Books Published in August 1971

New Books List: 31 titles

  • Operation Chaos

    Poul Anderson

    Werewolf Steve Matuchek and witch Ginny Graylock defend America in this fantasy duology from the multiple Hugo and Nebula Awardâ€"winning author.  Operation Chaos: In a world where magic is real, werewolf Steve Matuchek and powerful witch Virgi...

  • The Other Miss Donne

    Jane Arbor

    Rosalie Donne, social hostess at the hotel at Hassi Ai'n, had not behaved very well as far as her boss, Randal Quest, was concerned. She had been very far from up to her work, she had eventually eloped with Randal's brother -- and she had don...

  • Five stories of Ferrara

    Giorgio Bassani

  • The Berenstains' B Book

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • Mystery of the Fat Cat

    Frank Bonham

    Everything in Dogtown, including the Boys Club, was run down and beat up. The Health Department wanted to close the Club because it was full of rats and cockroaches. But that only meant that kids like Buddy Williams, Johnny Pastelito, Rich Smith, and...

  • Murder in Family Way

    Carter Brown

  • One Man's Heart

    Mary Burchell

    They had met by chance in circumstances of danger and embarrassment. Both of them believed that love was well lost for money, although they had no money and fell in love with each other. If they ran true to their beliefs, they would say goodbye a...

  • The Lost Prince

    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    From the author of A Little Princess and The Secret Garden comes a masterful adventure that will capture the imagination: a tale of destiny, revolution, family and friendship
    Twelve-year-old Marco and his father, Stefan, are exiled citizens of t...

  • Freedom for a Cheetah

    Arthur Catherall

  • The Lotus Caves

    John Christopher

    Two boys discover a series of caverns underneath their moon colony home in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series.Marty and Steve may live on the moon, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to get away every once in a while. ...

  • Cages

    Paul Covert

  • Quark 4

    Ed Samuel Delaney

    Bookseller: biblioboy US (US) Bookseller Inventory #: 69269 Title: QUARK / 4 [A QUARTERLY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION] Author: Delany, Samuel R. and Marilyn Hacker (edited by) [Avram Davidson, Michael Moorcock, Philip Jose Farmer, Charles Platt, Helen Ada...

  • Halfway to the Stars

    Jane Donnelly

    Shena thought she had fallen in love with Rob Heward at first sight -- until she met his brother Cal, whose life was spent in "the lonely places and the high hills," and who had a fixation that women were the dimmer sex. She joked, "I sha...

  • Rainy Day Together

    Crescent Dragonwagon

  • Bomb Run

    Spencer Dunmore

  • Taps at Reveille

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taps at Reveille is one of the author's strongest collections of short fiction. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including 'Crazy Sunday', and 'Babylon Revisited', a story consi...

  • The Day of the Jackal

    Frederick Forsyth

    THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FREDERICK FORSYTH

    “The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries.” -- T...

  • Grendel

    John E. Gardner

    This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic."An extraordinary achievement." -- New York TimesThe first and most terrifyi...

  • The Black Legend

    Charles Gibson

  • A Time Remembered

    Lucy Gillen

    It was two years since Jane had broken off her engagement to Gavin Blair -- and high time she started thinking of someone else, Peter Frith kept telling her. In fact, it was to help make up her mind about Peter that Jane had invited him to her bel...

  • Red Feather Love

    Suzanna Lynne

    When Gillian McBride flew to Swaziland to take up her inheritance of her father's farm she had no qualms about the future. She knew she could depend on Graham Barry, the farm manager. Graham did turn out to be a tower of strength and she relie...

  • Ellen Randolph, R.N.

    Adeline McElfresh

    Ellen Randolph was a dedicated young nurse, but a new kind of challenge faced her when a nameless, brutally beaten young man was wheeled into the emergency room of Randolph Memorial Hospital. What was the true identity of this disturbingly attract...

  • The New Novel from Queneau to Pinget

    Vivian Mercier

  • Fire Sermon

    Wright Morris

    "A radiant expression of the art [Wright Morris] has developed through thirty years and fourteen earlier novels. Although it is anything but preachy it will stick in the minds of the congregation for a long time. . . . On the one hand, this is a nove...

  • Tangled Autumn

    Betty Neels

    When her romance with Andrew went wrong, Sappha had jumped at the chance of a job in Scotland to make a complete break. The change of background, not to mention the "Demon King", in the person of the Dutch doctor, Rolf van Duyren, soon beg...

  • The Keys of the Castle

    Barbara Rowan

    When Judith was only partially recovered from a bout of 'flu, her friend Ann took her to convalesce at her godmother's fascinating castle on the Northumbrian coast. But her convalescence was cut short by the chilly welcome of Lady Markham'...

  • The Sea Change of Angela Lewes

    Cynthia Propper Seton

    No woman is an island.

    In its broadest sense, this novel is concerned with the question of equality between men and women. Angela Lewes is the exemplary wife of an academic, a wonderfully accomplished housewife and mother. As she approaches fo...

  • Happy Birthday, Wanda June

    Kurt Vonnegut

    In his first published play, Kurt Vonnegut finds a powerful vehicle for his tragicomical imagination. When the great hunter Harold Ryan--missing and presumed dead--returns from Africa after eight years, his wife is aghast and his son is enchanted. Vo...

  • The Real Majority

    Ben J. Wattenberg

  • The Terrible Year

    Alistair Horne

    Beneath the glittering facade of Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire there were forces of seething social and political unrest. When France succumbed to the Prussian invaders these forces came to the surface and the Commune took over. It ruled for only a ...

  • Along the Ribbonwood Track

    Mary Moore

    You were advised not to come, " Craig had told Joanne when she arrived at the New Zealand Farm she had inherited, to which she replied, " I was never madly good at taking advice. " It was obvious that Craig was lead to do his best to make...