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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1986
New Books List: 375 titles
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
- Nov-1986
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Thoughts of his parents' divorce fill Brian Robeson's head as he flies in a single-engine plane to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness. When the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies, Brian must somehow land the plane by himself and t...
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Battlestations!
Diane Carey
- Nov-1986
- / Space Opera
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Back on Earth enjoying a well-deserved shore leave, Captain Kirk is rudely accosted by a trio of Starfleet Security guards. It seems he is wanted for questioning in connection with the theft of transwarp--the Federation's newest, most advanced propul...
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Colsec Rebellion
Douglas Hill
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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In this thrilling conclusion to the ColSec Trilogy, five young outcasts return from exile to free Earth from an authoritarian government. In the savage streets, they rally the Earth's people to fight for freedom....
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The Cyborg and the Sorcerers
Lawrence Watt-Evans
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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"In the tradition of the old ""Ace Doubles"" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title) -- here is the fifth Wildside Double: the two-volume ""War Surplus"" series by Lawrence Watt-Evans, ""The Cyborg and the Sorcerers"" and ""The Wiza...
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Galactic Bounty
William C. Dietz
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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THE GREATEST GALACTIC MANHUNT OF ALL TIME A traitor is on the loose. A treacherous navy captain plans to sell military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. The only man who can stop him is Sam McCade--an interstellar bounty hunter with a score to sett...
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The Hercules Text
Jack McDevitt
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of Coming Home -- now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword. From a remote corner of the galaxy ...
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Killashandra
Anne McCaffrey
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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A Crystal Singer novel -- a captivating blend of adventure, intrigue and romance.Killashandra Ree's life was one of catastrophic changes. She had joined the Heptite Guild to become a crystal singer, get rich, and forget her past. And at first everyth...
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Monster Makers, Inc.
Laurence Yep
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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In the far future on the distant aquatic planet, Carefree, someone is sabotaging a small company specializing in biogenetic engineering, and Rob Sawyer, the sixteen-year-old son of the company's owner, is blamed for a series of destructive accidents...
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Of Quests and Kings
Robert Adams
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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Peaceful American homebody Sebastian Foster is swept back in time to a barbaric seventeenth-century England that never existed and into the role of commander of King Arthur of Tudor's forces, responsible for uniting warring Irish clans...
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Race Against Time
Pip Baker
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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YOU and the Doctor must join forces to find and destroy the most awesome device ever created in a RACE AGAINST TIME. Doctor Who is the world's greatest Time Lord, but an awful calamity has befallen him. Along with YOU and his companion Peri, the D...
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Retief in the Ruins
Keith Laumer
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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It's a rare day when Terrans meet eye-to-eyestalk with the slimy little sticky-fingers--er, that is to say, the noble alien Groaci. This time the races clash on the planet PopuRi, once the home of a mighty interstellar power. Popu-Ri has sunk into de...
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Robot Dreams
Isaac Asimov
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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Legendary American adventurer and explorer Charles Burton Irwin, accompanied by his wife and children, builds a new life on the Western frontier, from the era of wagon trains and cattle drives to the dawn of the railroads...
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Tweedlioop
Stanley Schmidt
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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MAROONED ON EARTH Bill Nordstrom knew something was odd when the squirrel he was feeding ignored the nuts and raisins...and devoured the plastic bag! The squirrel turned out to be Tweedlioop, a squirrel-like alien, lone survivor of a spaceship cra...
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Winter in Eden
Harry Harrison
- Nov-1986
- / Science Fiction
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Harry Harrison, an acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with West of Eden. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendents challenged humans for mastery o...
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The Dragon Portfolio
Richard Hoyt
- Nov-1986
- / Suspense
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In China...the reds are out to hit American capital markets for half a billion dollars.... Ella Nidech, American spy on the rise, and James Burlane, the CIA-s very best man of action...turn out to be the hottest new team to do battle...with others...
