Books Published in April 1976

New Books List: 74 titles

  • Armada of Antares

    Alan Burt Akers

    Kregen! That marvelous world circling the double-star Antares in the Constellation Scorpio has been the scene of many an exciting event as its myriad human and non-human races struggle with each other for ascendency. But for Dray Prescot, Earthman an...

  • No Time Like Tomorrow

    Brian W. Aldiss

    Signet, 1959. Mass market paperback. Collection of 12 original science fiction tales by Mr. Aldiss, who was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004....

  • For Good Of Company

    Isadore Barmash

  • Behind the Door

    Giorgio Bassani

    ''It was useless to think I''d ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding ... Not now. Not ever.''

    School is a place of unspoken hierarchies and rivalries for a young teenage boy growing up in the provincial town...

  • Head of Chancery

    Betty Beaty

    Madeleine's job at the British Embassy in a Latin American country was fascinating and challenging -- but marred by the harshly critical attitude of one of the senior officials, James Fitzgerald. Unfortunately, a series of mishaps confirmed his l...

  • The Deep

    Peter Benchley

    A young couple go to Bermuda on their honeymoon. They dive on the reefs offshore, looking for the wreck of a sunken ship. What they find lures them into a strange and increasingly terrifying encounter with past and present, a struggle for salvage ...

  • Clayhanger

    Arnold Bennett

    Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a British writer and journalist.  Bennett is perhaps best known for non-fiction works such as How to Live on 24 Hours a Day and Mental Efficiency.  This edition of Clayhanger includes a table of contents....

  • These Twain

    Arnold Bennett

    Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a prolific British writer and journalist.  Bennett is popular for fiction such as The Old Wives’ Tale and also for non-fiction works such as How to Live on 24 Hours a Day and Mental Efficiency.  This edition...

  • Hilda Lessways

    Arnold Bennett

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Hilda Lessways”.  In the second volume of the trilogy, events in Clayhanger are retold from the perspective of Hilda Lessways, who is embarking upon a relationship with Georg...

  • The Diary of a Country Priest

    Georges Bernanos

    "Follow a young Catholic cleric as his faith is laid bare through his reflections on his parishioners in the ""Best Spiritual Book of the 20th Century"" (USA Today).

    In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life o...

  • Dolphin Bay

    Gloria Bevan

    Sandra was prepared to dislike Rob Farr; but when they finally met, she fell in love with him instead. But as it became clear that he was only interested in the lovely Lisa Maybury, Sandra found herself wishing she could dislike him after all! MIL...

  • Bewildered Haven

    Helen Bianchin

    Jenny Meredith thought Zachary Benedict was the most conceited man she had ever met, and she had no intention of becoming yet another of his long string of conquests. Besides, after Max, she didn't want to get involved with any man again. B...

  • War on Charity Ross

    Jack M. Bickham

  • Secrets

    Nancy Bond

  • The Babysitter

    Robert Boyle

  • In Her Father's Footsteps

    Bianca Bradbury

  • The Shattered Chain

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    The major theme of THE SHATTEREDCHAIN concerns the role of women. While only women can command the power of the matrix and the secret sciences which keep Darkover from Terran hands, in most respects they are still chattel -- indeed in some barbaric p...

  • Girl in Blue

    Katrina Britt

    Felicity knew that the voice on the telephone had been that of Nora Staffordly. Although Felicity had never really doubted her husband's faithfulness, Nora's words filled her with unrest. A brilliant young lawyer, Curt found that his work and his ...

  • Rise of David Levinsky

    Abraham Cahan

    Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) was a Lithuanian-born American communalist newspaper editor, politician, and novelist. His family, who was devoutly religious, moved to Wilna, New York in 1866 where the young Cahan received the usual Jewish preparatory educ...

  • Assault on Kolchak

    Alan Caillou

  • The Silver Crest

    Kornei Chukovskii

  • Patriots in Petticoats

    Patricia Edwards Clyne

  • The Windmill of Kalakos

    Iris Danbury

    When Jacynth first went to Rhodes to work for Mallory Breridon she found him stern and difficult to please. But when they gradually developed a more amicable relationship, Jacynth wished he needed her as a person, not just as an efficient secretar...

  • Nice Guys Finish Last

    Leo Durocher

  • The Magnolias

    Julie Ellis

    THE MAGNOLIA -Where elegant and opulent southern socity tried to forget their sinful pasts by living in brazen decadence... THE MAGNOLIAS -Where the glamorous and carefree world of theater, gambling casinos, drinking and womanizing came i...

