Books Published in September 1982

• Sep-1982
• / Thriller
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He wanted to make peace with the past...

Peter Houston just wanted to find the grave of the war-hero father he never knew--a yearning that would draw him thousands of miles from home to the military cemetary in France.

Instead, he s...

• Sep-1982
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• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN... Its the American Revolution all over again. But this time its a rag-tag band of space colonists vs. The United States. And the fate of the world hangs by a thread--200 miles above the earth....

• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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Dumarest continues his restless wandering - combing the spaceways for an ancient and almost forgotten planet called Earth. Then, on a primitive world, he fights a giant mutant for the life of the lovely psychic Lallia - and wins a vital clue that cou...

• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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The interstellar Bridge System was the greatest invention in the long history of cosmic humanity Spread through dozens of planets, men and their societies had drifted apart in isolation until the Bridge came to link together humanity's multifold worl...

• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, different from Earth and from each other. Any of those differences could mean death and disaster...

• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into a novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this Tor edition includes "The First Rull," a s...

• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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FOUR AGAINST HORROR Secretly and in stealth, four puny humans set out to invade the heartland of Evil--the so-called Empty Lands, filled with every evil creature from the darkest of mankind's myths. Harcourt went reluctantly to rescue his long-lo...

• Sep-1982
• / Science Fiction
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The tale is set in precataclysmic North America, approximately 600 years after nuclear war, man-induced plagues, and worldwide seismic disturbances have thrown humanity into a brutal pre-industrial age. Much of California and the East Coast have sunk...

• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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Careening from the ashes of the Third Reich to the war-torn Central America of the eighties, Eddie Sachs, possessor of the secret to $100 million in Nazi gold, pursues his destiny, impelled by his belief in a second chance...

• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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A young woman investigates the death of her wealthy, estranged father in a small Rhode Island town in this novel by the author of the Peter Shandy Mysteries. -- Murder can happen anywhere, even in sleepy Meldrum, Rhode Island. And while the town’...

• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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When Alan Parker is suddenly made redundant, he can't bring himself to tell his wife. With time on his hands while secretly and desperately looking for a job, he meets a waif-like little girl, Tessa, and her lonely, widowed mother. Alan discovers he ...

• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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The Good Old Stuff has been selected to give readers a taste of John D. MacDonald's great fiction. "The Simplest Poison" is a straight detective story. "Miranda" is psychological suspense. "Noose for a Tigress" is about a woman who wanted too m...

• Sep-1982
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• / Suspense
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• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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MURDER IN WASHINGTON Donna dashed up the steps toward the huge statue of Abraham_Lincoln -- and stopped short Cradled in the giant stone arms was the body of a man.... Donna's and Abbey's trip to Washington, D.C. turns into a hunt for a derange...

• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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When reporter Liz Gold fled to Houston to escape her family and her wrecked marriage, she investigates the twenty-year-old murder of the mistress of a prominent businessman and uncovers the truth about the murder--and herself...

• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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“A suspenseful page-turner . . . jolts and entertains the reader.” -- Mary Higgins ClarkInside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of t...

• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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When the famous British traitor Kim Philby contacts a U.S. Agent in Moscow claiming to have important information, the CIA is cautiously interested. Their counterintelligence director Ara Schott, normally a desk man, goes along to Yalta to talk to Ph...

• Sep-1982
• / Suspense
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Several years after being ranked the top female marathon swimmer, Dorey Thomas determines to swim the as yet uncrossed San Antonio Strait and turns for training to Sarge Olssen, who lost his only son to the strait...

• Sep-1982
• / Romantic Suspense
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Vernon Deyre is a sensitive and brilliant musician, even a genius, tormented and driven by forces even he didn't understand. His sheltered childhood in the home he loves has not prepared Vernon for the harsh reality of his adult years, and in ord...

• Sep-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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If only she could pretend forever... Camilla, Countess of Wyckfield, heaved her book at Thomas. "Why, you... you...!" "Bounder? Jackanapes? Dastard?" he supplied. "All of them! Get out of my sight!" She didn't s...