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Hatteras Light
Philip Gerard
- Nov-1986
- / Suspense
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Set off the treacherous Outer Banks of North Carolina during the final days of the First World War, Hatteras Light is the compelling story of the dedicated keepers of the Hatteras lighthouse and their tightly knit community. For generations...
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I Know a Trick Worth Two of That
Samuel Holt
- Nov-1986
- / Suspense
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Sam Holt spent years playing Packard, everyone's favorite TV-detective; he's got no desire to play sleuth in real life. But when a long-lost pal calls with a rant about conspiracies, sinister cargo ships and hit men, and then gets poisoned at a party...
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My Kingdom for a Hearse
Craig Rice
- Nov-1986
- / Suspense
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A supermodel’s beauty secrets trigger an ugly series of murders in this “pretty damn wonderful” mystery (The New York Times). From her velvety voice to a pair of legs that say walk this way, Delora Deanne is the most divine creation ever...
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The Night-Blooming Cereus
Joan Hadley
- Nov-1986
- / Suspense
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Theo Bloomer, a retired Connecticut florist, discovers that his niece, Dorrie Caldicott, refuses to leave a kibbutz in Israel because her Vassar roommate may be involved with some dangerous characters implicated in gunrunning and terrorism...
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The Secret Servant
Gavin Lyall
- Nov-1986
- / Suspense
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Major Harry Maxim, formerly of the SAS, is a mysterious man who lost his wife to a horrific plane accident. He is as surprised as anyone when he is hired by 10 Downing Street to assist in matters of defence and security.
Using all the kno...
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Silk and Satin
Marcia Wolfson
- Nov-1986
- / Suspense
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When Mark Saunders, one of America's wealthiest men, is pushed to his death from his penthouse office, police detective Brian Sullivan finds that the suspects include Saunders' wife Darleen, and her four best friends from college...
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To an Easy Grave
Alexander Law
- Nov-1986
- / Suspense
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Still grieving over the accidental death of his young wife, Richard Cane learns that his friend, pro quarterback Sean Denby, has been murdered and, deciding to find the murderer himself, uncovers many deadly secrets...
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Wolf Rider
Avi
- Nov-1986
- / Suspense
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The phone rang three times before Andy picked it up. "Hello?" he said. A voice replied, "I just killed someone." Only Andy Zadinski is convinced that the caller is serious. But no one else will listen; not the police, not his friends, not even hi...
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Drastic Measures
Jacqueline Marshall
- Nov-1986
- / Romantic Suspense
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The nightmare began when she stepped off the plane Sarah Guthrie needed a holiday. When her friend Chris Browning suggested Mazatlan, she jumped at the chance. But what began as a vacation turned into a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Michael Fly...
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Foul Play
Elaine K. Stirling
- Nov-1986
- / Romantic Suspense
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She was guilty until proven innocent Malcolm Spencer was missing, and Carina Rawlins was left holding the bag. The success of the Myrmidon's opening play of the season depended on her. She certainly didn't expect Damian Fleming to show up. Holl...
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The Cloisonne Locket
Barbara Hazard
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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THE DESIGNING DUKE The devastatingly handsome, fabulously wealthy Duke of Rutland was sure that Miss Rosemary Barton was too good to be true -- and too beautiful to be good. Surely this extraordinarily lovely young lady had put herself in his p...
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The Duke's Dilemma
Elizabeth Chater
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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WITH AN EARLDOM AT STAKE, HER BROTHER'S MISHAPS WERE NO ACCIDENT! It took two attempts on her nine-year-old brother's life to alert Lady Leslie Endale that their greedy guardian March Wardell meant to have the family fortune. But transp...
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A Marriage of Inconvenience
Daisy Vivian
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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SHE WAS A WOMAN WHO KNEW HER OWN MIND BUT NOT HER OWN HEART A BARTERED BRIDE Clarissa St. Miniver was no blushing bride when she exchanged wedding vows with Viscount Wrackham. She was a proud young woman coolly grasping a golden opportunity -- to...
