Books Published in August 1977

New Books List: 97 titles

  • Island of Deceit

    Alix Andre

    "If you value your life ... don't come!" But Rosalie had to go. She had to follow the path her sister had taken. How else could she find out what had happened to Paula on that exotic but fatal Caribbean island? Lured by the beauty a...

  • The Portable Greek Reader

    W.H. Auden

    It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy....

  • Grand Wheel

    Barrington J. Bayley

    When empires hung on the turn of a card...Cheyne Scarne was a gambler - a lucky one. What he didn't know about randomatics wasn't worth knowing. He had brains to get right to the heart of the Grand Wheel - the syndicate that controlled all illegal ac...

  • Madeline and the Bad Hat

    Ludwig Bemelmans

    “In an old house in Paris
    that was covered with vines
    lived twelve little girls
    in two straight lines
    the smallest one was Madeline.”
     
     
    Nothing frightens Madeline—not tigers, not even mice. W...

  • So Wild a Love

    Barbara Bennett

  • The Star Trek Reader III

    James Blish

  • The Bells of San Filipo

    Max Brand

    Dreaming of making a big strike, miner Jim Gore is amazed when an earthquake reveals a huge treasure in silver and is forced to protect his claim and his hide when an onslaught of fortune seekers quickly swarms in. Reprint....

  • Collected Plays

    Bertolt Brecht

  • Mash Goes to Moscow

    William E. Butterworth

  • I, Judas

    Taylor Caldwell

    Judas, the myth, history's arch betrayer who sold his Lord for thirty pieces of silver and stands for all time as a figure to be rejected and reviled; Judas, the man, son of wealth and power, a young rebel, a disciple who fought to suppress the lusts...

  • Ramona and Her Father

    Beverly Cleary

    Ramona just wants everyone to be happy. If only her father would smile and joke again, her mother would look less worried, her sister would be cheerful, and Picky-picky would eat his cat food. But Ramona's father has lost his job, and nobody in the Q...

  • Temple of the Moon

    Sara Craven

    No matter what she might feel, Gabrielle knew there was no future for her in any relationship with Shaun Lennox--just the basic fulfillment of a mutual need. And for her, that was not enough. "Shaun, listen," she said hesitantly. "You ...

  • The Power and the Prize

    Chet Cunningham

    After discovering that she is illegitimate, Martha Pemberton goes down to Mexico to find her real mother. There her hot-headed brother, Randy, kills a man and is thrown in jail. Martha is captured by the bandit El Jefe, and then rescued by a lieutena...

  • So Dies the Dreamer

    Ursula Curtiss

    A sane, happily married man does not throw himself out of a twelfth-story window. Nor could Sarah Trafton accept the psychiatrist's monstrous theory that her husband Charles had been driven to kill himself before she could kill him. That his dreadful...

  • Big Sky Country

    Janet Dailey

    "It doesn't matter what else you do," Riordan's mouth twisted into a cold smile, "but don't be a fool and marry her!" Riordan had made his disapproval of Kerry, his brother's fiancee, quite obvious. Yet Jill. Kerry&...

  • Cressida

    Clare Darcy

    HEARTLESS FLIRT? Cressida Calverton was gay, lively and attractive in an unconventional way. But though in her late twenties she was still unmarried. Ji;ted by Captain Deverell she had never since been able to face the prospect of giving her hand...

  • The City of a Thousand Suns

    Samuel R. Delany

  • The Devil Finds Work

    Michael Delving

    Vintage paperback in good condition. Showing some wear and creases on edges and corners. Nice tight copy, Loss of color and mark on front cover. We have been selling on the Internet for over 15 years and ship quickly"...

  • A Love So Proud

    Rochel DeNore

  • An Innocent Heart

    Rochel DeNore

  • Remember September

    Joyce Dingwell

    Nothing was the same, not even the man! And Paddy, remembering the happy, friendly time she'd had with him last year, grieved over Jerry's death. Now there was just Magnus --Jerry's hard and unfeeling older brother who refused to be...

  • The Rescuers

    Walt Disney

  • Warlord of Giandor

    Del Dowdell

    The fighting men of Ireland were gathering to repel Cromwell's invasion - and with them marched the Dowdalls under their brave chief Robert. The master swordsman of Europe, he returned to lead his kinsmen's steel against the invaders. Then, to the co...

