Books Published in November 1972

New Books List: 44 titles

  • The White Ship

    Chingiz Aitmatov

    This is not a Print-on-Demand or facsimile book. It is a hardcover book published with a dust jacket with a price of $4.95 and copyright of 1972 and published by Crown Publishers, Inc. 419 Park Avenue, New York 10016 in 1976. LOCCN (Library of Congre...

  • The Book of Brian Aldiss

    Brian W. Aldiss

  • The Flower on the Rock

    Jane Arbor

    In any other circumstances Honor would have been thrilled to be going to the lovely Pacific island of Grand'terre. But it was the family home of Piers Sabre, who had just cruelly jilted her and whom she only wanted to forget. How ironic that the fi...

  • The Early Asimov or Eleven Years of Trying

    Isaac Asimov

  • Breaking Free

    Nathaniel Branden

  • Never Was Girl

    Carter Brown

  • The Branding Iron

    Katherine Newlin Burt

    WERE FAME AND FORTUNE WORTH THE TERRIBLE PRICE SHE’D HAD TO PAY? When Joan Carver, a passionate and primitive mountain beauty, marries Pierre Landis, a handsome rancher, she feels happiness for the first time in her life. But her hidden talents ...

  • Under the Green Star

    Lin Carter

    On Earth, life held for him only the fate of a recluse--confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them--until he found the formula that let him cross space to the world of the Green Star. There, app...

  • The Senses of Walden

    Stanley Cavell

    Stanley Cavell, one of America’s most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson....

  • Inspector West Takes Charge

    John Creasey

    Extortion is the name of the game and the method is to murder anyone who might get in the way. ‘The Dreem’ factory and much else is at stake. Inspector West has to unravel it all at gun point, but not without difficulty and surprise . ....

  • The Camerons

    Robert Crichton

    On her 16th birthday, Maggie Drum sets out from the grimy streets of her Scottish coalmining town to find a man of pride, independence and spirit fit enough to be her husband. She finds her man in Gillon Cameron, a tall fisherman from the Highlands,...

  • The Manticore

    Robertson Davies

    The second book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly LinkHailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies’s acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantasti...

  • Rogue Queen

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Rogue Queen is a ground-breaking novel by L. Sprague de Camp that was one of the first science fiction books to deal with sexual themes, paving the way for more daring works by future authors. *** Part of the Viagens Interplanetarias series, the stor...

  • The Slave Market of Mucar

    Lee Falk

    DOES the ancient abomination of slavery still exist in this age of electronics? How are slaves found for this mysterious hidden market and where do they go? What is the true and amazing identity of the sinister slave dealer? The PHANTOM, nemesis o...

  • The Odessa File

    Frederick Forsyth

    The  suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into  revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like  organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the  "Butcher of Riga"..of a young German journa...

  • Painted Wings

    Lucy Gillen

    Llannwellon Cottage, in a peaceful Welsh valley, was just the ideal place for Deryn to get on with her work as an illustrator of bird life. Ideal? Well, it was until an unwanted visitor arrived in the person of Dominic Gregory, and proceeded to turn...

  • Aloha Nurse

    Ethel Hamill

    The lovely blonde nurse is torn between her career at a modern hospital in Hawaii and her assignment to a handsome and talented young doctor dedicated to the pursuit of money… The nurse is a captivating blonde whose profession means everything t...

  • Devil's Gunhand

    Ray Hogan

  • On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

    Leonard Kessler

  • If Love Be Love

    Flora Kidd

    The young Allans, Nancy, Linda and Don were thrilled when they were left a croft on the west coast of Scotland: Nancy in particular, who felt responsible for her younger brother and sister and was used to shouldering their burdens, was sure that it w...

  • Murder Without Icing

    Emma Lathen

    ePub version. Professional Sports, NHL Hockey. Emma Lathen's witty insightful tale about how money underpins professional sports with charming characters such as the TV Symphony announcer who becomes an instant hit as a play by play hockey analyst, t...