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The Orphan's Disguise
Vanessa Gray
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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LOVE BY ANY OTHER NAME Lovely young Miss Corliss Hewett was a runaway who had run into a most perplexing pack of trouble. Fleeing her fate as a poor and put-upon relation of the terrifyingly tyrannical Lady Dacre, Corliss sought refuge under an...
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The Parfit Knight
Juliet Blyth
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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A VOICE TO BE CHERISHED... That was how Rosalind Vernon, the exquisite mistress of Oakleigh Manor, perceived the stranger at her door. Beset by highwaymen, he had come in search of refuge. But Rosalind, robbed of sight by a childhood accident, had...
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Pearl
Helen Ashfield
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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PASSIONATE VICTORY At eighteen, poor but hardworking Pearl Cartwright possessed a golden beauty that became her curse. For the impudent and philandering Bruce Sackville vowed to have her graceful form, and cleverly planned her seduction. Desperate...
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The Rake
Karen Lynn
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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Amid the elegant splendor of aristocratic England in the early nineteenth century, a determined young woman fights to keep her rightful inheritance even as she battles to keep love at bay with an appealing but mysterious man... When her father is ...
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The Ransome Inheritance
Rachelle Edwards
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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"WHEN I ARRIVED IN LONDON I WAS BUT A GREEN GIRL. I AM NO LONGER A CHAWBACON, AND I TRUST NO ONE!" The friendless Miss Jenna Tregail had ample reason to say as much. Bamboozled by an infamous bawd, the innocent Jenna coshed an old lecher and got h...
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The Temporary Husband
Barbara Allister
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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THE IDEAL ARRANGEMENT Beautiful Miss Amanda Desmond had no interest in being a wife, for to be a man's possession was a notion that filled her with loathing. Handsome and wealthy Andrew Fairleigh, Lord Mainwaring, detested the idea of marriage,...
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The Toplofty Lord Thorpe
Michelle Kasey
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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THE UNSUSPECTING EARL Miss Lucy Gladwin knew all the faults of the eminent, elegant Julian Rutherford, Earl of Thorpe. Julian was not only unbearably arrogant, he was insufferably self-centered and infuriatingly egotistical, as pleased with himsel...
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The Unwilling Heiress
Deborah Fruchey
- Nov-1986
- / Traditional Regency
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Lucy Trahern, sometime governess to the three Bostram children, has suddenly lost her position. As the story opens, she is wandering London without baggage or money in the rain, looking for a night’s shelter. Beyond hope, she finds two old ladies w...
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Dance With Me
M.E. Cooper
- Nov-1986
- / Romance
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Getting in Step... It seems that nothing will cheer up Fiona Stone when she doesn't get into London's prestigious National Ballet. So when she joins the rest of her family in Rose Hill, her brother Jeremy sets her up on a blind date with gorgeous, l...
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Necessary
Ken Jackson
- Nov-1986
- / Political Thriller
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The Mob from Kansas City has been moving construction equipment around for years, "blue-skying" and making lots of money for themselves and for corrupt county and city commissioners. An anonymous call points Necessary toward a crooked construction fo...
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Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman
- Nov-1986
- / Police Procedural
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Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. But Chee survives to join partner Lt. Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and blood -- all...
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Hammerlocke
Jack Barnao
- Nov-1986
- / Private Investigator
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John Locke, aka HammerLocke, an expert in guerilla tactics. The wealthy family of Herbert "Herbie" Ridley hires Locke to chaperone the wimpy teenager on a sojourn to Italy, where the tough hero is severely tested. Outnumbered and outfoxed, Locke is h...
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In La-La Land We Trust
Robert Campbell
- Nov-1986
- / Private Investigator
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When a head without a body turns up in a lake near New Orleans, the locals write it off as another prank by the witch queens. But when a body without a head falls out of a station wagon in Los Angeles, folks sit up and take notice. Child porn, snu...
