Books Published in August 1973

New Books List: 32 titles

  • Mother Goose

    Aurelius Battaglia

  • The Fatal Flower

    Lynn Benedict

    The Mysterious Captive As the train that was bringing her to a reunion with her famous actress mother pulled into the station, Alice Whelan observed a strange incident from her window. She saw a young girl running across a field, pursued by a unif...

  • The Flying Steamroller

    Jon Chalon

  • Rendezvous with Rama

    Arthur C. Clarke

    THE RAMANS ARE HERE... At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge. It weighs more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space ...

  • Socks

    Beverly Cleary

    Socks is one happy cat. . . He lives with a nice young couple called the Brickers who play with him, pet him, feed him treats, and always have a warm lap for him to sit in. Then a new baby joins the family. Suddenly, the Brickers are sharing thei...

  • Dorrie and the Fortune Teller.

    Patricia Coombs

  • Beauty Contest Nurse

    Diana Douglas

    Behind the scenes of gaiety and glamour, Maria discovered danger--and unexpected love... Would the prize be love? When tawny-eyed Maria MacKenzie sought to escape the routine and regimentation of the Veteran's Hospital, she never expected anyt...

  • Darsham's Tower

    Harriet Esmond

    The ancient tower-home of the aristocratic Darsham family has brought fame to the little English village of Senwich. But there have been many rumors about the strange tower. Kate Quantrill, the beautiful nineteen-year-old daughter of a sea captain...

  • The Mystery of the Sea Horse

    Lee Falk

    A palatial 200 ft. yacht "The Sea Horse"--a luxurious private island guarded by fierce dogs--all the property of the suave and charming Chris Danton. What is the source of his seemingly inexhaustible wealth? What is the grim secret behind the "age...

  • House of Dark Illusions

    Caroline Farr
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    SHE WAS TRAPPED IN A HOUSE POSSESSED BY EVIL Even before lovely young Megan Marshall crossed the threshold of the House of Ferrari, her dead mother's family mansion, she sensed that a chilling menace reaching out to her from the great stone ho...

  • The Romantic Spirit

    Glenna Finley

    Falling in love wasn't part of the plan. But it was springtime, and to lovely Maggie Rome the romantic charm of San Francisco was irresistible. So was John Elliott, the handsome bachelor she met the day she set out to sublet an apartment. ...

  • Busy Day, Busy People

    Tibor Gergely

  • The Stairway to Enchantment

    Lucy Gillen

    Ginny Campbell enjoyed her work as nurse-companion to Mrs. Blakeney: The fact that her patient's son Eric wanted her to marry him was an unnecessary complication. Yet if she were faced with the choice of leaving Castleton or accepting Eric, then G...

  • Bongo Bradley

    Barbara. Glasser

    Bongo Bradley, a kid from Harlem, spends the summer with relatives in North Carolina. He learns a lot about himself, his family, and his heritage as a black person. Bongo also learns that his country cousin; Vernon, knows a few things that life in th...

  • The Silent Language

    Edward T. Hall

    In the everyday, but unspoken give-and-take of human relationships, the "silent language" plays a vitally important role. Here, a leading American anthropologist has analyzed the many qays in which people "talk" to one another without the use of word...

  • Scarlet Plume

    Frederick Manfred

    In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota. Enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and depredations they had been forced to bear. Hundreds o...

  • A Savage Beauty

    Anne Mather

    Emma Seaton was comfortably if unexcitingly engaged to Victor Harrison; he was a wealthy business tycoon, and Emma could look forward to a life of ease and luxury with him -- but was that all she wanted from life? She became even more aware of her...

  • The Runaway Stallion

    Walt Morey

  • Nabokov's Dozen

    Vladimir Nabokov

    A baker's dozen of fiction by a modern master that spans the twentieth century from the last days of the Czars, to the Bolshevik Revolution, Nazi Germany, and contemporary middle-class America. Looking back nostalgically to the past and ahead to a fu...

  • Millie's Boy

    Robert Newton Peck

  • Small Changes

    Marge Piercy

    Two unforgettable women see their lives change in unimaginable ways in this captivating novel spanning the explosion of feminism in the 1960s   Growing up, Beth always dreamed of her wedding day. But a few months into her marriage to Jim, whose ...

  • A Long and Happy Life

    Reynolds Price

    On its initial publication in 1962, Eudora Welty said of A Long and Happy Life, "Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I've come across in a long time. His is a first-rate talent and we are lucky that he has started so young to write so we...

  • A Generous Man

    Reynolds Price

  • Roses Are Red... Are Violets Blue?

    Alice Provensen

  • Gower Street

    Claire Rayner

    The early 1800's. Jesse Constam, a highly respected spice merchant, lives in fashionable Gower Street. Saved from poverty himself, he rescues two children from the gutter. Jesse's intervention changes their lives forever. The fate of Abel Lac...

  • Charioteer

    Mary Renault

    After surviving the Dunkirk retreat, Laurie Odell, a young homosexual, critically examines his unorthodox lifestyle and personal relationships, as he falls in love with a young conscientious objector and becomes involved with a circle of world-weary ...

  • City in the Winter

    Eleanor Schick

  • The Water Horse

    Genevieve Scott

    Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. Laura Redmond read the strange warning in a letter written to her by her father shortly before he died, Mr. Redman had been found shot in the head with his own gun. The official verdict was suicide, but L...

  • Wild Animals from Alligator to Zebra

    Arthur Singer

  • Vengeance of the Cat Goddess

    Jennifer Stephens

    Half woman, half cat. The ancient Egyptians called her Bast. She was a changeable goddess, appearing sometimes in the body of a woman, other times in the form of a cat. Bast also had a dual personality -- one radiating good, the other sheer evil. ...

  • Master of Saramanca

    Mary Wibberley

    Jane traveled to the island of Saramanca to meet the father she had never known. But Gavin Grant suspected her motives for coming and made his disapproval plain.. "He's arrogant and overbearing, and I don't think I've ever dislike...