• Sep-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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Sir Hugh Abingdon was not the sort of man a properly bred youn girl would dare to meet alone... so Phyllida brought her chaperone. That was not enough for Bath society. To quiet the ensuing scandal, Phyllida was sent off to France into the protecti...

• Sep-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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Nell Trant knew Sir Charles Grayson kept several light-skirts. She had jilted him for that very reason -- at their betrothment ball no less. A shocking scandal! Later she regretted her haste -- though she admitted it to no one... Now she is beside...

• Sep-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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He was a handsome rogue who had already cost her a job...and heaven knows what else! But Cassandra Covington couldn't afford to think of the scandalous Lord Wolverham. She was alone and penniless. Now even the daring plan of a determined friend made ...

• Sep-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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Chaos and broken hearts littered the wake: of the dazzling Brendan, Duke of Tressilian. But Kristen Killian, beautiful widowed Countess of Killeaven vowed she would never succumb to his notorious charm--until a moonlit night bound them together in a ...

• Sep-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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A KNOWING YOUNG LADY Felicity Lyford harbored no illusions as to why both the debonaire Lord Harry Eastcott and the dashing Sir Anthony Woodhall might want her hand in wedlock. Their wealthy and eccentric old aunt, Lady Cora Meecham, had told them...

• Sep-1982
• / Romance
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From the acclaimed author of Home Cooking comes a heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of being taken for granted -- and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms.“Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives.” -...

• Sep-1982
• / Romance
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• Sep-1982
• / Romance
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On a business trip to England, a beautiful young woman becomes a player in a perilous game of love… A Heartfelt Confusion Lovely American Rosemary Lewis never imagined that a simple buying trip to England could make her life so complicated. B...

• Sep-1982
• / Police Procedural
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Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways, artery-clogging fast food... and brutal murders. In The Case of the Sliding Pool, the collapse of a swimmin...

• Sep-1982
• / Police Procedural
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"TURN, HELL-HOUND, TURN!" The fight. Leap, clash, sweep; hoarse, snarling voices. Macbeth is beaten backward, Macduff raises his claymore, and they plunge out of sight. A scream. A thud. Silence. Seyton carries his claidheamh-mor and on it, str...

• Sep-1982
• / Private Investigator
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Investigating the shooting of his friend Lt. Eberhardt, the "Nameless Detective" finds himself caught in a life-threatening web of murder, bribery, violence, and organized crime in San Francisco's Chinatown...

• Sep-1982
• / Law Enforcement
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THE QUEEN WAS NOT AMUSED. Murder and royalty didn't mix. Princess Helena had only a distant claim to the throne, but when her friends and lovers began turning up dead, Buckingham Palace demanded to know why. The princess appeared to have a wildly wi...

• Sep-1982
• / Law Enforcement
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• Sep-1982
• / Law Enforcement
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MURDER AT EBB TIDE "Found drowned, my foot," said the pathologist two minutes after looking at the body. The unidentified young man pulled from the salt water near the fishing village of Edsway hadn't drowned after all. And he hadn't been a bather...

• Sep-1982
• / Law Enforcement
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An English village is shaken by murder in this police procedural from the “dependably pleasing” author of The Night She Died (The Boston Globe). Det. Inspector Luke Thanet may be the only happy cop in England. He has two healthy children, a wond...

• Sep-1982
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• Sep-1982
• / Mystery
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Fifth-grader Cam Jansen has the perfect chance to show off her amazing mental camera at the community hobby show -- especially at the Babe Ruth exhibit of baseball cards and other collectibles. But when the prized baseball, autographed by Babe Ruth, ...

• Sep-1982
• / Mystery
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• Sep-1982
• / Mystery
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EARTHSHAKING SLEUTHING Susan Sand and her best friend Marge Halloran are horseback riding on a tranquil autumn day. As they reach Raggedrock Ridge, boulders and rocks begin to tumble and splinter, and an earth tremor ensues, bolting Marge from her...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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She was a dimpled, violet-eyed, black-haired beauty, who wore scarlet velvet dresses, white-plumed hats and two Navy Colts hanging from her shapely hips. She was Belle Starr, Queen of the Outlaws, and as she blazed her way through the wild frontier, ...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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DEBUTANTE Valentina's debut into glittering Parisian society was everything she dreamed it would be. She flirted with the handsome Prince of Wales, drank champagne until she was dizzy with desire and danced until dawn glowed rosy pink over the br...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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The wilderness. It was a brutal force, a powerful magnet drawing Boone away from the woman he loved and the children he fathered … into the savage unknown. Rebecca Boone watched him go and waited for his return … her heart aching and filled wi...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Sovereign Nation, Captive Heart 1774. Beneath the colonial charm of Williamsburg seethes a rebellion about to explode. Behind closed doors, young revolutionaries clash in a hot debate, while Colonel Washington dines alone at the Governor's Palace....

