Books Published in August 1976

New Books List: 83 titles

  • The Tides of Kregen

    Alan Burt Akers

    Of all the honors that Dray Prescot, Earthman, had won during his fabulous adventures on Kregen, none were valued by him more than his membership in the Order of the Krozairs of Zy.The Krozairs are the highest order of chivalry on that turbulent plan...

  • Tree of Paradise

    Jane Arbor

    Donna went out to a small Caribbean island to check up on her uncle Wilmot's banana plantation, which wasn't doing as well as it should. Her uncle blamed the situation on his enemy and neighbor, Elyot Vance. Vance was certainly a forceful cha...

  • Sanctuary in the Desert

    Elizabeth Ashton

    "I don't regret helping you," Teo said gallantly "You're still like the boy you pretended to be -- and a good companion; I appreciate you." Peta listened to his assessment with mixed feelings. Apparently she possessed so li...

  • The Fall of Midas

    Juliet Astley

    Rich and respected, Edwin Orford lived contentedly in the beautiful country home he had loved from afar when he was a poor grocery clerk. He was too sensible to believe the local folk who said the Flixton Old Manor had a curse on it, just as he wa...

  • The Bottle Factory Outing

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Short-listed for the Booker Prize and named ''one of the greatest novels of all time'' byThe Observer, this riveting novel which was recently adapted on BBC Radio 4 shows Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best.

    Freda and...

  • Villians Galore

    Gerard Bell

  • Star Light, Star Bright

    Alfred Bester

  • Chinese Donavan

    Carter Brown

  • Elusive Harmony

    Mary Burchell

    Lindley Harding was a singer nearing the end of his career; Laurence Morven was a new star -- and rival -- coming up over the horizon. And Lindley's daughter Natalie, who loved them both, found herself torn two ways as the bitterness grew between...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy Stories

    Lin Carter

  • Power Play

    Matt Christopher

    A magic candy bar improves Rabbit's basketball game more than is really desirable....

  • The Broker's Wife

    Max Allan Collins

  • An Offer of Marriage

    Lynna Cooper

    Could Beth be happy married to a man who was handsome, rich -- and a total stranger? A marriage of inconvenience? Lovely young writer Beth Sheldon had only agreed to marry the mysterious Mr. Neal Harper because it was his deathbed wish -- and yes, sh...

  • Cabin in the Sky

    Barbara Corcoran

  • Gypsys Curse

    Harry Crews

    It's not anybody who could write a bawdy, often hilarious, totally unsentimental novel about a legless deaf-mute who earns his keep by doing one-finger stands on arms the size of your average giant's thighs. Marvin Molar lives in a gym with Al -- a f...

  • Night of the Cotillion

    Janet Dailey

    "I forgot, Amanda --" Jarod's dark eyes mocked her as he spoke "-- you're wrapped up in those romantic notions about husbands and wives and the happily-ever-afters." But Amanda kept her secret fear that some day all this ha...

  • Circle of Guilt

    Dorothy Daniels

    When beautiful Eve Bennett married charismatic Barney Anders, dark-haired scion of a wealthy San Francisco family, her devoted younger sister Judith knew that only love could have prompted Eve to sacrifice her promising singing career. But there was ...

  • The Early Del Rey Vol 1

    Lester Del Rey

    LESTER DEL REY The fascinating autobiography of a farm boy from Minnesota who followed his imagination to the typewriter, to the pulps...and eventually to the top ranks of sf greats. Illustrated by 12 superb stories from 1937-1942. On a bet from ...

  • The Early Del Rey Vol 2

    Lester Del Rey

  • Conversations with a Corpse

    Robert C. Dennis

  • The Silver Cage

    Jane Donnelly

    Even after she and Kern McCabe were married Philippa felt she must be dreaming. Why should such an attractive man want to make her his wife? But she might have come to understand his love for her--if the glamorous Lilias Storr hadn't suddenly com...

  • Sherringdon Hall

    Sheila Douglas

    As the only woman doctor in her new job, Kate had to work twice as hard to win the approval of her conservative patients. And she also had to prove herself to her professional colleagues -- especially the stern and skeptical Robert Montgomery! ...

  • I Love the Person You Were Meant to Be

    Martha W. Emmett

  • The Year the Dreams Came Back

    Anita MacRae Feagles

  • Love for a Rogue

    Glenna Finley

    In Search of Love: When beautiful Melanie Adams finally took her well-earned rest from the world of business, she chose the idyllic countryside along Oregon's Rogue River for her vacation spot. But staying at the only real guest camp along the river ...

  • Ashes and Dust

    George G. Gilman

    GRAVE On the northern bank of the Rio Grande, Edge witnesses a funeral ...which soon erupts into a scene of savage brutality. A young woman is beaten and raped before a priest and the coffin of her dead father. The attackers then break open the co...

