Books Published in December 1970

New Books List: 26 titles

  • Orange Blossom Island

    Juliet Armstrong

    Life after their parents' death had been none too happy for Irene and her nine year old sister, with a grudging aunt and uncle making it quite clear that the girls were nothing but a burden to them - so when their grandmother invited them to go a...

  • Timepivot

    Brian N. Ball

    Time drifted onto the ruin of the Galactic Federation. The centuries rolled over the wars of the first part of the new millennium, laying their patina of forgetfulness over the adventures of the survivors of the expedition to the Forever Planet. Only...

  • Starburst

    Alfred Bester

  • Girl With a Challenge

    Mary Burchell

    When Clare was left as absolute successor in the family textile business, she realized it had been her father's wish that she should take his place, and she accepted the challenge with a will. But the assistant manager, Grant Tattersall, resented...

  • Perfect, the Pig

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

  • The Flowering Cactus

    Isobel Chace

    When Libby damaged her hand in a car crash in San Francisco, it meant the end of her career as a pianist. It also meant the beginning of a completely new life, for in answer to an advertisement she found herself in a remote place in the desert cal...

  • The Ramona Quimby Diary

    Beverly Cleary

    Ramona helps guide her fans through the year with this perfect beginning diary. Filled with funny quotes and illustrations from all the Ramona books, it includes stickers, easy-to-fill-in sections, room for photos and drawings, and even a secret code...

  • Nickel Wife

    Joyce Dingwell

    "Wanted", the 'Australian Miner' had advertised, "a female who can take it." After adding that what would have to be taken was roughness, toughness, remote locality, no entertainment, it had given a number to ring. Alexandra got the job, and she was ...

  • Never Turn Back

    Jane Donnelly

    "I've decided now, and I won't sell!" When she unexpectedly inherited a country property from a kindly employer for whom she'd worked less than a month, Hallie resolved to sell the house back to the man who was living in it. Af...

  • The Doctor's Circle

    Eleanor Farnes

    The coolness between the Knight and Huwlett families had been going on for a long time, but it looked as if the younger generation, Gay Knight and Ivor Huwlett, might at last bring it to an end. Then they both found themselves on opposite sides of...

  • James Joyce

    John Gross

  • An Eagle Swooped

    Anne Hampson

    Tessa had loved Paul Demetrius from the start, but from the moment she introduced him to her beautiful sister Lucinda he had had eyes for no one else. At last, unable to bear seeing the two of them together, Tessa had gone away. Now, two years lat...

  • The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge

    Harry Harrison

    DiGriz and Angelina are happily married and expecting the birth of their sons. The planet Cliaand is waging interstellar war, and against the odds, its Grey Men are invading and taking over planet after planet. The Rat is sent to Cliaand to start a o...

  • D. W. Griffith: The Years at Biograph

    Robert M. Henderson

  • Conduct Your Own Awareness

    Christopher Hills

  • Town Nurse--Country Nurse

    Marjorie Lewty

    After a disastrous love affair, Kate had felt she never wanted to live in the country again, and firmly turned herself into a town girl. So when her dental surgeon boss suggested that she help out, temporarily, a colleague of his in a small country t...

  • Think Wild!

    Arnold Madison

  • Jigsaw

    Ed McBain

    Detective Arthur Brown discovers that the odd-shaped snapshot found clutched in the dead man's hand holds a clue to a deadly puzzle worth a suitcase of stolen cash, the haul from a six-year-old bank robbery. Reprint....

  • Wings for Nurse Bennett

    Adeline McElfresh

    When lovely young nurse Sarah Bennett became a stewardess on the Alaska Passenger and Freight Airlines, it was partly to help the airline out of a temporary jam--and partly to escape a personal crisis. Doubtful of her feelings for her handsome, ov...

  • Ann Kenyon: Surgeon

    Adeline McElfresh

    Ann Kenyon was young, beautiful and a brilliant surgeon. In the operating room, she was in superb command--but the outside world was different. No longer could Ann pretend to love Dr. Brill Crayden, so skillful, so cynical, so cold. To get away fr...

  • Lisa, Bright and Dark

    John Neufeld

    "I think I’m going crazy." Lisa Shilling is sixteen, smart, and attractive, with a great boyfriend. There's only one problem: She's losing her mind. Some days are "light," and everything is normal. Other days, she hides deep within herself, where ...

  • On a May Morning

    Hilda Nickson

    Kate's first encounter with the new owner of the Grange was stormy - her boat collided with his dinghy on the Norfolk Broads. Lee Thornton, she decided, was a most unpleasant, overbearing man, and she would never have anything to do with him again. "...

  • Dedication Jones

    Kate Norway

    It was a big decision for Didi Jones: she must choose between her interesting new job as staff nurse and settling down as her fiance wanted! But if she were really in love with him why would there be any difficulty making up her mind? Actually, it wa...

  • The Sweet Cheat Gone

    Marcel Proust

  • I Am Third

    Gale Sayers

    """Gale Sayers'' book I Am Third, with Al Silverman, is a stirring, painfully honest account of his struggle to become the greatest running back in history and that agonizing moment between immortality and becoming a cripple."" —The New York Tim...

  • O Kiss Me, Kate

    Valerie Thian

    She wanted to be loved for herself! Kate had always carried a torch for Greg Sanders, but Greg had preferred her sister, Gina--which hadn't prevented Gina from jilting him. And when Greg had later taken up with Kate, she knew it was only becaus...