Books Published in April 1975

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — APRIL 1975

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New Books List: 63 titles

  • Cinnamon Hill

    Jan Andersen

    When the attractive Donald Bryant made it clear only a short time after they had met that he wanted to marry her, Carrie was uncertain. Perhaps a visit to his home in the exotic Seychelles would help her to make up her mind? But there she met Jo...

  • Miss Nobody from Nowhere

    Elizabeth Ashton

    She had no idea who she was or where she came from -- only that she had been in an accident somewhere in the remote northwest of India and that Clive Stratton had rescued her. He found a name for her -- Angela -- and took her under his wing. Back ...

  • Strong Wind

    Miguel Asturias

  • Partners

    Louis Auchincloss

    A New York Timesâ€"bestselling novel of love, money, and ambition among the employees of a white-shoe law firm. From a renowned chronicler of American high society, this is a novel set in the small but distinguished New York law firm of Shepard, Putn...

  • Sneaky People

    Thomas Berger

    The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fiftee...

  • The Boat

    Lothar-Gunther Buchheim

    Follows the patrols, waits, and attacks, through the crucial fall and winter of 1941, of the German U-boat UA VII-C and its crew, as they endure their shadowy, isolated, and claustrophobic inner and outer worlds...

  • The Brave in Heart

    Mary Burchell

    Jessica's plans for the future depended entirely on her unknown but reputedly harsh landlord, and she was understandably nervous about her forthcoming interview with him. So it was a welcome surprise when he turned out to be young, good-lookin...

  • The Luck of Pokey Bloom

    Ellen Conford

  • Westhampton Royal

    Sheila Douglas

    Jean Muir's job as house surgeon in the Trauma Unit at Westhampton Royal was quite gruelling enough, even without the overbearing ways of her difficult new Chief, Alex Mackenzie -- and his disagreeable girl-friend Pauline was just the last stra...

  • Pages from a Cold Island

    Frederick Exley

    The death of Edmund Wilson precipitates an odyssey through the distorted literary landscape of America in search of Wilson's essence as the pre-eminent man of letters and the author's own creative wellsprings...

  • The Assassins

    Lee Falk

    An airplane is skyjacked, a millionairess kidnapped, and an assassination attempt made on a king and princess during a diplomatic visit to the U.S. The PHANTOM rushes to the rescue and in his efforts to solve these crimes comes face to face with an a...

  • To Trust My Love

    Sandra Field

    David Ramsay was cynical and suspicious about women, he had an orphaned nephew who needed a mother. So when he looked her way, even though she loved him, how could Sara Haydon be sure that he was doing it for any but coldly practical reasons? ...

  • Harvest of Years

    Mary Forker Ford

    When lovely nurse April White came to the mansion of aging, ailing millionaire Adam MacPherson, she little guessed what a startling turn her life would take. Raised as an orphan, April was stunned to hear Adam declare that she was his long-vanished g...

  • The Novel

    Richard Freedman

    Period engravings, portraits, and photographs embellish an historical review of major international novelists, their works, and the development of the genre since the publication of Richardson's Pamela in 1740...

  • The Dagger and the Bird

    Margaret Greaves

  • The Ross Forgery

    William H. Hallahan

    “Ingenious” crime fiction with “a twisting shocker of a conclusion . . . You wouldn’t believe so much suspense and tension could be generated” (The Washington Post).   A Texas millionaire has everything under the sun, includi...

  • The Trellised Lane

    Fiona Hill

    Edgely Hall was a lovely estate indeed, but Julia felt like a bird with clipped wings. Life was so full of adventure, she wanted to fly away and see the world for herself! And so she induced her brother Fitz to accompany her on an extended visit to...

  • The Blue Jacaranda

    Elizabeth Hoy

    When Lena received startling news of an opportunity to visit Windara, the farm in Queensland which her great-uncle owned, she did not hesitate to fly out there. But on her arrival she found that the situation at Windara had changed -- and that her...

  • Tide

    Zachary Hughes

    An experiment in radiation treatment of fish produces mutations in the microscopic dino-flagellates the fish feed on. The result in the fish is horrifyingly abnormal aggressiveness - toward other fish and even against man. Science Fiction Thriller....

  • Florence Nightingale

    Elspeth Huxley

    It's been said that the three people who did most to alleviate human suffering in the 19th century were the inventors of antiseptics and chloroform--and Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.

    Nightingale lived to be over 90 yet spent...

  • The Complete Tales of Washington Irving

    Washington Irving

    Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific: His...

  • The Royal Box

    Frances Parkinson Keyes

    Politics, intrigue, and the affairs of high society were all at home in The Royal Box. But on the evening Lady Laura Whitford secured the theater's most prestigious seats for her entourage, murder made its debut. -- Lady Laura's social coup was ups...

  • A Man Ain't Nothin but a Man

    John Oliver Killens

  • Footsteps into the Future

    Rajni Kothari

  • Women in Drama

    Harriet Kriegel

  • Women in Drama: An Anthology

    Harriet Kriegel

  • By Hook or Crook

    Mary J. Latsis

  • The Memoirs of a Survivor

    Doris Lessing

    In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her respon...

  • Guns for General Li

    Jack Lewis

  • A Ghost Around the House

    William MacKellar

  • Odyssey from River Bend

    Tom McGowen

  • Stoneflight

    Georgess McHargue

    Janie uses her power to put life in the stone animals that ornament New York buildings to escape her parents' quarreling, but when the animals start to turn her into stone she learns that having feelings is the price of remaining human....

  • Death Is Not a Passing Grade

    Victor B. Miller

  • Waiting for Mama

    Marietta Moskin

  • A Small Slice of Summer

    Betty Neels

    Letitia Marsden had decided against romance. Men simply were not to be trusted. Then she met Doctor Jason Mourik van Nie - and quickly changed her mind. But when he proposed, she rejected him. He had not mentioned love. "I'm a mouse of ...