  • A Whiff of Madness

    Ron Goulart

  • Why a Donkey Was Chosen

    Christopher Gregorowski

  • Broken Lance

    Frank Gruber

    Age yellowing and typical reader wear. Spine has some light creasing and edge wear. Front cover has a large edge crease and a spine edge crease also. Back also has some creasing. Inside front cover page has a name. Small "x" mark on spine. Intac...

  • Mindbridge

    Joe Haldeman

    A remarkable alien technology could have devastating consequences for humanity in this novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War. In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known as the Levant-Meyer Tra...

  • A Happy Ending

    Arlene Hale

    Young Diane DeMarco was going to make her own way in the world. Not all the DeMarco family money could make her sell out her dream of proving her own worth. No fortune-hunting man was going to turn her head from her goal. Diane gave romance a back se...

  • Sister to Meryl

    Nerina Hilliard

    Christine felt very strongly about Julian Galveston, who appeared to have nothing better to do with his time than break up her sister's marriage. So Christine decided to tackle him on the subject--and found herself getting into very deep waters. ...

  • The Ufonauts

    Hans Holzer

  • Profiles Amer West

    Clair Huffaker

  • Aces High

    William Hughes

  • Colossus

    D.F. Jones

    Charles Forbin has dedicated the last 10 years of his life to the construction of his own supercomputer, Colossus, rejecting romantic and social endeavours in order to create the United States' very first Artificially Intelligent defence system.Colos...

  • Blood Red, Sister Rose

    Thomas Keneally

    Jehannette, an illiterate peasant girl of seventeen, hears voices that tell her she must help the Dauphin become king. But this proves hard to accomplish in 15th century France as the British occupy parts of the country, including Rheims where the cr...

  • Nancy, the Daring

    Katheryn Kimbrough

    From a sheltered girlhood as a Southern belle into a dark tunnel of terror and horrifying revelation was the journey that beautiful young Nancy Cox took when she fell in love with handsome, aristocratic Peter Phenwick. Nancy vowed that no barrier ...

  • The Farewell Party

    Milan Kundera

    A famous jazz trumpeter and incurable philanderer returns to the spa where he spent one consequential night with a pretty young nurse and where his strategy of persuading her to abort their child complicates their own lives and the destinies of other...

  • The Rider of Lost Creek

    Louis L'Amour

    A GOOD MAN TO LEAVE ALONE Hoss high, pig tight and bull strong--the barbed wire was biting into the Live Oak country. Mort Davis saw the big spreads fixing to fence out his piece of grass so he called in Kilkenny. Kilkenny was poison in a gun batt...

  • I Aint Well But I Sure Am Better

    Jess Phd Lair

  • Roman Affair

    Rachel Lindsay

    Juliet tried not to think of her last scene with Carlo. Eventually she would be able to laugh at his misjudgment of her--but for the present the hurt was still new and she loved him too much. It was too late now to tell him she was Janice's tw...

  • Nobody Make Me Cry

    Shelley List

  • The Golden Gate

    Alistair MacLean

    A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense.A ROLLING FOR KNOXis how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI b...

  • Flight to Fantasy

    Margaret Malcolm

    Emma's new life at the lovely old country house was very comfortable and she liked working for nice Miss Prescott. She could have done without the disagreeable Adrian Wroughton -- but as Lorraine Heywood was quick to point out, he was her property an...

  • Jigsaw John

    Al Martinez

  • Devil's Mount

    Anne Mather

    Rhys took a step toward her, his eyes searching. "What's the matter, Julie," he demanded. "Have my adventures shaken that romantic imagination of yours? I know you're not indifferent. So what else is there between us?" Juli...

  • Skean

    Robert McKay

  • The Riddle-Master of Hed

    Patricia A. McKillip

    THREE STARS OF DESTINY Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of fled, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life To win a crown fr...

  • Savage Rite

    Eve Merriam

  • Slave

    Eve Merriam

  • The Terminal Connection

    Robin Moore

  • Galveston

    Suzanne Morris

    To Galveston, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, comes Claire Becker, a woman who has married a man she does not love and is living out a lie destined to affect many people on a peaceful, shadowed street named Avenue L. For here, shuttered porches and...

  • Song of the Pearl

    Ruth Nichols

  • Wraiths of Time

    Andre Norton

    HANDMAIDEN OF THE GODS Abducted by powerful spirits released from an ancient ankh, talisman of Egyptian gods, young archaeologist Tallahassee Mitford suddenly found herself hurled back in time to a strange Nubian kingdom called Meroe. There, moved b...