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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A woman and a man have arrived at an English country house to spend a quiet weekend in the depths of Wiltshire. Surrounded by magnificent formal gardens they relax with drinks before dinner .The woman is Davina Graham, one of British Intelligence'...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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A breathtaking novel of wealth, pride and passion on America's last frontier. From Alaska's boozing, brawling boomtowns to the graft-ridden pipeline andlawless frontier, the Cole dynasty was spawned from blood and money, cursed by the Midas touch....

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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The Manipulators In this shattering finale to the story of Val Erice and his relentless battle against worldwide conspiracy, we finally learn the dark secrets that have haunted his proud, self-made empire. The forces of IAGO, too, are unmasked and pr...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Almost from the first moment Selene Prescott arrived in Green Willow, she admires the handsome, intense young man who helps the new settlers adjust to life on the harsh frontier. As Selene's affection for Alex Berry deepens in to love, she comes to s...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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SHANGRI-LA Safely hidden in the far reaches of the lush Amazonian jungle lies a mythical paradise, peaceful and idyllic, isolated from civilization for over a century...until a band of vicious guerrillas invade the valley, greedily searching for dia...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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A courtly saga of love and triumph in the era of knights and kings, this is the powerful story of two young, proud women who share a common ancestry...shattered by the treachery and deceit of the men who would steal their lands. From the fief of Leau...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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A backwoods doctor and fearless adventurer, Marcus Whitman was respected and admired by all who traveled the Oregon Trail. By cart and wagon, on horse and on foot, the settlers came in increasing numbers…welcomed to the rich, verdant valley where W...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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My Lady of Cleves reveals the mesmerizing story of Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, one of the rare women who matched wits successfully with the fiery king and lived to tell the tale. Written by world-renowned historical novelist Marg...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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She thought she could never love again. She was just sixteen when she met Neil Banning. Innocent of love and its deception, she was shattered to learn how cruelly her heart could be broken. Eden Thackery, the most desirable young lady among New Yo...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Betrayed and driven... They were THE RENEGADES Under the tyranny of Cromwell's Puritan rule, the Irish fought vainly for their freedom. Caught in the struggle, Irish beauty Maggie O'Hara waged her own fierce war against marriage to a r...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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From the history of two generations touched by two great wars, comes a soaring epic of the human heart...of a girl born to a dying woman in the Great War's last dark hour, to live in England's most privileged splendor...of a young man who ran...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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AUSTRALIA A new land, A new way of life The recently discovered continent was many things to many people: For Annie Hollister, a young and spirited beauty it meant a chance for her family to overcome its past and make a new start...until the u...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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PRIMITIVE PASSION was what Sylviane felt when she first saw the powerful Indian warrior. Her heart raced with fear and her legs trembled in fright -- but she yearned to twine herself around him like a supple vine to a mighty oak. It didn't matter ...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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As England bowed to Elizabethan rule, a dazzling beauty challenged her destiny -- and an irresistible love WILLFUL, BEAUTIFUL LAUREL DEVON LOST EVERYTHING... After her father's death she fell upon the charity of the queen. Yet Laurel kept h...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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She will let no man rule her. And so, from the ashes of deception and defiance, their love was born--proud and passionate and unrelenting......