  • The Wolfman

    Carl Dreadstone

  • Salammbo

    Gustave Flaubert

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Jim Mundy

    Robert H. Fowler

    The life, loves and coming of age of a young hero. From bloody battlefields, to courtly plantations, to high seas and Bermuda, Jim Mundy brings dynamic storytelling and an unforgettable new character to modern fiction. This is as truly sounded a Civi...

  • The Amorous Rogue

    Raymond Foxall

  • Werewolves

    Nancy Garden

  • The Fortune Seeker

    Denice Greenlea

    Alfreda almost laughed at herself for all the silly young Frenchmen she might have married, had she been allowed. How boring it would have been for her, she now realized She never would have been able to live a life of deceit, which was much more exc...

  • Planet of Judgement

    Joe Haldeman

    NEVER BEFORE... Had the Enterprise been betrayed by its own technology. Never before had their systems, instruments and weapons failed to respond. And never before had Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew faced a total breakdown of science ...

  • When Dreams Come True

    Arlene Hale

    It seemed a dream come true when young Rochelle Rogers took a post as private nurse to an ailing millionaire on his fabulous estate. Raised in a background of poverty, Rochelle had longed for an atmosphere of wealth and comfort. But in the luxurious ...

  • Siege of Silent Henry

    Lynn Hall

    After he befriends an old man for the ulterior motive of sharing in the latter's profitable business, a teenager discovers the friendship that develops proves a stronger bond than he imagined. ...

  • Fly Beyond the Sunset

    Anne Hampson

    "I'd not risk my life with a woman pilot!" Faun Sheridan, a qualified, competent, airline pilot, knew she got her job at the prestigious Tarrant Line under slightly false pretences. She was determined to stay. In spite of her qualif...

  • Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Energy But Were Too Weak to Ask

    Naura hayden

    The simple secrets of body, mind, sex, and diet that power today's superstars! Naura Hayden, the ultimate optimist, a dynamo of new-found energy, shows how you too can be the supercharged, happy, effective person you've always wanted to be - with ene...

  • Refiner's Fire

    Mark Helprin

    An Israeli soldier’s life flashes before his eyes in this epic tale: “As if The Odyssey had been updated and rewritten by Dylan Thomas” (The Listener, UK).In 1947, Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth aboard an immigrant ship off the coast of Pa...

  • This Is the House

    Deborah Hill

    LOVE'S WILD FIRES Very carefully, beautiful Molly Deems leaned all the ways in which her irresistible charms could use a man's aroused appetite to feed her hunger for wealth and position. When Elijah Merrick offered Molly his name and his ...

  • The Devil on Horseback

    Victoria Holt

    From the moment that beautiful eighteen-year-old Minella Maddox saw Charles-Augueste, the haughty, arrogant Comte Fontaine Delibes, his satanic looks thrilled her with a sense of danger and excitement. A French aristocrat of wealth and power, the Co...

  • Night Wind at Northriding

    Florence Hurd

    HOUSE OF DARK SECRETS It was her cousin Lisbeth's plea for help that brought Victoria Burnly to Northriding. But she arrived too late, for Lisbeth was already dead. Yet Lisbeth had left behind a son, and he too begged Victoria for help. And so ...

  • Strange Companion

    Dayton O. Hyde

  • Brak vs. Mark Demon

    John Jakes

  • The Princess Casamassima

    Henry James

    Henry James was an American born writer who spent most of his life in Britain.  Because of that James often wrote novels about Americans traveling to Europe and their encounters with Europeans.  This edition of The Princess Casamassima incl...

  • Survivor

    Laurence M. Janifer

    Cub IV was a beautiful planet -- it had a reputation as being one of the most peaceful and favorable planets for human colonization -- hut it wasn't. There was an alien intelligence on Cub IV, a malicious intelligence that would not rest until eve...

  • The Corporate Caper

    Stuart Jason

  • Proper Age for Love

    Claudette Jauniere

    "My darling, I know you'll understand..." But Anne didn't understand when her fiance suggested that she become his mistress, not his wife. Stunned, she left him and steeled her heart against love's pain forever. But her care...