  • Ethnic Am Sh Sty

    Katherine D. Newman

  • Sword of Allah

    Marc Olden

    Insane with grief, Sand vows to destroy a terrorist cabal....

    Ever since he took the vows of the samurai, Robert Sand has been ready to die. But now, for the first time in his life, he has a reason to live. Her name is Ann, and he sits besi...

  • Winds from the Sea

    Margaret Pargeter

    When Sara decided to get away from it all and take a job in the Scottish Hebrides, she looked forward to a complete change from the city life to which she was accustomed. Her new employer, the disconcerting Hugh Fraser, was certainly very differen...

  • Crocodile on the Sandbank

    Elizabeth Peters

    In Victorian England, A Woman Wasn't Supposed To Be An Archaeologist Or A Detective. Amelia Peabody Was Both. Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman, Amelia Peabody has inherited her father's strong will as well as his considerable fortune. ...

  • Kill Cure

    Julian Rathbone

  • The Ides of April

    Mary Ray

    Hylas is a young Greek slave in the household of Caius Pomponius, a Roman Senator involved in political schemes. When the senator is found mysteriously murdered, the household slaves (including Hylas and his mother) fall under suspicion. Hylas escape...

  • A Long View from the Left

    Al Richmond

  • Reading Myself and Others

    Philip Roth

    The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work an...

  • Abe Lincoln Grows Up

    Carl Sandburg

    A beautifully told story of young Abraham Lincoln’s coming-of-age

    Drawn from the early chapters of Carl Sandburg’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, this is the story of Abraham Lincoln’s childhood. Gr...

  • Crucial Conversations

    May Sarton

    "May Sarton's provocative novel is about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough. . . . she is altogether believable." ―The Atlantic

    Reed and Poppy Whitelaw's conventional...

  • The Man on the Blue

    Luke Short

  • Shadow of Evil

    Frank G. Slaughter

    Is the story of journalist Richard Jordan's headlining crusade against a town and its secret- a secret that smoldered in nightmare darkness, setting patient against doctor and father against son. Against a background of scorching tension and an unfor...

  • Women and Men, Men and Women

    William Smart

  • No Direction Home

    Norman Spinrad

    A collection of short stories from the acclaimed author of 'Bug Jack Barron'. Includes "No Direction Home" which depicts a drug dystopia, and "Sierra Maestra." A violent rock group with maniacal music boils up a craze for a nuclear blast. A man finds...

  • Firebird

    Rebecca Stratton

    Rona's new job, looking after an enchanting little girl on a glamorous Greek island, sounded fabulous, and she set off in the highest spirits. But until she arrived on the island no one had told her about the legend of the Firebird ... Hero...

  • The Valkyrie Mandate

    Robert Vaughan

    Late Summer, 1963. Saigon. Just behind the barricades that safeguard the Presidential Palace, five Buddhist monks commit suicide by setting fire to themselves. Moments later, an anonymous assassin slips inside the palace walls. That same night, Col...

  • The Front Runner

    Patricia N. Warren

    First published in 1974, The Front Runner raced to international acclaim - the first novel about gay love to become popular with mainstream.

    In 1975, coach Harlan Brown is hiding from his past at an obscure New York college, after he was fired ...

  • The Embedding

    Ian Watson

    Ian Watson's brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British SF in the 1970s. Intellectually bracing and grippingly written, it is the story of three experiments in linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of t...

  • Willow Hill

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    Valerie Coleman--good at sports, bright and a super writer--a cinch to become editor of the school paper. Stephen Reid-- quiet son of famous parents-a "good guy" in his own right. Judy Piper--pert and pretty redhead, throwing herself into things with...

  • East to Barryvale

    Yvonne Whittal

    Jacqueline Thornton was going to have a lot to live up to: first, working at the Bernard Thornton Memorial Hospital at Barryvale and, second, known to everyone as the daughter of her famous father. But the biggest challenge of all was going to be ...

  • Babe

    Marianne Wiggins

  • Winter Wheat

    Jeanne Williams

    Accompanying their Mennonite parents, in 1874, from Czarist Russia to frontier Kansas, sixteen-year-old Cobie Lander and her five sisters discover new loyalities and beliefs in reaction to harsh prairies and derisive neighbors and townspeople...

  • Stranger at the Gate

    Lynn Williams

    Young and lovely Lorie Brown tried to tell herself that she wasn't superstitious. Her job as a fledgling real estate agent was to sell the old Hollingsworth mansion, not to believe rumors about its evil past and the curse that lay upon it. But...

  • The Black Island

    Herge

    The classic graphic novel. Investigating a mysterious plane crash, Tintin discovers he's onto something big! The case leads Tintin to Scotland, where he learns of a monster that stalks a lonely island.

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  • Cigars of the Pharaoh

    Herge

    "This new format, crafted specifically for younger readers, features the original Tintin graphic novel plus brand-new content. Go ""behind the scenes"" with the true story about people, places and antiquities that Herge drew from, filled with fun fac...

  • Flight 714

    Herge

    The classic graphic novel. On their way to Sydney, Tintin and Captain Haddock run into an old friend, a pilot who offers them a ride on a private jet. But when the plane gets hijacked, Tintin and the Captain find themselves prisoners on a deserted vo...

  • Tintin in Tibet

    Herge

    The classic graphic novel. One day Tintin reads about a plane crash in the Himalayas. When he discovers thathis friend, Chang, was on board, Tintin travels to the crash site in hopes of a rescue.

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  • The Quitting Deal

    Tobi Tobias