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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WEDDING OF CONVENIENCE Ravishing Sarah Bradford was all alone in Wildcat City. The rough boomtown was full of brawny unbridled men and the Yankee beauty needed one man's protection. In name only Sarah became Mrs. Adam MacShane. And only then did she ...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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Through untold hardship and havoc, the bravehearted Heron clan strove to create a bold heritage from the barren land...wrestling their fortunes from the dark riches that lay deep beneath the earth, until they had established a powerful petroleum empi...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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An epic story of tough ambitious immigrants to CaliforniaAaron, Jan and Rose. In brash little Los Angeles, each battles the way toward the top-one bringing in gushers in the fledgling oil discoveries; one fighting for stardom in the raw new movie ind...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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HOPEWELL SAGA The tangled destinies of the Hopewells and the Shawns are drawn to a startling and powerful climax...in this fourth and final volume of the HOPEWELL SAGA. Eben Hopewell - Bearing the guilt for the fate of a woman he never loved, c...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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SHE FOUND THE MAGIC OF LOVE IN THE CITY OF MUSIC AND DREAMS.... A woman's place -- the parlor, not the concert stage! But radiant Diana Ballantyne, pianist extraordinaire, had one year -- a year before she would bow to her father's wishes, return ...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical Romance
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SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN Faith Eliot came from England to the South Carolina plantation of Havenhurst to find out the truth about the mysterious death of her twin sister, Fleur. But when she arrived, she could feel Fleur's spirit come alive -- within ...

• Sep-1982
• / Horror
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In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose ...

• Sep-1982
• / Horror
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An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge... a teenager becomes both the puppet and the puppet master of evil...four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, ...

• Sep-1982
• / Horror
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A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something's amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. Th...

• Sep-1982
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There is a fear which Christie cannot escape. Can she save herself from the grip of a power beyond her control?...

• Sep-1982
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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When a Nymph rides a Night Mare, Ogre beware!Smash knew all about ogres. After all, despite his having a human mother, Smash was an ogre himself. Ogres were not only huge and horribly ugly, as Smash was; they were also so stupid they could hardly spe...

• Sep-1982
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• Sep-1982
• / Historical
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THE BOND OF BLOOD MADE THEM A FAMILY. WAR MADE THEM ENEMIES. The Geysers and the Hales: one set of cousins sweated its living from the soil, the other from a small-town newspaper. One made its home in the South, the other -- only a few miles ride aw...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical
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Autumn, 1763. After the longest siege of the Indian Wars, Fort Detroit has struck an uneasy truce with the mighty Red Nations. In a spirit of celebration, Owen Sutherland makes beautiful Ella Bently his bride and together they forge a great frontier ...

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Prizefights and beautiful women spell danger for the The Gunsmith! Down on his luck. The Gunsmith enters the boxing business to make some money. He signs on a young fighter whose smart and sassy sister wants to push the kid to the top. But Clint Ada...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical
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ACROSS THE BORDER! Nightriders are raiding the ranches near the Starbuck spread, so Jessie and Ki set out to raid the raiders. Then their trails split ...Jessie's leads to a remote U.S. Army outpost and the arms of a cavalry officer, while Ki's lead...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical
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LAND IS MONEY IN THE GODFORSAKEN BADLANDS Interior is nothing but a two-bit town in the Dakota Territory -- a land where pistol-toting sharp-shooters make their own laws, and corrupt lawmen choose not to notice... But when two U.S. Land Office ...

• Sep-1982
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• / Historical
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SPAWNED IN THE DEPTHS OF THE CIRCUS MAXEMUS... The Gladiators found the starving slave-boy suckling a she-goat. Right then, they named him Lucanus -- Little Wolf -- and predicted that through all the wrenching bloodshed that was Rome... HE WOUL...

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BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN...WANTED BY HIS FAMILY THE LAW--AND BY A WHOLE LOTOF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! On the trail to Fair Chance, Bolt gallops straight into the gunsights of Rawhide Kate. But before she can pull the trigger, Bolt lets her know he comes in pea...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical
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RANGE WAR! Bill Hearndon had been away from Segundo for eight years -- years spent riding hard, pushing steers, earning the cash to come back and build a ranch of his own on the land he'd inherited from his father. Yet Hearndon had been gone just a ...

• Sep-1982
• / Historical
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RIDE THROUGH THE SHADOW OF DEATH Dal and Mac Traven left Texas young and idealistic. They came back from opposite sides of a living hell, a war that had torn a nation in two. They wanted only to reclaim their old lives, but one man held their futu...

