Books Published in August 2003

• Sep-2003
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Dear Avon Books, Where are my heroes? Whenever I'm reading a book by one of my favorite authors I find I'm falling for the wrong guy -- not the hero, but the other man -- and what I really want is for him to have his own story. Like Jake Linl...

• Aug-2003
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No sleep for the wicked... Jack Beauchamp is surely able to have any woman hewants - so Mattie Crawford can't understand why he's so determined to take her to Paris! Maybe she did jump to the wrong conclusion about him being awomaniser, and her p...

• Sep-2003
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For the Marcelli sisters of California wine country, the season is ripe for romance! THE SPARKLING ONE A party planner extraordinaire, Katie Marcelli loves her big, boisterous family -- even when their chronic matchmaking drives her crazy! In...

• Aug-2003
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AN EXPLOSIVE ENCOUNTER Self-defense instructor D. J. Monroe would do anything to keep her edge. Even if that meant asking the dangerous and magnetic paramilitary expert Quinn Reynolds to instruct her! D.J. didn't date, didn't trust, didn't let any...

• Sep-2003
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'No matter how many times you looked at the horror man inflicted on man, you never saw it all. As Lieutenant Eve Dallas stood over what had once been a woman, she wondered when she would see worse than this...' The summer of 2059 is drawing to a swe...

• Sep-2003
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Tristan Wemyss, Earl of Trentham, never expected he'd need to wed within a year or forfeit his inheritance. But he is not one to bow to the matchmaking mamas of the ton. No, he will marry a lady of his own choosing. And the lady he chooses is the enc...

• Aug-2003
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Hot summer passion. Cold-blooded fear. When Christy Petrino discovers that her fiance, Michael DePalma, and the law firm where she works are linked to the mob, she breaks her engagement and quits her job. But no one walks away from the DePalma fam...

• Aug-2003
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“THIS TIME WE'RE AIMING FOR FOREVER....” When a runaway teen surfaced at Molly Creighton's tavern, Daniel Devaney's job as a child advocate forced him to investigate...and to confront his tumultuous past with Molly. Though a tragic loss had sh...

• Aug-2003
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A beautiful new novel about desire, healing and the most powerful medicine of all -- love A gifted but troubled physician, Blue Calhoun runs a thriving medical practice from his Nob Hill mansion in San Francisco while raising his son alone after a...

• Aug-2003
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You met Joe Winston in Lori Foster's Wild. Now, the Winston brothers' seductive, bad-boy cousin is back and up against a woman who's immune to his considerable charms...or so it seems... IRRESISTIBLE FORCE--MEET IMMOVABLE OBJET Joe Winston has...

• Aug-2003
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Passion results in pregnancy! Millionaire banker Luca Cardelli is back! The gorgeous Italian broke Eve's heart before, but now he's more determined than ever to have her.... Falling again for Luca is all too easy, and life is incredible...

• Aug-2003
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Spanning three generations, the Abram's Daughters series paints a powerful family portrait of four Amish sisters growing up in Gobbler's Knob, Lancaster County. Leah and her beloved Jonas are separated for half the year when he accepts a long-desir...

• Sep-2003
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Dear Avon Books, Where are my heroes? Whenever I'm reading a book by one of my favorite authors I find I'm falling for the wrong guy -- not the hero, but the other man -- and what I really want is for him to have his own story. Like Jake Linl...

• Aug-2003
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The intense desert heat has brought a nightmare to a small corner of the Southwest. A body lies lifeless in an airless trailer, surrounded by seventeen others. It is a crime unspeakable in conception and execution -- a horror strangely connected to a...

• Aug-2003
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Christine Reardon is on her way back -- to a town full of bittersweet memories, but home to the only man she has ever truly loved, Mitch Claydon. Outback born and bred, Mitch is filled with anger whenever he thinks about Christine. He'd loved ...

• Aug-2003
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Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns�"one dead, one critically injured�"victims o...

• Aug-2003
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Apart from sharing the same zip code, Randi Howard, Anna Montano, Meredith Allen, Helena Whitworth and Crystal Howard have absolutely nothing in common until a fiery explosion on a west Texas oil rig changes everything. Their husbands are men who...

• Aug-2003
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THE SYMPTOMS E.R. head Dr. Luke Walker saves all of his bedside manner for his patients. With the hospital staff he's outspoken, tough, no-nonsense...until now. Disciplinary action from the hospital board has landed him a three-month stint at the Hea...

• Aug-2003
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E.R. Professionals: Dr. Declan Haversham & Lila Bailey, R.N. Lila Bailey fainted at the sight of blood! So her sudden decision to become a nurse shocked her boyfriend, medical student Declan Haversham. He doubted she could give up her expensive cl...

• Aug-2003
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The blackmail marriage! Zavier Chambers is one of Australia's most celebrated, powerful playboys, and to him Tabitha appears to be the worst kind of woman -- a gold digger who wants to marry for money and position. So why can't he get her ...

• Aug-2003
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The victims are always the same: beautiful, successful, and blond. Someone was able to coax these intelligent and confident women away from safety. Someone was able to gain their trust long enough to do the unthinkable. Their shocking murders have te...

• Aug-2003
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He wants her, and then he wins her...in a game of cards! TV star Rico Mandretti has wowed Sydney with his charm, good looks and love of cooking. However, besides pasta, the wealthy Italian-Australian harbors another passion! Renee Selensky despise...

• Aug-2003
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Ten years ago, Sophie Beaumont had watched as her twin sister, Shelly, had chosen to marry a Canfield man, bear his children and be mistress of his manor. But now Shelly was dead -- killed along with her husband, Peter, in a mysterious accident -- an...