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Cold Iron
Nicolas Freeling
- Nov-1986
- / Law Enforcement
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The ninth Inspector Castang murder mystery is “a heady pleasure” in which “learning the identity of the miscreant is only one of the delights” (Publishers Weekly).Recently promoted to Commissaire of a small province in northea...
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A Death for a Dancer
E.X. Giroux
- Nov-1986
- / Law Enforcement
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Gentlemanly Robert Forsythe and his longtime PA "Sandy" Sanderson are sleuthing up a storm, investigating innocent victims who maybe weren’t so innocent after all…No, Katherine St. Croix was not a hoofer, but she also wasn’t...
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I Am the Only Running Footman
Martha Grimes
- Nov-1986
- / Law Enforcement
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Not far from a fashionable Mayfair pub called I Am the Only Running Footman lies the body of a blond shopgirl. She has been strangled with her own scarf-a fact that reminds Scotland Yard's Richard Jury of an unsolved murder in Devon, where the irasci...
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Sleep While I Sing
Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright
- Nov-1986
- / Law Enforcement
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A murder on Canada’s Sunshine Coast hits close to home for a former city cop in a mystery of “excellent writing, inventive plots and realistic characters” (Publishers Weekly). Karl Alberg was a big-city cop, for Pete’s sake. He solved crimes ...
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Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin
W.J. Burley
- Nov-1986
- / Law Enforcement
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Wycliffe investigates the disappearance of a young girl - and becomes involved in a major criminal investigation . . .Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to ...
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The Eyes of the Killer Robot
John Bellairs
- Nov-1986
- / Mystery
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Will thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon suffer the same fate Evaristus Sloane's robot can only be activated by human eves, and the maniacal wizard has selected Johnny as the donor. When Johnny is kidnapped, Professor Childermass and Fergie race to Sloane...
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New, Improved Murder
Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman
- Nov-1986
- / Mystery
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Jack Dwyer comes to the aid of his former love, Jane Branigan, after she is found in a state of shock holding a recently fired gun near the body of her current lover, advertising executive Stephen Elliot...
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The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan
Stuart Palmer
- Nov-1986
- / Mystery
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Hildegarde Withers is on the hunt again, as a vacation in California lands her a movie job and two dealers to clear up. Her own death brings Inspector Piper to the scene, and her resurrection cuts through Hollywood red tape as she becomes a target...
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Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration
Allen Eyles
- Nov-1986
- / Mystery
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sherloch homes: a centenary celebraton is illustrations with many of the original classic illustrations by such artists as sidney paget and frederic dorr steele, and also with scenes from holmes representations on stage and sceen....
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The Man in the Monkey Suit
Oswaldo Franca Jr.
- Nov-1986
- / Literary
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Alfonso, a mechanic and matter-of-fact hero in a world so drab it's comical, buys a garage from two friends who have sold to him because ``the place was out of control.'' Alfonso attempts to bring order to the business but is thwarted, and his person...
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Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction
George Stambolian
- Dec-1986
- / Literary
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This extraordinary collection gathers together the most popular and gifted voices in gay fiction today. Compiled from work in progress and originals written especially for this collection, as well as previously published fiction, these brilliant stor...
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After the Torchlight
Diane Carey
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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GREGORY GORDON'S COAL-BLACK EYES BORED STRAIGHT INTO MY SOUL. NO FORCE HAD EVER HELD ME IN PLACE LIKE THE GRIP OF HIS EYES AS HE MOVED TOWARD ME.... Beautiful Jean Forbes fled 18th-century Scotland to seek refuge from the ruthless British Army. ...
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Alana
Monica Barrie
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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A PROUD, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TORN BETWEEN HONOR AND DESIRE The Civil War had ravaged everything but her beauty and her dreams. Alana Belfores vowed to rebuild Riverbend at any cost -- even a loveless marriage. Not until Rafe Montgomery rode into he...