  • Change Lobsters and Dance

    Lilli Palmer

  • The Sapphire Legacy

    Rachel C. Payes

    For a young girl in search of psychic reality dreams of a lost love spiral into a nightmare of madness and murder. The man she loved ... the friend she trusted ... the doctor she relied on ... their conspiracy spelled disillusion and certain disaste...

  • Apple Tree Lean Down

    Mary Emily Pearce

    The first of three books in "The Apple Tree Saga", set in the Worcestershire countryside. In 1886 young Beth, coming to terms with a tragic loss, goes with her mother to keep house for her grandfather and help to run his carpentry business. By the au...

  • The Cats

    Joan Phipson

  • The Last Woman in His Life

    Ellery Queen

    Ellery Queen leaps into action when a jet-setter is murdered in Wrightsville From New Year’s in Málaga to Christmas in Hawaii, John Levering Benedict III -- or Johnny-B, as everyone calls him -- is the crown prince of the jet set. He has 3 ex-wive...

  • Dark Descends

    Diana Ramsay

  • Android Planet

    John Rankine

  • Flight to Canada

    Ishmael Reed

    Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave’s-eye view of the Civil War.Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes Negroes run away) escape from Virginia. Not satisf...

  • Stargate

    Stephen Robinett

  • Smuggler's Bride

    Cynthia Propper Seton

    BRIDE TO ONE MAN - BEWITCHED BY ANOTHER From the moment young Harriette Mead first laid eyes on Benedict Sutcliffe on the streets of Regency London, she felt the spell of this powerfully bult, darkly handsome man. But only many months later - deep...

  • Joy in the Morning

    Betty Smith

    From Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage.In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and ...

  • The Baker's Daughter // Miss Bun, the Baker's Daughter

    D.E. Stevenson

    When John Darnay's wife leaves him, independent and strongwilled young Sue Pringle decides to remain as his housekeeper in spite of what the people of their small Scottish village might say. It never occurs to her that she might fall in love with the...

  • The Road to Gafsa

    Rebecca Stratton

    Jade was determined to remain in Tunisia indefinitely with her boyfriend, Phelan; her guardian was equally determined that she would not--and he arranged for his friend Jean Daker to separate the pair. Jean Daker was a force to be reckoned with. Woul...

  • Where the Money

    Sybil Victoria Sutton-Vane

    The Broadway Books Library of Larceny
    Luc Sante, General Editor

    For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: brea...

  • The Mercenaries

    Giles. Tippette

  • Carradine Affair

    Ursula Torday

    Original title: The Gentle Sex. Beautiful and headstrong Mary Ann had always lived in a sheltered world -- until the day her pretty maid's romantic indiscretion forced Mary Ann to confront the worldly and licentious Edward Carradine. Out of this e...

  • Death Calling Collect

    Don tracy

  • Slapstick or Lonesome No More

    Kurt Vonnegut

    Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as...

  • Red Cliffs of Malpara

    Margaret Way

    For most of her life Sarie had been tormented by Blake Meredith. Now, she discovered with guilty fascination that she had never really seen him as a man. Once he had spelled out authority and restraint; now, incredibly, he was everything she wanted f...

  • The Shadow of Tyburn Tree

    Dennis Wheatley

    Nov 1787 - Apr 1789
    The Shadow of Tyburn Tree tells the story of Roger Brook â€" Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent â€" who, in 1788, is sent on a secret mission to the Russia of that beautiful and licentious woman Catherine...

  • Opal

    Opal Whiteley

    The turn-of-the-century diary of Opal Whiteley, a little orphan girl who lived in an Oregon lumber camp, yearned for her parents, and loved her friends, Shakespeare, Felix Mendelssohn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virgil, and Brave Horatio...

  • The Hunters of Karinhall

    Carl H. Wijkmark

  • The Burning Sands

    Violet Winspear

    "I might have known," Sarah whispered to herself. There was no longer a shadow of doubt in her mind that this man was Zain Hassan bin Hamid, high lord of this place, and he had let her confess to him some of the most indiscreet remarks of her...

  • The Secrets of Cromwell Crossing

    Daoma Winston

    PACT TO DECEIVE Robin Venner knew she was doing wrong when she agreed to a fraudulent "marriage" to Jamie Cromwell. But the temptation of the fortune he would receive combined with his strange influence on her swayed her better judgement - and swept...

  • The Easter Parade

    Richard Yates

    In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable an...

  • The Foxes of Harrow

    Frank Yerby

    Stephen Fox--born out of wedlock, banished from his homeland. In 1825 he came to the New World ragged and starving, with a ten-dollar gold piece and a pearl stick pin and just one real possession, a thing he could not sell--his pride! His body, his m...

  • Hesiod and Theognis

    Hesiod

    Together these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the E...