Books Published in December 1996

• Dec-1996
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Dreaming of a white Christmas After traveling the world with her parents, Lisa yearned for stability, roots and tradition. Marriage to solid, dependable Henry would help her achieve this ambition, but first she had to meet his parents! Christm...

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Temptress -- or tormentor? Was Isobel Herriot a marriage breaker? Patrick Shannon's sister certainly believed her husband was having a torrid affair with Isobel. But when Patrick paid a visit to Isobel's Cotswold craft shop he couldn'...

• Dec-1996
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Holiday Heartbreaker Holly Garrett was in trouble. The handsome stranger who's saved her from a storm ws now asking her for help. And he was inviting her to live with him. Sure, she could prepare evening meals and give him sponge baths, but nothing ...

• Dec-1996
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Carly Linton is hell-bent on starting over. After a bruising divorce, she moves back to her tiny hometown of Benton, Georgia, to start up a bed-and-breakfast in the old house she inherited from her grandmother. The whole town remembers her as the pro...

• Dec-1996
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OLD ATHLETES NEVER DIE. THEY JUST FADE AWAY. Once Myron Bolitar was the best. Then an injury sent him to law school amid on to a second career as a big-time sports agent--a career fueled by savvy, Yoo-Hoo, and an athlete's broken heart. Now Myron'...

• Dec-1996
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Has Reva been a good girl this year? Rich, snobby Reva Dalby wants a little fame for Christmas. And since her daddy owns Dalby's Department Store, she can have whatever she wants. Someone else will always pay. Except this year Reva goes too far...

• Dec-1996
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Fieran was a young warrior driven by revenge. He created the Fear amulet -- and cursed the Fear family for all eternity.Christina is a young servant girl struggling for survival, who finds the Fear amulet centuries later. Now, she may be destroyed by...

• Dec-1996
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IT’S REALLY A JUNGLE OUT THERE!! You're headed to a South American jungle with your nature-study class. Everything seems pretty cool at first, but then you start to get bored. Where's the beach? Where's the excitement? So you and your friend de...

• Dec-1996
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TOO HOT TO HANDLE!! Your teacher thinks it'll be good for your class to hang out at the new wax museum in town. Yeah, right! Once you get there, your teacher starts blah-blahing about something or other and that's when you and your friend see the re...

• Dec-1996
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Home for the holidays, indeed! Somehow, Toni had to pretend she and Derek were happily married. How could she tell sweet old Nonna they had really split up two months ago? And the bigger question: How could she tell Derek she was pregnant? So her...

• Dec-1996
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She wanted a baby--but not a man! After Miles met Maddie, she stayed on his mind. In the end he returned to Australia to get Maddie out of his system by bedding her for 6 months or so-marriage would never be part of his agenda. Which suited Mad...

• Dec-1996
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He knew just the right moves to melt her resistance.... Allowing Simon Hunt to play her partner on her latest assignment probably wasn't Frankie Paresky's best idea ever, but the P.I. found it just as hard as most women did to tell him no! When a...

• Dec-1996
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At close quarters. When Alexander Mackenzie III arrived to decide the fate of the manor house where Sarah was housekeeper, she prepared herself for the worst. However, Alex was instantly enchanted by the property -- and, it seemed, by Sarah -- and qu...

• Dec-1996
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Inspired by a classic fairy tale, Firebird is a marvelous coming-of-age fantasy novel with a most unusual setting: medieval Russia before the Tsars. Ilya is the son of a boyar, a Russian prince. The boyar's majestic cherry orchard is visited at mi...

• Dec-1996
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When Sauk warriors pitched wigwams at Timberlake Lodge and started reenacting the wars of 1832, manager Sheila Lawson didn't blink an eye, until she caught sight of their magnificent leader. She got to play his tent mate and wanted to make it auth...

• Dec-1996
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LOVE AND JOY by Virginia Henley whisks us back to the reign of King Charles II, as a beautiful governess discovers unexpected passion and learns a lesson in love....