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Captive Caress
Sonya T. Pelton
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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"I'LL NOT FORCE YOU" With just a glance at his terrified captive, the half-breed Lakota knew he'd have to possess her that night. To grasp her flowing blonde hair, to caress her creamy firm curves would catapult him to heights of ecstasy he'd never ...
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Children of the Mist
Aleen Malcolm
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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A magnificent tale as passionate and beautiful as Scotland herself... THE ROLLING GLENS AND MISTY LOCHS OF SCOTLAND CLOAKED THE FIERY PASSIONS OF A PROUD PEOPLE Kat MacGregor--daughter of a banished clan...and heir to its fury and shame...her b...
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Colter's Wife
Joan Johnston
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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IN A BOLD, DARING BARGAIN SHE MARRIED A STRANGER...AND DISCOVERED NEW DEPTHS OF DESIRE! It was a shocking alliance indeed -- Kinyan Holloway, the proud young widow, and Benjamin Colter, the tall, scarred drifter driven by a dream. Only as a marrie...
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Flame of Fidelity
Sandra Dubay
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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SHE SET MEN'S PASSIONS ABLAZE Lovely Fidelity Fairfax inflamed the desires of every man she met. Her search for a lasting love led her from one forbidden romance to another, and finally to England's royal court, where she caught the eye of the kin...
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The Golden Lion
Pamela Haines
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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Italy -- it was where Maria Verzotto was born and where secret societies, ruled by the man they called "the Lion;' controlled her family's fate. From here, with her heritage locked deep in her heart, destiny would toss Maria from poverty ...
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Goodly Heritage
Beverly McGlamry
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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BARKER-MARKEY: A NAME THAT ECHOED DOWN THE BUSTLING COAST OF THE COLONIES... for their ships had no equal for grace and innovation. Little did rivals suspect the shocking secret--that these peerless vessels were designed by a woman! Yet Eliza Bar...
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Louisiana Lady
Myra Rowe
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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Left an orphan after her father's untimely death, Leander Ondone fought to made a place for herself in the world. With the promise of her family's plantation, Beaux Rives, becoming her own next year on her 18th birthday she tried to hold on to her in...
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The McLaffertys
Jude Williams
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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Gold! The word spread like a fever over the young United States-and men and women poured over the plains, the desert, the mountains, to seize their chance of wealth beyond reckoning. The raw mountain man, Michael McLafferty and the beautiful, half Ch...
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Prairie
Anna Lee Waldo
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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Charles Burton Irwin. An American legend. He was a leader of men and a lover of adventure. With his wife and children at his side, he grabbed hold of the reins of change and rode the wild American West into a new frontier--the twentieth century. Fro...
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Proud Captive
Dianne Price
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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HE LIBERATED HER SENSES Headstrong Shona Cameron would never accept that she, the favorite daughter of a feared Scottish clansman, was now a lowly indentured servant in the Colonies. Certain that her flawless good looks would snare her a rich husb...
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Rachel
Vivian Schurfranz
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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Can she be true to her heritage and to the boy she loves? It is 1910 and 16-year-old Rachel Roth and her family are immigrants from Poland to America. When Rachel sees the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, she catches her breath. The magnificent...
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Savage Summer
Constance O'Banyon
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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For all of her nineteen years, Sky Dancer lived with the knowledge that she was different: but the breathtaking beauty never had to face life off of her beloved Blackfoot land. Yet she never knew true fear until she began to have visions of a magnifi...
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Silk and Splendor
Ellen Tanner Marsh
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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SWEPT BY DANGEROUS AND GLORIOUS PASSION...THEY DARED TO FALL IN LOVE ISLAND OF DREAMS PARADISE OF LOVE His sun-weathered face was arrogantly handsome as she trembled under the steady gaze of his unyielding blue eyes. China Warrick had turned in d...
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Wild Land, Wild Love
Mallory Burgess
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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HEARTS ON FIRE Genna felt a spark of white heat engulf her as Alex's mouth claimed hers. Sweet murmurings of love silenced her protest as he carried her across the room to rest on the soft white pillows... Yet instead of the love she longs for...