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• / Historical
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WAGONS WEST Defying the icy dangers of majestic snow-capped mountains, they came to a rugged frontier town. They were enticed by promises of fabulous wealth, but their dreams were often shattered by fate and lawless violence. Some were brave, lust...

• Sep-1982
• / Gothic
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MIXED EMOTIONS Cathy Mills’ promotion to society editor of San Francisco’s Morning Sun was a dream come true. But when Deke Connors, the handsome young editor of the paper, told her she was going to London to cover a society wedding, chaos eru...

• Sep-1982
• / Gothic
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When gray-eyed Nan Ross reported for her first day of work at the plush Beverly Hills office of Allied Artist Corporation, the last thing she expected to receive was a warning against her new boss. But Rhoda Meade, her co-worker at the prestigious pu...

• Sep-1982
• / Gothic
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The advertisement, complete with box number, appeared in New York newspapers: "Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate." -- Katherine Derwith had placed the advertisement. In ...

• Sep-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1982
• / General Fiction
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This best-selling book was the basis for the thrilling film Carlito's Way starring Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Sean Penn, directed by Brian De Palma. Carlito Brigante, often described as the Puerto Rican Godfather, was just released early fro...

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The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments.

• Sep-1982
• / General Fiction
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Discusses ways in which animals are trained to help the handicapped and to provide companionship for mentally retarded, ill, and elderly persons. Based on interviews with professional animal trainers, therapists, social workers, and teachers....

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In this follow-up to Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He turns fifty in a confusing blend of civic and erotic circumstances whil...

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Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those lit...

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Alone in their New Hampshire summer estate, magazine writer William Bristol and his suburb-bound wife, Julia, confront the fragmentation of their once-shared hopes amid the private-menagerie cages inherited from Julia's wealthy family...

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It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell — a talk with his young daughter just home from school — that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, The Children's Stor...

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This beautiful picture book about the warmth and wonder of Christmas and the origin of tinsel on trees will leave children enchanted with the magical possibilities of the season.

Everybody loves Christmas at Tante''s. The old lady decorates ...

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SHHHH. THE BABY IS ASLEEP... Right from the beginning, Joni Lawrence and her baby had a strange and wonderful connection her husband could not understand and could not share. Somehow she could speak to six-month old Stephen without words...without...

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'The entire head had been stripped of skin, creating a nightmarish sculpture in gelled blood...' The hideous apparition that confronted John Redpath almost defied description. It was the beginning of a horrific ordeal that would cause him to question...

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A story suppressed by the Nazis, the largest prisoner escape of World War II is here reconstructed from the diaries, notes, and memories of the six hundred Jews who revolted, three hundred of whom escaped the death camp Sobibor...

• Sep-1982
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The Hamiltons move into a historic North Carolina mansion unaware that the ghosts of two dead sisters haunt it...

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When Aunt Frankenstein arrives at the castle of her nephew, who created the monster, to restore that place to order and clear the family's blackened name, she encounters both Dracula and the werewolf and attempts to solve their problems too....

• Sep-1982
• / General Fiction
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A family saga which follows the fortunes of the Neylor family. Mark has come back to New Zealand, while Tina's family is growing up in England. Then the First World War breaks out, and lives are changed forever. From the author of THE BLUE AND DISTAN...

• Sep-1982
• / General Fiction
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They called him the Golden Hawk, Kit Gerado, whose tawny mane and fierce hungers were know and feared thoughout the Caribbean. As a young boy Kit Gerado had seen his mother murdered by the arrogant Don Luis del Toro. Now, as a buccaneer captain, he l...

• Sep-1982
• / General Fiction
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“The Good Son is the work of an artist in full command, and those of you entering it for the first time can only be envied.” -- From the foreword by Jonathan YardleyChip Mackinnon returns from World War II a changed man. After being shot down...

• Sep-1982
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Nobody knew. Or did they? Barney's family seems ordinary enough...until Great Uncle Barnaby dies. Suddenly, an eerie, weird voice starts taunting poor Barney unmercifully. It won't leave him alone. Only his sister Tabitha, the aspiring novelist, s...