  • The Enchanted Harp

    Beryl M. Jones

  • Court Martial of General George Armstrong Custer

    Lawrence A. Jones

    George Armstrong Custer, the golden-boy of the 7th Cavalry, is miraculously found alive among the hundreds of dead soldiers. Then, as a stunned nation looks on, he is put on trial for disobeying orders. While the prosecutor shows Custer as a murderou...

  • The Chaos Weapon

    Colin Kapp

    PROBABILITY ZERO--OR LESS A man--or a civilization--can live with good luck and bad...it somehow evens out in the long run. But when the laws of chance are suspended and the breaks are all bad, that's the time to find out what's going on--and to s...

  • The Psychic Mafia

    M.Lamar Keene

  • Too young to Die

    Francine klagsbrun

    Drawing on research, clinical tapes, case histories, and conversations with suicidal young people and their friends, the author explores the motives underlying suicide among youths and the recognition of symptoms of depression...

  • Members of the Tribe

    Richard Kluger

    Seth Adler, setting out alone from New York in the latter part of the nineteenth century as a young Jew in quest of a freer, open life in the South land, was sure all adversity could be overcome by courage and perseverance. In his struggle to build a...

  • Trail of Vengeance

    Louis Kretschman

  • Kingfisher Morning

    Charlotte Lamb

    "Why do I fall in love with the wrong men?" Emma couldn't bear to sit idly by while her boyfriend and her best friend fell helplessly in love with each other. So she headed for Dorset, only to get in an accident and find herself hav...

  • Snowbird

    Larry Lebine

  • Appointment at the Yellowstone

    Bliss Lomax

  • Sea Witch

    Alistair MacLean

  • Vanishing Bride

    Magali

    They thought she had died in the crash "Your husband will never find you..." In the desolate mountain fortress, Marion Maresco tried to piece together the shattered remnants of her life. But her precious calm was soon swallowed up in a maelstr...

  • Best Sports Stories, 1977: A Panorama of the 1976 Sports Year with the Year's Top Photographs

    Irving T. Marsh

  • A Trial Marriage

    Anne Mather

    "I tried to tell you how it would be," Jake said slowly. "You knew our marriage wasn't going to be easy, but believe me, it's the only way." Rachel felt as if she were confronted by some enormously complicated puzzle. And ...

  • Enchanted Journey

    Kristin Michaels

    Tory owes much to her bird-loving aunt, so when she comes into a legacy, she takes Aunt Elspeth on the trip of her dreams to see the Mayan ruins and exotic birds of Yucatan. Tory’s fiance comes on the trip but has mysterious business of his own. Ca...

  • Portrait of a Romantic

    Steven Millhauser

  • A Namesake for Nathan

    F.N. Monjo

  • The Bane of the Black Sword

    Michael Moorcock

    After much wandering and seeking Elric finally discovers the location of the sorcerer who had earlier inconvenienced him. A meeting of old friends and scattered brothers evolves into a union of vengeance. A demon sent hoping to devour an albino is th...

  • Song of Solomon

    Toni Morrison

     

    In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morriso...

  • The Ring of Fire

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    In most regions of  Ere to be a Seer, gifted with telepathic and visionary powers, means death--or does it?  For some it may mean an even worse fate: destruction of their minds and enslavement by the dark powers dete...

  • Grasp a Nettle

    Betty Neels

    Love and then hate. It was a seesaw Jenny Wren sighed. If only Toby hadn't been so complacent, believing that marrying him was the best thing that could happen to any girl. He was a nice enough man, but dull. When she'd argued with him...

  • Pineapple Girl

    Betty Neels

    "He's something of a catch, you know" Eloise was told about the handsome Dr. Timon van Zeilst. ''But no one's caught him yet." Eloise felt quite sure that it wouldn't be her. Why should he look twice at a plain E...

  • Faith & History

    Reinhold Niebuhr

  • House of Secrets

    Denise Noel

    "You...you murdered her!" Pascale remained silent as the prosecutor repeated he accusation. To defend herself demanded revealing a family secret -- a pact of silence that had been kept for eight long years. She couldn't do it ... she couldn't betray ...

  • O'Brien, Stories and Plays

    Flann O'Brien

  • Flamingo Moon

    Margaret Pargeter

    "Have you any proof of your identity?" The question astounded Eve Reston. She hadn't wanted to come to the Camargue in the first place. Now Raoul DuBare's hostile reception was the last straw. Eve was determined to see her late...