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Wild Star
Catherine Coulter
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Romance
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He had stopped kissing her...leaving her parted lips trembling, waiting for more. Oh, how she wanted him But Byrony knew that Brent Hammond was the last man in the world she should want. This handsome San Francisco gambler was legendary for all t...
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Dark Angel
V.C. Andrews
- Nov-1986
- / Horror
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AT LAST, HEAVEN WOULD FIND THE HAPPINESS SHE LONGED FOR...FREE FROM THE SCORN AND CONTEMPT OF HER PAST! In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life -- of new friends, the best schools, beautiful...
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The Witches Eye
Steven Charles
- Nov-1986
- / Horror
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Jennifer Field and her friends investigate Witch's Eye, a mysterious lake, to search for clues to the terrible events stalking Thaler Academy only to stir up the evil, alien horror lurking deep in the murky waters...
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The Raven in the Foregate
Ellis Peters
- Nov-1986
- / Historical Mystery
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When the beloved Father Adam dies, Abbot Radulfus recommends the young priest Ailnoth for the parish of Holy Cross, known as the Foregate. Ailnoth has much to recommend him, but his zeal and lack of pity quickly alienate him from his flock. So much s...
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Antelope Springs
G. Clifton Wisler
- Nov-1986
- / Historical
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Everett Raymond maintains a stop along the stage route with his family, but when a stranger arrives requesting lodgings for a few days, the former marshal finds his world of peace and solitude shattered...
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Fools Crow
James Welch
- Nov-1986
- / Historical
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The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature." (Wallace Stegner)In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackf...
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Lone Star and the Nevada Mustangs
Wesley Ellis
- Nov-1986
- / Historical
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Jessie and Ki round up a pack of wild horses -- and a coffin-load of danger in the fifty-first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and K...
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Longarm and the Escape Artist
Tabor Evans
- Nov-1986
- / Historical
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THE HANGMAN OR THE WIDOW? California lawmen have nabbed Chauncey Mahoney, alias the Stovespit Kid, and it's Longarm's job to bring him back to Denver to stand trial for the murder of a U.S. Marshal. But the Kid doesn't stay jailed long. Like spit ...
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Rio Grande
Donald Clayton Porter
- Nov-1986
- / Historical
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As the Civil War rages in the East, crack Confederate troops march westward to seize Union outposts along the Rio Grande, and only a band of roughriders, led by the legendary Kit Carson, stands against them...
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Riverboat Rampage
Clay Tanner
- Nov-1986
- / Historical
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Riverboat owner, gambler and ladies' man Chance Sharpe gets word of strange goings-on up on the Mississippi by Craddock's Bend. Several boats have disappeared behind mysterious fogs ... spirits are haunting the riverbanks. it all seems like hogwash t...
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Savage Range
Luke Short
- Nov-1986
- / Historical
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Down on his luck, Jim Wade takes a job as foreman of the deadliest bunch of cowboys he has ever seen. Then he discovers that he has been set up to take the blame for a bloody massacre the crew commits and is forced to turn fugitive with a lynch mob a...
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The Trail Drive War
J.R. Roberts
- Nov-1986
- / Historical
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A trail drive means trouble on the hoof for Clint Adams. A beautiful cattle baroness summons him to Wyoming after her foreman turns up dead and she needs someone to help her honcho a trail drive. Together they move her cattle down a treacherous trail...
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Tulsa
Hank Mitchum
- Nov-1986
- / Historical
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STAGECOACH -- A powerful series of adventures set in the Old West's most dramatic towns -- filled with the danger, history, and romance of the bold men and women who conquered the vast and violent frontier. The wild and wide-open Oklahoma Territor...
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A Lover Scorned
Isabelle Holland
- Nov-1986
- / Gothic
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Reverend Claire Aldington was upset enough to learn a female colleague had been killed. Then she learned that her fiance had secretly known the woman. When more murders start to occur, Claire joins the police to catch the killer--who may turn out to ...