  • Moscow Farewell

    George Feifer

    This profoundly erotic, profoundly compelling (The Los Angeles Times) account of an American students adventures in Russia is a classic revelation of her eternal qualities. The unforgettable cast of characters is led by his beautiful, capricious girl...

  • Liberty Tavern

    Thomas Fleming

    Told from the perspective of James, "Jemmy" Kemble, writing for his grandchildren, the opening of the book reads, "Let me caution in strictest terms against publishing what I write. The nation is not ready to face the truth about itself that an hones...

  • High Stakes

    Dick Francis

    FAST-PACED THIEVERY AT THE TRACK ! Steven Scott, a successful, wealthy inventor, has a lucrative hobby--horse-racing. His reputation as an owner is staked on Energize, a beautiful black hurdler. Scott has every-thing going for him, including a gor...

  • Oona O

    Thomas Gallagher

  • The Peacock Spring

    Rumer Godden

    Una and her younger sister Hal have been abruptly summoned to live in New Delhi by their diplomat father Sir Edward Gwithiam. From the first meeting with their new tutor and companion, the beautiful Eurasian Alix Lamont, Una senses a hidden motive to...

  • Paddy Pork's Holiday

    John S. Goodall

  • Selected Stories

    Nadine Gordimer

  • The Feudists

    Ernest Haycox
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    He could not deny it. He could not hide it. He was running from trouble-sheriff trouble. Seeing the hunted look in Jim Reno's eyes, almost smelling the posse dogging his heels, Pete Vilas was certain he'd at last found the man he could send into the ...

  • Saddle and Ride

    Ernest Haycox
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    Cattleman Ben Herendeen and his home-made posse weren't content with just planting a few two-bit rustler s six feet under. Soon every drifter, homesteader and haywire rider who stood in their way would get a taste of the vigilantes' murderous justice...

  • The Golden Stag

    Basil Heatter

  • Making Ends Meet

    Barbara Howar

    Forty-year-old Lilly Shawcross, divorced mother of two, settled in the Nation's Capital from South Carolina via New York, takes stock of her life and loves, of her impulsive past, her irrepressible present, and her unforced future...

  • The Safe Bridge

    Frances Parkinson Keyes

    Elizabeth Burr made a lonely journey from the wind-whipped highlands of Scotland to the rocky hills of a New England settlement to begin building a bridge between two worlds. Elizabeth's dour father could not countenance her clandestine meetings with...

  • The Summer Wife

    Flora Kidd

    Deirdre married Rory Mallon because he had temporarily lost his sight, and only a wife could help him finish the work he was doing. Soon she fell in love with him. But Deirdre was plain, while all the other women in his life had been beautiful. Wh...

  • Dragons in the Waters

    Madeleine L'engle

    A stolen heirloom painting . . . a shipboard murder . . . Can Simon and the O'Keefe clan unravel the mystery? Poly and Charles O'Keefe have no idea when they board the M.S. Orion headed for Venezuela that their journey and their newfound friendship ...

  • The Invincible

    Stanislaw Lem

    A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanis,aw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure pla...

  • Ms. Mysteries

    Arthur liebman

    Female sleuths do dazzling detective work that rivals even that of Sherlock Holmes. Startling turns of plot and unnerving endings make the short, suspenseful Ms. Mysteries a pleasure to read. You'll find this volume impossible to put down! Works by t...

  • Come Monday Mornin'

    Chris Loken

    OURS HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. STICKER DAMAGE ON TOP OF FRONT COVER. SCUFFING AND MINOR EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. INSIDE COVERS AND PAGES HAVE DISCOLORATION AND AGE RELATED TANNING MUSTY ODOR....

  • The Chosen Place, the Timeless People

    Paule Marshall

    The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants -- black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project ...

  • Beware the Beast

    Anne Mather

    Charlotte's heart lurched sickeningly at the thought of going away. She honestly didn't know what Alex meant when he answered his mother's question confidently. "Oh yes," he said. "I will be staying now, won't I, Charlotte...

  • Honolulu

    Arthur Moore

    Sue Oldhorn - Her grandfather's boring stories are her only connection to her Ojibway roots, until a strange young man enters her life and helps her realize who she is.David Garcia - He's left behind his home and family in search of a dream, only to ...

  • Grey Seas Under

    Farley Mowat

  • Child's Play

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    KID STUFF When people associated with the mob decide to testify against their former bosses the government has a policy of providing them with new identities and a new home, safe from discovery by vengeful thugs. But somebody has been systemati...

  • Shadows of Amanda

    Helen Nuelle

    Kate Banion was already considered an old maid at twenty, in the South of 1859. Lovely Kate had plenty of suitors but she was no flirt, as her coquettish sister Amanda had been. But now the beautiful Amanda was dead and Kate's parents had taken a...

