Books Published in December 1971

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For her own sake she had to back off It hadn't taken Julia long to fall in love with Ivo van den Werff -- but she had better fall out of love equally quickly, she decided, when she met Marcia Jason and realized just how much stronger a claim t...

• Dec-1971
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Lady Margaret's words echoed in Laura Vernon's mind. Words she wasn't meant to hear. "We don't want her falling in love with you," she'd said to Bren Dewar. But it was too late. Laura was already in love with Lord Br...

• Dec-1971
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In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet... That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they don't really believe it). But now the Carpet's home to many different tribes and peoples, and there's a n...

• Dec-1971
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It was ten years now since Kathryn's brief, youthful marriage to Jon Wright. They had parted in anger and misunderstanding, and she had never seen him again. Since then, the only important thing in Kathryn's life was security. It was for s...

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The improvident Laverhope family were in the worst financial straits that even they had ever been in, and the eldest daughter, Ismay, knew that the only thing that would save them would be her marriage to the richest man in the district, Keith Otterb...

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"I have visited Bohemia and got away unscathed." Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo's bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounte...

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LADY BEWARE! Every Sunday afternoon James Fenton and his wife took their usual walk -- every Sunday afternoon. The pattern never changed. Then Fenton reached his breaking point. The idea of escape had never occurred to him before. But sudden...

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Jim Harrison's first novel -- a walk on the wild side from "a force of nature in American letters" (The Seattle Times).   The New York Times�"bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry -- including Le...

• Dec-1971
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A woman recalls her rural Irish home -- and the reason for her escape -- in this poetic novel by "one of the great writers . . . in the English-speaking world" (The New York Times). In A Pagan Place, Edna O'Brien returns to Ireland,...

• Dec-1971
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A treasury of fiction from one of SF's all-time masters of the humorous or satirical short story (Booklist).   In The Cruel Equations, a planetary explorer finds out how lethal it can be when a robot guard has been designed to do too...

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Lovely Cynthia Marlow stood at the crossroads of her young life. She was about to marry her childhood sweetheart, Jethrow Collins. His family, like hers, had lived at Nantucket for centuries. But Jeff hated the beautiful island as much as Cynthia lov...