• Aug-2003
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When Michelle Howard finds herself agreeing to nurse Zak Sadler for the next month, she's not sure what she's let herself in for! Michelle is reluctant to get so close to this sexy new Zak, whom she hasn't seen for two years. Any relation...

• Aug-2003
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Kitty Maguire and Preston Fleming fell head over heels in love the first time they saw each other. They were planning a wedding and the rest of their lives together. But Kitty's great-aunt put an end to all that in the course of one phone call, shatt...

• Aug-2003
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Corporate law has given Val Covington high-profile success, Armani suits--and no time for a life. Recklessly she walks away from her uptown job and starts her own practice, determined to do work that matters. Renting a remodeled church for her new of...

• Aug-2003
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To the Crow people the land was a gift from the First Maker, a place of snowy mountains and sunny plains, where elk and antelope grazed by brightly tumbling streams. But Chief Brave Wolf knew that proud heritage was threatened by the pony t diets und...

• Aug-2003
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Jamie Kincaid knows she can't move on with her life until she has answers. And she's walking straight into the fire to find them. A year ago Jamie learned that her beloved cousin, Nate, had been killed. Beaten to death in what police suspect was a...

• Aug-2003
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Promised to the Greek tycoon...as his bride As the illegitimate granddaughter of a famous Greek billionaire, Andrea Fraser was disowned at birth and grew up in poverty. Now, at the age of twenty-five, she is unexpectedly called to Greece, where sh...

• Aug-2003
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IF THE SYMPTOMS FIT... Princess Liv Thorson honestly believed she could skulk back to America, her uncharacteristic night of passion a secret known only to a sympathetic sister...and the Viking prince who possessed her underlisse. Then came the baby...

• Aug-2003
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KELLY'S LAW #1: Just when things seem to be settling down, the other shoe drops...with a vengeance. In this case, it's more like a Regency-era riding boot belonging to Alexandre Blake, Viscount Saint Just, hero of the bestsellers I write. When he ...

• Aug-2003
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In the first book of her sizzling new trilogy, Julia London introduces readers to the glamorous Lear family, whose dying patriarch has vowed to teach his spoiled, pampered daughters to appreciate the important things in life-like love... Rich. Sex...

• Aug-2003
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Five hundred years have passed since the events that drove Tathea, the Empress of Shinabar, into exile in the Lost Lands. There she found not only the oblivion she sought, but a chronicle of mystical teachings in a magical Book. She also found her de...

• Aug-2003
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Tom Clancy brings Jack Ryan's son -- Jack Ryan, Jr. -- to the forefront in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. What if they combined his network of Midd...

• Aug-2003
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AGAINST HER WILL The fabled desert kingdom of Zulheina was Tariq's birthright, and he was a man who held tightly what belonged to him. And that meant he had to reclaim a very special woman -- the woman who had broken his heart years before in ...

• Aug-2003
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Montana's wide open plains were as empty as her newlywed heart. Rancher Nick Gray, once Mariah's girlhood crush, wanted a mother to tend his children, not a wife to warm his bed. Still, she'd made that bed; now Mariah had to lie in it. Yet could she ...

• Aug-2003
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Twenty years have passed since Grianne Ohmsford denounced her former life as the dreaded Ilse Witch. Fulfilling the destiny predicted for her, she has established the Third Druid Council and dedicated herself to its goals of peace, harmony among the ...

• Sep-2003
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Harrowing confrontations with the merciless Ilse Witch and the monstrous Antrax have taken their toll on the intrepid heroes aboard the airship Jerkle Shannara. But their darkest adversary now snaps at their heels, in the form of the Morgawr--feeder ...

• Aug-2003
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Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rar...

• Aug-2003
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Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rar...

• Aug-2003
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After being left with a baby boy on his doorstep, confirmed bachelor Colt Garrett was in desperate need of a nanny. Luckily Kati Winslow temporarily accepted the position -- but with one simple request: that Colt grant her a marriage of convenience i...

• Aug-2003
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A New Dakotah Territory Saga From Bestselling Author Lauraine Snelling! Book 1 of Dakotah Treasures. Author Lauraine Snelling once again takes readers west to the untamed land of Dakota Territory, introducing new characters both unique and appealing....

• Sep-2003
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Dear Avon Books, Where are my heroes? Whenever I'm reading a book by one of my favorite authors I find I'm falling for the wrong guy -- not the hero, but the other man -- and what I really want is for him to have his own story. Like Jake Linl...

• Aug-2003
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At the count's command! When Kate Foster decides to open a business at her family's cottage on the estate of a French chateau, she discovers that all the other properties on the estate have been sold to the millionaire Count Guy de Villene...

• Aug-2003
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A family to call her own... Surgeon Sam Gregory is the last person midwife Molly Hammond expects to see at Audley hospital. She'd once carried a child for him and his wife -- it had led to a special, and unspoken, bond between Molly and Sam. No...

• Aug-2003
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Forged of the exquisite gem, the Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man - and the subject of one of history's most intriguing mysteries. German troops invading the Soviet Union seized the Room in 1941. When the Allies started th...

• Aug-2003
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The rake had lost his memory... Beautiful widow Amanda Clare woke up in a strange bed, lying next to a tall, dark, very handsome stranger! Knocked out in a stagecoach accident, they'd been rescued and it had been assumed that they were married --...

• Aug-2003
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The Graves family has just moved to Union City, and they definitely don't fit in. With giant spiders in the living room, a voracious Venus flytrap named Phoebe in the kitchen, and a secret laboratory in the basement, the neighbors are afraid to visit...

• Aug-2003
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Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game-winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father...

• Aug-2003
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A REAL-LIFE FAIRY TALE Like her very own knight in shining armor, rancher Joe Crawford emerged from the mist to rescue Anna Pointer from a desperate situation. Widowed and raising two children alone, Anna could not refuse Joe's offer of assistance...