• Dec-1996
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MEN OF WHISKEY RIVER Clint Garvey: The sexy rancher has had enough of heartbreak. His solution: no involvement. Sunny: The beautiful, blond and green-eyed housekeeper had a completely different plan. She was determined to fix Clint's life, to ...

• Dec-1996
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Was he a shy guy...or playboy? They met at the airport. He wore a suit and carried a briefcase. He seemed quiet, a little shy. Definitely not the type to flirt with a fellow passenger-even if she was famous actress Rosalind Marlow! His name, Ro...

• Jan-1997
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It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past -- or to the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie F...

• Dec-1996
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Spring of 1884 in Dakota Territory brings the promise of ... A New Day RisingThe dream of a farmstead and a good life in America had led Roald and Inegborg Bjorklund to cross the Atlantic and pioneer the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. But Roald'...

• Dec-1996
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Nikki Ashton was invited to a wedding--her own! The inspiration behind the Cinderella Ball was simple--come single, leave wed. By midnight perfect strangers could find themselves married...as if by magic! To keep her love-struck boss, Eric, at...

• Dec-1996
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"Will you take the job, Celena?" That was how it all started -- When Luciano Segurini persuaded Celena to work for him for triple her current salary. But before she knew it he had persuaded her to pose as his fiancee -- and eventually to ...

• Dec-1996
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Jordan Quinn was back in the Florida Everglades, where her teenage elopement with the fiercely proud Seminole Seth Cypress had ended. Now she was following her husband, brilliant scientist Lawrence Quinn, who was pursuing the cure for a disease shado...

• Dec-1996
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Serena Blythe's plan to escape a life of servitude had gone terribly awry. So she took the only course left to her. She sneaked aboard a sleek yacht about to set sail -- and found herself face-to-face with a dangerous, sensual stranger. Beau St. ...

• Dec-1996
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All she wants under her Christmas tree is this man! Joe Hughes. He's gorgeous, strong, passionate...with the kind of intensely private quality that's a challenger to any self-respecting woman. Not that Teresa really needs another chal...

• Dec-1996
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THE SHERIFF TAKES A WIFE? Never had Meg Dawson dreamed her trip home would lead to a whirlwind romance with the town's charismatic sheriff. But Logan MacDonald's past was still on his mind, so Meg knew that their relationship couldn't lead to anyt...

• Dec-1996
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A worldly Frenchwoman with looks to kill...and a knack for disappearing...an English rose with less-than-innocent ways of escaping unwanted attention... Noah Colter had encountered both women...yet saw through the skillful deception to the one wo...

• Dec-1996
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It wasn't exactly what Maddy had had in mind. Hugo Griffin -- Griff -- had agreed to fly Maddy to her holiday destination, but halfway over Paradise Island they had been forced to crash-land! Maddy had wanted peace and quiet but she couldn't ...

• Dec-1996
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SIEGE THE MOMENT George was a shoemaker--but not just a simple artisan. He thought a lot, worried too much, and questioned everything. But he knew when to keep his mouth shut, and he knew his duty. Life in the Roman Empire was hard these days, and...

• Dec-1996
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THE FATAL DEADLINE ARRIVES. THE SMASHING FINALE UNFOLDS. THE LAST-DITCH EFFORT TO AVERT ATOMIC OBLIVION. At the height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against a seem...

• Dec-1996
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Hit the altar trail with WESTERN WEDDINGS! Jake Morgan is back in town! Two years ago Angelica Carstairs had loved Jake, and she'd even started to believe he cared for her. But then without so much as a word he'd dumped her. She'd had ...

• Dec-1996
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BETRAYED BY LOVE Captain Judah Gallant always did his country's bidding, no matter what it was. When President Jefferson required Gallant's services to harass Napoleon's ships in the Caribbean under the guise of a privateer, the bitter war hero agre...

• Dec-1996
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Scotland, 1311. James MacLeod was the most respected -- and feared -- laird in all of Scotland. He loved his men like brothers and his land with a passion. And he allowed no women to cross the threshold of his keep... New York City, 1996. With an...