  • Zia

    Scott O'Dell

    What happened to Karana of the Island of the Blue Dolphins? When fourteen-year-old Zia and her brother, Mando, find a boat cast up on the beach near the Santa Barbara mission, they are determined to make the voyage out to the far island -- the Is...

  • Wheel of Love

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • Harker File

    Marc Olden

    Chasing a scoop on the CIA, a reporter finds his own name on the hit list.

    In Madison, Wisconsin, a dairy farmer drops dead of a heart attack. A few days later, a small-town citizen in Iowa is killed in a three-car pile-up. Few men know the...

  • The Distant Dream

    Lilian Peake

    A rolling stone, Doranne had called him, a man without a care in the world. "A born nomad," Rhian agreed with a smile, "roaming through jungles and across deserts, leaving behind nothing but my footprints in the sand. And without a wom...

  • Vinegar Puss

    S.J. Perelman

  • California Time

    Frederic Raphael

    Victor England, the great film director, returns to Hollywood to finalise arrangements for his next production. Everything seems propitious: he has a firm contract with a studio that owes him a substantial debt of gratitude and whose top executives a...

  • Toy Book

    Jim Razzi

  • Greek Bridal

    Henrietta Reid

    Stranded in Greece with no money, Christine was grateful for the help of Nicholas Martinos--but it must stop at gratitude, she told herself firmly. It was inevitable that Nick would marry the lovely Greek girl, Mariga, who had known him all his life....

  • Children and Lovers: Fifteen Stories

    Helga Sandburg

  • A Stranger in the Mirror

    Sidney Sheldon

    A STRANGER IN THE MIRROR is the story of Toby Temple, super star and super bastard, adored by his vast TV and movie public yet isolated from real, human contact by his own suspicion and distrust. And the story of Jill Castle, who came to Hollywood t...

  • Alpha 6

    Robert Silverberg

  • Freelon Starbird, Being a Narrative of the Extraordinary Hardships Suffered by an Accidental Soldier in a Beaten Army During the Autumn and Winter of

    Richard F. Snow

    A reluctant young patriot describes his experiences in the Revolutionary Army after waking following a night of drinking to the disturbing recollection of having signed up the night before to fight the British....

  • The Medici Ring

    Nicole St. John

    A brooding Boston town house filled with a fabulous treasure of Italian antiques...a young girl touched by the frosty finger of fear...a beautiful tapestry with its precious threads slashed in anger or despair...a handsome man with eyes as green as ...

  • The Mystery Book Mystery

    Wylly Folk St. John

    When seventeen-year-old Libby Clark signed up for the Piedmont Foothills Writers’ Conference, her idea was to take the Mystery Workshop, conducted by Hamlyn Brent, the expert on mysteries. She never expected to find a ready-made plot: the murde...

  • If You Could See What

    Tom Sullivan

  • Gently by Hand

    Michael trauner

  • Twyla

    Pamela Walker

  • The R Document

    Irving Wallace

    Before the Patriot Act, there was . . . The R Document As crime and violence threaten to engulf America, the President proposes a daring new amendment to the Constitution, allowing the Bill of Rights to be suspended during times of national emerge...

  • Captains Walk

    Elizabeth Wells

  • Nobody Likes Trina

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    "I don't see how we can pretend she's invisible," Debra whispered. " "That's hard to do." "Of course we can!" insisted Melissa. Hanging back unhappily behind the group of girls who are teasing sullen Trin...

  • The Slender Thread

    Yvonne Whittal

    The brilliant surgeon, Paul de Meillon, had saved Catherine from spending her life as a cripple; when he also fell in love with her and married her, she was sure life had nothing more to offer. But Paul would not believe that she felt more than ju...

  • The Traficante Treasure

    Daoma Winston

    She was caught in an emotional storm as violent an the raging hurricane - and as perilous! From the moment Cordelia Taylor impulsively rescued Mike Salem from two attackers, she was swept into a whirlwind of intrigue. For Mike was involved in som...

  • My Name Is Legion

    Roger Zelazny

    HE DID NOT EXIST...OR DID HE? He had destroyed his punch cards and changed his face. There was no credit card, birth record, or passport for him in the International Data Bank. His names were many... any he chose. His occupation was taking mega...

  • The Skin Spinners

    Joan Aiken

  • Interview With the Vampire

    Anne Rice

    THE VAMPIRE SPEAKS... of his first two hundred years...of his dark journey in an undying life...of his unnatural, erotic alliance with the beautiful Claudia, whose passions were locked forever in the body of a child... Divorced from human nature...

  • Marcia

    John Steptoe