dear Reader, My new story begins on a terror-filled night when two babies--identical twin girls of noble birth--are separated. One grows to womanhood as the frail, manipulative ward of the handsome young earl of Harcourt. The other becomes an ench...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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He was her guardian, the duke of darkness--and desire. She tried to drive him away from Arden Hall. Instead, Isabelle Montgomery was charmed by the rakehell John Saint Germain, the handsomest--and most dangerous--man she'd ever met. He said she wa...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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Jack Darlington was too handsome, too self-assured, too splendid by half for a plain, twenty-six-year-old diplomat's daughter from Edinburgh. Rosaline's one chance at love had been cruelly stolen, and now she had little choice but to be marri...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Romance
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THE WHITE WOLF In Boston, he is Chase Remington, a bitter outsider whose illustrious family hides secrets far more shockig than his own illegitimacy and half-breed blood. On the High Plains, he becomes the White wolf, a fierce Cheyenne raider standi...

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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Love's Letter Evelynne Marriott, a gentlewoman born, had donned the disguise of a rough-and-tumble lad. With her family fallen on hard times, she toiled away at a man's job to keep a roof over all their heads. Not that she expected the wea...

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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A Lady's Deception Lady Jane Stanhope, vowing that no one would bridle her spirit, had devised the most extraordinary plan to escape an arranged marriage. The high-spirited, highborn, and highly pampered Lady Jane was running away...to enter s...

• Jan-1998
• / Historical Mystery
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Mystery and intrigue once again provide adventure for the Berkley Brigade -- the aristocratic foursome with a nose for the ton's most incriminating scandals... Headstrong Corinne deCoventry, dashing Lord Luten, dilettante poet Sir Reginald Pra...

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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A LOST MANUSCRIPT AND A STOLEN HEART After her father's death, the bookish, pretty and very innocent Elise Ashford considers herself lucky to be taken in at Wicklow Manor to catalogue the estate's library. Not as fortunate is the attention...

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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BOUND BY DUTY With her parents long-dead, Lady Charlotte had devoted herself to raising her only sibling Sydney, the Duke of Audley. But when the callow youth developed a tendre for the most unsuitable young woman, Charlotte turned to Sir Roland Mar...

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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Moira Hayes hadn't seen Kenneth Woodfall in nearly eight years. Nor did she want to see this man who stirred such feelings of anger in her. After all, their families had been rivals since their great-grandfathers' day. And he was the reason- though i...

• Jan-1998
• / Traditional Regency
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An Exceptional Young Lady ...And An Earl With A Reputation For Danger When Miss Minerva Potts cried off her engagement to the self-absorbed Lord Whithall, she vowed not to marry at all, or if she must, she would choose as the gentlemen obviously d...