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Acts of Contrition
William Heffernan
- Nov-1986
- / General Fiction
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Taut and grittily realistic, this explosive novel of deceit and revenge weaves a suspenseful tale of a man who built his career on his ability to cover up the past, and of the woman who made it her business to expose it. From the author of The Corsic...
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The Alley Cat
Yves Beauchemin
- Nov-1986
- / General Fiction
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First published in Quebec in 1981, Beauchemin’s highly acclaimed comic masterpiece of storytelling follows in the tradition of the great novels of the 19th century.
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The Art of the Tale
Daniel Halpern
- Nov-1986
- / General Fiction
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Collects masterpieces of short fiction--from traditional forms and folktales to surrealism--and offers a wide representation of authors from the United States as well as European and newer Third World literature...
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Assault into Libya
Jim Case
- Nov-1986
- / General Fiction
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The killers had it coming to them! Book 2 of Cody's Army by Jim Case....
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The Bishop
David Helwig
- Nov-1986
- / General Fiction
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Tells the life of an Anglican bishop, whose life has been full, but who now lies on his deathbed after a debilitating stroke. The story looks at several people whose lives touch that of the bishop, slowly, the reader pieces together the life of a rem...
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Bones of God
Stephen Leigh
- Nov-1986
- / General Fiction
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On the Earth of 2558 A.D., the followers of Molitor Ab believe they have found their savior--the Sartius Exori--in the person of Colin Fairwood, who promises to deliver them from the oppression of the ruling Zakkaist church...
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Carlisles All
Norma Johnston
- Nov-1986
- / General Fiction
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When her father's taken hostage in the Middle East and her mother goes to Europe to keep close to the situation, Jess Carlisle, fifteen, must handle the press and take care of her brothers and sisters...
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Centrifuge
J.C. Pollock
- Nov-1986
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His devastating secret might save his country -- if his country didn't kill him first! Fighting behind the lines in Vietnam, Mike Slater had learned the fine art of killing. He'd also learned a secret that turned out to be a timebomb. Because years ...
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Choosing Sides
Francine Pascal
- Nov-1986
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Friends and foes... No matter what Elizabeth does, she can't stop her best friend, Amy Sutton, from trying out for the Unicorn Club's cheering squad. Elizabeth is sure that the Unicorns are going to steal Amy away from her. Then Elizabeth learns tha...
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Chosen Parents
Mel Arrighi
- Nov-1986
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A detective believes that Scott and Sandy Lamson, two bright, beautiful, and incestuous siblings, have murdered their parents and are engaged in a deadly, bizarre game that involves a search for new parents and strange accidents...
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Conjuring Summer in
Mildred Ames
- Nov-1986
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Sixteen-year-old Bernadette experiments with psychic forces, including black magic, in her unhappiness over the family's move to California; but a series of murders and a threat on her own life ensue....
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Crazy Vanilla
Barbara Wersba
- Nov-1986
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A sensitive, lonely fourteen-year-old boy and a strong, uniquely individual fifteen-year-old girl become friends unexpectedly when they discover they share both a love of animals and the ambition to become wildlife photographers....
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Daddy
Charles Cohen
- Nov-1986
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Jamie Grenne, a handsome forty-year-old history professor, leaves his brilliant and beautiful wife for a red-haired graduate student with a trust-fund, but everything changes after Jamie learns that his wife is pregnant...
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Dancing With Mermaids
Miles Gibson
- Nov-1986
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First published in 1985, Miles Gibson's phantasmagoric second novel returns to print with a new preface by the author. Wreathed in legends and haunted by ghosts, the little Dorset village of Rams Horn is a fantastical seaside world where reality ebbs...
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Ease
Patrick Gale
- Nov-1986
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A world-weary playwright takes on a fake name and a sleazy apartment -- and learns to live again -- in this charming novel from bestselling author Patrick Gale. Success came quick to Domina Tey. An award-winning playwright, Domina was famous before s...
