Books Published in May 1970

New Books List: 29 titles

  • Circus of Hells

    Poul Anderson

    A interstellar soldier/spy/adventurer at a remote outpost of the Terran (human) empire seeks personal fortune and military advantage over the alien Merseian empire. The main character Dominic Flandry embarks on a excursion to scout out a planet for m...

  • The Feathered Shaft

    Jane Arbor

    For various reasons, Nicola was having to masquerade as the sister of Kurt Thesige. It was a worrying situation, as, quite apart from the ever-present danger that her deception would be discovered, she soon realized that her feelings for him were far...

  • The Benevolent Despot

    Elizabeth Ashton

    When Lina's father died, leaving her destitute, she could have found an easy way out of having to sell up everything, even her beloved horse, by marrying her rather dull suitor, George. She would never admit that a reason for not doing so could b...

  • Parisian Adventure

    Elizabeth Ashton

    Renee was delighted when her resemblance to the famous model, Antoinette, resulted in a move from London to Paris. The couturier, Leon Sebastian, it seemed, needed a replacement for Antoinette. Then Renee heard the rumor that it was not just as a ...

  • Sad-Eyed Seductress

    Carter Brown

  • The Sure Hand of God

    Erskine Caldwell

  • Right On: An Anthology of Black Literature

    Bradford Chambers

  • Feast of the Candles

    Iris Danbury

    Antonia was enjoying every minute of her year in Italy, studying art and working for the archaeologist Talbot Drury in her spare time -- until the glamorous Cleo Norwood came along to spoil everything. ...

  • The House in the Foothills

    Mons Daveson

    When Laurie returned to her home town to teach, the first person she met was Brad Somers, who was introduced to her as 'our school committee's fairy godfather'. It was not long before she knew she would like a much closer relationship wit...

  • Along Came a Spider

    Elizabeth Davis

  • Nurse Sandra's Second Summer

    Louise Ellis

    Sandra tried to rid herself of the past Just when she thought she'd succeeded -- fate proved her wrong. Sandra didn't want to be reminded of the time before the accident. Then, as a budding actress, she'd been popular, beautiful and...

  • The Aristos

    John Fowles

    Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus....

  • If Love Were Wise

    Elizabeth Hoy

    Even before Sylvia had exchanged a word with David Darrant, she knew she disliked him...an arrogant, conceited know-all, who was using his money to take advantage of better farmers than himself. So different form charming, sensitive, elusive Peter......

  • Beloved Ballerina

    Roberta Leigh

    Lucie Marlow was a young, talented, and completely dedicated ballet dancer, well on the way to fame and fulfilment in her chosen world. This might have made things different when she met and married Julian Summerford, who had nothing whatever to d...

  • Elmer Gantry

    Sinclair Lewis

    Possibly the best student of hypocrisy since Voltaire This portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist-who lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and self-indulgence-is also the chronicle of a reign of vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no re...

  • Next Door to Romance

    Margaret Malcolm

    Lisa's life was happy enough, but rather humdrum, and she didn't particularly want a humdrum romance with Tom Farrier into the bargain. So she found herself a more glamorous boy friend -- but was he necessarily the right man for her?...

  • Jennie, Volume I

    Ralph G. Martin

    JENNIE, VOLUME I: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill The Romantic Years 1854-1895 If she had been simply the mother of Winston Churchill, her place in history would have been assured. But Jennie was the most fascinating and desirable woman of ...

  • To My Dear Niece

    Hilda Nickson

    Great-Aunt Maud had generously left Vanessa her big country house, Puck's Hill -- but it looked like being nothing but a white elephant to Vanessa if it prevented her finding happiness with the man she loved....

  • Change of Duty

    Marjorie Norrell

    Staff nurse Hilary Bell was rather disappointed when, after a bout of illness, she had to give up nursing for a year and take a "light duty" job as first aid nurse in a big department store. But Hilary was the kind of girl who always did h...

  • The Dead Sea Cipher

    Elizabeth Peters

    ODYSSEY OF TERROR Beirut . . Sidon . . . Tyre ... Damascus .. . These fabled cities became places of sinister mischief and sudden violence as lovely young Dinah searched for the secret that would explain the strange markings on a torn piece of pap...

  • Golden Exile

    Lawrence Schoonover

  • The Blacker the Berry...

    Wallace Thurman

    A source of  controversy upon its 1929 publication, this novel was the first to openly address color prejudice among black Americans. The author, an active member of  the Harlem Renaissance, offers insightful reflections of the era's mood and spiri...

  • Bech: a Book

    John Updike

    The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech -- procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline -- made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike’s “The Bulgarian Poetess.” That story won the O. Henr...

  • Human Beginnings

    Olivia Vlahos

  • The Hot Rock

    Donald E. Westlake

    In the novel that spawned the most hilarious criminal caper series ever conceived, John Dortmunder proves he has what it takes to be an habitual offender. Dortmunder steals the same jewel not just once--not just twice--but again--and again--and again...

  • This Too I'll Remember

    Mons Daveson

    All the girls in the Limberg district had a crush on Blair Cameron, and when Deirdre Sheldon went to work there she was quick to join their number. But what read had Deirdre to suppose that Blair would see her as anything but just another adoring fem...

  • Agotime

    Judith Illsley Gleason

  • Seven of Magpies

    Doris E. Smith

    After Myles O'Malley's death Johanna wasn't sure why she had come to Ireland to seek out his family, when they didn't even know she had known him, let alone that she had planned to marry him. And when she had met Shay and Douglas O'Malley, Johanna wa...