  • The Other Side of Time

    Keith Laumer

    Agatha Windham has lost her mind. Surely. Otherwise she wouldn't have nightmares about a small Jewess who is captured during WWII. Nor would she watch a German farmer step into her office out of a stained-glass window and request her help. After all,...

  • A Question of Marriage

    Rachel Lindsay

    Beth was brokenhearted when Danny Harding let her down, and she vowed that it would be a long time before she fell in love again. It seemed particularly unfair then, that when she decided to take a job as far away from the scene of her romance as po...

  • Marriage by Agreement

    Margaret Malcolm

    The thought of marrying Richard Deane had never occurred to Andrea. It was all arranged between Richard and her grandfather before she heard a word about it. But she saw the good sense of the idea, and supposed it would work well enough as a sort of ...

  • Mankoff's Lusty

    Allan H. Mankoff

  • Monster

    Robin Morgan

  • The Ramayana

    R.K. Narayan

    The greatest Indian epic, one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytellingA Penguin Classic A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian....

  • Uncertain Summer

    Betty Neels

    Serena had given up her job and gone to Holland in order -- as she thought -- to marry Laurens van Amstel who had proposed to her after a whirl-wind romance. So it was mortifying, to say the least, that soon after she arrived she began to realize ...

  • No Friend of Mine

    Lilian Peake

    Elise Lennan did not welcome Lester Kings back into her life. He reminded her of all the childhood humiliation that she had endured from him. Since he made it plain that he did not like anything about Elise or her solitary life-style, what chance...

  • San Diego Siege

    Don Pendleton

    WANTED: MACK BOLAN The police in every state are on the lookout for him. The FBI is on his trail. He's on the VIP list at the CIA and Interpol. There's virtually no law enforcement agency that isn't familiar with his name, and his game. But the...

  • Jolie Benoit, R.N.

    Ruth McCarthy Sears

    For three long years lovely Jolie Benoit had been a nurse at bustling Empire General Hospital in New York. Now she was flying home to Kansas in a private plane--at the call of handsome young Senator Brad Benedict, who had deserted Jolie at the altar ...

  • Dying Inside

    Robert Silverberg

    David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to probe the darkest truths hidden in the secret recesses of the soul. With reckless abandon, he used his talent in the pursuit of pleasure. Then, one day, h...

  • Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way

    Donald J. Sobol

    THINK YOU’RE SMARTER THAN ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN? THINK AGAIN! THERE ARE TEN MYSTERIES INSIDE -- CAN YOU SOLVE THEM ALL? • A ripped-off rattlesnake… • A guard dog that has a nervous breakdown… • A Tiger without a head… • A pickpocket wi...

  • Crow Killer

    Raymond W. Thorp

    The true story (on which the film Jeremiah Johnson was partially based) ofJohn Johnson, who in 1847 found his wife and her unborn child had been killed by Crow braves. Out of this tragedy came one of the most gripping feudsone man against a whole tri...

  • The Belly Book

    James Trager

  • All Visitors Must Be Announced

    Helen Van Slyke

  • Thirty Tons a Day

    Bill Veeck

    From dust jacket notes: "'Being of sound mind and in reasonable possession of my faculties, I marshaled my forces, at the tender age of fifty-four, and marched upon the city of Boston, Massachusetts, like a latter-day Ben Franklin, to seek my fame a...

  • Leave Herbert Alone

    Alma Marshak Whitney

  • The Impossible Dream

    Hilary Wilde

    For years Meg had had an impossible dream -- that one day she would live on an island where palm trees were silhouetted against the mountains. And now, in the Seychelles, she had found that island --found, too, the enemies and rivals Craig Lambert...

  • Augustus

    John A. Williams

  • Shadows Over Seascape

    Lynn Williams

    Beautiful young Valerie Howard tried to tell herself she was just taking a vacation when she went to Florida to visit her pretty cousin Cass, and Cass's writer-husband, Reggie. But deep in her heart Valerie knew her real reason was to see handsom...

  • Cosmopolitan Crime

    Hugh Greene

  • Underworld USA

    Colin McArthur

  • The Comics

    Jerry Robinson