  • Across a Crowded Room

    Lilian Peake

    Mixing business and pleasure was unwise Lisette had inherited the family business after her father's death, and it had been a real struggle to keep Baird Shoes afloat. But the company was still sinking fast. There was only one man she could...

  • Last Sunday

    Robert Newton Peck

  • It's Halloween

    Jack Prelutsky

    Come march with the Skeleton Parade, visit a haunted house, or just bob for apples with 13 delightfully spooky poems celebrating the tricks and treats of Halloween. Makes a lively warm-up for the big night.--Kirkus Reviews. Three-color....

  • Space Visitor

    Mack Reynolds

    It is sometime in the near future.... The nations of Earth have drawn closer together -- there is even hope that a new era of co-operation and progress will soon begin. These dreams of lasting peace are shattered by one momentous discovery. One of...

  • The Lucifer Mask

    Kathleen Rich

    CRY, MY BELOVED LADY Juliette Knight, heiress to a fashion fortune and trained as a nurse, traveled to Lisbon, Portugal, to relax and forget after her father’s death. But rest was not hers…someone close to her wanted her dead. Juliette had to ...

  • 3 Kingdoms

    Moss Roberts

  • Cardinal

    Henry morton robinson

    An “absorbing . . . magnificent” novel about an ordinary Irish Catholic man who ascends the church hierarchy to become Cardinal in the early twentieth century. (Boston Herald)   A selection of the Literary Guild, The Cardinal ...

  • Coming Out Rubin

    Theodore I. Rubin

  • Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach

    Peter Schickele

    What little-known son of a famous genius has been called:"A musical blight""A one-man plague""History's most justifiably neglected composer""The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music"In this long-awaited hoax, possi...

  • Gods and Heroes

    Gustav Schwab

  • Witcracks

    Alvin Schwartz

  • Sesame Street Mix or Match Storybook

    Sesame Street

  • Sesame Street Pop-Up Riddle Book

    Sesame Street

  • This Loving Torment

    Valerie Sherwood

    Perhaps She Was Too Beautiful Perhaps the brawling colonies would have been safer for a plainer girl, one more demure and less accomplished in language and manner. But Charity Woodstock was gloriously beautiful with pale gold hair and topaz eyes -...

  • Swap

    Roy Sparkie

  • Thread that Runs So True

    Jesse Stuart

  • The Ghost Flowers

    Margaret Summerton

    "I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO HATE ME AS HARD AS YOU LIKE... JUST DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH ME..." Maria Caron did not heed her employer's warning, and the famous journalist, Matthew Grant, began to torment her every thought. She thought a respite was...

  • Firefox

    Craig Thomas

    The New York Times"bestselling Cold War thriller: It’s the most advanced stealth fighter ever developed, and his job is to steal it from the Soviets . . .   The Soviets have created a new plane equipped with a weapons system t...

  • Obadiah the Bold

    Brinton Turkle

  • The Japanese Corpse

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    When the beautiful Japanese woman appeared in the grubby offices of Amsterdam's Murder Brigade, Grijpstra and de Gier were stunned to hear her story: she and the boyfriend she reported missing were part of the notorious Japanese crime syndicate, the ...

  • Always Is Not Forever

    Helen Van Slyke

  • Portrait of Jaime

    Margaret Way

    "I won't marry for years yet!" Beautiful, talented, about to inherit a fortune, Jaime Gilmore had the world at her feet. At least, she thought she did and marriage was for the future. But handsome Quinn Sterling wanted to announc...

  • Mrs. Beneker

    Violet weingarten

  • Wife to Charles

    Sophie Weston

    If she married him would love follow? "I don't think arranged marriages are such a bad idea." Becky said, just to be contrary and to shock her audience. "Marriage is simply a job like any other," she added rashly. Charles Ma...

  • Love Me, Marietta

    Jennifer Wilde

    Her Beauty Was Power... Men fought to touch her, hold her, staked claim to her body and her heart. Derek Hawke, once her master, now openly vowed his love, promising her a place a mistress of his English estate. Red Nick, the cruel pirate, showere...

  • Love in a Stranger's Arms

    Violet Winspear

    "I am probably everything you never wanted in a man," Don Cortez said firmly. "But fate plays a role in all our lives and whether you wanted me or not, mi vida, you have me." Arabel was not really shocked by what he had revealed ab...