• Sep-1982
• / General Fiction
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When her estranged husband disappears with their five-year-old son, Lael Pritcher embarks on a lonely, obsessed search that takes her through the northwestern United States, into Canada, and--finally--to Mexico...

• Sep-1982
• / General Fiction
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• / General Fiction
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In a penetrating examination of Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, Hutchinson shows that, like the major American authors who preceded him, Henry J...

• Oct-1982
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The hippos meet up with their friends and enjoy an evening out at a party where chaos, fun, and wild times erupt, in a colorful counting book featuring a humorous rhyming text and enhanced by lively illustrations....

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The first 14 pages of this book by Joanne Ryder, Paper Engineering by Ib Penick, Illustrated by Gerry Daly for Random House, contain excellent information about various kinds of rockets, satellites, people in space, the first men in space, astronauts...

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I'M JERRY; IRMA'S A CAT Whiskers! In Connecticut things were never like this! Imagine me, mild mannered, philosophically inclined Cocker Spaniel that I am, staging burglaries and mad attacks and cheesing it (that's how Irma would put it; it means ...

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In their senior year, outsiders Charlotte and Stephen find each other and acceptance into the school's inner circle, but at times Charlotte's remoteness and Stephen's friendship with Rolf drive them apart...

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The cars and horns. The colors combining. My lack of strength. Everything tried to keep me from getting home. But I made it. Finally the huge glass doors were in front of me. Through the glass I saw Harold. I pushed hard. Help me, I wanted to say. Bu...

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A collection of short stories--including "Trying Out for the Race," "A Compassionate Leave," "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired," and "Saying Good-bye to Sally"--explores troubled human relationships and family life...

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The Inquestor Series was a classic science fiction series of the 1980s — and has now been reincarnated for the 21st century, with more adventures, more spectacle, and more extras. Tachyon bubbles, people bins and galactic empires — and pr...

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A strange urge drives Dr. Iris Ammons to leave her home and travel to a small California town, where she comes under the influence of a weird evil power. A modern epic of terror steeped in centuries of evil.

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The Maid of the North weaves together tales about a woman's right to freedom of will and choice. In this collection of mostly nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales, Ethel Johnston Phelps's heroines successfully portray women as being spirited, cour...

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In an isolated mountain clinic, doctors work frantically to treat the body of Daniel Forrester, the shattered victim of a plane crash. Desperately trying to save his life, they place him in the latest medical machine.Strange things happen to Forreste...

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In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse....

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1962 edition, 5 book set includes Miss Bianca, The Rescuers, Miss Bianca in the Orient, Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines and The Turret. All inside a sturdy protective box. A Disney movie was made from The Rescuers story....

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A sweepstakes winning sweeps still-aspiring artist Matthew Morganstein into the upbeat world of high finance and tax shelters, but he longs for a return to the days of pre-monetary, idyllic, bohemian bliss with his Jewish-princess lover, Ariel...

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A monster stirs at the bottom of Loch Ness. For centureies it has lived in peace, rising to the surface, from time to time, to become a legend in the hills of Scotland. Now something has arrived to disturb it's tranquility - the violent, greedy thru...

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Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters...

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Avenging herself on her former lover and protege, Dr. Helen Roth unleashes the energy behind the dream process to psychologically manipulate Paul Stanislaus into committing increasingly violent crimes...

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The author's sixteen years of nursing experience have rendered up a straightforward account of back-breaking work, frustrating bureaucracies, hugh responsibilities with no authority, emotional conflicts, defeats, satisfactions, triumphs, and joys...

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In a world that keeps dealing nothing but bad breaks, stayoing out of trouble isn't easy. For Tom Delos forming the Guardians was his last chance to prove to himself and to others that he could achieve something. From now on, helping kids like himsel...

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Dr. Langhof, nearly forty years after his medical experiments for the Waffen SS, lives on in seclusion in the Republic, remembering--with no forgiveness or atonement--his descent into darkness and degradation...

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Darwin, the discoverer, did not mean to rock the world. He meant only to know the truth. But before he was done, Charles Darwin would shake the faith of centuries...would be reviled as a fiend, denounced as a madman - and finally hailed as a genius. ...

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