• Dec-1996
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Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE SECRET Every time Adam Fortune gazed at his children, he knew they desperately needed motherly love. So he hired pretty...

• Dec-1996
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A Most Unsuitable Lord! Clara Wells's eccentric family drew enough sidelong glances her way that she could do without the attentions of London's most notorious rake. But the sinfully charming Lord Mulholland was renowned for getting whatever, or ...

• Dec-1996
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A HUSBAND BY ANY OTHER NAME... On the morning of his fourteenth wedding anniversary, Dan Beckett's greatest fear came true. His long-lost brother was coming home--home to claim his rightful place as first-born son, eldest twin ...and as Lorrie...

• Dec-1996
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UNLUCKY AT CARDS . . . Cool-headed and ravishingly beautiful, Brandy O'Neill knew how to hold her own with the riverboat gamblers on The Pride of New Orleans. But she met her match in Rafe Morgan when she bet everything she had on three queens and d...

• Dec-1996
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AMERICAN NIGHTMARE In covert circles, they're known as backpack nukes--lethal and portable--and now they are in the hands of the world's most wanted terrorist. New York City and Washington, D.C., are targeted for annihilation. An unprecedented dis...

• Dec-1996
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All she wanted for Christmas....was the truth. Natalie Silver couldn't understand why FBI agent Spencer Bishop was helping her out. But when her ex-husband - Spencer's brother - was found dead in Natalie's Christmas shop, she found herself needin...

• Dec-1996
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A windswept stretch of beach along the north shore of San Francisco...two neighbors cut off from the world by jagged cliffs and crashing waves--a rugged ex-football star and a beautiful enigmatic woman. But Lauren McKenna coolly told Adam Raffert...

• Dec-1996
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BLOOD TIE IN A BLOODY LAND Nathan Stone was a living legend in the West as a lawman, as an outlaw, as a gambler, as a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, h...

• Dec-1996
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When young Ever Winton loses the two most important things in his life, his Uncle Clay and Red Pacer--the wildest, most untamable horse in the West--he must ride with the notorious Timberline outside the law, doing whatever it takes to get his horse ...

• Dec-1996
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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST In the great game of power, fame, and the media, it's every man �" and woman �" for themselves. There's no place on the agenda for scandal...and absolutely no room for love. Or so some people think... Smart, poised and b...

• Dec-1996
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Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair dis...

• Dec-1996
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BABY?! When wealthy confirmed bachelor Gabriel Cayne asked Kassandra O'Hara to be his "fiancee" for a family celebration, he didn't know she was a single mother! Now his folks thought he was the father-- and were pushing him to marry the "poor dea...

• Dec-1996
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GENE WOLFE â�,�¢ PETER BEAGLE â�,�¢ ANNE McCAFFREY â�,�¢ ALAN DEAN FOSTER â�,�¢ MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY â�,�¢ ELIZABETH ANN SCARBOROUGH â�,�¢ CHARLES DE LINT Welcome to an interstellar concert beyond your wildest imagining, as you rocket t...

• Dec-1996
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In the dark days and biting windstorms of an Edinburgh winter, two drop-out kids dive off the towering Forth Road Bridge. A civic office is spattered by a grisly gun-blast. Two suicides and a murder that just don't add up, unless John Rebus can crunc...

• Dec-1996
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The superhuman, time-traveling Orion leads interstellar warriors in a galactic war among the gods themselves.Praise for the Orion Saga"Nonstop action and mind-bending concepts combine to make Orion absolutely unforgettable. . . . Bova brings it to li...

• Dec-1996
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"[An] epic novel of lunar conquest" from the New York Times�"bestselling and six-time Hugo Award�"winning author of Mars (Orlando Sentinel).   In the twenty-first century, the world is on the brink of a scientific renaissance, abo...

• Dec-1996
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In 1813, a magnificent Shawnee warrior called Silver Thorn buries an amulet imbued with unusual powers. In 1996, Ohio history teacher Nikki Swan retrieves the amulet...and her world spins. Awakening to the sight of a gorgeous, half-naked man who clai...