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Elephant Man
Christine Sparks
- Nov-1986
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John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within that enormous and deformed head, th...
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Flame of the Inquisition
Marc Kornblatt
- Nov-1986
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IT IS THE YEAR 1487. You have traveled back to Spain during the Inquisition to find Queen Isabella. You've just scaled the walls of an enemy castle when suddenly one of the guards wielding a razor-sharp scimitar rushes at you. You must act quickly...
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Frieze
Cecile Pineda
- Nov-1986
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This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse"artis...
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God Calling
A.J. Russell
- Nov-1986
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The message of comfort and hope that breathes through the pages of God Calling was forged out of adversity, and as a result has touched the hearts of millions, making this one of the bestselling devotional books of all time....
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Hamilton Stark
Russell Banks
- Nov-1986
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Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years...
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Hey, Al
Arthur Yorinks
- Nov-1986
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Al, a janitor, and his faithful dog, Eddie, live in a single room on the West Side. They eat together, they work together, they do everything together. So what's the problem?
Thier room is crowded and cramped; their life is an endless strugg...
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Hooples' Horrible Holiday
Stephen Manes
- Nov-1986
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From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, here's the hilarious sequel to Hooples on the Highway and The Hooples' Haunted House:
Thanksgiving! Turkey! Pumpkin pie! Parades! Alvin Hoople and his family are off to his grandpar... -
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In Country
Bobbie Ann Mason
- Nov-1986
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In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born: The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been...
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The Judgment of Paris
Gore Vidal
- Nov-1986
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Power, knowledge, and love are the temptations of three alluring women as Philip wanders from Paris to Rome. Yet his choice matters less than the act of choosing in this witty odyssey of self-discovery....
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King's Ransom
Victor Suthren
- Nov-1986
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BOOK TWO IN THE GALLANT SAGA
The Spanish have sent La Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, a bejeweled gold statuette, to France to seal their pact of loyalty and insure Spain's dominance on the high seas.
But the statue has vanished, and Paul G...
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Lantana Lane
Eleanor Dark
- Nov-1986
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We have lived round the corner from the world, with not even a signpost to betray our whereabouts... and if the treasure we have accumulated makes no show upon our bank statements, neither is it subject to income tax.'Lantana, bushy and massive, is A...
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The Little Company
Eleanor Dark
- Nov-1986
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It is 1941 and the storm clouds of war gather over Australia. In the mountains outside Sydney the Massey family are reunited by their father's death. Gilbert is a successful novelist, struggling with writer's block in middle age. A socialist and inte...
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The Mission
Robert Bolt
- Nov-1986
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In order to come to terms with his violent past, soldier-of-fortune Rodrigo Mendoza joins forces with a priest, Father Gabriel, head of a Jesuit mission deep in the South American jungle, to battle ruthless slave traders preying on the Guarani native...
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Mother's Little Helper
Gina Cascone
- Nov-1986
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Paula, a suburban housewife who married her college sweetheart, finds life hoeplessly frustrating until she decides to take up jogging and meets an attractive high school senior who teaches her about growing up...
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The Mystery Lover's Companion
Art Bourgeau
- Nov-1986
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1986 Crown hardcover, BCE though unstated. Art Bourgeau (A Lonely Way to Die). The ultimate reference source for fans of whodunits; a source book for all types of mysteries and thrillers, complete with descriptions and ratings. - Amazon...
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Not This August
C.M. Kornbluth
- Nov-1986
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Defeated in battle, will the United States be forced to surrender to the armies of China and Russia?...
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One Boy Too Many
Emily Chase
- Nov-1986
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Jane Barrett is in real trouble-- boy trouble. If Neal isn't sending her flowers from Boston, then Cary, a local student, is asking her for a date. Jane's friends can't believe Neal and Cary don't know about each other, but Jane can&#...
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Paradise
Donald Barthelme
- Nov-1986
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"No other word for it: a charming book."â,”Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends u... -
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